I still see Puppeteer mentioned several times in your post and don't understand what that has to do with Umami, nextjs, and/or CVE-2025-66478.

I guess this is actually not an anti evil maid defense.

It's rather an anti evil maid tool, or an evil maid defense. :)

sorry for being pedantic, but with the arms race within cybersecurity, "anti something defense" sounds like double negation to me.

I would call it "a defense against evil maid attacks" to avoid any ambiguity.

I like the way you made me think! It had not thought about it until now, but I take your point.

While thinking about it, this phrase occurred to me: “silver bullets are a defense against zombies.” It is not the same phrase structure as the original, but it also has the double-negative vibe, yet it feels more reasonable to me than “…are a defense for zombies”, which to me suggests that zombies would employ them against their enemies.

I think the resolution here is that defense is inherently against something, so these phrases are not unequivocally double negatives - though I also agree with nine_k’s point about a better way to say it.

EDIT: Duh! The fact that defense is inherently against something is precisely what makes these phrases look like double negatives! The resolution must be something else - maybe agreement in mood or sentiment…

Just guessing from what is written in the article: Calibri once was chosen by the former administration for accessibility reasons. Maybe the virtue signaling being that Calibri isn't great with respect to accessibility (and IMHO wasn't even designed for it in the first place).

directly visiting the linked page, I get "Null check operator used on a null value"

I'm surprised AV1 usage is only at 30%. Is AV1 so demanding that Netflix clients without AV1 hardware acceleration capabilities would be overwhelmed by it?

Thanks to libdav1d's [1] lovingly hand crafted SIMD ASM instructions it's actually possible to reasonably playback AV1 without hardware acceleration, but basically yes: From Snapdragon 8 onwards, Google Tensor G3 onwards, NVIDIA RTX 3000 series onwards. All relatively new .

[1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d

It's possible without specific hardware acceleration, but murderous for mobile devices.

Even RISC-V vector assembly[0].

0. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/issues/435

There are a lot of 10 year old TVs/fire sticks still in use that have a CPU that maxes out running the UI and rely exclusively on hardware decoding for all codecs (e.g. they couldn't hardware decode h264 either). Image a super budget phone from ~2012 and you'll have some idea the hardware capability we're dealing with.

Compression gains will mostly be for the benefit of the streaming platform’s bills/infra unless you’re trying to stream 4K 60fps on hotel wifi (or if you can’t decode last-gen codecs on hardware either ). Apparently streaming platforms still favor user experience enough to not heat their rooms for no observable improvement. Also a TV CPU can barely decode a PNG still in software - video decoding of any kind is simply impossible.

> Apparently streaming platforms still favor user experience enough to not heat their rooms for no observable improvement

It’s more like “why does Netflix kill my battery within an hour when I used to be able to play for 20”

I'd love to watch Netflix AV1 streams but they just straight up don't serve it to my smart TV or my Windows computers despite hardware acceleration support.

The only way I can get them to serve me an AV1 stream is if I block "protected content IDs" through browser site settings. Otherwise they're giving me an H.264 stream... It's really silly, to say the least

If you are on a mobile device, decoding without hardware assistance might not overwhelm the processors directly, but it might drain your battery unnecessarily fast?

tv manufacturers don't want high end chips for their tv sets... hardware decoding is just a way to make cheaper chips for tvs.

Absolutely. Playing back any video codec is a terrible experience without acceleration.

They would be served h.265

I see the marquee with "host a room" and arrows pointing up.

But I don't see a button or anything to actually host a room.

I can only join rooms.

Using Android Chrome.

From mobile or tablet? Currently hosting (and audio sharing) should be possible only from Desktop unfortunately.

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> hundreds of gigabytes was fully transferred in less than a minute.

yeah right

If it was a few large files as opposed to many small ones, this is totally believable. iPhones have Wi-Fi 6E chips, and an ad hoc network where the devices are right next to each other can actually reach the theoretical max speed of the protocol (as opposed to real-world connections to a base station, which never do). I've never measured it precisely but I've transferred ~1 GB disk images over AirDrop in a couple seconds.

> It really makes me feel like there will be an inflection point in a few years, where the internet is cleaved in two.

Hasn't it been like that for already many years?

arguably, already 90's AOL very much pushed its users to stay within its walled garden.

that same vendor IKEA has also abandoned Zigbee after their support of a few years.

that all is most basic bookkeeping, I cannot take the argument "$x/user × every employee adds up" serious.

Also, latest with 20 employees or computers, someone in charge of IT (sysadmin, IT department) would decide to use a software asset management tool (aka software inventory system) to automatically track, roll out, uninstall, monitor vetted software. Anything else is just unprofessional.