Reimplement the old WASTE client from the Nullsoft dude, this time with proper encryption and security and let’s call it a day.
Reimplement the old WASTE client from the Nullsoft dude, this time with proper encryption and security and let’s call it a day.
I like how we’ve completely erased Vista from our collective memories at this point.
That was a close call, you were almost forced into Archbitration.
Yeah, but if you use Arch you have to make sure to let everyone know you use Arch, it’s in the Arch EULA, duh.
“Our ads are showing mouse hover metrics, increase the ad spend!”
Narrator: He couldn’t.
mcedit over vi(m)
Numpad is a MUST for doing quick calc, that top row of numbers always slows me way down.
Also, I need the full numpad in case I’m playing Arma 3, cuz I need to additional keymappings ;)
Hey, I saw that Youtube short with the fireman guy that does the funny skits too.
https://encode.su/threads/3863-RANS-Microsoft-wins-data-encoding-patent
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/
https://avifstudio.com/blogs/faq/avif-patents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910515
https://aomedia.org/press releases/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/
If AVIF was not patent encumbered, AOMedia would not need to have a Patent License to allow open source use.
A majority of the most recent standards are effectively cabal esque private groups of Corporations that hold patents that on the underlying technology and then license the patents among each other as part of the standards org and throw a license bone towards open source. That can all be undone by the patent holders at their whim.
There’s no need to create a standard format that’s patent encumbered especially if they don’t ever intend to monetize that paten,t. It’s all about maintaining control of intellectual property and especially who was allowed and when they are allowed to profit from the standards.
No patent encumbrance. That was the entire point.
Clawing control of patent infected media standards is far more important for a healthy open internet built on open standards that is not subject to the whims and controls of capital investment groups eating up companies to exert control of the entire technology standards pipeline.
Lemmy.world is a community, /c/news is a subcommunity in that context.
It is whatever we collectively decide it is with enough traction at the end of the day, right?
Comms and subcomms?
Look it’s all actually about re-encumberancing image file formats back into corporate controlled patented formats. If we would collectively just spend time and money and development resources expanding and improving PNG and gif formats that are no longer patent encumbered, we’d all live happily ever after.
My first real computer interaction in life was when I used the early version of ws that was a CP/M program rather than DOS (MS or IBM PC).
Frankly, I’d rather have a solid Wordperfect 5.x for DOS over Wordstar any day.
The Upwork Research Institute
Not exactly a panacea of rigorous scientific study.
What a weird downslope of a take that will obviously result in authoritarian government power expansion and futher censorship.
Just stop using it and support alternatives that dont do it. Have some self control.