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obs-rust: NEW RELEASE - TOMORROW.
Mac, Windows, Linux - YES!
AppImage for linux distros - YES!
Looking for beta testers.
Links tomorrow - stay tuned. github.com/obs-rust/obs-stud…
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I miss the times when people coding FOSS weren't the types who'd use their software as political leverage over their users. When asking some of them about politics you'd get a "I don't know about that. I write code." As long as nothing was threatening their freedom to write it.
OBS Studio Refuses to Support Rumble, Who They Call "Hateful and Racist"
"We want nothing to do with [Rumble]," says OBS Studio, which provides support for pornography and exploitation sites. Plus: The very strange finances of OBS.
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OBS Studio Refuses to Support Rumble, Who They Call "Hateful and Racist"
"We want nothing to do with [Rumble]," says OBS Studio, which provides support for pornography and exploitation sites. Plus: The very strange finances of OBS.
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The end of software secrecy is almost upon us. The death of closed source, and the final triumph of open source.
I should have realized this a few months ago when I successfully decompiled the game of Firefighter from an ancient DOS shareware binary. My robot friend was able to tell it had been written in Borland Pascal from looking at the data layout; it gave me back very readable Pascal code with sensibly chosen function and variable names. I transpiled it to Rust and now ship it as part of my heritage games collection.
The thing is, I thought of this as a fun stunt but didn't have any confidence that the technique would scale up to large, real programs. I have since learned that people are now doing this sort of thing with entire AAA games, which are among the most complex software artifacts ever to be shipped as a binary. If they can be decompiled, anything can be.
This has implications. Massive implications. We need to think about what the world is like when, in general, there is no longer a secrecy moat around almost any software at all.
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IFPI, a major music industry group, wants the EU to put yt-dlp on its piracy watch list.
yt-dlp is a popular free, open-source tool that lets people download videos and music from sites like YouTube, IFPI says this causes problems for the music industry because people can save music from streaming services without permission.
IFPI is not asking the EU to ban yt-dlp right now, Its asking for the project to be listed as a piracy-related service also names four of the project’s GitHub devs
yt-dlp is extremely popular, with more than 190,000 GitHub stars and 16,000 forks.
torrentfreak.com/ifpi-wants-…
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I wouldn't say they'll be necessarily in the middle though. It will depend... which is the whole point. But the meme had to draw them somewhere lol so fair enough.
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Los famosos asaltadores de camino que decía Lisandro Cucharero @macro_rules
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Los famosos asaltadores de camino que decía Lisandro Cucharero @macro_rules
En Córdoba se persigue a los Uber por trabajar. Con un modus operandi casi delictivo, municipales y efectivos policiales emboscan laburantes al mejor estilo robo piraña.
En la Córdoba de Llaryora y Passerini trabajar parece ser un delito. Ésto es en frente de MaMi San Vicente
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A backup you cannot replace is not a backup.
GrapheneOS lived or died on Google leaving Pixel bootloaders open.
One boardroom decision ends it.
A second manufacturer changes that math for the first time ever.
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Over 100 people warned Steam the game was stealing wallets.
Valve moved at bureaucratic speed and left it up for download.
Real users kept getting robbed while the complaints piled up.
Institutional security is a promise that shields nobody.
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