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A video from 1970 to educate those who think boomers had an easy life and won all the prizes youtu.be/fy0xlOE5Ctg?si…

Do not install VLC. Once you install it, you can never go back. You will never pay 99 cents for a codec again. You will never buy QuickTime Pro again. You will never renew RealPlayer Plus again. You will never pay for Blu-ray decoder software again. You will never see the words "this file format is not supported" again. You will become the family tech support person. Forever. Your dad will call you at 11 PM because he downloaded a .mkv from somewhere and Windows refuses to open it. Your answer will always be the same. "Install VLC." And then the orange traffic cone will eat his problem in 4 seconds and he will call you a genius. You did not do that. A French student named Jean-Baptiste Kempf did, in 1996, as a school project at École Centrale Paris. His roommate brought a traffic cone home from the street that year. They made it the logo. 6 billion downloads later, the cone is still undefeated. Repo: github.com/videolan/vlc. 18,463 stars. GPL-2.0. Pushed today. Here is the wildest part: The warning is real. Just not for you. Apple sold QuickTime Pro for $29.99. VLC killed it. Apple shut it down in 2016. Microsoft sold Windows Media Center for $9.99. VLC killed it. Microsoft shut it down with Windows 10. RealNetworks charged $39.99 a year for RealPlayer Plus. VLC killed it. Sony built Blu-ray to need a $79.99 licensed decoder. VLC ships with libdvdcss and a French court ruling that protects it. The codec mafia spent 30 years building a tollbooth on every video file on Earth. A guy whose GitHub location is literally "Coneland" walked through every tollbooth with a cone on his head and never paid a cent. He was offered millions of dollars to sell it. He said no. So yes. Do not install VLC. The codec industry has not recovered from the last 6 billion people who did. 100% Opensource. 100% Free. 100% Yours. The biggest media companies on Earth spent three decades trying to charge you to play your own files. One French student and a cone he found on the street made all of it pointless.

@heynavtoor Love VLC

@Mr_Grumpy_Arse He's resigned from Kona Energy …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/131842…

The true face of Rupert Lowe & Restore Britain’s grift. He blasts Net Zero as a scam. Yet he owns: Alto Energy Lowe & Oliver Kona Energy Profiting from the grift he condemns. Taking you to the cleaners. 1/4

🇷🇺 "Where is the BBC? Where is CNN?" - Foreign Journalists came to Starobelsk in Lugansk, to document the NATO sponsored Ukrainian terrorist attack.

Vladimir Putin: "I want ordinary Western citizens to hear me. You are told to blame Russia for your problems. That is a lie. Your hardships are the result of your own elites' greed & their selfish interests. We are not responsible"

@EssexPR Are you including Joanna Lumley in that figure ?

One in five people in Britain right now wasn’t born here.

@TheNorfolkLion Sociology graduate perchance ?

This guy had his bike stolen and traced it down to a house. The bike’s been there for over 12 hours, but listen to how the police acted and the attitude! They say they can’t do anything because the back gate is open and there’s no other evidence. He then argues with the man, who clearly just wants justice for his stolen bike. The British police are an absolute joke.

@MrLukeGeorge The fake bit is the "Manmade" prefix

"Climate change is fake" Except it's not!

@gaslighter @Inevitablewest Early 70s the concern was Global Cooling

@Inevitablewest Concerns about global warming precede wokery which makes them likely to be genuine. In 1963, the temperature across much of Britain failed to get above 1C for 10 weeks. That will never happen again. I’d put money on it.

@benonwine youtu.be/oU1ylbJ-V7U?si…

Who remembers the LONG HOT SUMMER of 1976? 🇬🇧🥵 People still talk about it nearly 50 years later. Were you there? What’s your strongest memory or story from that legendary summer?☀️

Seems to be a coordinated attack on Rupert Lowe these past few days Strange that

@spikedonline Seems to be a coordinated attack on Rupert Lowe these past few days Strange that

Rupert Lowe’s vanity is off the charts. His party, Restore Britain, is shaving votes from Reform UK in Makerfield. This could hand a victory to Andy Burnham and let the ‘King of the North’ become PM. Restore is the enemy of populism, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/DbiUXiS

@MysteriosoX Manufacturers are looking to make MRI which doesn't use Helium

Yes. This.

The most meaningful division on the British right is between men who want to lick and smell Carol Vorderman's arsehole and men who don't

@Benleo I'm sure Derek Bentley's family will be in favour 🙄

New from me ✍️ Return of the death penalty Does it work in USA? What does the Bible say? Does it ACTUALLY save taxpayer money? What do victim families think? A death row inmate was recently given a year reprieve after executioners failed to find a vein Link👇

@WasAcop Totally agree but will all of them understand? The problem with court is that those who work there it's just a normal day but juries and witnesses it's out if the ordinary

@HalBeowa It will be explained to them I’d suspect.

🚨I’ve seen numerous posts demanding the body cam footage be released. But I can tell you the police aren’t trying to hide anything at all. Why would anyone want to see someone die? This is about the Henry Nowak stabbing — the young chap right here in the photo. There’s already a full independent investigation going on into his death in police custody. It may not be public but you can be dam sure it’s ongoing. These cases are taken very seriously. They won’t release any more details until the court case is completely wrapped up. That’s just how the system works — it protects the investigation, ensures a fair trial, and stops things from becoming a media circus. And honestly, do you think the family wants his last moments plastered all over the internet forever? They’re already going through enough. Once it’s all done, the findings will come out as they should. #HenryNowak #PoliceCustody #IndependentInvestigation #FamilyPrivacy #JusticeSystem

@WasAcop How many on the jury will understand the distinction ? I've sat on a jury

@HalBeowa No he hasn’t he’s said the jury can consider manslaughter if they decide that there wasn’t an intention to kill.. the judge hasn’t thrown the murder charge out.

@benhoobs Great day to remind Ben @benhoobs that Climate Change is happening and has ALWAYS happened and is not influenced by MAN Have a day Ben

Great day to remind people that Reform don't believe in climate change and are already scrapping climate targets in councils they control.

@WasAcop Indeed, although the Judge has decided it was manslaughter

@HalBeowa A brawl and a murder are two different things