In its email, Google states that it is closing down the program because of the "overall increase in the Android OS security posture and feature hardening efforts." This has led to researchers submitting fewer vulnerabilities than before.

1. Vulnerabilities are found, which shows that the program is successful and needed.
2. No vulnerabilities are found, no money will have to leave Google.

Keeping the program will reap the benefits from both no. 1 and no.2 while closing down the program only enables no.2.

Not hard to see the priorities here....

Yeah.... I totally respect that China doesn't want to support any of the sides in Russias aggression against Ukraine.

So let's fucking do this the Russian way by using proxies when purchasing products and services from China. China doesn't seem to have any problems with that.

Or does it all boil down to that China "unofficially" supports Russia?

I don't know how to feel about this.

On the one hand, it's cool that they pushed old electronics way beyond the known limits, but on the other hand is 120p really an accomplishment?

Even my old Commodore 64 from 1982 was able to produce around 400p when pushed to the limit (I know progressive wasn't thing on tvs then. I'm simplifying things to not end up on a side quest here). The norm was 200p and exploring how far the electronics could go in that resolution would be far more interesting in my opinion.

If we're just focusing on framerate, I'm pretty sure it would be possible to reach over the kHz limit with 1p.

Essentially it would be possible to run 1p led-aray at 1MHz or more...

Unable to understand and/or admit that both sides can be bad. It's ok to admit the "your team" did some nasty shit and it doesn't in any way cancel out what the other "team" did.

Also, Winning an argument doesn't in any way make you a winner. Actually, an argument that someone "won" often doesn't lead to a change for the better or even make anyone convinced that your arguments were valid.

How good is good do you say?

We got a pretty good results with CER at 4% and WER at 15%!

This was on a limited dataset used to test and train which most likely means that if you introduced an even larger dataset with greater variations in handwriting style for testing the numbers might be even worse.

Very simplified: A risk of a character wrong every 20th character and a word wrong every 7th word. The SER was around 20%.

There's an reason why no one has released a good model for western letters yet and why companies pay up to 1€ for capturing data from 10 handwritten pages.

It will come but OCR isn't as sexy as developing text2image solutions.

None of that made Tesseract excel in capturing handwritten text...

It wasn't possible a year ago when pos6ted around with tesseract. Things might have changed during the last couple of months though.

To train an AI to recognize handwriting you need a huge dataset of handwriting examples. That is millions of samples of handwritten text + information about what the written text says in every example).

This is why the best engines only exists as a service in the cloud. The OCR engines you can install lovely that are acceptable, but far from perfect, are commercial. Parascript FormXtra is one of the better commercial ones.

The only OCR Engine that's free and really good is Tesseract OCR but it doesn't handle handwritten text.

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What about "Location Accuracy"? Using WiFi and Bluetooth to higher accuracy on positioning?

Aaaaah ... Doing it the American way.... Fantastic! I need to pop some more popcorn.

I'm confident that Tesla will get their license plates eventually. Eventually.

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The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018. It is known for its critical coverage of the US and its foreign policy, misleading reporting, and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government's human rights abuses against Uyghurs, published conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions, and published pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Congratulations to you and the other 0.000000001% of Android users then.

By your reasoning, every single platform should be in the same shitty state of yt

What comparable platforms are you talking about that is not running ads or have some sort of pay-to-watch?

If we talk about Twitch and their revenue I can promise you that they would not be very profitable without female streamers dressed sexy that doesn't always play video games.

We now live in a world where users got used to never have to pay for content or experience. Even though Google makes insane money in different areas the cost for running and developing YouTube is huge. I'm not a fan of ads (I don't see ads when at home because of how I have set up my network) and the subscription plans always seems too pricey for the value I get when using different streaming services

But all of this doesn't change the fact that even though I don't like ads or paying for content I still haven't come up with a better solution myself.

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If one video stream to one user uses 128 kilobyte per second out of your 100 megabit internet connection 781 users can watch that stream at the same time. However, the ISP will charge you per transferred gigabyte each month. So let's say that you serve 781 users that video 24/7 in a full month of 31 days ... It will be 100 megabit divided by 8 to get 12.5 megabyte. So it's 12.5 megabyte per second. That's 750 megabyte per minute. That's 45 gigabyte per hour. That's 1 terabyte or day. So around 31 terabyte traffic per month. (If you use this much bandwidth you will get a discount but it's still not going to be

Now, that's just for 781 simultaneously users.

What is we need to serve 781000 simultaneous users?

Now, this far we've only been talking about one video on repeat 14/7. What about 100000 videos and enough programmers and computers to design as system that lets each and every user choose any video whenever they need to? Now you suddenly have thousands of servers and harddisks running in a couple of hundred places on earth 24/7.

Now this is for you to provide your users 100000 different videos even before you start to pay content creators for their hard work.

Also, you need to be available 24/7 so now you have to make backups, redundant servers on different location that can take over in case of an accident, dedicated internet connection (being alone on the internet cable is not the same as sharing it with 100 other sites) and a whole lot of other things you need to take care of.

What about offering the 500 million videos YouTube offers their users?

... and all of this cost is paid out of your pocket?

While there are a billion things Google does that annoys me I'm not able to figure out how to create and maintain a video streaming platform without ads or paywall that finances both creation and the providing material.

I mean, who are the competitors and how do they finance it if not in a similar way?

Countries and contestants have all agreed that doping is not allowed. If you promise something and have no intention to keep the promise you are in fact a liar.

There has been, and probably still is, a government funded doping program in Russia. So not only have their contestants been proved to be cheaters, Russia has been caught sponsoring it all too.

So while you like to derail this discussion towards on whether doping should be allowed or not it still doesn't change the fact that Russia actively promoted cheating.

They are not allowed to represent their birthplace because the birthplace actively financing and supporting systematic doping. That is not the same as they are being banned.

I have no understanding for why you want to represent that.

DaVinci Resolve.

There is simply nothing that even come close.