Jeff Fortin T.<p>Me: "Obi Wan never told you why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOMEShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOMEShell</span></a> still uses the VP8 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codec</span></a> to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"</p><p>Them: "He told me enough! He told me <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> hates its users!"</p><p>Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> middleware & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a> problem."</p><p>Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"</p><p>Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."</p><p>Them: "DO NOT WANT"</p><p>Source: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126</span><span class="invisible">15135771775130</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedesktop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarefreedom</span></a></p>
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Jan Vlug<p>Very sad to learn that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> Location Service (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MLS</span></a>) is winding down.</p><p>Even more that this this is partially a result of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarepatents</span></a>.</p><p>Will someone step up to take this over? Maybe the some organizations or companies supporting software <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> could step up?</p><p>I think here of maybe organisations like: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NGIZero</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sovtechfund</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.librem.one/@purism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>purism</span></a></span>.</p><p>Do you have any suggestions?</p><p>Let's stay out of the power of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalistic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozill</span><span class="invisible">a-location-services-axed</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
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