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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:07:06 JST mcc

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   • Matthew Garrett

   @mjg59 "How computers work" was a policy decision by Microsoft

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:07:08 JST Matthew Garrett

     The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and Børge repeated this.
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     Wade Roberts (waderoberts@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:07:36 JST Wade Roberts

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Matthew Garrett

     @mjg59 @pluralistic the engineering effort wasted implementing DRM is a travesty rivalled only by advertising. None of it is defensible nor necessary, except in pursuit of the specious need to conjure artificial scarcity.

     Neoliberal sociopathy is a hell of a drug.