what does that even mean
What word did you not understand? Moon?
how is gamestop supposed to go to the moon, or bitcoin, in a realistic way that vlc can legitimately compete with?
Let me explain the joke.
Crypto bros and gamestop stock trader always talk about how their shit is going to the moon. They mean that the value of their trading object is increasing incredibly.
VLC is now physically very close to the moon on a laptop from NASA.
The joke is that VLC is closer to the moon than those traders promises that crashed.
is it one of those “bang, zoom, to the moon alice” things?
Similar etymological root possibly.
🚀🌛
It means the price is going very high.
Gotta feel cool to have your software support the people doing the “real” work.
Poor ffmpeg
Isn’t ffmpeg from the MPEG group which is pretty huge and has a bunch of money from all bug tech that want to use it? Idk, just what I have heard :D
Maybe ffmpreg will have more luck…
Oh sweet summer child…
Years ago I when I wrote software for a living, I had an argument with a colleague, and I tried to explain to him:
The “supported” closed-source library he wanted to use was pretty popular because it was marketed by a huge company with a marketing department, or because it had a first-mover advantage, or because there were training events and books built around it, etc.
The unsupported free open-source library I wanted to use was the most popular library of its kind in the whole world. And it got to that position without any of those advantages.
What does that suggest about their relative usefulness? The world of open source is closer to being a real meritocracy. The number one app or library is probably number one for non-structural reasons.
I think the main reason most companies choose closed source is because management gets a hard-on for the thought of having someone to complain to. If they can’t call meetings with someone responsible and demand a quick fix, what use do they still have? All you can with open source is fix it yourself or create an issue. Neither requires a manager.
Correct. Also, they need someone to delegate the responsibility to. They are mainly concerned with not being held responsible for any potential fuck-ups. If they can say “the vendor did it” they can deflect the blame. Unfortunately that’s how making a career in the corporate world works for the vast majority of people. You advance by avoiding getting blamed for mistakes, not by brilliance or competence.
And then after they demanded a quick fix it will be swiftly delivered in next decade
A main issue, according to my non-software related work-life experience is also: liability reasons.
Being able to legally blame someone else when shit goes wrong is a very motivating driver for executive decisions.
Many open source have paid support
Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.
I wonder why…
VLC: a free and open source video player meant to be used by literally everyone.
Astronauts: a select few chosen people with little to no health problems, in top physical and mental form one could only dream of having.
I think the Simpsons were on to something when they sent Homer to space.I think we shouldn’t make it looks like it’s easy to be an astronaut. Those people are crazy. They are PhD smart and Olympic level fit. This does not come naturally.
Edit : and JB from VLC is probably one of the most interesting guy to listen to, if you find some of his talks/interviews
If only they had such high standards for the presidency
I remember once I had to work in a very sophisticated and expensive electrical gear that had fixed internal thermographic cameras. The first thing that popped in the HMI were the VLC cones.
Maybe because VLC is actually useful
What porn did they take with them?
Now i am imagining how the semen flies through the rocket after masturbating…
There’s no way you’d be watching the astronauts live and a jar of nut flys by.
In the next Andy Weir book, I bet that’s how he calculates acceleration in zero G.
“I just happened to remember that semen has a viscosity of 93 Penrose and that a palladium vibrates at 6.3e⁷ portisheads per waneshaft when exposed to bicurious voltage. So by spunking on a metal ruler and shorting out a 9v battery on it I made a rudimentary McGlochlon Scale!”
What porn did they take with them?
Whispers in The Wind, To Each His Own, Put it Where it Doesn’t Belong, My Pipes Need Cleaning, All Tit Fucking, Volume Eight, I Need Your Cock, Ass Worshipping Rim Jobbers, My Cunt And Eight Shafts, Cum Clean, Cum Gargling Naked Sluts, Cum Buns III, Cumming in Socks, Cum On Eilene, Huge Black Cocks With Pearly White Cum, Girls Who Crave Cock, Girls Who Crave Cunt, Men Alone II: The KY Connection, Pink Pussy Lips, and oh yeah, All Holes Filled with Hard Cock.
Just fascinating how they all collaborated to agree to these specific titles.
They had several meetings at NASA, rigorous tests, & selected only the best for peak performance.
“How many pornos does a woman need for a week in space? One? A thousand?” - Someone at NASA, probably
(Lol, I was initially trying to make that joke/reference, but couldn’t manage to get it right. Gg.)
it’s the library of congress spank bank
They must be big fans of black & white films
Alien kind.
So, tentacles?
it’s more like extremely pointy prehensile elbows but look you can only be so picky
Probably a variety?
Nope! Exclusively Corsican convent bdsm porn!
I’m still on the edge of whether I should joke about asking for a link and worrying I’ll get the response.
No worries, I’m not aware of whether or not such porn actually exists 😄
Rule 34 and 35 dictate that you’re now responsible for making sure it exists.
would this be an ethical use of ai?
No
Eh, I’ve done worse 🤷🏻
“It doesn’t matter when it’s Arcturian, baby!”
-Private Frost
Unlike Microslop Outlook, there’s a program that doesn’t break when you lose internet connection.
The asshats for some reason felt that they needed to reinvent it as basically a web app and it’s broken in so many ways, and I think it’s lost feature parity with mobile and Mac instead of gaining. Sheer incompetence.
The way I see it: Corporate web apps (like Microsoft’s) are evidence that the maker is putting administrative concerns ahead of user experience concerns. They’re catering to the people who actually pay for this stuff, not to the users.
Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
Why? It’s super funny to watch if you don’t use Windows. I hope he stays forever and burns Microslop to the ground.
He’s going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying “consulting” gig. It’s unfair. it’s unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.
It’s incredibly frustrating. I’m starting to think the only way out of poverty is immense crime.
