TYPE-MOON’s Mahōtsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night) visual novel is getting a release on Steam on December 14. The release will support Japanese, English, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese text.
TYPE-MOON’s Mahōtsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night) visual novel is getting a release on Steam on December 14. The release will support Japanese, English, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese text.
So on the subject of the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, January 1st, 2024 is actually the day the very first incarnation of Mickey Mouse will make it to the public domain. Finally.
Except…not quite. See Mickey’s Headed to the Public Domain! But Will He Go Quietly? (HTTP-only):
Somehow, trademark law is being abused to eternally extend copyright! Trademarking characters prevents commercial distribution of work that is not copyright-infringing. We’ll see if Disney is actually able to employ this in practice starting next year. Way to go Disney, plundering our public domain and ladder-pulling it for the rest of us.
And I’m sorry if this is not interesting to you at all, lol.
Veronica Mars is a great show! At least, the first three seasons are. The movie is alright, and the fourth season is…fine. It’s just a shame Warner Brothers are, well, a corporation. And after doing some more reading, it’s possible the reported budget of the film only includes the production budget and not the marketing budget. $3.5M seems like a pretty bad performance so I wonder if they did actually make a profit in the end.
It’s worth noting that backers who could actually watch the film on Flixster (WB’s part-owned streaming service that has since died a violent death) had a worse experience than people who bought the film on iTunes or wherever else. They didn’t get a HD version. So backers ended up mailing in receipts after buying the film elsewhere, which Warner Brothers refunded. Sounds like a total mess.
Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that. MakeMKV is proprietary and under standard copyright, but the sources for every release are provided for compiling yourself on GNU/Linux (and wherever else you can get it to work). It’s C++ and you can try poking around in there. I don’t know C++ yet, so I couldn’t tell you what the program does :) Some of the components GulpinSoft has developed seem to be free software, just from checking the headers of some files?
Sources here: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=224 (Edit: Fixed URL)
I’m not quite sure how it works. I think they have a keyserver which provides keys for particular Blurays. My understanding is MakeMKV does extract the key itself, so it’s not like you need to rely on keys from the developer’s site…but I could be wrong. Regardless, I’ve found the interface a lot more usable than Handbrake and it has been very reliable.
You can use MakeMKV indefinitely with the Beta key. The program has been in beta for over ten years now, so there’s probably not much risk of a full release… even then, it’s only a one-time purchase for a license you can use on as many computers as you like, on any operating system you like, forever, even with the full release.
I should note that mpv seems to be handling subtitles very poorly in the resulting mkv files. Like, sometimes not being able to switch to them or the timing being out. VLC handles them completely fine though. I don’t really care, since I don’t use subtitles, but it seemed important to note if you use mpv (which you probably do).
It’s a fantastic format for playback! It’s It’s not so great for editing in an NLE because of, well, how much stuff it supports.
Yeah, that’s true. I hope it actually does get better over time…I feel like a luddite sometimes eschewing new technology because I don’t like the way they treat me.
The article touches on the history of libraries but is more focused on comparing it to file sharing, which nonetheless, I found super interesting. Is there a particular advantage IPFS has over BitTorrent? BitTorrent has a lot of advantages over HTTPS for transferring files, so I’m curious. BitTorrent is technically superior to HTTPS in several ways, so for practical reasons alone it’s worthwhile using. The decentralized aspect is a bonus.