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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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cryptonector wrote: post #198
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> I just wish Git itself had a more robust means of issue-handling (no, email is a 1980s protocol, it's not good enough, even if it is for Linux) and CI/CD, rather than relegating the matter to different hosts. Just shove the issues into Git itself. That's what Fossil does for its wiki and issues, while GitHub only does it for its wiki. There are several open source ways to do this with Git itself.

> There are several open source ways to do this with Git itself.

Yes but that's also the problem. What's the point of doing it in git if whatever choice you make is incompatible with most clients?

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by account42 »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

Oh no how dare people complain about the "cute" DRM.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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timeon wrote: post #207
bakugo wrote: post #184

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> A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it) If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website, then in my opinion it's completely reasonable for those people to point out how immature it is. Telling people to "get over it" just makes you sound equa…

That is just what LLM era brings.

It doesn't have to be - adding this kind of DRM is an active choice and definitely not the only option. Neither is the art style required.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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xena wrote: post #77
nozzlegear wrote: post #55

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Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper ) will be merged…

All it's doing is enticing me to discourage anyone from using your DRM malware.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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kelnos wrote: post #169

Delightful, now Anubis is giving me "invalid response" (Firefox Android). Great to see that AI bot protection is blocking legitimate use now too. Would love to check this out, but I can't.

I'm sorry but the cool kids have decided that DRM is in now. Sucks to be you (and me).

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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jraph wrote: post #209
eviks wrote: post #205

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Oh, thanks, so it's even worse than I thought - it's an intentional degradation of user experience for financial benefit

Sounds like most tech companies with their ads and and tracking.

We should have higher standards than "usual big tech dark patterns" for our open source project infrastructure though.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by account42 »

eviks wrote: post #205
jraph wrote: post #146

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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886997#44928597

Oh, thanks, so it's even worse than I thought - it's an intentional degradation of user experience for financial benefit

To support a DRM business no less.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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frollogaston wrote: post #84
mrcsharp wrote: post #31

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Does it make a difference? More alternatives to Github is a good thing and alternatives mean nothing if no one is using them.

It's impressive how much GitHub dominates with so little lock-in. It's so easy to add a new git remote. Yeah GitHub has its own features too, but for a long time free private repo wasn't one of them.

The lock in are the network effects.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by cyphar »

account42 wrote: post #333
cyphar wrote: post #268

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As a maintainer of a few open source projects, yes it happens a lot. I want to believe some people just want to send small patches to projects when they notice something (I tend to do the same for projects I use) but my impression is a lot of them do it so that it shows up as "contributions" on the GitHub profile which they can then add to their resume (or get some other kind of street cred). At least typos are actua…

> Personally as a maintainer, if someone is fixing one typo in order to "get started" contributing to a project I would prefer that they go through and check for any other instances of typos in the project to make a more complete fix (or even better, add a CI job that runs codespell or similar spell checkers). That feels more like someone actually interested in fixing something about the project, as opposed to sendin…

I mean, I would prefer that it be done as part of a discussion with upstream but if you're talking about a GitHub Action it's not really that much effort to maintain in my experience.

But even if adding CI jobs is not the preference of upstream, I would prefer that the contributor runs codespell locally and fixes all of the issues rather than just sending one-line patches. And I can imagine much worse forms of drive-by contributions than CI jobs that you can easily disable in the future.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by grues-dinner »

scythe wrote: post #137
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #97

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It's the kids. They all like the anime. Not at all like the serious teams I worked with at IBM and DEC that slapped trek logos over everything.

In the radiology department at Westchester Medical Center, all of the portable X-ray machines have little nametags on them that read, variously, "Enterprise", "Voyager", "Defiant", etc.

Cloud-native KTDs (Kids These Days) will never know the joy of lovingly naming all the machines in the building by theme and caring for them like a kennel of slightly sickly pets.

"Cassiopeia is down" - emotional event, especially if she never comes up again. AWS instance 54653-345r3453-34234, meh. Sure, we got more nines, but at what cost?!

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