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Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it (arstechnica.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by lechekaflan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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today I fucking learned Roku is now a Murdoch Box.

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It probably gives up only not to accidentally DDOS their own telemetry servers

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

Or maybe it's just a reaally slow exponential backoff

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago

Linear backoff. Add one millisecond per retry.

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