I agree with the FUCK COPYRIGHT statement, but copyright law and patent law have nothing to do with each other. please stop mixing these two concepts together. Richard Stallman has a great presentation where he discusses patent law, I think it is called “Patent law, danger to programmers” or something close to that.

hi, I just found this software that might be interesting to you: https://github.com/beandog/bluray_info the author also made a utility for regular dvd. I have not made any tests.

you might want to have a look at this software: https://github.com/beandog/bluray_info makemkv is not libre software.

Personally between downloading music from youtube with yt-dlp and bandcamp I don’t feel like I’m missing out.

If you find out a way of ripping blu-rays with libre software or find some tools that look like they could be assembled to solve the issue, do share! I don’t feel like doing it myself for now because I have only 5 blu-rays but maybe it would be simple to change my existing script to adapt to blu-ray. Have you tried using dvdbackup or lsdvd on a blu-ray? Both programs rely on libdvdread, maybe it works on blu-ray too. In that case I think it wouldn’t be too hard to adapt dvd2mkv to blu-ray.

emacs has everything on this list I think.

Hey I finished my ripping guide and ended up writing my own script which uses only libre software (dvdbackup, lsdvd, mkvmerge and jq). Worked great for my collection of ~350 dvd. Check it out!

I would rather own my files on my phone like it’s the year 2000 than my devices becoming useless whenever $streaming_service shuts down or changes policy like it’s the year 1984…

I don’t understand why they mention programmable keyboards there. Buying a programmable keyboard to be able to rebind your keys is silly when it can be made entirely through software. On X11 for example you can load a .Xkeymap file and set your keyboard mappings this way. I use this to have a modified dvorak keymap with Altgr+auoeidhtns giving [(=+)]] on the home row for instance, very convenient. Then I use my window manager i3 to rebind mod+p to send Ctrl+V using xdotool (because mod+p seems more vim-like) and I’ve set my terminal urxvt to treat Ctrl+V as paste. if all software supported the Sun copy paste keys then I could send those keys instead of Ctrl+V.

Should have use libre software from the start my guy! Jellyfin / Kodi let’s go

For now I would recommend orgmode, neorg does not have all the features of org yet. It’s important to note orgmode also has awesome plugins like org-roam.

https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere

For your browser only, firenvim

OK I had the same problem as you and found the solution in dvdbackup + mkvtoolnix + some scripting glue + [optional step: ffmpeg/handbrake for transcoding]. My solution works but is not optimal but it works using only libre software. I’m writing a page on my website to document this libre dvd ripping setup, it is very much in progress but I will be improving it as I go, hence I prefer to point you to the page.

I had to dig around on the makemkv forum to find the source code: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224 but I have no idea how recent that is and the developpers are only giving the minimum source out of obligation from the GPL. They litteraly wrote “GPL is cancer” in their source code. This, plus the fact that there was no clear link to the source code and that it’s distributed as a tar (couldn’t find a git repo) really stinks.

I don’t know, nothing struck me as new, the only difference is the presentation and the mouse (but I prefer keyboard). the example given for animated indicators already exists using ASCII escape codes. my zsh already has syntax highlighting on the prompt indicating mistyped commands, and suggest possible completions with a tui (with vim bindings). I could go on but anyway my point is everything they show is already possible with a tui, the only reason a clicky clicky solution doesn’t exist is because keyboard are freakin better and faster. They are right that we need a terminal evolution/revolution, but it’s not the mouse.

Honestly I’m disappointed. The reasons exposed here are much too weak.

Maybe the author has a specific use case, but this seems completely silly. If you want to choose which OS to boot remotely, why not ssh in the machine and change Grub’s boot order for next boot with grub-reboot? Make the default boot be a minimal OS exposing ssh. You could even have the ssh server in initramfs with dropbeard / tinyssh, no need to fully boot an OS.

“”“starts”“”

Why do programming language developpers even feel the need to reinvent package management every time? Like, just use the system’s package manager?

I believe pdfs can load remote images, which pings a server. There are other reasons, I haven’t got sufficient knowledge. Some pdf readers will offer a sandboxed mode improving security. I think zathura has this for instance.

Tip: if you are going to store data on “the cloud” aka someone else’s computer, encrypt it locally before sending the data! There are existing solutions to do this in a cloud-optimized way (that is, not sending in an archive which has to be fully reuploaded for any tiny change) such as cryptomator. I think rclone also has an encryption feature but haven’t checked.