Reimplement the old WASTE client from the Nullsoft dude, this time with proper encryption and security and let’s call it a day.

Ok but where’s the poop knife?

I like how we’ve completely erased Vista from our collective memories at this point.

“Uh, I’m child free thank you very much, don’t tell me how to think.” /s

Whitelist and Blacklist is on that stack as well.

VOTES ARE ALREADY PUBLIC.

If you are using Lemmy because you want privacy, you’ve already missed the boat, everything is wide assed open for datamining and advertising fingerprinting.

I’d hoped for an open system with open APIs and open implementations that allow everyone equal access to the system and bring equal accountability.

If people just want Reddit style fiefdoms with no real public accountability possible, then make a blackjack and hookers fork.

I’m really not interested in a system that bakes in more authoritarian secrecy and control, which could very well be an unexpected outcome of backlash to how this has been presented.

Winsock baby.

modem noises

“Our ads are showing mouse hover metrics, increase the ad spend!”

Narrator: He couldn’t.

Marty Stratton of id Software tries to throw Mick Gordon and his entire music production career in front of a bus over the Doom Eternal OST issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/gdg25y/doom_eternal_ost_open_letter/

Mick Gordon responds with receipts and even time stamps in files from the id audio designer: https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

Bethesda’s eventual response in a tone seeming written by Stratton himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/1enfvfm/has_marty_stratton_found_his_appropriate_venue_yet/

Fuck anything from id Software/Bethesda/ZeniMaxi Media until chucklefuck Marty Stratton is out.

https://encode.su/threads/3863-RANS-Microsoft-wins-data-encoding-patent

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

https://avifstudio.com/blogs/faq/avif-patents/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910515

https://aomedia.org/press releases/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/

If AVIF was not patent encumbered, AOMedia would not need to have a Patent License to allow open source use.

A majority of the most recent standards are effectively cabal esque private groups of Corporations that hold patents that on the underlying technology and then license the patents among each other as part of the standards org and throw a license bone towards open source. That can all be undone by the patent holders at their whim.

There’s no need to create a standard format that’s patent encumbered especially if they don’t ever intend to monetize that paten,t. It’s all about maintaining control of intellectual property and especially who was allowed and when they are allowed to profit from the standards.

No patent encumbrance. That was the entire point.

Clawing control of patent infected media standards is far more important for a healthy open internet built on open standards that is not subject to the whims and controls of capital investment groups eating up companies to exert control of the entire technology standards pipeline.

Lemmy.world is a community, /c/news is a subcommunity in that context.

It is whatever we collectively decide it is with enough traction at the end of the day, right?

Comms and subcomms?

Look it’s all actually about re-encumberancing image file formats back into corporate controlled patented formats. If we would collectively just spend time and money and development resources expanding and improving PNG and gif formats that are no longer patent encumbered, we’d all live happily ever after.

My first real computer interaction in life was when I used the early version of ws that was a CP/M program rather than DOS (MS or IBM PC).

Frankly, I’d rather have a solid Wordperfect 5.x for DOS over Wordstar any day.

Dear Sydney…

The Upwork Research Institute

Not exactly a panacea of rigorous scientific study.