I really don’t like that there’s now a separate window for the playlist where the playback scrollbar happens to have moved. Who came out with that stupid idea? I’m playing a video, and if I want to re play a part of it, now I have to go to the other window and grab the scroll from there while looking at the video.
Like sitting on a bike, peddling, then having to get off the bike to carefully make a turn.
what does that even mean
What word did you not understand? Moon?
how is gamestop supposed to go to the moon, or bitcoin, in a realistic way that vlc can legitimately compete with?
Let me explain the joke.
Crypto bros and gamestop stock trader always talk about how their shit is going to the moon. They mean that the value of their trading object is increasing incredibly.
VLC is now physically very close to the moon on a laptop from NASA.
The joke is that VLC is closer to the moon than those traders promises that crashed.
is it one of those “bang, zoom, to the moon alice” things?
I think, not one, but I must admit to never having heard that things at all
It’s from a 60s, maybe 50s TV show? Then it was referenced on Futurama
Similar etymological root possibly.
I think its derived from the line-graph you look at where the stock price increases (value over time) and instead of the usual zig-zag up and down, as it skyrockets in value the trend line starts shooting up (towards the sky) as if its on a trajectory to hit the moon.
At least thats my understanding of the origin.
With their legs, dho.
🚀🌛
It means the price is going very high.
Vartemis Lartimice Cardimice 2
Maybe because VLC is actually useful
Unlike Microslop Outlook, there’s a program that doesn’t break when you lose internet connection.
The asshats for some reason felt that they needed to reinvent it as basically a web app and it’s broken in so many ways, and I think it’s lost feature parity with mobile and Mac instead of gaining. Sheer incompetence.
Our service desk were forbidden from moving over on release because new outlook can’t modify the subject of an email, so we couldn’t add ticket numbers. They’ve been using this feature since outlook was released.
I did some reading on forums and thousands of people rely on this feature and noticed it missing. Not sure if its been added yet because I still use “classic”.
Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
He’s going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying “consulting” gig. It’s unfair. it’s unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.
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If you choose that route, make sure it’s immense enough that you’ll never be prosecuted for it.
Why? It’s super funny to watch if you don’t use Windows. I hope he stays forever and burns Microslop to the ground.
The way I see it: Corporate web apps (like Microsoft’s) are evidence that the maker is putting administrative concerns ahead of user experience concerns. They’re catering to the people who actually pay for this stuff, not to the users.
I switched to linux a bit over a year ago but had around a decade of feeling like MS and I disagreed about whose computer it was before that. MS has given me many “why the fuck would you do it like this!?” moments.
It’s so much nicer using an OS where when something doesn’t yet work as I want it to, I don’t assume “because the people who made it are greedy assholes” is the reason for it.
Though I’d argue that they aren’t just catering to those who pay for it, but also to themselves and various metrics and revenues they want. Like disabling autosave if you aren’t saving to onedrive wasn’t likely from any corporation other than MS itself.
Don’t you kinda need internet for an email app?
No, given that one of the points of Outlook (and most email apps) is to store a local archive that can be read even when offline.
I found the most useful Outlook was '97. Just did everything I needed. Wasn’t overly technical. No AI!
No encryption, probably running SMTP, no spoofing prevention, no compatibility with modern protocols, could it even handle files bigger than 2Mb?
But did we need all that back then?
Some people are being a bit pedantic about not technically needing the internet for email, and that’s true, but the pedantry is hiding the fact that actually email is really cool in how it exists in whatever form we want it to be in! It can be transmitted over internet, or over bare TCP/IP, or even peer-to-peer. Most applications don’t take advantage of how versatile email really is.
Of course, Micro$oft makes it rely on an always-on internet connection because it’s better for their bottom line.
IPoAC is my personal favorite
Sorry to see dog piled for an innocent question. We should see it as a good thing that someone who doesn’t know found this space.
I see what you’re doing here
What am I doing?
“found this space”
accidental, but I guess the word was front of mind
Email is older than the internet.
Anyway, no, you don’t need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.
For the curious History of email Wikipedia
I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.
IMO reposting from larger sites is a very good thing. The main advantage that larger platforms have is the amount of content. If all the good stuff ends up here anyway then it makes it easier to switch for those who haven’t due to the lack of content.
Browsing reddit may feel gross, but just like the screenshots at [email protected], we need people to sort through the waste and find the gems.
I won’t go back but if you share direct links or rehost here that’s a good thing for this side of fedi.
Think of it this way:
Every time you steal from Reddit, you’re saving thousands of Lemmy folks a visit there, and Spez loses more traffic.
Keep doing it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Thanks for your transparency.
Agreed. VLC is the bomb - they deserve the attention and praise.
15 years ago I downloaded VLC on a flash drive with all the episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho and I’ve been using it ever since to watch wherever. Works like a charm.
There are pirates aboard Captain!
Better than that, there was Open Source aboard!
It is the year 2,002,026.
Humanity has conquered capitalism and moved off of Earth. Disease and accidental death have been eradicated. We’ve invented marvelous and miraculous technologies and used them to catapult ourselves to distant worlds.
It’s an open question whether or not our descendants can rightly call themselves “human” anymore, and indeed some on far-flung planets do not.
On the planet Seffi, which we call Kepler-725c, one of those human descendants watches the end of a two-dimensional audiovisual narrative, a recent fad on the planet. They aren’t watching it on a computer, per se, but on a holographic mesh device operating across a distributed cluster of nanomachines. The human descendant telepathically interfaced with it to launch the application and the narrative, and now xe marvels at how immersive and compelling the narrative was, despite being contained as it was within a two-dimensional non-interactive form.
