bunnythefifth

This is Windows 10 specific. I was alarmed today when Nvidia GeForce turned off persistent screen recording (called ShadowPlay/Instant Replay) as soon as I accessed "netflix.com" on Firefox 96. They claim it is to deter users from screen-recording DRM protected content.

Besides the privacy concerns, I'm very curious to know how GeForce Experience process does that? Does it get assistance from Windows (PlayReady etc.), or can a process just do that. I'm looking for a technical explanation. How about some process reading how many times I visit my bank website per day? Where does it end?

I've been reading a lot as of late. All sorts of things, but mostly technical posts and papers by a wide variety of programmers and researchers. Especially about the Rust Programming Language.

The more content I discover, the tinier and irrelevant I feel. I go down a rabbit hole of brilliant relevations of one person after the other, and I come out tired and discouraged. People are writing crazy compilers, optimizers, devising mathematical mathematical theorems etc. and finding concerete applications of their work everywhere. For instance, I just discovered the blog of Aleksey Kladov today and the depth and breadth of his work made my jaw drop.

Now, I realize this is rather superficial to talk about. I myself work on low-level systems, writing non-trivial code and trying to solve all sorts of interesting problems. Senior engineers and professors have told me that I'm brilliant. But when I'm alone with myself, I feel like I know that I'm a nobody. I try not to compare myself; but I'm also unable to shrug these feeling off, however indirect.

P.S. Not intended as a humblebrag. I truly need external input at this point. Sorry if this is offensive to some.