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Today's important open-source software in our pipeline for #FreeSoftwareAdvent has been mentioned before. It's the video encoder/decoder #ffmpeg
We're using it to create h264 preview clips. At some point in the past it was essential for decoding proprietary files that clien…

#ffmpeg in your browser: #codecs

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

Okay, initial thoughts on the Thinkpad P14s Gen 6:
- The laptop is better behaved thermally and noise-wise than the X1C with the Intel Core 155U.
- The CPU and GPU seem to be sipping power (3W/3W) which is nice. I haven't punched the CPU yet with something like a vicious `ffmpeg` AV1 encode.
- Replacing RAM/NVMe isn't too painful, the screws in the bottom case of the laptop are captive. Still have to deal with some plastic clips.
- The screen is fine, nothing to…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Courting:
🎵 the twins (1969)
#Courting
https://courtingband.bandcamp.com/track/the-twins-1969
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yYdcfsf7BBfHUMpQiUB4x

#FunFact: the #WWW was invented on a #Next Cube.

this looks really great: "Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team"
https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781662603006 via @…

Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team (Hardcover) | Skylight Books
“Metropolitans expertly unpacks the 'cruel optimism' linking the yearning of a fanbase whose suffering is alleviated by sporadic miracles to the genuine dissident legacies that surrounded the team's creation and which have occasionally, miraculously, come back to life." —Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of SolitudeA love letter to a franchise and a thrill

"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive…

It is youtube-dl and ffmpeg in a trenchcoat, isn't it?
https://mas.to/@alternativeto/115735195422131884

In the new episode of the YDS "Quadcast," Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of Divinity and Religious Studies, discusses her research on a Tennessee church burning and the value of ethnographic study of religious life in America. https://on.soundcloud.com/FIMvxhQcpbjefku4fs