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- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 9 hours ago:
Which royalty free alternatives exist?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I dont understand why collabora and libreoffice don’t work together. Why compete? And what is this onlyoffice fork? Why not work with libreoffice instead? There could be a massive effort going into libreoffice but somehow everybody’s going their own way. It makes it so easy for Microslop
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 1 day ago:
Oh they do, they are just regional - for now.
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 days ago:
Alternatives to the duopoly can’t come fast enough.
- Comment on Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids 6 days ago:
Ban life, it carries the risk of death.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
I stand corrected. Luckily 👍
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
People still won’t leave 🤷
- Comment on Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools 3 weeks ago:
If digg had written a fediverse compatible app, things could’ve turned out way differently. But they wanted to create a new, disconnected garden and there’s no appetite for that.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 1 month ago:
Had no idea. Thanks for the link.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 1 month ago:
Interesting. Is steam becoming a generic app store?
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 2 months ago:
That doesn’t solve funding as there doesn’t seem to be any provisions for that.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 2 months ago:
I like this idea. Good on him.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 2 months ago:
I think if they succeeded to write a licence that made sense and were legally enforceable, they’d be worth using. But I also wish the EU put up some lawyers to formulate a licence with the goal of sustainable opensource development.
- Comment on Discord is force-restarting itself on Windows 11 to stop eating your RAM 3 months ago:
Isn’t that just a rust wrapper of chromium or Firefox?
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 3 months ago:
I doubt it. Most likely complying without complying. Then they dont put their monopoly in jeopardy. If people found out they could use any other app to communicate with WhatsApp users, then WhatsApp would have to actually compete on features and not “use it because everybody else does”.
Being able to check off the box of interoperability without actually interoperating with a competitor is just a trick in my eyes. I hope the EU commission sees it that way too. Given how they want to placate the US though and the concessions they have been making, I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 3 months ago:
It won’t be interoperable with anything people use, making it only theoretically interoperable. Wake me up once I can use it with Jami or Matrix.
- Comment on European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s 4 months ago:
Yes, fight the symptoms by invading everybody’s privacy instead of educating people and legislating against Facebook, reddit, and others.
This is the Christian way: the system isn’t the problem, you are the problem. Addicted to drugs? Weak willed! Fat? Weak willed! Sick? God’s plan, deal with it! Uneducated? WeAkWiLlEd!
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 4 months ago:
Probably the activists didn’t vet access.
- Comment on Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution' 4 months ago:
Once you mentioned AVIF, I found it “FLIF”, but JPEG-XL is an extension thereof.
- Comment on Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution' 4 months ago:
Is this the right format? I thought there was an alternative with better compression and it was opensource and without royalties.
- Comment on Popular Windows 11 requirements bypass app Flyoobe 2.0 is out with big UI overhaul 4 months ago:
The amount of effort people have to go through to get windows 11 on their computers, they might as well just install linux.
- Comment on Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'China is going to win the AI race,' 4 months ago:
AGI is the finish line, for them and humanity.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 5 months ago:
We should support wealth taxes. We should be screaming about them to politicians and anybody who will listen non-stop. So what if he earns 96M? If they were taxed adequately, it wouldn’t matter, but it isn’t. He’s going to buy a bunch of assets that won’t be taxed at all and hoard it to make more: that is the bigger problem.
Tax his wealth so that taxing his income won’t matter. That will wipe that grin off his face.
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 6 months ago:
Telling the new slaves to stay put.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 8 months ago:
And somehow there are people out there that think it’s OK for this to happen to games too to then spread misinformation about Stop Killing Games.
- Comment on Meta Secures Bittersweet Fair Use Victory in AI 'Piracy' Case * TorrentFreak 9 months ago:
“As should now be clear, this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one,” the ruling reads.
- Comment on Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai Set for Bankruptcy After Cash Seized 10 months ago:
Were these guys the OG vibe coders? It looks like they were allowing people to build mobile apps using AI since 2016!
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 10 months ago:
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 11 months ago:
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time. How is that news?
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 11 months ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.