Ugh, another completely predictable response from a C ideologue. Ideology turns a person into a mindless fanatic. Ideology makes a person dumb.
The practical reality is that memory safety is a problem. Ideological utopias do not exist. Languages like Rust are trying to mitigate the problem of memory safety in the real world. Forget your ideology and try to find a way forward to some pragmatism.
No, there is no mention of Edge. The "beast" is Firefox. The first sentence is talking about Firefox 57's new UI and the Quantum project generally. The second sentence is talking about the use of Rust in Firefox.
This entry from the Book of the Mozilla is "11:14" because Firefox 57 was released on the 14th of November, 2017. All the entries correspond to a release date.
we are referring to how a government treats their own citizens
America assassinates its own citizens, even though America's constitution is supposed to prohibit that. When America indulges in extrajudicial killings it becomes difficult to claim the moral high ground over Russia or Saudi Arabia.
it is impossible to hit someone with a wrench without them knowing about it
The new law mandates that companies which have provided "technical assistance" are not allowed to talk about it. You will be undermined by your IT platform (either the software you use or the services you use or both) and you won't know about it.
Massive slurping on an internet backbone, using wrenches? Can't do it.
It absolutely can be done, and this is what the new law enables. They will go to the backbone provider and hit them with wrenches until they provide the "technical assistance" required. That can be compromising encryption going forward or it can be building backdoors into their systems.
Secretly investigating someone by wrench-cracking their crypto without them at least being able to talk to a lawyer? Can't do it.
You can do it. You hit the crypto software developer with wrenches until they provide the "technical assistance" required. The target won't know about it because the software developer can't talk about it by law.
Unencrypted would be fine and probably legal under the new law.
It's irrelevant whether it's encrypted or not. The law requires the provision of "technical assistance" to access any encrypted or encoded content. If that means building a backdoor into your system then that's what you'll do. If that means updating the software such that it gives the appearance of encryption when in reality nothing is being encrypted, then you'll do that too. Refusing to do it will result in fines or jail time or both.
In the end, technological measures cannot protect you; only the rule of law can. This bill compromises the rule of law, reduces accountability and transparency, and will cause long term civil and economic damage to Australia as a result.
You're right. Let's do nothing. Negativity and apathy is the answer.
No one ever said AV1 is the whole solution, but it's clearly part of the solution. And let's not forget that eventually there will be an AV2. There is a lot more to do in video coding development. There will come a point when there are no real gains to be had over the existing video formats and we'll stick with whatever the current state of the art is. But we're not there yet.
What has imposed the cost to the industry is hiring incompetent coders, not any use of a specific language.
You keep making the mistake of telling yourself fairy tales. Your C evangelizing relies on articles of faith, campfire stories, and straight up mythology. Look what happens when a C programmer uses Rust. The things they thought they knew turn out not to be true.
Now go away and let people with actual insight handle this discussion.
I can appreciate that you are intimidated. But don't worry about it, kid. Just let the adults get on with the real work.
If you genuinely can't understand the design flaws in C and C++ and the costs they have imposed on the industry then you lack experience and insight and you have no place in this discussion.
AV1 beats H.265 on quality. The libaom AV1 encoder is still very slow but it's improving, and there are other encoder efforts like rav1e which are faster but don't yet produce the same image quality.
There are various AV1 demos you can try in Chrome and Firefox. I'm using Firefox 64 beta with "media.av1.enabled" set to true in about:config. Bitmovin has a demo.
You can switch on AV1 for YouTube via their TestTube page and try some high bitrate videos in their AV1 demo playlist. Many YouTube videos have AV1 encodes available up to 720p resolution (try popular music videos to see examples), but YouTube's not optimizing for file size yet. The standard definition AV1 encodes typically have smaller file sizes than the VP9 equivalents, but the 720p AV1 encodes are typically of similar or even larger file sizes than the VP9 versions.
Yes, AV1 is a royalty-free, efficient video codec that has good industry support. Anyone can implement AV1 without having to pay patent licensing fees, as opposed to H.264 and most especially as opposed to HEVC (aka H.265).
AV1 outperforms VP9 and as time goes on AV1 will become the dominant video codec on the web.
continuously record into a 30-60s buffer, and then when the camera is set to 'record' it dumps the buffer
This feature caught Baltimore police planting drugs in an attempt to fake body camera footage. Had they been an extra 30 seconds corrupt they would have got away with it.
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It is a poor craftsman that blames his tools
A good craftsman doesn't use poor tools. Harden up and get some practicality, my son.
MS should really be abandoning Windows and trying to figure out how to either use Linux
Seems like a bad idea. In 2018 the top 6 products with the most security flaws were all Linux products. How do you account for that?
To say this is the fault of C and C++ is disingenuous.
Read the slides from the talk. They specifically mention C++ as a problem to be solved. And they're right.
a competent developer will know how to avoid most of them
Re-read the title of the article. 70% of security bugs are memory safety issues. Your ideology is not working. It has failed.
Ugh, another completely predictable response from a C ideologue. Ideology turns a person into a mindless fanatic. Ideology makes a person dumb.
The practical reality is that memory safety is a problem. Ideological utopias do not exist. Languages like Rust are trying to mitigate the problem of memory safety in the real world. Forget your ideology and try to find a way forward to some pragmatism.
No, there is no mention of Edge. The "beast" is Firefox. The first sentence is talking about Firefox 57's new UI and the Quantum project generally. The second sentence is talking about the use of Rust in Firefox.
This entry from the Book of the Mozilla is "11:14" because Firefox 57 was released on the 14th of November, 2017. All the entries correspond to a release date.
we are referring to how a government treats their own citizens
America assassinates its own citizens, even though America's constitution is supposed to prohibit that. When America indulges in extrajudicial killings it becomes difficult to claim the moral high ground over Russia or Saudi Arabia.
it is impossible to hit someone with a wrench without them knowing about it
The new law mandates that companies which have provided "technical assistance" are not allowed to talk about it. You will be undermined by your IT platform (either the software you use or the services you use or both) and you won't know about it.
Massive slurping on an internet backbone, using wrenches? Can't do it.
It absolutely can be done, and this is what the new law enables. They will go to the backbone provider and hit them with wrenches until they provide the "technical assistance" required. That can be compromising encryption going forward or it can be building backdoors into their systems.
Secretly investigating someone by wrench-cracking their crypto without them at least being able to talk to a lawyer? Can't do it.
You can do it. You hit the crypto software developer with wrenches until they provide the "technical assistance" required. The target won't know about it because the software developer can't talk about it by law.
Unencrypted would be fine and probably legal under the new law.
It's irrelevant whether it's encrypted or not. The law requires the provision of "technical assistance" to access any encrypted or encoded content. If that means building a backdoor into your system then that's what you'll do. If that means updating the software such that it gives the appearance of encryption when in reality nothing is being encrypted, then you'll do that too. Refusing to do it will result in fines or jail time or both.
They will simply respond with this.
In the end, technological measures cannot protect you; only the rule of law can. This bill compromises the rule of law, reduces accountability and transparency, and will cause long term civil and economic damage to Australia as a result.
4kbps works well.
You're right. Let's do nothing. Negativity and apathy is the answer.
No one ever said AV1 is the whole solution, but it's clearly part of the solution. And let's not forget that eventually there will be an AV2. There is a lot more to do in video coding development. There will come a point when there are no real gains to be had over the existing video formats and we'll stick with whatever the current state of the art is. But we're not there yet.
What are you going to do?
Develop a better video format which can deliver the same image quality at a lower bitrate. The AV1 encoder is still slow but it's improving. Dav1d is a fast decoder implementation.
Netflix sees AV1 as its primary next-gen video format.
A sad display, son. I will play the world's smallest violin for you.
What a despicable propaganda piece.
Oh, you're serious. Poor dear.
What has imposed the cost to the industry is hiring incompetent coders, not any use of a specific language.
You keep making the mistake of telling yourself fairy tales. Your C evangelizing relies on articles of faith, campfire stories, and straight up mythology. Look what happens when a C programmer uses Rust. The things they thought they knew turn out not to be true.
Now go away and let people with actual insight handle this discussion.
I can appreciate that you are intimidated. But don't worry about it, kid. Just let the adults get on with the real work.
My father taught me that bad carpenters blame their tools.
He should have taught you that good carpenters don't use bad tools.
If you genuinely can't understand the design flaws in C and C++ and the costs they have imposed on the industry then you lack experience and insight and you have no place in this discussion.
AV1 is a dominance move by the demonic Google and Microsoft
Also, I heard AV1 kicks puppies!
you can bet your life AV1 crap will more windows store promoting trash
Yeah! You sure proved them.
AV1 beats H.265 on quality. The libaom AV1 encoder is still very slow but it's improving, and there are other encoder efforts like rav1e which are faster but don't yet produce the same image quality.
There are various AV1 demos you can try in Chrome and Firefox. I'm using Firefox 64 beta with "media.av1.enabled" set to true in about:config. Bitmovin has a demo.
You can switch on AV1 for YouTube via their TestTube page and try some high bitrate videos in their AV1 demo playlist. Many YouTube videos have AV1 encodes available up to 720p resolution (try popular music videos to see examples), but YouTube's not optimizing for file size yet. The standard definition AV1 encodes typically have smaller file sizes than the VP9 equivalents, but the 720p AV1 encodes are typically of similar or even larger file sizes than the VP9 versions.
No.
while decoding is no problem.
Decoding is still a bit slow. But development of dav1d is progressing and it's achieving big speedups over libaom.
but is there any reason this is a big deal ?
Yes, AV1 is a royalty-free, efficient video codec that has good industry support. Anyone can implement AV1 without having to pay patent licensing fees, as opposed to H.264 and most especially as opposed to HEVC (aka H.265).
AV1 outperforms VP9 and as time goes on AV1 will become the dominant video codec on the web.
A lot needs improvement in law enforcement
American police kill more Americans than terrorists do.
continuously record into a 30-60s buffer, and then when the camera is set to 'record' it dumps the buffer
This feature caught Baltimore police planting drugs in an attempt to fake body camera footage. Had they been an extra 30 seconds corrupt they would have got away with it.