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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

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GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 19, 2024

My favorite photograph of my wife refracted in a drop of water. She passed away on the 4th of November, at the age of 23. I miss her so much....

Updated This Past Day

  1. FSF Has Made It Halfway to Its Target (Funding Goal) a Week Before Christmas Day
    $400,000 definitely seems reachable now, especially if they extend the "deadline"
  2. Brian Fagioli's Latest "Linux" Article Appears to be Fake
    Another form of plagiarism/ripoff using bots?

    New

  3. [Meme] The Master Churnalist
    Speaking of press releases being passed off as "journalism"
  4. Spamnil's TFiR: Still Pretending Press Releases Are 'Articles' (TFiR 'Originals' as Plagiarism or Fluff)
    Same as last year
  5. Links 18/12/2024: Zakir Hussain Dies, TuneIn Layoffs
    Links for the day
  6. Links 18/12/2024: Karate Love and Advent of Code
    Links for the day
  7. Windows (or Microsoft) Has Become the "One Percent" (Market Share) in Chad
    How long before it falls below 1%?
  8. Arvind Krishna, IBM's CEO, Will Eventually Suck Up to Donald Trump Like His Predecessor Did or the Watson Family Did With Adolf Hitler
    Literally Hitler
  9. Being a Geek Need Not Mean Being Sedentary
    "In the past 18 months," Berkholz writes, "I’ve lost 75 pounds and gone from completely sedentary to fit, while minimizing the effort to do so (but needing a whole lot of persistence and grit)."
  10. GAFAM Kissing the Ring of the Mafia Don
    "resistance" to dictatorship and defenders of democracy?
  11. Slop Spaghetti From the Chef, Second Time Today
    Fresh slop ready out the oven!
  12. IBM - Like Microsoft - Lies About the Number of People It's Laying Off (Several Tens of Thousands, Not Counting R.T.O. "Silent" Layoffs and Contractors/Perma-Temps)
    How many waves of silent layoffs have we seen so far at IBM this year?
  13. Links 18/12/2024: EU Launches Probe Into TikTok (At Last!)
    Links for the day
  14. Links 18/12/2024: Doha/Qatar Trafficking, Bloat Comfort Zone, and Advent of Code 2024
    Links for the day
  15. [Meme] Microsoft's Latest Marketing Pitch
    "Stop Being Poor; buy a new PC with TPMs"
  16. In South Africa, a Very Large Nation, Web Developers Can Already Ignore Microsoft Browsers (Edge Measured Below 3% in 55 Nations)
    The dumb assumption you must naively test with Microsoft browsers is no longer applicable in a lot of places
  17. Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the Voice of Bill Gates and Satya Nadella
    Not hard to see what they've done with the money
  18. Microsoft Boasts That Its (Microsoft-Sponsored) "Open Source AI" Propaganda Got Cited in Media (That's Just What the Money Did)
    This is a grotesque openwashing campaign
  19. In Many Places Around the World, Perhaps as Expected, Yandex is Nearly Bigger Than Microsoft (Like in Several African Countries)
    Microsoft may soon fall to "third place" in search
  20. Keeping Productive This Christmas
    We've (pre)paid for hosting till almost January 2026 and fully back on the saddle
  21. IBM and Canonical Leave Money on the Table Because Microsoft Pays Them Not to Compete and Instead Market Windows, WSL, Microsoft 'Clown Computing', and TPMs
    Where are the regulators?
  22. Other Editors Who Agree "Hey Hi" (AI) is Just Hype But Won't Say So Publicly as It Might Upset Key Sponsors
    Some media would gladly participate in a scam to make money
  23. IBM (and Red Hat) is a Patent Troll, Still Leveraging Software Patents to Extract Money Out of Other Companies by Suing Them
    Basically, when it comes to patents, IBM is demonstrably part of the problem, not the solution
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 17, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 17, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-12-12 to 2024-12-18
    1822 /n/2024/12/11/Mozilla_s_Firefox_is_Floundering_in_the_United_Kingdom_Its_Shar.shtml
    1248 /n/2024/12/17/Why_I_Continue_to_Believe_That_at_the_End_Software_Freedom_Will.shtml
    930 /n/2024/12/11/IBM_s_Latest_Fedora_Divestment_Speaks_for_Itself.shtml
    778 /n/2024/12/12/Explaining_What_Deb_Nicholson_Does_to_the_Python_Software_Found.shtml
    762 /n/2024/12/11/Communicating_Outside_of_Skinnerboxes_and_Social_Control_Media.shtml
    751 /n/2024/12/13/Links_13_12_2024_Military_Buildup_Around_Taiwan_More_Health_Pro.shtml
    678 /n/2024/12/14/EPO_Corruption_is_a_Real_Threat_to_the_European_Union_EU_The_EP.shtml
    648 /n/2024/12/15/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_December_14_2024.shtml
    618 /n/2024/12/12/Microsoft_OSI_Promoting_GitHub_Which_is_Proprietary_and_a_Massi.shtml
    597 /n/2024/12/14/Links_14_12_2024_Adobe_s_Shares_Collapse_Apple_Publishes_Fake_N.shtml
    561 /n/2024/12/17/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_X.shtml
    522 /n/2024/12/13/Anonymity_for_Sources.shtml
    508 /browse/latest.shtml
    508 /n/2024/12/14/Links_14_12_2024_ChatGPT_Down_Microsofter_Bracing_for_Layoffs.shtml
    500 /n/2024/12/12/Links_12_12_2024_Another_Self_driving_Cars_Dead_End_Infowars_Sa.shtml

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