J'ai eu mon vaccin contre la grippe ce matin et j'ai pris rdv pour le COVID. Je n'ai pas de problème de santé mais j'ai déjà eu 2 ou 3 fois cette merde et éviter les formes graves est une priorité pour moi.
Handbrake is the tool that comes to mind. You've already mentioned FFmpeg which is what I always try to use.
The convo on HN about this article is worth a quick scroll.
The first comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570137) launches a discussion about freedom filled with anecdotes. There are even more anecdotes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570364). And even some praise (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570484).
I am not a dev. I don't rice, I don't game. I'm a FOSS user and have been for years. If I run into a problem, there is no way I will be creating an account on Discord to get help. It might not be worth the time and effort. A searchable forum is good enough. IRC logs are good enough. Email lists are good enough. But, also, some open source software makes onboarding seem more cumbersome than it actually is. Getting on Matrix is easy, but in he eyes of a new user it comes off as Herculean. And when a dev decides to use Discord we shake our fists instead of proposing a solution like operating the bridge for them.
ah zdnet, a waste of CO2 if there ever was
I've told this tale 3 years running now:
I work at an international business school. I try to stay up to day on world news. There was a paragraph written about "infectious pneumonia" in Time magazine or The Economist the last week of 2019 (so the issue published the first week of 2020, I think).
Returning to work a week later I mentioned it in class, because that year I had about 6 students from different parts of China.
They said, "it's nothing, just a flu."
The next week, as numbers started to be published they said, "no, it's an exaggeration."
The week after they were the first students to start wearing masks.
Week 4, they told us they hadn't heard from their families in several days. This would have been February 2020.
I felt so horrible for those students that year. They were only 18 or 19 years old. Sent to France in January 2019 (they are required to come several months before classes start in order to learn French and pass some tests). They were locked down March 16th 2020 and forced to take lessons on Zoom. Unable to return home for the summer. Took another semester on Zoom, etc., etc.…
I think they finally managed to head home in the spring of 2021.
Logically, there is but one choice
I've looked into this in the past and settled on Kobo. You can disable the telemetry and never use the the Rakuten account part and have a very good ereader... And you can install the open source KOReader software.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader
MobileRead forums and wiki are a good resource for ebook stuff.
For example, a breakdown of the hidden configs on Kobo devices https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Configuration_Options
What?!
WHAT!?
Facebook mom groups must be full of trolls or something. How do they come up with this garbage?
Not defending the judges' decisions here, but...
Not Protestors; Rioters and Looters
These are all very heavy sentences. No arguments from me there. But, tell the story without putting a spin on it.
Remember that in France it is civil law and judges study the case and make decisions. Lawyers aren't pleasing cases and objecting as much as in North America like we see in Hollywood movies or on Netflix.
Cases mentioned:
After giving 4 examples states that he gave 5 examples. Says the courts are "cramming as many cases per day"... Yes, that's how they do. Makes false claims (says they are told to plead guilty, we can't know that, says they have no lawyers, provides no proof).
I'm sorry, but I cannot call this independent journalism. This is just 12 minutes of false connections and misleading or manipulated content. It is not news.
Fact: the judges handed out harsh punishments based on the current laws because these individuals were caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
In France, the truth depends on the time, the place, and the context. Judges have to rule based on that. There are options to appeal. But, if it's 4 in the morning, for example, and you're in the Louis Vuitton shop checking out handbags on the same night as riots, you'll get the book thrown at you.
The guy who made this video could have told the straight facts, no spin, just facts, and it would have been a stronger argument.
Also...
Furthermore, the French government is censoring social media
They have been suggesting that, haven't done it yet.
Commented on this article in another thread
https://beehaw.org/comment/586170
Looks like there are caveats to this law:
You would need to be a suspect in a crime that has a punishment of 5 or more years in prison in order for the phone to be geolocated.
For video/audio you need to fall under the definition of organised crime or terrorism.
In case you don't want to read or you just want a quick list of the 5 scenarios...
‘If we become the less intelligent species, we should expect to be wiped out'
‘The harms already being caused by AI are their own type of catastrophe’
‘It could want us dead, but it will probably also want to do things that kill us as a side-effect’
‘If AI systems wanted to push humans out, they would have lots of levers to pull’
‘The easiest scenario to imagine is that a person or an organisation uses AI to wreak havoc’
Le pharmacien ne voulait pas me faire les 2 en même temps. J'ai pas râlé