Welp thars a hard no.

“Not Hotdog”

And yet the entire context is discussing an expensive SSD that would go bad, inherently implying data loss as part of the inferred outcomes. Not a blender or a crock pot or the LCD display of a 1997 Honda Civic radio.

In the name of even dumber stupid internet arguments, it was. Data loss along with the price paid was an obvious inference.

If it doesn’t play Amiga era .mod files, is it really even a music player?

No he’s right even while Matt M is being a massive piece of shit and ruining the WP community cohesion. DeliciousBrains iirc was the original ACF dev org that was bought out by WPE who do a lot of cornering dev using buyouts/investments and then go about with their internal commercialization of tooling built on GPL without contributing to the upstream platforms. WPEngine still aren’t the good guys, they’re just the victims in a case where the expected good guy WP founder and Automattic leader Matt Mullieswaggiesomethingrather turned out to be bad guy that is just as ethically and morally compromised with a little more salt for flavoring.

Care to share some highlights?

waves hands back and forth

“I don’t care”

This is a good quote, but it lives within a context of professional code development.

Everyone in the modern era starts coding by copying functions without understanding what it does, and people go entire careers in all sorts of jobs and industries without understanding things by copying what came before that ‘worked’ without really understanding the underlying mechanisms.

What’s important is having a willingness to learn and putting in the effort to learn. AI code snippets are super useful for learning even when it hallucinates if you test it and make backups first. This all requires responsible IT practices to do safely in a production environment, and thats where corporate management eyeing labor cost reduction loses the plot, thinking AI is a wholesale replacement for a competent human as the tech currently stands.

What a weird downslope of a take that will obviously result in authoritarian government power expansion and futher censorship.

Just stop using it and support alternatives that dont do it. Have some self control.

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

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

Winsock baby.

modem noises

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

Narrator: He couldn’t.

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?