I'm confused, are you saying from 500+ creators you only made $250?

> Google Search → Startpage (Vivaldi default)

Startpage is owned by an American advertising company https://system1.com

Yeah, I find it interesting how it has Northern Cyprus and "French Southern and Antarctic Lands" but not Malta.

I like it but I think I prefer a map over a globe (or at least one that doesn't constantly rotate)

added a toggle to a 2d map now

I don't think I've ever heard anyone brag about their passport

The ASN and stuff is also operated by a US entity it seems like:

  ASHandle:       AS19281
  Street:         CleanerDNS Inc. dba Quad9
  Street:         1442A Walnut Street, Suite 501
  City:           Berkeley
  State/Prov:     CA
  Country:        US

They also have servers in the US, so that's yet another reason not to consider them "100% safe from US government intervention"

> European municipalities use US cloud services, leaking citizen data to Microsoft, Google and Amazon.

I can't say I'm surprised at all, I've also checked the MX of Swedish municipalities:

85.9% were hosted by American companies, the biggest being Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Cisco

The biggest Swedish hosters were: Telia, Tele2 andAtea

To call this "security" is funny in my opinion, can't any application also fetch the serial number?

And also do they not get saved in logs like dmesg?

You could also use encrypted and signed keys on the devices to confirm that it's the correct drive.

Was recently watching a video on the RFID tags that Bambu Labs use on their spools and not only is the tag data encrypted, it's signed so even if you bypass the encryption, you still don't have a way to spoof the signature.

If they're just files on a flash drive, what stops someone from just copying the files to another drive? Its just moving the same issue up a level in the stack, and in many ways making it easier to clone it.

One of the whole points of authenticator devices is that the actual key material isn't directly readable. You shouldn't be able to trivially reproduce the device.

If you can restrict the software, this would be a good way for controlling physical user ‚presence‘ - like in the supermarket, when a supervisor needs to scan their card for a cash register to take out a wrongly scanned item. I like it!

Open since 2014? No? It was opened in 2014 and closed as fixed in 2014.

mm, text to bitmap or vice-verse isn't there though is it?

edit: plus the blu-ray subtitle encoder itself is new...

The fact that there is no newer bug ticket for it in 12 years shows is this a purely academic feature nobody wanted.

And why should they? Most Blu-ray players support the old format (SRT); converting it to PGS gains almost none of the upsides of the newer format (screen placement).

certainly fades / karaoke style subtitles from Advanced SubStation Alpha on blu-ray devices aren't everyone's cup of tea.

but i do enjoy antialiased blu-ray subtitles of course YMMV :)

Sure they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group