In this day, I’m a proud Debian user. (…STS-83 and STS-94 took Debian Linux to the orbit in 1997.) Open Source can into space!
…do you think they paid for winRAR tho??
No, because they’re FOSS-pilled and chose 7zip?
And in contrast to other pieces of software, it seems to be working.
Years ago I when I wrote software for a living, I had an argument with a colleague, and I tried to explain to him:
The “supported” closed-source library he wanted to use was pretty popular because it was marketed by a huge company with a marketing department, or because it had a first-mover advantage, or because there were training events and books built around it, etc.
The unsupported free open-source library I wanted to use was the most popular library of its kind in the whole world. And it got to that position without any of those advantages.
What does that suggest about their relative usefulness? The world of open source is closer to being a real meritocracy. The number one app or library is probably number one for non-structural reasons.
And that’s why GenAI for code is gaining popularity.
It’s not because it’s better than free open-source libraries. It’s because it’s better marketed.
Eh, Claude’s cutting edge frontier models are definitely better than the good open source models which lag a bit behind. The good open source models are still useful though but you’d get noticeably better performance with the closed model which is why even companies that are perfectly capable of locally hosting an open model choose to pay anthropic a premium.
Maybe but that wasn’t my point. My point is that a lot of people now invest a LOT of resources, being token, money, time, etc to invent the wheel again. Instead of relying on e.g. Drupal they’ll “generate” yet another CMS which will work (for a while, in theory) not because it’s a good idea (IMHO it’s not) but because it’s been marketed as doable and even “better” on some aspects (e.g. customizable).
Ah, you’re referring to local rewrites of utilities that already exist?
I agree that agents are making more in house utilities which can be wasteful. The shift certainly isn’t helped by the increase in supply chain attacks though.
I think the main reason most companies choose closed source is because management gets a hard-on for the thought of having someone to complain to. If they can’t call meetings with someone responsible and demand a quick fix, what use do they still have? All you can with open source is fix it yourself or create an issue. Neither requires a manager.
What? No!
The point is that it is impossible to have support of every single software you use in-house. So it is better to outsource it to companies who have specialized support on hand 24/7, and who have been solving those kinds of issues every single day of the year. They don’t need to flip through the documentation in order to solve it.
In companies, a problem that causes the entire company from being unable to generate profit for 24hours costs way more than a support contract.
That’s exactly my point?
Correct. Also, they need someone to delegate the responsibility to. They are mainly concerned with not being held responsible for any potential fuck-ups. If they can say “the vendor did it” they can deflect the blame. Unfortunately that’s how making a career in the corporate world works for the vast majority of people. You advance by avoiding getting blamed for mistakes, not by brilliance or competence.
Many open source have paid support
And then after they demanded a quick fix it will be swiftly delivered in next decade
A main issue, according to my non-software related work-life experience is also: liability reasons.
Being able to legally blame someone else when shit goes wrong is a very motivating driver for executive decisions.
it shows people are still dumb enough to fall for advertising…
Never underestimate people’s ability to be stupid.
Gotta feel cool to have your software support the people doing the “real” work.
Poor ffmpeg
Maybe ffmpreg will have more luck…
Oh sweet summer child…
Edit: read comment below, I’m talking rubbish.
Isn’t ffmpeg from the MPEG group which is pretty huge and has a bunch of money from all bug tech that want to use it? Idk, just what I have heard :D
Heard from where, exactly?
ffmpeg is an open project, accepts donations, and is heavily used by big tech.
This is an example of them applying for the Sovereign Tech Fund, and what they planned to do with the relatively modest budget.
To my knowledge, it’s not linked to the Motion Pictures Experts Group. Or MPEG LA.
And ffmpeg does warn that using ffmepg for commercial products may put you in the firing line of MPEG LA.
Maybe because VLC is actually useful
Unlike Microslop Outlook, there’s a program that doesn’t break when you lose internet connection.
The asshats for some reason felt that they needed to reinvent it as basically a web app and it’s broken in so many ways, and I think it’s lost feature parity with mobile and Mac instead of gaining. Sheer incompetence.
