I don’t understand the argument against it.

It’s their body. They don’t just have a right to know. They need to know.

I get why the media likes it. The regular ability to just float between players and either get the story of the day or do your own thing with the ability to get 1 on 1 discussions with players allows for great coverage.

But when people are actually using it as a locker room it’s definitely kind of creepy.

Not bricked.

Still bad, and you lose your data, but if the phone can get to recovery mode and install an OS again, it isn’t bricked.

I do. Most of my reading is audiobook, but I usually have one fiction and one nonfiction on ebook going depending on my mood.

And that’s separate from coding/actual textbooks, and other “how to” stuff I don’t track on goodreads (for no particularly valid reason), which I also usually have a couple going.

I guess “basically only nonfiction” makes you a “nonfiction reader”, but I think most heavy readers read at least some mix of types.

I’m guessing nonfiction is ~10% of my 1400 books on goodreads, with probably 80%+ being mystery/suspense/procedural police/whatever you want to call anything like that.

OK, that went off the rails a little. What I was getting at was that seeing how different people tell stories and how they explore characters has some overlap with my nonfiction about what makes people tick. I read for characters and how people create them, and think that I’ve learned things from that, too.

What qualifies as a “nonfiction reader”? Sometimes I’ll read 5-10 nonfiction a row; sometimes I’ll read 100 fiction in a row.

But no, I read whatever I feel like when I feel like it. Though fiction I’ll usually read a series from start to finish where possible.

Different devices? Dongles are annoying for something you always need. I love the flash drives I have that do both.

I had to make a separate exclusive category on goodreads just to keep this piece of trash out of my read pile.

It’s called power vs force, it’s some dumpster fire pseudo-science that’s really just vague ramblings of nothing. Don’t read it. Seriously.

I get all that, and that’s why I feel weird about it.

Some of the stuff they do only works well with scale, though. And I definitely think at least some other leadership groups would abuse their market position assuming that their critical mass would be very difficult to displace. If they had just agreed to piracy shield, do you really think corporate customers would be scared off?

If I was doing actual stuff state level actors care about, I might still assume they’re not “safe”, but as a normal person? The fact that pirates can use their services reasonably safely and reasonably effectively definitely gives me a level of confidence that they’re unlikely to use their position in a way that harms me, maliciously or recklessly. I have a VPS as well and will eventually use that as a tunnel instead, so it’s actually end to end encrypted and I control the keys, but their consistent pattern of behavior doesn’t make me feel that much urgency about it.

Didn’t realize that. Gross.

They have me in a weird spot, because I fundamentally don’t really like the sheer volume of information they are MITMing at all times, and don’t really like the idea of letting them do so for my small site.

But their decisions with respect to security threats pretty consistently seem well measured and as minimally invasive as they can be (eg they have intervened and rewritten content as a result of a supply chain attack, but were very transparent that it was desperate measures, that they didn’t really want to do it, and only did it by default for the free users that were most likely not to know enough to enable it themselves). They’ve also pushed back against stuff like piracy shield trying to turn them into outright surveillance for private companies.

Yes, it is. The idea that giant corporations “aren’t trying” is laughable, and it’s a literal guarantee that massively lower quality, noisier inputs will result in a lower quality model with lower quality outputs.

Less photons hitting the sensors matters. A lot.

So, they’re videos.

If only there was a way to watch those.

You can keep hand waving away the statement of fact that lower precision input is lower precision input.

And yes, for actual photography (where people are deliberately still for long enough to offset the longer exposure required), you do actually need different lighting and different camera settings to get the same quality results. But real cameras are also capable of capturing far more dynamic range without guessing heavily on postprocessing.

It’s not racist to understand physics.

It’s exactly the same reason phone cameras do terrible in low light unless they do obscenely long exposures (which can’t resolve detail in anything moving). The information is not captured at sufficient resolution.

For any scenario short of studio lighting, there is objectively much less information.

You’re also dramatically underestimating how truly fucking awful phone camera sensors actually are without the crazy amount of processing phones do to make them functional.

Facial recognition works better on white people because, mathematically, they provide more information in real world camera use cases.

Darker skin reflects less light and dark contrast is much more difficult for cameras to capture unless you have significantly higher end equipment.

You just don’t understand basic physics if you think there are other sports that aren’t actual combat sports that are remotely comparable in impact to football. Rugby doesn’t have comparable high speed impacts on a regular basis.

In terms of the strategy, very few sports have the discrete, precise play calling strategy that football does. Every sport has small picture tactics and broad strokes strategy. Football still has the small picture rule based decisions that are the bread and butter of most sports. But they’re unique to each individual play call, change 70 times per game, and are completely different from week to week.

Sports are different.

If you ask someone to box at a world class level once a week for 4 months, the best case scenario is severe and permanent brain damage. The most likely outcome is that they literally die.

This is a clearly idiotic hate boner for football from someone who doesn’t even have a rudimentary understanding of it.

Go away.