namark @namark@qoto.org

@skells @zpartacoos Sure you gotta teach and preach as well, but the industry needs to be established first, then a school. Today's schools are based on today's industry. So mostly just preach.

What I see is that market is huge, but for people who can tap into it finding a job in one corporation or the other is easier than starting a business. Less responsibility, no risk, don't have to deal with clients directly. Some do though and succeed to various degree. It's not so hopeless, the industry overall is still very young. Look some people who started it are still alive, those bastards!

@skells @zpartacoos so go convince one neighbor to run a free OS. If it works convince another one. If it works really well maybe make a business out of it (consultation, installation, warranty), and drop your aspiration for the holy grail that will solve the problem for everyone across the globe. The holy grail is local independent experts serving the general public directly (like yer mechanics or plumbers) and you can only be one of them.

@skells @zpartacoos you having no control over your device excludes you being able to run anything on a secure protocol whatever that means. It's not at all prohibitively expensive for google or microsoft to say, "you know what? that program, I'm not running it", apple is already doing it.

And even if somehow due to the sheer mess of it all, whatever hackish solution you have in mind could work, you want to convince someone who hands total control of their local system over to one megacorp, that preventing another megacorp from showing them targeted ads is somehow important?

Nah you are rather suggesting to build another pop culture fad on top of existing pop culture fads, to manipulate the masses in the way you see fit. The unwashed masses can't think for themselves so I have to make a shiny treat to wiggle in front of them so that they chase it in the right direction. That will never work, and you will end up right back where you started.

@skells @zpartacoos wtf is we? anything that you and I can do with "the vast majority" is to manipulate. Get that international monopolist crap out of your head and think about how to convince the guy next door to run a free OS, and maybe consider investing in a CPU that doesn't have network connected hardware backdoors, because until that is common place, your "privacy against the big brother" rhetoric is a fad.

@skells @zpartacoos

>privacy app

sure...

apparently MSVC has no problem binding temporaries to lvalue references... why yes, of course, let's break the most basic building blocks of the language

#cpp

andrew disappeared... filthy #coq peddler :<

it's clever enough to recognize the worker rush, but not to deal with it...

welp, hooked up a basic right click command, and rushed the bot with 4 drones, achievement unlocked i guess .-.

#OpenBW

@mur2501 if linux upgraded to GPL 3 we could, for now the vendors got an iron grip on the devices and they are not interested in anyone learning anything, cause that would threaten their business.

@cnx yes, full huge D is too much for it... unless it's ffplay, ffplay knows how to do it

@cnx you will be pleased to know that my x200 choked on it

@Absinthe I can't talk straight! I meant there is no link in your post! And yes I used my browser to dig it up.

@zpartacoos their privacy concerns are not real privacy concerns, they are likiely just a pop culture fad. If they were real concerns, they would be willing to pay you (or someone like you) for the setup and warranty. For UI just hook up telegram client to matrix or xmpp, would have happened already if there was any real market.

Before ever having any hope of convincing people of true value and mechanisms of private communication over internet, you need to first at least convince them of the value and mechanisms of owning and freely using their devices.

@skells

s/human race/nation
s/instinct/god

now it suddenly makes sense!

ok openbw, i get it you wanted to replicate the mechanics exactly, but did you also have to replicate the code quality of a 1998 video game?
https://github.com/OpenBW/openbw/blob/master/bwgame.h

steamhammer this time, another MSVC addict, but managed to beat it into submission

#OpenBW

@cnx i searched far and wide but couldn't find a match for your grandeur, you win this time...

arrive at this page every time i need to upload/send a video

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20847674/ffmpeg-libx264-height-not-divisible-by-2

I get it there is a choice between pad or crop, but why do I have to do the math as well? T_T

my gif is 24MB, what do i do???