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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by invertigo on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:44AM (#38227935)
What a fantastic project. It’s FOSS like this that makes the world go round. If only the original vision of the internet had been fulfilled, we’d have hundreds more projects like it.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by bagol on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:27AM (#38228053)
What is the original vision of the internet?
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by not_your_vase on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:30AM (#38228515)
Porn. Porn everywhere. And cat videos. But mostly porn.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:41AM (#38228557)
Cats. Porn. Cat porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUf7boHvejQ
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by msla on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:23AM (#38228737)
A government project to allow researchers to access distant mainframes.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by yrro on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:39AM (#38228809)
That any two consenting parties may communicate directly with one another.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by mekster on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:14AM (#38230041)
Why do people bring up some vague ideology? Imagine a world without the internet being invented, what a nice world to live now.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by victorbjorklund on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:14AM (#38230438)
Effective ways for US military to communicate between missile silos?
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by anthk on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:38AM (#38231780)
After that, i'd say ITS and their networked machine list sharing code and cool hacks, being the proto free-software movement.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:50AM (#38228124)
There are hundreds more projects like it. Projects like GIMP, ImageMagick, Apache, curl, GCC, LLVM, Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, Linux, the BSDs, etc., etc.

There are many massively useful things available as free and open source software.

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by gspetr on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:08AM (#38228443)
>Firefox

Definitely not. It certainly no longer belongs in "the original vision of the internet" category. Not when it wants to be a part of evil forces seeking to police the internet.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-f...

https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:14AM (#38228461)
But Firefox protects you from advertising networks the best. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Sounds like "the original vision of the internet" to me.

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by gspetr on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:23AM (#38228492)
I initially did not want to bring this up, but Firefox literally changed my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Google after I updated it yesterday.

No opt-in, no user input, no warning, no nothing. Just shoved Google down the user's throat.

Do you know where Mozilla gets its money from?

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:29AM (#38228513)
I update Firefox all the time and it doesn't change my default search engine. Now what?

Are you using Mozilla's Firefox builds or a Linux distribution's builds of Firefox?

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by gspetr on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:53AM (#38228608)
Win10 119.0.1 (64-bit)
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:30PM (#38234747)
Doesn't happen for me on Windows or macOS. It sounds a lot like you're construing an anecdotal incident as a grand conspiracy.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by guillermin on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:52AM (#38228601)
I don't think that was due to Mozilla pushing Google. I have Firefox configured with DuckDuckGo on all my devices and this has never happened to me on an update.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by rijoja on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:53AM (#38230771)
You mean the least worst?
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @05:18PM (#38235153)
No, I mean the best. Firefox provides features that uBlock Origin uses that other browsers don't provide.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by daynthelife on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:08PM (#38243644)
Better than all other major browsers != good

Since the only real competition is chromium, safari, and edge, the bar is astoundingly low.

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by rijoja on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:53AM (#38230767)
Thank you!
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by zzzcsgo on Saturday November 11, 2023 @10:18AM (#38231034)
And blocking all extensions by default on Firefox mobile.... At least you can create an add-on collection to bring them back but Mozilla is evil nowadays.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:30PM (#38234740)
Hrm: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/01/is-your-extension...

It's like they're doing exactly the opposite of what you think they're doing.

Internet theorizing rarely leads you anywhere useful. It's much better to look at practical realities than invent fantasies.

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