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It's different because it makes DRM integration more seamless and easier to support across browsers. This is what DRM needs to save itself; otherwise the inconveniences and disrespect to users cause significant overhead -- see the quote on the front page of defectivebydesign.org. Flash is dying, Silverlight is dying -- the industry was having a hard time preserving DRM.
So the alternative has a lot of pain associated with it, but it's fight DRM so we can actually watch Netflix the right way. I don't know why people think this is impossible -- DRM has had plenty of ups and downs in its history, and opposition has from time-to-time forced companies to back off.
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-02-18T17:49:17Z
MediaGoblin campaign video rendering to webm.
Good time to go get lunch, I'd say.
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. #oleole Bon apetit :)
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-02-06T20:28:31Z
Seems like we found a likely culprit for my recent health issues (aside from general stress).
The vegetarian shut-in programmer who lives in wintersville USA has a Vitamin D deficiency. Who would have thought?
Glad it doesn't seem to be something worse! Comparatively easy to treat.
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I'm very confused. I'd be interested in data that somehow says staying inside causes vegetarianism or that vegetarianism causes people to stay inside. I've certainly never heard that.Doug Whitfield at 2014-02-06T23:38:45Z
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Staying inside doesn't help with generating Vitamin D deficiency, and the confusion is "related to what" here.
BTW, you're right that vegetarianism doesn't imply Vitamin D deficiency, but I also cut down on my milk intake around the same time (I used to drink a lot of milk), so while not necessary correlated, that's related on my personal timeline probably.
Free Software Foundation at 2014-01-31T23:38:32Z
Success! We've passed our highest-ever goal of $450K, on the very last day of our fundraiser. Thanks for carrying us to this victory.GDFEJK, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, aether, Ivaylo Valkov (Ивайло Вълков) and 18 others likes this.
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Nathan Smith at 2014-01-29T01:09:17Z
I once found dozens of tiny ants inside a laptop which was brought back from Panama.
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Karsten Gerloff at 2014-01-30T14:12:25Z
Over at http://fsfe.org, our new web design is live! Please test & report any issues to web@fsfeurope.org. Thanks to Hugo Roy and our web volunteers!
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Why isn't the url a link? Pump bug!
nice. the typography needs some love though.Nice.
Jason Self at 2014-01-29T22:26:47Z
It's been 104 days since the last FaiF episode. I wonder if there are plans to return?GDFEJK likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-01-21T15:50:54Z
Encouraged reading: My Nerd Story: What You Say to Young Girls Matters by Leslie Hawthorne.
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Jason Self at 2014-01-20T20:57:47Z
GNU Linux-libre 3.13 (the freedom-respecting version of Linux) is now available in my APT repository - http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ Enjoy!GDFEJK, a(n) person likes this.
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Happy GNU Year & Public Domain Day
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Jason Self at 2014-01-01T08:40:18Z
Seattle enters 2014: http://jxself.org/2014.shtmlGDFEJK likes this.
Question Copyright at 2013-12-31T19:04:13Z
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2014/pre-1976 … #copyright #publicdomain @fightcopytrolls @qco (RT @gabrieljmichael)GDFEJK, laurelrusswurm, Douglas Perkins, RuiSeabra likes this.
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Karsten Gerloff at 2013-11-14T11:38:35Z
#DRM in cars will drive consumers crazy http://ur1.ca/g16em via boingboing #FSFE #EFF
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Jason Self at 2013-10-30T22:23:01Z
Finished reading announcements from Cisco & Mozilla. Given that patents remain a problem with H.264 I would have preferred Mozilla to take a stronger stand in favor of unencumbered formats.Scorpio20, GDFEJK, lnxwalt@microca.st, RuiSeabra likes this.
Karsten Gerloff at 2013-10-31T09:47:29Z
Renault will remotely lock down electric cars http://ur1.ca/fyqm4
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The sad thing is: obviously something tells them they might get through with such a stunt.Jason Self at 2013-10-09T00:10:28Z
After seeing "What does Microsoft need in their next CEO?" on the front page in the newsstand my first thought was "A Richard Stallman-type to make all of their software free."GDFEJK, a(n) person, lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
Theoretically: Would RMS consider being CEO if the MS board voted him?Jason Self at 2013-10-11T19:57:29Z
Perhaps the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference should be renamed to the Seattle Mac OS X Conference, considering that every presenter I've seen and much of the audience is using that?
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2013-10-04T00:38:22Z
BTW, a health insurance company told me today that it's completely impossible to correct an inaccurate invoice, or issue a corrected invoice for any period. Seriously. They cannot correct erroneous invoices; they just tell you a corrected total over the phone but provide no documentation.
As always, they blamed the "computer system" doesn't "allow regeneration of invoices".
I almost asked for a copy of the source code so I could fix it. OTOH, I don't know COBOL so it'd be an uphill battle to fix it, I suspect.
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I hate the phrase "but maybe their computer system only allows that", like it's some immutable black box that no humans had any input into.If I complain about that turn of phrase I invariably get the answer "Can *you* do any better? Let's see you make a better system?". Sure, just give me the hundreds of millions of dollars that probably went into this thing, and I'll show you what they could have done. Especially annoyed with this discussion when there are existing competing systems that already do thing X better or at all.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2013-10-04T03:07:50Z
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The Tor Project, Inc. at 2013-10-03T02:10:46Z
Tor and silk road takedown. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-and-silk-road-takedown
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Show all 5 replies"So far, nothing about this case makes us think that there are new ways to compromise Tor (the software or the network). The FBI says that their suspect made mistakes in operational security, and was found through actual detective work."
This is probably true, but what would the FBI have said if they had solved the case using some undisclosed way of compromising the network?
I don't think they did compromise Tor. The mistakes that were made seem pretty believable.
Besides, the NSA does not play with the FBI so even though the NSA knows vulnerabilities the FBI doesn't necessarily have access to them.Good point. So the whole Patriot and Homeland Security business has not actually changed any of this?Ok, this makes it pretty clear that TOR hackery was not necessary to bring down this Dread Pirate: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/everything-the-silk-road-founder-did-to-get-caughtFree Software Foundation at 2013-09-27T16:10:32Z
Thirty years ago today, RMS published the GNU system announcement. What did he see on Usenet that day? https://u.fsf.org/m2GDFEJK, XRevan86, Carlos Solís, Selk' Nam and 12 others likes this.
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