Don’t you kinda need internet for an email app?
Sorry to see you dog piled for an innocent question. We should see it as a good thing that someone who doesn’t know found this space.
No, given that one of the points of Outlook (and most email apps) is to store a local archive that can be read even when offline.
I found the most useful Outlook was '97. Just did everything I needed. Wasn’t overly technical. No AI!
Some people are being a bit pedantic about not technically needing the internet for email, and that’s true, but the pedantry is hiding the fact that actually email is really cool in how it exists in whatever form we want it to be in! It can be transmitted over internet, or over bare TCP/IP, or even peer-to-peer. Most applications don’t take advantage of how versatile email really is.
Of course, Micro$oft makes it rely on an always-on internet connection because it’s better for their bottom line.
IPoAC is my personal favorite
Email is older than the internet.
Anyway, no, you don’t need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.
For the curious History of email Wikipedia
I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.
Think of it this way:
Every time you steal from Reddit, you’re saving thousands of Lemmy folks a visit there, and Spez loses more traffic.
Keep doing it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Thanks for your transparency.
Browsing reddit may feel gross, but just like the screenshots at [email protected], we need people to sort through the waste and find the gems.
I won’t go back but if you share direct links or rehost here that’s a good thing for this side of fedi.
Agreed. VLC is the bomb - they deserve the attention and praise.
15 years ago I downloaded VLC on a flash drive with all the episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho and I’ve been using it ever since to watch wherever. Works like a charm.
IMO reposting from larger sites is a very good thing. The main advantage that larger platforms have is the amount of content. If all the good stuff ends up here anyway then it makes it easier to switch for those who haven’t due to the lack of content.
It is the year 2,002,026.
Humanity has conquered capitalism and moved off of Earth. Disease and accidental death have been eradicated. We’ve invented marvelous and miraculous technologies and used them to catapult ourselves to distant worlds.
It’s an open question whether or not our descendants can rightly call themselves “human” anymore, and indeed some on far-flung planets do not.
On the planet Seffi, which we call Kepler-725c, one of those human descendants watches the end of a two-dimensional audiovisual narrative, a recent fad on the planet. They aren’t watching it on a computer, per se, but on a holographic mesh device operating across a distributed cluster of nanomachines. The human descendant telepathically interfaced with it to launch the application and the narrative, and now xe marvels at how immersive and compelling the narrative was, despite being contained as it was within a two-dimensional non-interactive form.
A list of people who contributed to the construction of the narrative concludes its display, and the holomesh reverts to a waiting state, displaying a simple black panel within a white frame. And within that black panel, a small, orange-and-white triangle sits, perfectly centered. The human descendant doesn’t know what it originally represented, and muses briefly about it before deactivating the holomesh and walking out of xeir home to enjoy the sunset beneath the purple-blue trees.
NASA out here laying the groundwork for rickrolling the Eloi
Plot twist: the Seffian’s name is Rickas’Tley
Incredibly cool. Though I would have personally preferred MPV
MPV cant stream stuff from the web afaik or read BluRays tho. But yes, I use it too through Haruna.
sure it can stream. In a terminal simply add a URL after
mpv(you might need yt-dlp, not sure)You can also paste the URL from your clipboard into the gui. Works with magnet links too, with a plugin
I really don’t like that there’s now a separate window for the playlist where the playback scrollbar happens to have moved. Who came out with that stupid idea? I’m playing a video, and if I want to re play a part of it, now I have to go to the other window and grab the scroll from there while looking at the video.
Like sitting on a bike, peddling, then having to get off the bike to carefully make a turn.
America and Americans plastering their flag and “fuck yuuuuh, 'Muricuh!!” on every possible square centimeter (not even gonna use imperial as a reference) never stops being one of the most cringe and constantly proven stereotypes of all time. I have this game where if youtube recommends a channel I haven’t seen before and it’s an American channel, I count the minutes until the US flag shows up in any way. It’s VERY rarely more than one video, no matter the length of videos that channel generally makes. The worst thing is when you find a channel you like and don’t think about it, it’s just people making videos about stuff they’re interested in, then they swivel the camera around and have an American flag the size of the fucking moon hanging on their wall. It’s so fucking weird, off putting, brainwashed and deeply stupid.
That’s your algorithm bud, stop watching ameri-bros
I am an American and I completely agree, the flag is everywhere. You would think it was required by law, like portraits of Dear Leader in communist totalitarian states, but no, the flag cult is voluntary. “Cringe” is exactly right. Some people just plaster the flag on things as a substitute for any sense of style or design. We’ve been indoctrinated into the flag cult throughout our childhoods, where there was a flag in every room in our schools, and a coordinated prayer-to-the-flag moment every morning.
I went to Canada in the summer of 2025. In reaction to the insanity from Washington, Canada was experiencing a possibly-unprecedented wave of nationalism, businesses were advertising that they were proudly Canadian, there were even “flag stores” just like we have in the US, but with Canadian flags. In spite of this, Canada had something like 5% as many flags flying in public as the US does. It was possible to be out in public for many minutes at a time without seeing any flags at all. That doesn’t happen in the US.
Americans don’t understand how propagandized they are.
Edit: Cringe example: The Boulevard of 500 Flags. The notion that it’s a memorial to 9/11 is a modern revision, it goes back to the 90s. That is, this was built, by a large group of supposedly grown-up men, before the wave of post-9/11 nationalism.
IDK what’s sadder, your ability to troll or the fact that it took you effort to type out all that garbage nobody read.
Nobody is trolling. Fuck Americans and our pitiful flag worship.
I see just as many Canadian flags as US here, but sure, go off
This is the post below for me:
There are pirates aboard Captain!
Better than that, there was Open Source aboard!