The way I see it: Corporate web apps (like Microsoft’s) are evidence that the maker is putting administrative concerns ahead of user experience concerns. They’re catering to the people who actually pay for this stuff, not to the users.
Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
He’s going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying “consulting” gig. It’s unfair. it’s unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.
It’s incredibly frustrating. I’m starting to think the only way out of poverty is immense crime.
Why? It’s super funny to watch if you don’t use Windows. I hope he stays forever and burns Microslop to the ground.
Don’t you kinda need internet for an email app?
No, given that one of the points of Outlook (and most email apps) is to store a local archive that can be read even when offline.
I found the most useful Outlook was '97. Just did everything I needed. Wasn’t overly technical. No AI!
No encryption, probably running SMTP, no spoofing prevention, no compatibility with modern protocols, could it even handle files bigger than 2Mb?
Sorry to see you dog piled for an innocent question. We should see it as a good thing that someone who doesn’t know found this space.
I see what you’re doing here
What am I doing?
Some people are being a bit pedantic about not technically needing the internet for email, and that’s true, but the pedantry is hiding the fact that actually email is really cool in how it exists in whatever form we want it to be in! It can be transmitted over internet, or over bare TCP/IP, or even peer-to-peer. Most applications don’t take advantage of how versatile email really is.
Of course, Micro$oft makes it rely on an always-on internet connection because it’s better for their bottom line.
IPoAC is my personal favorite
Email is older than the internet.
Anyway, no, you don’t need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.
For the curious History of email Wikipedia
what does that even mean
What word did you not understand? Moon?
how is gamestop supposed to go to the moon, or bitcoin, in a realistic way that vlc can legitimately compete with?
Let me explain the joke.
Crypto bros and gamestop stock trader always talk about how their shit is going to the moon. They mean that the value of their trading object is increasing incredibly.
VLC is now physically very close to the moon on a laptop from NASA.
The joke is that VLC is closer to the moon than those traders promises that crashed.
I think its derived from the line-graph you look at where the stock price increases (value over time) and instead of the usual zig-zag up and down, as it skyrockets in value the trend line starts shooting up (towards the sky) as if its on a trajectory to hit the moon.
At least thats my understanding of the origin.
is it one of those “bang, zoom, to the moon alice” things?
Similar etymological root possibly.
I think, not one, but I must admit to never having heard that things at all
With their legs, dho.
🚀🌛
It means the price is going very high.
Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.
I wonder why…
VLC: a free and open source video player meant to be used by literally everyone.
Astronauts: a select few chosen people with little to no health problems, in top physical and mental form one could only dream of having.
I think the Simpsons were on to something when they sent Homer to space.I think we shouldn’t make it looks like it’s easy to be an astronaut. Those people are crazy. They are PhD smart and Olympic level fit. This does not come naturally.
Edit : and JB from VLC is probably one of the most interesting guy to listen to, if you find some of his talks/interviews
If only they had such high standards for the presidency
What porn did they take with them?
Now i am imagining how the semen flies through the rocket after masturbating…
There’s no way you’d be watching the astronauts live and a jar of nut flys by.
Of course, that jar of nut would be strapped down
In the next Andy Weir book, I bet that’s how he calculates acceleration in zero G.
“I just happened to remember that semen has a viscosity of 93 Penrose and that a palladium vibrates at 6.3e⁷ portisheads per waneshaft when exposed to bicurious voltage. So by spunking on a metal ruler and shorting out a 9v battery on it I made a rudimentary McGlochlon Scale!”
What porn did they take with them?
Whispers in The Wind, To Each His Own, Put it Where it Doesn’t Belong, My Pipes Need Cleaning, All Tit Fucking, Volume Eight, I Need Your Cock, Ass Worshipping Rim Jobbers, My Cunt And Eight Shafts, Cum Clean, Cum Gargling Naked Sluts, Cum Buns III, Cumming in Socks, Cum On Eilene, Huge Black Cocks With Pearly White Cum, Girls Who Crave Cock, Girls Who Crave Cunt, Men Alone II: The KY Connection, Pink Pussy Lips, and oh yeah, All Holes Filled with Hard Cock.