A list of people who contributed to the construction of the narrative concludes its display, and the holomesh reverts to a waiting state, displaying a simple black panel within a white frame. And within that black panel, a small, orange-and-white triangle sits, perfectly centered. The human descendant doesn’t know what it originally represented, and muses briefly about it before deactivating the holomesh and walking out of xeir home to enjoy the sunset beneath the purple-blue trees.
NASA out here laying the groundwork for rickrolling the Eloi
Plot twist: the Seffian’s name is Rickas’Tley
They vaguely wonder who “Vetinari”, “Weatherwax”, “Ogg”, and “Otto Chriek” were.
This is the post below for me:
Arrr
What porn did they take with them?
Alien kind.
So, tentacles?
it’s more like extremely pointy prehensile elbows but look you can only be so picky
Probably a variety?
Nope! Exclusively Corsican convent bdsm porn!
I’m still on the edge of whether I should joke about asking for a link and worrying I’ll get the response.
No worries, I’m not aware of whether or not such porn actually exists 😄
Rule 34 and 35 dictate that you’re now responsible for making sure it exists.
Eh, I’ve done worse 🤷🏻
would this be an ethical use of ai?
No
What porn did they take with them?
Whispers in The Wind, To Each His Own, Put it Where it Doesn’t Belong, My Pipes Need Cleaning, All Tit Fucking, Volume Eight, I Need Your Cock, Ass Worshipping Rim Jobbers, My Cunt And Eight Shafts, Cum Clean, Cum Gargling Naked Sluts, Cum Buns III, Cumming in Socks, Cum On Eilene, Huge Black Cocks With Pearly White Cum, Girls Who Crave Cock, Girls Who Crave Cunt, Men Alone II: The KY Connection, Pink Pussy Lips, and oh yeah, All Holes Filled with Hard Cock.
Just fascinating how they all collaborated to agree to these specific titles.
it’s the library of congress spank bank
They had several meetings at NASA, rigorous tests, & selected only the best for peak performance.
“How many pornos does a woman need for a week in space? One? A thousand?” - Someone at NASA, probably
(Lol, I was initially trying to make that joke/reference, but couldn’t manage to get it right. Gg.)
They must be big fans of black & white films
“It doesn’t matter when it’s Arcturian, baby!”
-Private Frost
Now i am imagining how the semen flies through the rocket after masturbating…
There’s no way you’d be watching the astronauts live and a jar of nut flys by.
In the next Andy Weir book, I bet that’s how he calculates acceleration in zero G.
“I just happened to remember that semen has a viscosity of 93 Penrose and that a palladium vibrates at 6.3e⁷ portisheads per waneshaft when exposed to bicurious voltage. So by spunking on a metal ruler and shorting out a 9v battery on it I made a rudimentary McGlochlon Scale!”
And VLC is still on Xitter.
Incredibly cool. Though I would have personally preferred MPV
I might have to switch. The most recent version of VLC is suddenly giving me trouble with audio on some MKV files. They work just fine in Haruna though. It’s annoying.
MPV cant stream stuff from the web afaik or read BluRays tho. But yes, I use it too through Haruna.
sure it can stream. In a terminal simply add a URL after
mpv(you might need yt-dlp, not sure)You can also paste the URL from your clipboard into the gui. Works with magnet links too, with a plugin
America and Americans plastering their flag and “fuck yuuuuh, 'Muricuh!!” on every possible square centimeter (not even gonna use imperial as a reference) never stops being one of the most cringe and constantly proven stereotypes of all time. I have this game where if youtube recommends a channel I haven’t seen before and it’s an American channel, I count the minutes until the US flag shows up in any way. It’s VERY rarely more than one video, no matter the length of videos that channel generally makes. The worst thing is when you find a channel you like and don’t think about it, it’s just people making videos about stuff they’re interested in, then they swivel the camera around and have an American flag the size of the fucking moon hanging on their wall. It’s so fucking weird, off putting, brainwashed and deeply stupid.
IDK what’s sadder, your ability to troll or the fact that it took you effort to type out all that garbage nobody read.
Nobody is trolling. Fuck Americans and our pitiful flag worship.
I see just as many Canadian flags as US here, but sure, go off
You see Canadian flags in the US?
Or are you Canadian and are Americans bringing their diaper cloth into your country?
That’s your algorithm bud, stop watching ameri-bros
I am an American and I completely agree, the flag is everywhere. You would think it was required by law, like portraits of Dear Leader in communist totalitarian states, but no, the flag cult is voluntary. “Cringe” is exactly right. Some people just plaster the flag on things as a substitute for any sense of style or design. We’ve been indoctrinated into the flag cult throughout our childhoods, where there was a flag in every room in our schools, and a coordinated prayer-to-the-flag moment every morning.
I went to Canada in the summer of 2025. In reaction to the insanity from Washington, Canada was experiencing a possibly-unprecedented wave of nationalism, businesses were advertising that they were proudly Canadian, there were even “flag stores” just like we have in the US, but with Canadian flags. In spite of this, Canada had something like 5% as many flags flying in public as the US does. It was possible to be out in public for many minutes at a time without seeing any flags at all. That doesn’t happen in the US.
Americans don’t understand how propagandized they are.
I’d bet a dollar that nasa never paid for WinRAR
