And when you’re Intel, those timescales are increased 10x, apparently.

Unpaid Linux ambassadors? Isn’t that just Lemmy?

Honestly I don’t know, but it seems to me like extracting every single frame of a video as a lossless PNG is only really something that’s necessary if you’re trying to archive something or do frame by frame restoration. Either way, it is something that you hopefully aren’t doing every day, so why not just let it run overnight & move on?

Otherwise ask yourself if you can settle with just extracting a single clip/section, or what’s actually wrong with lossy jpeg with a low -qscale:v (high quality) - start around 5 and work down until you visually can’t see any difference

My God if I have to listen to my mother in law brag about how good of a “deal” her $10 (made up “retail”, $26) Tommy Bahama hand towels from TJ Max were one more time…

… that they’ve disclosed so far…

I love that the cover image for this article about buying Chinese EVs is a car from a Swedish manufacturer (Polestar, owned by Volvo). Western media really knows jack shit about the Chinese EV market.

Is the “he” here not Netanyahu? If so, you can be certain he does not care about separation of church and state.

Great insight, really contributing to the community

So, like every multiplayer game released in the last decade?

Why have a policy at all around abandoning games? Only buy games that are DRM free.

Hell, why regulate anything? Let the free market decide, just don’t buy it, bro.

I think the regulation would kick in to force publishers to enable users to set up servers of they shutter the official ones

Something something pot kettle.

Or even better, my experience with them - they can permanently mark you as poor when the person who stole your identity in the last data beach (Thanks Experian!) doesn’t make their monthly payment, thus tanking your credit while you’re entering escrow on your first home.

Thanks AT&T, now my stolen information I never even gave you is probably back on the black market! The cycle continues.

Hundreds is a tragic number, and I don’t want to minimize that loss and the impacts on their loved ones, but hundreds could be only like… One plane.

Again, tragic, but if you’re telling me one plane might crash at some arbitrary point in the future, out of the thousands of daily flights around the globe, I’m not dropping everything to go stand in that picket line

I think, regardless of where you’re donating from, this means less overhead and your money goes a little bit farther on the charity’s side, which is a win for everyone.

You’re right though that it’s not tax deductible for you, so the amount you can donate does not change, just the effectiveness of those dollars.

why are they ‘going away from being a 501c3?

You’ve got it backwards. They’re dissolving their old non-501©(3) Foundation that they use to manage their finances currently, and becoming a part of an existing 501©(3) called Software in the Public Interest (SPI)

TL;DR from the article, they’re doing this to:

1. Offload the overhead expense of independently managing their finances/accounting, by merging with someone who already has a robust system in place
2. Save money by becoming tax exempt
3. Allow themselves to accept matching gifts from donors whose employers support such things

They definitely can dictate requirements, however that means that you’re now making your staff play document format police.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it’s an additional headache. If I were working in that office, I’d die a little inside each time I have to go back to a consultant/contractor/community member and say “can you please resubmit this, the formatting is broken when I open it in Libre Office”

Yes, again, they have the authority to do this, and it is technically feasible, but it’s going to be a bad user experience for a long time until everyone is properly “retrained”. Especially if you’re working with partners outside of Germany who have their own document standards.

I’m not saying this is a bad move, just that I understand why they might be inclined to jump back and forth.

Oh, cool, so I can have multiple people editing a live document at the same time?

Definitely could be both, but I’d posit that it would still happen regardless of corruption, just because they’re taking on the ambitious task of trying something new.

Do you know what this smells like? Corruption and consulting companies with friends in the govt looking for ways to profit.

No it doesn’t. It smells like Microsoft has a monopoly on office software, and city employees are not tech enthusiasts. Anyone who used Office at home or in another job is going to complain when they have to learn a new software (regardless of which is “better” - for the average person, different is bad)

Plus, every document they receive from outside is almost certainly formatted in Office, so if there isn’t 100% compatibility, people will again complain.

Migrating an entire enterprise to FOSS software is not easy, and in government where leadership changes can be more regular, it’s not shocking to see the pendulum swing back and forth.