Is the EFF captured? This is a resource against misguided laws but what's a law they'd actually approve of? This entire resource is boring defense of the status quo.
Really, I think most people in tech generally believe that getting teens of social media will be a positive thing. The question is how to go about it.
It's understandable, to some extend, that people will protest government interference, but it's also an industry that have repeatedly show itself to be incapable of regulation itself. I don't really see the big surprise, most government are relatively hands of, until you prove that you're incapable of regulating yourself. Most regulation happens after the damage is done.
I do think that 16 is a bit low, I'd like to have seen it be 18, or a complete ban on algorithmically generated feeds (I believe the latter would be the better option).
Hardware acceleration has been a thing since...forever. Video in general is a balancing act between storage, bandwidth, and quality. Video playback on computers is a balancing act between storage, bandwidth, power, and cost.
Video is naturally large. You've got all the pixels in a frame, tens of frames every second, and however many bits per pixel. All those frames need to be decoded and displayed in order and within fixed time constraints. If you drop frames or deliver them slowly no one is happy watching the video.
If at any point you stick to video that can be effectively decoded on a general purpose CPU with no acceleration you're never going to keep up with the demands of actual users. It's also going to use a lot more power than an ASIC that is purpose-built to decode the video. If you decide to use the beefiest CPU in order to handle higher quality video under some power envelope your costs are going to increase making the whole venture untenable.
Please, feel free to extrapolate for me whether the "unspecified vulnerability" referenced in the article was introduced more or less than five years ago.
The point was the whole phone has been vulnerable to a multitude of RCEs for five years, so it doesn't really matter if its the latest exploit, its a silly request.
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