> In the Flock case the entire REASON the cameras are there is the the government (Police or local municipality) has contracted Flock to surveil the public
Do we know this for fact? Surely, the police are they're biggest consumers, but do they sell access to the APIs to anyone else?
I wonder if Nintendo will ever cave and start putting out official PC versions. I haven't bought a console in decades, but I have strong nostalgia towards some of those older games.
There are tons of these games that 100% are already pirated and available online - why not just officially release them and start getting some revenue out of it. Some of these titles are going to get harder and harder to access as the official consoles and carts rot and that is a REAL shame. I would by it almost anyway they wanted to sell it too. Stand alone executables, straight ripped ROMs, whatever.
I think the nostaligic crowd that would play these older games would more than likely pay for them, and being as they're already widely available (if not extremely sus downloads), there wouldn't be much incentive to redistribute them.
The answer is no, Nintendo will never do that so long as they are making consoles. The whole point is to keep you in their controlled marketplace, and the PC is the opposite of that.
Nintendo’s business model very frequently involves re-selling you the same games.
Case in point: the Wii U virtual console. If you bought into that, you didn’t get to keep those games to play on the next console. They still work on your Wii U but it’s a dead end.
For Switch, their selection of classic console games are tied to the online subscription.
That said, I wouldn’t call it a horrendous deal despite somewhat of a cynical business model. The positive of this is that Nintendo’s whole model depends on generally making very high quality games, since you can’t sell bad games over and over again.
If you haven’t bought a console in years, the Nintendo Switch 2 is an excellent choice. It can be used on the go or at home.
That said, my PC certainly gets more use, and for exclusively classic gameplay emulation is still the way to go.
I feel like part of the "magic" they continue to capture is how they decided to run their business with the hardware they create. I feel like it helps keep the brand of Nintendo from changing to far out of their control; while also anyone hacking Nintendo hardware and games can always be seen as exactly that hackers oppose to say a PC game released by Nintendo where the games would simply be modded.
Also the nostalgic crowd is already eating up everything they put out... What a strange world it would be to start buying Mario, Zelda and Metroid games on steam. that 30% cut from steam just isn't something they're willing to give up I think.
They definitely tested the water. I can recall several Pokemon games on mobile, as well as something like a Mario infinite runner. I don't think it will happen anytime soon, but it's not "complete" fantasy to think it could happen.
> Knowing some folks that work on "major-browser-vendor" security in the era of Mythos-found-and-exploited vulnerabilities everywhere
Is this a thing now? I hadn't seen any big browser vulnerabilities recently. Did I miss something? Or are the vendors not releasing horrifying bugs they found internally with AI fuzzing?
It's never clear what's "real" vs. marketing for the LLM companies, but Mozilla at least has made a big deal publicly about the "unprecedented" number of "latent security bugs" they've found using tools like Mythos:
To be honest, I'm not sure how many (if any) of them have actually been exploited, but in any case, it seems like the cost to at least find a vulnerability anymore has really dropped dramatically.
Off-topic, but this article brought my first time to see a "scan the QR to verify you're human" from reCaptcha. I hope this doesn't become a thing, because I never, ever do that.
I am the developer of an app where its main purpose is to optimize file size and page turn performance of comics/manga on low-powered ereaders like Kobo: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
That looks amazing! I've been thinking to move to Kobo as well with iBooks feeling like abandonware, and it's also been interesting to see community projects like Nico Verbruggen's typesetting fixes for ebooks[1][2].
Honestly, seeing your fixes and his, makes me more excited about potentially getting one with all the tuning possible.
Time to wait and see if anything new gets announced at IFA.
I don't feel like the article is lacking for that. It's evolution at work. There could be monkeys eating animals that can properly digest them due to some mutation or unique gut biomes. Actually eating the animals is an important first step. Monkeys that usually eat fruits are hunting and eating animals when food is scarce, that's an article worthy observation.
Spotify comes to mind immediately. Of all things, they wall off your saved music - premium doesn't matter. There is literally no reason to prevent web app users from accessing what is essentially just another playlist, other than to coerce the native app adoption.
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