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Digging through my #Steam library and found a game that I apparently last played in 2014: Symphony (Empty Clip Studios). Basically, an arcade shooter that loads up music from your own music library and lets you shoot some vector things, to the beat.

Problem is, most of the music I have downloaded on this computer is via iTunes, in AAC format. Back in the day I bought the AAC add-on for Symphony, but the problem is, Symphony asks me to install QuickTime. #Apple has deprecated #QuickTime for Windows, so I'm not *too* keen on trying to install it. Also the game says "hey we're not allowed to distribute the decoder" - shit, I paid money for the add-on, what did I pay you guys for back in the day? Apple *sucks*, man.

Guess I'll convert shit to sensible formats after all if I want to play this. Hell, these days I can even use MP3s without feeling bad! Remember: Hella proprietary formats *continue* to screw you over, if not today, then one day in the future.

Petition to have it so Blackmagic Design has Linux users pay separately for AAC audio codec support as an add-on to Resolve Studio so at least there's a way for Linux users to have all the codecs easily if they want them and make it so the cost doesn't have to increase for anyone else. This doesn't excuse patents existing, in this case patents for math, I just want easy AAC usage.

I'm not sure how the #Nintendo #Pokemon patent suit against #Palworld would work. #SoftwarePatents do exist in Japan (in fact, explicitly so), but it is still subject to the rule that the invention must be based on "laws of nature".

As I understand it, that's a high bar - a pure software-only claim cannot be patented. (And some pointed out some of the patents could be thrown out on the basis of existing prior arts.)

For some reason I can't hear anything if I convert an audio track in place with #ffmpeg to be PCM audio in an MP4 file and put that on Resolve's first audio track, but it works if I move it to track 2. Still can't see the waveforms, though. Sure I could extract the audio, but then it's slightly longer than the video for some reason. This is necessary on #Linux because it doesn't support AAC audio (I hate #SoftwarePatents ).

Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"

Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!"

Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a #Linux middleware & #softwarepatents problem."

Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"

Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."

Them: "DO NOT WANT"

Source: mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126

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@Madic @lucasmz @CppGuy well, for that there are better solutions like #NextcloudHub by @nextcloud ...

Just like the impossibility to make Outlook comply to #GDPR & #BDSG is solely their fault and could be fixed by them if they wanted so...

Very sad to learn that #Mozilla Location Service (#MLS) is winding down.

Even more that this this is partially a result of #softwarepatents.

Will someone step up to take this over? Maybe the some organizations or companies supporting software #freedom could step up?

I think here of maybe organisations like: @NGIZero, @sovtechfund, @purism.

Do you have any suggestions?

Let's stay out of the power of #surveillance #capitalistic #bigtech.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozill

OMG! Ubuntu · Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! UbuntuMozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation