Have an older z-wave heater valve that seems to be on a version of the protocol no one bothers to be backwards compatible with. Never happened with zigbee no matter the amount of quirks needed from zigbee2mqtt.

Can’t use an IAM role to auth to the bridge, it only works with user’s keys.

That's a really great point. I was wondering the same thing as the comment root but this is enough for it to make sense. At the end of the day, having a wrapper email/notification class with an SMTP and moving to a specific SES implementation seems like it'll always be a safe dev path.

In the business of media streaming, rightholder will require that you check for vpn and proxies in addition to countries when deciding if a given viewer will be able to stream a given media.

Does that actually work? That could explain an issue with a particular streaming service I use. There are currently some ongoing routing issues in BGP land and my ISP. When trying to stream, it says I’m using a proxy, so due to the incredible route my packets are taking, that might be it. What’s funny is that the only way to watch this service is to use a vpn right now.

They probably just keep a list of known VPN server IP’s.

Routing should not impact the detection, it's usually based on maxmind's anonymous/datacenter database using your IP. Accuracy won't be 100% of course but you have to show compliance.

I doubt it. According to that database my ip is in a totally different country but I'm served the correct content. Despite my efforts to fix this for years...

of course it doesnt work but they gotta try clutching pearls and applying whatever pressure they can think of on these fronts

Why is this getting downvoted? It seems to me that a lot of the media-focused anti-piracy tooling is essentially a performance of toughness to make rightsholder execs comfortable. Everybody accepts you can't stop piracy entirely, and nobody's willing to say, "Fuck it, we'll compete on convenience and strong consumer relationships," so we all put up with this weird middle ground of performative DRM and the like. With only the rare occasional bit of honesty, as from Weird Al: https://sfba.social/@williampietri/110906012997848549

This is correct. Imagine in the days of yore, some two decades and change ago, when I was charged with implementing putting some music reserves "online" for streaming ...

[Harp music, progressive diagonal wave distortions through the viewport ...]

We had two layers of passwords (one to get to the webpage for the class, one when actually streaming via the client, which was RealPlayer) as well as an IP range restriction to campus (you live off campus? So sorry) because our lawyers were worried about what the RIAA's lawyers would find sufficient in the wake of a bunch of Napster-baited lawsuits launched at universities. The material itself was largely limited to snippets.

I wanted to say, "Calm down, have a martini or something. College students are just not going to go wild to download 128 kbps segments of old classical music," but alas I was not in charge.

I love that HLS+AES "encryption" is still in use, thanks to Apple.

> It's still going to be pretty common for at least a few years, and the now incorrect assumption that it is still broken I'm sure will persist for a decade or more among those who have been burned and thus moved on from Alpine and do not follow it.

I'm still not going back until I can configure for TCP to be the default.

Was looking at making something that would interact with SystemConfiguration.framework and registers itself on the DynamicStore's callback (something akin to dns-heaven[1]). From the introductory tutorials included with xcode I have no idea what is the equivalent to applicationDidFinishLaunching() where this kind of things would be put. It looked like maybe BackgroundTask is what I'm looking for, but it seems arbitrarily limited on macOS to an urlsession, whatever that is ?

[1]: https://github.com/greenboxal/dns-heaven/

Presumably this would be to ease looking up individual items but 1password has been able to encrypt those since 2012. Nice indeed

They had to limit the output of warmer water in the stream because it was so hot already there was no margin left.

It's the nature of the thing, OLEDs can't display perfectly uniform colours. It's most visible on greys.

Absolutely, it's particularly noticeable on this panel though

How else do you expect to get around maxmind’s anonymous db?

They shut the official forums down to not have to deal with moderation, they created the issue of third party communities

That's fine. They don't need to offer that service.