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by jbk 4y ago
We've done that quite a few time, it never changed.
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by jbk 4y ago
> FWIW, they're acting all the time. It's whack-a-mole with the malware providers. Untrue, I can give you quite a few who have been there forever, by private message, if you want.
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by jbk 4y ago
Not only ads malvertising, but also in the main search, through SEO techniques... We've been fighting this since more than 10 years on VLC.. And they refuse to act on numerous reports of the same issue, over and over, since 10 years...
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by jbk 4y ago
Send files and bugreport
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by jbk 4y ago
Thanks for watching the talk :)
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by jbk 4y ago
This bsf was done to fix the following ticket https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/502
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by jbk 4y ago
If you want to know a bit more about what is important in this major release, you can watch my presentation about FFmpeg 6.0 at Fosdem: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_vlc/ (Video + Slides) It’
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by jbk 4y ago
Have you ever used SAP Ariba? Numerous large American tech companies are using that for supplier, including Intel, Google or ARM. They used to have their own system, and they moved to that abomination. Everything is counter-productive, the
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by jbk 4y ago
It does not answer the native styling though…
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by jbk 4y ago
Many of those are native enough, meaning they inherit the style from the desktop (and not just emulate it), do they support accessibility and so on. For example, QtWidgets is native and qml is not. WxWidgets is, electron is not.
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by jbk 4y ago
How many of those actually look and behave like native and support accessibility correctly?
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by jbk 4y ago
President of VideoLAN here. The issue is two-fold here: - On Google Search, Google refuses to unlist websites that are clearly promoting adware, spyware and violating the brands of Open Source projects (VLC is not the only one impacted). In
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by jbk 4y ago
Yay, I (president of VideoLAN), with the help of IFF, managed to get the Indian Minister to remove this block. It's pretty obvious that this was a mistake on their side, but it tooooook a long time to go around bureaucracy.
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GitLab 15.5(about.gitlab.com)
83 points by jbk 4y ago|86 comments
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by jbk 4y ago
It was fixed at least 2 or 3 releases ago.
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by jbk 4y ago
Enough to start, yes.
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by jbk 4y ago
I don't think there is.
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by jbk 4y ago
> Have you tried writing to the large ISPs in India that seem to be blocking your website? No answers from any of them.
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by jbk 4y ago
> Will VLC ever have a native dark skin? yes
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by jbk 4y ago
> Do you think that was the actual reason or was it something else and they just used that for cover? I have no clue at all. All this thing feels weird.
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by jbk 4y ago
That’s indeed my plan…
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by jbk 4y ago
> What’s your strategy? Do you know if this strategy has seen success in India? Ask questions to try and get answers and then build a case if needed. And use lawyers if needed.
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by jbk 4y ago
This does not match the dates of the ban.
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by jbk 4y ago
The Chinese security issue explanation does not match the dates of the ban.
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by jbk 4y ago
President of VideoLAN here: it is what I did this weekend with the help of the IFF. We’ll see what happens next… AMA
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by jbk 4y ago
The dates don’t match for this explanation.
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by jbk 4y ago
President of VideoLAN here: it is what I did this weekend with the help of the IFF. We’ll see what happens next… AMA
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by jbk 4y ago
And yet, when we submit crapware clones of VLC repackaged, while giving extensive details about the spyware, adware and services installed, MS refuses to block them… I love Smartscreen…
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by jbk 4y ago
> Anti-scraping technology is absolutely ridiculous. Modern example: TikTok. Have you seen webmsssdk.js? What is webmssdk doing?
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by jbk 4y ago
No one cares :)

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