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Jeff Fortin T.<p>Me: "Obi Wan never told you why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOMEShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNOMEShell</span></a> still uses the VP8 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> middleware &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedesktop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwarePatents</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sonos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/15yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15yrsago</span></a> Warner/DC comics shuts down children’s cancer charity auction over trademark <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080517045311/https://sayitbackwards.blogspot.com/2008/05/important-charity-auction-update.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2008051704</span><span class="invisible">5311/https://sayitbackwards.blogspot.com/2008/05/important-charity-auction-update.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/15yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15yrsago</span></a> @GratefulDead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/monitormix/2008/05/days_be_more_than_all_we_have_2.html/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/sections/monitormix/20</span><span class="invisible">08/05/days_be_more_than_all_we_have_2.html/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/15yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15yrsago</span></a> Analog switchoff == DRM screwjob <a href="https://tidbits.com/2008/05/12/digital-rights-misery-when-technology-is-designed-to-fail/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tidbits.com/2008/05/12/digital</span><span class="invisible">-rights-misery-when-technology-is-designed-to-fail/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/15yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15yrsago</span></a> US and EU commissioner trying (again!) to sneak <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwarePatents</span></a> into Europe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080514074905/http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/McCreevy_wants_to_legalise_Software_Patents_via_a_US-EU_patent_treaty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2008051407</span><span class="invisible">4905/http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/McCreevy_wants_to_legalise_Software_Patents_via_a_US-EU_patent_treaty</span></a></p><p>5/</p>
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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftwarefoundation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imagecompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imagecompression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/googlechrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googlechrome</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imageformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imageformats</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/webstandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webstandards</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chromium</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biz</span></a>⁢ <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jpegxl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jpegxl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentoo</span></a> Linux is one of the biggest independent distributions.</p><p>2/4</p>