MKVToolNix has a great cropping feature that completely lossless because it just writes an information into the file how many pixels to leave out.

The massive problem since quite some time is that I’m not aware of any media player respecting this. VLC used to support it but a decade ago suddenly stopped: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13982

If you have the originals, maybe encode them again. HandBrake has a nice preview feature.

It wasn’t “half the internet unusable”.

Everything behind the same AWS and Google IPs which is a lot.

I live in Russia

So you pay taxes to Putin. Good to know who actually helps funding the regime.

Telegram is not banned in Ukraine either. There also are no Ukrainian sections against the founder.

I also did not call him a fighter against the regime. You have a vivid imagination.

Russia tried blocking Telegram once but Telegram relies on AWS and Google Cloud, so the blocking attempt backfired, leading to half the internet unusable in Russia, leading to quick back paddling by the Kremlin.

Since Telegram is not banned in either country, it’s the best source for unfiltered news from the front.

Intel tried with OpenAPI because ROCm was not invented here.

I‘m saying whatever the server asks the client, a client can choose to hide the UI elements. Nothing more, nothing less.

Because its competitors care about Not Invented Here instead of building common industry standards.

Grok UI elements and number of GIFs in the picker are 100% local features clients can choose to ignore.

Definitively certain and I didn’t call anyone an angel, so no idea why bring such a thing up.

They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.

Telegram founder fled Putin.

That’s not how the GPL works. Any such agreements would be voluntary.

The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.

Anyone putting corporate technology into their bodies is just asking to get Black Mirror’ed.

Pace makers aren’t made my anticapitalist cooperatives, you know.

Tim Apple the cook

CLA and copyright assignment are different things. In some jurisdictions copyright assignment is impossible. That was among the clashes European FOSS contributors had with the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallmann in the 1990s and 2000s.

MIT license already allows this, with or without CLA.

That’s why you can also take Microsoft’s MIT code and make proprietary software out of it.

No, Windows has various subsystems. This one is for Linux.

When Windows NT 3.5 launched, it came with subsystems for POSIX, OS/2, and Win32 because in the WinNT world even the Windows frameworks are a subsystem. Disclaimer: I didn’t check if in Win11 this is still the case but I guess so.

Stupid fucking comment.

I was merely stating in simple words what Apple’s product is and that their customers respond to exactly that. You choice of words shows that a loud fraction of their user base is a cult, though.

People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed. The walled garden is core to Apple’s product philosophy. It’s not like everybody was expecting Apple to be super open and inclusive with anything and then be taken by surprise from the Fortnite situation. Even before they deprecated open standards because their own tech is supposedly evolving faster and are better integrated.

People wanting to play Fortnite on phones can just get a reasonably specced Android phone and install EGS next to Play Store with just a few taps.

At least they disable the monetization features of Brave but making stupid Google Meet such a hard requirement to compromise of all ethics? WTF?