Christian missionaries have never gone on mission to accept people. They go on mission to convert, absorb, and indoctrinate people, and then exclude those who refuse. Look at what the Spanish missionaries did in California to the natives… they either got with the program and became good Christians, or got clapped. Sure, it’s less violent today, but still highly exclusionary.
I saw OSU and figured there was more “Gym Jordan” stuff going on at Ohio State. Right idea, wrong OSU.
It’s a lovely sentiment, and I appreciate what she’s doing, but religion is entirely about exclusion.
It probably already has been, and Steam likely already has the specification. They just can’t open source an HDMI 2.1 implementation without consequences.
I may have misread or misunderstood the article, but it seemed as though Steam wanted to open source their 2.1 implementation, which would effectively publish the 2.1 specification. I’m pretty sure their agreements with HDMI Forum and HDMI.org prohibit that.
AdventureLog is pretty cool. Pairs with Immich nicely too.
Paperless NGX is awesome. Of course Immich. I also really like Firefly-iii and Home Assistant.
An even funner Southwest PR story is the Malice in Dallas. I don’t have a good resource to point you to, but you can google it. it was an armwrestling match between CEOs to settle a corporate dispute. The two companies holstered their lawyers and settled the grudge with a big PR event.
maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.
HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You’ve always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it’s not like they’ve just rejected a new idea. The rejection is fully consistent with their entire history of keeping the latest versions on lockdown.
Standards organizations like HDMI Forum look like a monolith from the outside (like “they should explain their thinking here”) but really they are loosely coupled amalgamations of hundreds of companies, all of whom are working hard to make sure that (a) their patents are (and remain) essential, and that (b) nothing mandatory in a new version of the standard threatens their business. Think of it more like the UN General Assembly than a unified group of participants. Their likely isn’t a unified thinking other than that many Forum members are also participants in the patent licensing pool, so giving away something for which they collect royalties is just not a normal thought. Like… they’re not gonna give something away without getting something in return.
I was a member of HDMI Forum for a brief while. Standards bodies like tihs are a bit of a weird world where motivations are often quite opaque.
You probably already know this, but for others’ amusement… Southwest’s Pilot Training pathway program is called Destination 225, and I doub’t that many prople even in the airline business get the reference. So if nothing else, they’ve got a branding headstart.
I don’t remember where I watched the presentation. I think it might have been one of Brian Schiff’s videos, but I don’t remember. Here’s a link to it I found online. https://www2023.icao.int/safety/OPS/OPS-Section/Pages/Truenorth.aspx
Fun fact… there is an ICAO effort to “get rid” of magnetic headings for runway numbers. I listened to a presentation they did last year, and as much as I went into it thinking it wasn’t needed, I was a convert listening to them.
Btw, magnetic variation is pretty significant in some places. It’s 13 degrees where I am.
I don’t think any of them support RCS, for whatever that’s worth to you.
The only place I really miss that is with a fantasy football shit-talking group chat. Otherwise, I’ve tried to move away from SMS/MMS/RCS. It’s hard to pull people away from iMessage.
You still had doubt before this decision?
Do you have any doubt that they’re we’ll see the same scathing dissent headlines when they overturn the California redistricting law?
Also, the ones I’ve seen in stores lately hare only the trial offers that are only good for a couple days and have to be “replenished” with an online account to stay functional for more than a couple days. Mint wouldn’t even activate initially with an email alias. I called support and they said “we can’t activate it with that email, we need your real email.” I then told them no worries, I’d just return it to best buy. Then they “found a way” to activate it, but I would have needed to give a credit card if I wanted it to stay active more than the 3 days. Best buy didn’t carry any longer duration prepaid card in the stores.
You’ve taken an approach here where you intentionally hide the fact that a video file is (at least) 3 different technical formats that are independently variable. An “MP4” file can have a range of audio codecs, a range of video codecs, timed-text formats, additional audio, and so on. And there is no single standard composition that works everywhere.
When you simplify a matrix of user choices by making the vcodec, acodec, and timed text format choices on behalf of your users, you take on the burden of making sure those work everywhere the users want to playback. What you’ll find is that most devices on the market only support a very limited range of container+vcodec+acodec combinations, they are undocumented more often than not, and buggy as hell.
The oversimplification approach you’re taking is “ingesting anything, but output only ‘Value Meal #1’ for everybody.” This has value for some people, but it puts a big burden on you to make choices that playback mostly correctly on a wide variety of devices, and it mysteriously breaks things that don’t work everywhere (like surround sound, ambisonics, many timed text formats etc.). There’s a reason why all that choice exists, even if most people don’t, don’t want to, and shouldn’t need to understand it.
Not trying to dissuage you. Just sharing experience. :-)
Neanderthal and troglodyte might work
So easy a caveman could do it.
Most settings on iphone only turn off the capability for you, not apple. Wifi is a good example. There is litereally no way to turn the radio off, and the settting merely prevents your use of Wifi while Apple still continues to use it in the background (for Find My mesh and location traction among others).
I’m like OP from a few months ago. I joined ML because it was easy and sorta anonymous. What’s the story on ML? Who defederated? What am I missing?
I gave it a look. And I’ll say that personally I’m not a big fan of card stack views, but that’s prob just me. The main reason I’m leaving the note here is to say that the app name bounding box in the cards seems to just truncates the app name. It works fine at 75% zoom, but at 100% zoom I only see the first 2 or 3 characters of the app name. Could be an artifact of the browser I’m using (Brave/MacOS), but figured I’d let you know.
The alt right people I know are excellent at distancing themselves from the distasteful aspects of their chosen leadership, but they are more committed to Trump and his kind than ever. The do your research crowd is impressively good at “well I haven’t read up on that myself” every time time you mention the flagrant crimes, or the intentional destabilization, the theft of public resources, and so on. In some sense, I get the ones like MTG and Owens. They are just grifters unapologetically doing what they do. But for every one of them, there’s a million people who defend and protect them just because Jesus says so.
There is no falling out on the alt right side. They are expert trolls who despite what they say on twitter, are as committed to this regime as they ever were.
We might see more political violence, but I’m skeptical it’ll ratchet up. The Democratic party has made being anti-gun it’s identity for a couple generations now; it’s out of character for them. The current MAGA regime knows who and where every non-MAGA gun owner is. They’ll probably find a way to disarm their opposition, and the Dem leaders in the blue states will help them do it.