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Apple ordered to pay $234M to WARF(reuters.com)
1 points by jbk 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbk 11y ago
I used to use Amana, but I left it for Azendoo (and taiga). The main reason is that it was impossible to get a cross-project (workspace) list of my to-dos and everyone's to-dos. Checking them one by one was quite bad and slow... I hop
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by jbk 11y ago
I still use mutt (and default to text), but I don't see anyone else doing this, even in my geek coworkers or friends. So I'm a bit surprised by this article. I use mutt because it's very very fast, and quite customizable (I m
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by jbk 11y ago
In a semi-related, semi-off-topic way, there was this challenge of going through all the subway stations of the Paris underground, during the same day (and if possible in the fastest way possible): http://www.madore.org/~dav
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Alliance for Open Media: New Open Standard for Ultra High Definition(aomedia.org)
6 points by jbk 11y ago|1 comments
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by jbk 11y ago
> What I don't understand is why you don't simply pick ffmpeg and be done with it? Because distributions have picked libav or FFmpeg. So we need compatibility with both.
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by jbk 11y ago
> Is the info about the attempted coup d'état wrong then? It's partially untrue, yes. There was an actual vote from all the active developers to remove Michael from leadership, and that included the infrastructure developers. B
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by jbk 11y ago
Except I'm on no side in this fight: we use both, have friends in both side, and we host FFmpeg's git. I may be not 100% objective, but I'm more objective than a developer from one of the side. The fork is hurting us a lot. I
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by jbk 11y ago
Let's hope so?
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by jbk 11y ago
> I assume this is an unbiased opinion as much as it can be but could you elaborate on what about FFmpeg is a "mess." Examples: 2 prores decoders, 2 prores encoders (or 3), 2 different resampling libraries, libstagefright integ
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by jbk 11y ago
> I'd be surprised if you had actually read the blog post I wrote (pkh.me) :) I did, and many times. And I already said so. > Well, I believe this is a bit more complex. Unfortunately, it's more complex, yes, but it's n
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by jbk 11y ago
That's incorrect. Those statistics include all the MERGE commits from libav into FFmpeg, which happen several time per day. Michael did not do 1500 commits more than the second commiter.
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by jbk 11y ago
> I don't know the extent of the drama As a heavy user of FFmpeg/libav, for VLC (I'm the VideoLAN president), the drama has been huge, and more aggressive than most forks we've seen in the open source community. Most
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by jbk 11y ago
> In the last few years, more than half of the commits are from him. This is completely incorrect. Most of his commits are merges from libav and other forks, and not code commits. He's doing a great job at it, but he is not irreplac
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by jbk 11y ago
(disclaimer: I wrote that page :) ) Well, there are 2 legal parts that apply here: - DRM - software patents. Software patents for DVDs are almost all over (it's a 20 year old technology). And in Europe, we don't have valid softw
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by jbk 11y ago
> That is actually illegal in Finland because it's illegal to circumvent the copy protection. How do you not circumvent the copy protection to read a DVD? (See my various talks about libdvdcss)
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by jbk 11y ago
Great, so please show us your work on a project from scratch. You seem so good at criticizing and explaining that you'd do better. Please show us!
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by jbk 11y ago
> Hard to say, it's an instinctive feeling, but let's say that it's a culture of bloat. So, in the end, you're just a troll. You have no facts, no knowledge, no reference but just your "feelings" about &quot
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by jbk 11y ago
I already said so, in comments above and various talks quite easy to find.
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by jbk 11y ago
> I've heard several years ago that their UI philosophy is to target advanced users. Citation needed. From who? From where?
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by jbk 11y ago
> I've been actually thinking about creating a new desktop environment Stop thinking and actually do and ship! You keep complaining and say you know better, then show us!
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by jbk 11y ago
> You must have some very low standards for "looking great". For an early project, no, it's quite nice. They did not change a thing from QML apps, and it works fine already, without any design changes. > The design is a
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by jbk 11y ago
Why are you so negative? Why do you say they don't have a designer? Did you ask? This is a technology preview, and for a new development platform, it's quite nice already.
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by jbk 11y ago
Technically, you should be able to support both.
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by jbk 11y ago
The front page is just a marketing thingie. Look at the video. It looks great.
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by jbk 11y ago
And that, I have no idea, sorry. :D I guess that if it works with Ubuntu Touch, like Nexus 4 or the Meizu.
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by jbk 11y ago
So, there is not much information on the website yet, but this is basically a full stack for mobiles, based on Wayland and Kwin for the UI and Ofono for the phone part. The reference implementation is based on Ubuntu Touch, and use libhybri
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Plasma Mobile(plasma-mobile.org)
238 points by jbk 11y ago|138 comments
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by jbk 11y ago
The parents speaks about USER freedom, not about developers or redistributors. You argue that freedom of developers is more important, and that's fine. But don't say that the GPL does not guarantee more user freedom.
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by jbk 11y ago
You are speaking of feelings, I speak about facts and what's actually written in the license: the GPL forbids restricting the freedom to use, even when redistributing; the other licenses don't. This is a clear user freedom that is

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