very cool

This is the same rationale for governments raising taxes.

Why should the license model of the source code prevent developers from making a living? Why should companies which release their software under proprietary licenses also be the only ones able to profit from it?

As Stallman said: Think free as in free speech, not free beer.

Interesting. In Spanish there is libre ("free" speech) and gratis ("free" beer). Now that I think of it, libre is part of the name of many linux packages (Libre Office). Never made that connection before.

Open Source never was "a gift economy".

It is a sharing economy, and that requires mutual participation.

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love this

dude, this looks so cool!!!

Seeing this makes me wanna get the Blackberry passport!!! And boot linux on it

Check out the Hackberry designs from ZitaoTech. They're pretty amazing. I'm currently in the process of porting Plasma Mobile onto the device so that there's a better UI for it.

[1] https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5

So happy I don't use AWS

I recently launched this satellite imagery tool.

https://satellitemine.com/

I work as a civil engineer in the mining industry and it can be troublesome to download satellite imagery for a particular date and cloud index. Yes, Google Earth Engine and QGIS plugins exist, but they are slow and confusing to jump back into after a period of time. SatelliteMine is simple to use and any images of your area of interest is saved to your account and can be downloaded as a geotiff.

Currently free to use with a cloud storage capped at 512MB per account. Paid plans for greater storage requirements will be provided if the demand is there. Any feedback is welcomed :)

wtf happened to Simpsons on Disney+? looks like it's zoomed in.

The simpsons was originally made in 4:3. Many people don't like watching with large black bars to the right and left, so they show a cropped 16:9 version. People complained because this is occasionally a problem and ruins a joke, so I believe you can opt into either.

A similar crime against taste as the pan-and-scan "fullscreen" DVDs of the early 2000s. If I want to pay to watch something, don't crop out a chunk of what the cinematographer wanted me to see...

David Simon talked about this for the HD release of The Wire:

https://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

It seems like the video examples are unfortunately now unavailable, but the discussion is still interesting and it's neat to see the creative trade-offs and constraints in the process. I think those nuances help evoke generosity in how one approaches re-releases or other versions or cuts of a piece of media.

There's a (much less severe) instance of that peeve with computer video player apps that have slightly rounded corners on the windows.

Pan and scan wasn't a DVD innovation. Most VHS releases were pan and scan too; DVDs at least commonly had widescreen available (many early discs came with widescreen on one side and full screen on the other... good luck guessing if widescreen on the hub indicates the side you're reading is widescren or if the otherside is widescreen so you should have the widescreen label facing up in your player.

I believe this is the best example of the problems that can be caused:

https://x.com/TristanACooper/status/1194298167824650240

Open both images and compare. The visual joke is completely ruined with the cropping.

There's an option to switch back to the original 4:3 ratio.