Just fascinating how they all collaborated to agree to these specific titles.
They had several meetings at NASA, rigorous tests, & selected only the best for peak performance.
“How many pornos does a woman need for a week in space? One? A thousand?” - Someone at NASA, probably
(Lol, I was initially trying to make that joke/reference, but couldn’t manage to get it right. Gg.)
it’s the library of congress spank bank
They must be big fans of black & white films
Alien kind.
So, tentacles?
it’s more like extremely pointy prehensile elbows but look you can only be so picky
Probably a variety?
Nope! Exclusively Corsican convent bdsm porn!
I’m still on the edge of whether I should joke about asking for a link and worrying I’ll get the response.
No worries, I’m not aware of whether or not such porn actually exists 😄
Rule 34 and 35 dictate that you’re now responsible for making sure it exists.
Eh, I’ve done worse 🤷🏻
would this be an ethical use of ai?
No
“It doesn’t matter when it’s Arcturian, baby!”
-Private Frost
I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.
Think of it this way:
Every time you steal from Reddit, you’re saving thousands of Lemmy folks a visit there, and Spez loses more traffic.
Keep doing it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Agreed. VLC is the bomb - they deserve the attention and praise.
15 years ago I downloaded VLC on a flash drive with all the episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho and I’ve been using it ever since to watch wherever. Works like a charm.
Browsing reddit may feel gross, but just like the screenshots at !greentext@sh.itjust.works, we need people to sort through the waste and find the gems.
I won’t go back but if you share direct links or rehost here that’s a good thing for this side of fedi.
Thanks for your transparency.
IMO reposting from larger sites is a very good thing. The main advantage that larger platforms have is the amount of content. If all the good stuff ends up here anyway then it makes it easier to switch for those who haven’t due to the lack of content.
It is the year 2,002,026.
Humanity has conquered capitalism and moved off of Earth. Disease and accidental death have been eradicated. We’ve invented marvelous and miraculous technologies and used them to catapult ourselves to distant worlds.
It’s an open question whether or not our descendants can rightly call themselves “human” anymore, and indeed some on far-flung planets do not.
On the planet Seffi, which we call Kepler-725c, one of those human descendants watches the end of a two-dimensional audiovisual narrative, a recent fad on the planet. They aren’t watching it on a computer, per se, but on a holographic mesh device operating across a distributed cluster of nanomachines. The human descendant telepathically interfaced with it to launch the application and the narrative, and now xe marvels at how immersive and compelling the narrative was, despite being contained as it was within a two-dimensional non-interactive form.
A list of people who contributed to the construction of the narrative concludes its display, and the holomesh reverts to a waiting state, displaying a simple black panel within a white frame. And within that black panel, a small, orange-and-white triangle sits, perfectly centered. The human descendant doesn’t know what it originally represented, and muses briefly about it before deactivating the holomesh and walking out of xeir home to enjoy the sunset beneath the purple-blue trees.
They vaguely wonder who “Vetinari”, “Weatherwax”, “Ogg”, and “Otto Chriek” were.
NASA out here laying the groundwork for rickrolling the Eloi
Plot twist: the Seffian’s name is Rickas’Tley
I remember once I had to work in a very sophisticated and expensive electrical gear that had fixed internal thermographic cameras. The first thing that popped in the HMI were the VLC cones.
Incredibly cool. Though I would have personally preferred MPV
I might have to switch. The most recent version of VLC is suddenly giving me trouble with audio on some MKV files. They work just fine in Haruna though. It’s annoying.
MPV cant read BluRays tho. But yes, I use it too through Haruna.
I didn’t know Haruna was mpv…
sure it can stream, simply add a URL after
mpv(you might need yt-dlp, not sure)You can also paste the URL from your clipboard into the gui. Works with magnet links too, with a plugin
This is the post below for me:
