Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology
The original idea of open source or rather free software is to bmactually "own" the code in a way that you can modify it to your needs. Guess this is not the case here, then. But I guess also most of android falls in that category that by now. I guess we should be using better,more attributes when describing open source
bogwog 11 minutes ago [-]
"Free software" has always been a misleading term, unfortunately. Maybe calling it "Freedom software" instead would be clearer.
But when you conflate free software with open source, you get confused people cheerleading their own abuse. Android is probably the worst offender here. Google Chrome, VSCode are others that come to mind.
paxcoder 7 hours ago [-]
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ornornor 1 hours ago [-]
Samsung does that too and use it to sell you stuff, show you ads, and retarget you across devices! (Not saying it’s a good thing, but rather pointing out how common this is)
mijoharas 1 hours ago [-]
I'm really sick of the enshittification of smart TV's.
A while after I've had my LG TV, and found every arcane different menu you need to remove all the ads. They started sending me ads via the notification pop-up.
This continued even after finding and removing the consent for advertising (that I'd missed in one of the consent pop-ups.)
I've considered and looked into "dumb" TVs, but I don't think they're for me. I just want one that's not enshittified!
ornornor 18 minutes ago [-]
FWIW I’m pretty happy with my Panasonic OLED (2019 model), it has totally optional smart features (ie it has a Netflix app), works well offline, and turns on instantly.
cryo32 53 minutes ago [-]
I just don't bother with television full stop.
Geroke 20 minutes ago [-]
I can't say I have either since they tried to change the format to cinema from electronic theatre.
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surajrmal 42 minutes ago [-]
This is not "enshittification". That implies it's gotten worse over time. Smart TVs have been doing this from the beginning.
antonvs 15 minutes ago [-]
Smart TVs are the enshittification of regular TVs. An attempt to extract more money from the customer without providing a useful benefit.
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gricardo99 8 hours ago [-]
you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.
nicman23 8 hours ago [-]
can you ? can you really ?
c0balt 11 hours ago [-]
That looks neat, the code appears be mostly in C, seems reasonable documented and is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/rokudev/lt-sdk
dsign 6 hours ago [-]
I wonder what would make this better (for some use cases at least) than venerable FreeRTOS? Or Zephyr? Or any of the other many, many RTOSes? In particular, the ESP32 comes with top notch documentation and SDKs that will make beginners at least want to stay with Espressif's modified RTOS for a while.
jon-wood 3 hours ago [-]
That's also what I was wondering. What problems is this custom RTOS solving that all the other ones don't, or is it in fact just that some Roku engineers decided they needed some job security and having an OS nobody else uses would be a good path to that?
krackers 12 hours ago [-]
>that is already used in our industry-changing Roku remote controls.
Why does a remote control require a RTOS?
topspin 11 hours ago [-]
Roku remotes are sophisticated devices. There are many models, so features vary, but among the possible features are 3.5mm audio output, Bluetooth audio, voice command input, Wi-Fi, infrared, battery charger and other things. Clearly a substantial MCU is present and thus, an RTOS.
NDlurker 10 hours ago [-]
Pretty sure they don't have gyroscopes and accelerometers anymore, but they did early on. It was basically a Wii Mote and I played a ton of Angry Birds on my TV.
phh 6 hours ago [-]
You can do an IR remote without a RTOS, but as soon as you do BLE you realistically need a RTOS. You have timers for keep-alives, connection states, competing interrupts, CPU-"intensive" tasks that can be preempted (for crypto)
SpecialistK 12 hours ago [-]
Voice command handling, I would suspect.
_ZeD_ 8 hours ago [-]
to spy on you
phantomathkg 10 hours ago [-]
The good thing is, it is not written in Brightscript.
aturek 10 hours ago [-]
Brightscript could have been worse!
And much, much better, as well
phantomathkg 8 hours ago [-]
How could it be better? Brightscript is a proprietary language that serves nothing but a low power STB.
dubcanada 1 hours ago [-]
On hackers news a technology focused platform where custom weird languages thrive. You're complaining about a company who the original developer made their own language.
Isn't this exactly how all of the other languages where created?
tecleandor 3 hours ago [-]
I don't know if I'm missing something but from what I can see...
They don't seem to have any written documentation online, not even a list of features. They seem to have some doxygen docs on the repo, but they're not built anywhere. The only information ready to check are YouTube videos. The developer forum link they have in the top right doesn't work (I think since January they killed their forums).
It's a chore just to know what does it do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LoganDark 11 hours ago [-]
I wish they would offer the instruction in text as well rather than only in videos. Videos become stale and can't easily be used as a reference.
LeFantome 8 hours ago [-]
Get an AI to transcribe the videos for you and then ask it to create a manual from the transcription.
ddtaylor 6 hours ago [-]
Does this meaningfully allow a person to push a modified version to their own TV without using a screwdriver?
jon-wood 3 hours ago [-]
From the front page of the site at least, no. This isn't for the Roku device itself (which is almost certainly running some flavour of Linux), its for peripherals like the remote control which will have much less powerful processors.
jgalt212 12 hours ago [-]
Please someone make a Roku remote with a physical keyboard.
zzrrt 9 hours ago [-]
You can probably do it with a keyboard paired to a server/RPi that emits the keystrokes to the Roku ECP API, if having that second device is acceptable.
relyks 11 hours ago [-]
This might be possible now. I think the better option is having a hardware device that acts a bridge between a bluetooth keyboard and the Roku.
dd8601fn 5 hours ago [-]
Rokus have a rest api that accept all the navigation and text inputs you'd do with the remote.
snailmailman 10 hours ago [-]
On my rokus, I am able to use my phone as a remote via the roku app. This includes typing on mobile via my phone's keyboard. Makes logging into things much easier.
pslab 10 hours ago [-]
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RomanVoropaev 5 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 13:57:58 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA
But when you conflate free software with open source, you get confused people cheerleading their own abuse. Android is probably the worst offender here. Google Chrome, VSCode are others that come to mind.
A while after I've had my LG TV, and found every arcane different menu you need to remove all the ads. They started sending me ads via the notification pop-up.
This continued even after finding and removing the consent for advertising (that I'd missed in one of the consent pop-ups.)
I've considered and looked into "dumb" TVs, but I don't think they're for me. I just want one that's not enshittified!
Why does a remote control require a RTOS?
And much, much better, as well
Isn't this exactly how all of the other languages where created?
They don't seem to have any written documentation online, not even a list of features. They seem to have some doxygen docs on the repo, but they're not built anywhere. The only information ready to check are YouTube videos. The developer forum link they have in the top right doesn't work (I think since January they killed their forums).
It's a chore just to know what does it do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