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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • Actually, yeah, every year for them its released the summer of the following year.

    Each subproject submits their own detailed overview of the prior year, including any conference/working group events, sprints, pictures from the same, mentorship progeams, major changes in individual projects, as well as detailed financials for where money came from, where the money went.

    It generally will take a few months to compile that (especially when you’re talking an open source foundation with a multitude of groups under the umbrella), and then time to organize it all.

    Even companies will take several months after the conclusion of their year to provide similar details in an annual review.

    Its a bit late this year being in August, usually its June, but late spring to summer is when it gets released every year.

    Edited to add: I think it even came out in October or November some years back. 2018? 2019? Something like that.





  • I’m just saying the percentage of those who may have been willing to pay is small enough to be irrelevant in the for-profit release perspective.

    Netflix (when it first started streaming) and Steam (when sales included good older stuff for wildly cheap) showed that piracy is more of a service problem than anything else. A recent article called out the content problems (partial content, a few seasons behind a separate paywall, ads in the middle of playback, etc) a are directly related to an increase in piracy.

    So my opinions on copyright aside - a clear model to a happy consumer is an affordable price without all the enshittification going on. People also dont like “buying” content that later disappears because of licensing changes.

    So I’d put it squarely in the “their own damn fault” territory, and I’m glad when judges say “no” to them. I’ll take whatever positives I can get.









  • Depends on how its done.

    First check the audio tracks and see if there is one with a voice over and one with regular audio - if so, easy! Reencode and drop the unneeded track.

    If not… Youre going to have a rough time, you’d be better off trying to find just the audio and aligning it.

    Edit: or another copy of the show obviously.

    The handy bit would be if you could find a crappy quality version, you can still pull the audio from there and align it with your copy. It may not be great audio and still require some degree of effort to sync properly with the video, but it would be a much more realistic effort than trying to remove speech from the same track.





  • In this case, there actually were charges, which he had entered a guilty plea for:

    He was arrested in January at a CVS after the store reported him for fraudulently using a credit card to buy gift cards, according to Lower Paxton Township police. “An investigation was initiated, where Ge was found to be in possession of numerous stolen credit card numbers located within his cell phone,” police said.

    Ge was arrested for criminal use of a communication facility, unlawful use of a computer and access device fraud, according to ICE.

    Ge, who was from Flushing, Queens, pleaded guilty to accessing a device issued to another who did not authorize use and conspiracy to commit the same on July 31, according to ICE, and was sentenced to six to 12 months for each count and granted immediate release to the ICE detainer.