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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwarePatents</span></a> should be <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> as they only exist to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ValueRemoving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ValueRemoving</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RentSeekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RentSeekers</span></a>! </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyCy5pRMSg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=EmyCy5pRMSg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)<p>Me: "Obi Wan never told you why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOMEShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOMEShell</span></a> still uses the VP8 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codec</span></a> to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"</p><p>Them: "He told me enough! He told me <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> hates its users!"</p><p>Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> middleware &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a> problem."</p><p>Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"</p><p>Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."</p><p>Them: "DO NOT WANT"</p><p>Source: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126</span><span class="invisible">15135771775130</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedesktop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarefreedom</span></a></p>
MrCopilot<p>Great news,but...</p><p>Can I turn up more than one speaker at a time again yet?</p><p>Oh, wow, I see... Possibly</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwarePatents</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sonos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sonos</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23911491/google-home-grouping-features-now-available-sonos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2023/10/10/239114</span><span class="invisible">91/google-home-grouping-features-now-available-sonos</span></a></p>
Cory DoctorowLong thread/5
IT News<p>FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony - Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 8... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1932231" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1932231</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/freesoftwarefoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftwarefoundation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imagecompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagecompression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/googlechrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlechrome</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imageformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imageformats</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/webstandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webstandards</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chromium</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biz</span></a>⁢ <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jpegxl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jpegxl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fsf</span></a></p>
Geert Bevin<p>* I protested multiple times on the streets of Brussels as a teenager to prevent <a href="https://uwyn.net/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a> in Europe, two decades later I was sued by a US patent troll company and was untouchable thanks to this.</p><p>* I joined an idealistic handful of geeks that had the crazy idea to make a new Linux distribution that's highly flexible and driven by source code. Now, <a href="https://uwyn.net/tags/Gentoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gentoo</span></a> Linux is one of the biggest independent distributions.</p><p>2/4</p>