Maybe because VLC is actually useful
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.
Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
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.
Why? It’s super funny to watch if you don’t use Windows. I hope he stays forever and burns Microslop to the ground.
It’s funny to watch Windows and Office burn.
It’s not so funny watching all my favorite videogames burn under MS.
Our service desk were forbidden from moving over on release because new outlook can’t modify the subject of an email, so we couldn’t add ticket numbers. They’ve been using this feature since outlook was released.
I did some reading on forums and thousands of people rely on this feature and noticed it missing. Not sure if its been added yet because I still use “classic”.
Don’t you kinda need internet for an email app?
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!
No encryption, probably running SMTP, no spoofing prevention, no compatibility with modern protocols, could it even handle files bigger than 2Mb?
But did we need all that back then?
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
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.
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.
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.
Browsing reddit may feel gross, but just like the screenshots at !greentext@sh.itjust.works, 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.
Thanks for your transparency.
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.
Gotta feel cool to have your software support the people doing the “real” work.
Poor ffmpeg
Maybe ffmpreg will have more luck…
Oh sweet summer child…
Edit: read comment below, I’m talking rubbish.
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
Heard from where, exactly?
ffmpeg is an open project, accepts donations, and is heavily used by big tech.
This is an example of them applying for the Sovereign Tech Fund, and what they planned to do with the relatively modest budget.
To my knowledge, it’s not linked to the Motion Pictures Experts Group. Or MPEG LA.
And ffmpeg does warn that using ffmepg for commercial products may put you in the firing line of MPEG LA.
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
They vaguely wonder who “Vetinari”, “Weatherwax”, “Ogg”, and “Otto Chriek” were.
Nah, the Seffians treat Discworld with the same reverence that we treat Shakespeare. There’s a famous musician on Seffi who calls ximself Wind the Rince.
What porn did they take with them?
Alien kind.
So, tentacles?
it’s more like extremely pointy prehensile elbows but look you can only be so picky
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.
They must be big fans of black & white films
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.
Eh, I’ve done worse 🤷🏻
would this be an ethical use of ai?
No
“It doesn’t matter when it’s Arcturian, baby!”
-Private Frost
Now i am imagining how the semen flies through the rocket after masturbating…
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!”
There’s no way you’d be watching the astronauts live and a jar of nut flys by.
Of course, that jar of nut would be strapped down
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
Incredibly cool. Though I would have personally preferred MPV
…do you think they paid for winRAR tho??
No, because they’re FOSS-pilled and chose 7zip?
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.
This is the post below for me:
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.
I think, not one, but I must admit to never having heard that things at all
It’s from a 60s, maybe 50s TV show? Then it was referenced on Futurama
With their legs, dho.
🚀🌛
It means the price is going very high.
There are pirates aboard Captain!
Arrr
I’d bet a dollar that nasa never paid for WinRAR
