Richard Ferris

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.

This entire By Election circus is a testing ground to see how far this we've gone down the same route as US… He'll win this seat, & this behaviour will be celebrated. Our political & media class have helped set a climate where being a regressive Bigot is lucrative & Rewarded.

There aren’t any words in any language for me to express how much I loathe & detest Netanyahu with every fibre of my being

Britain used to be the best country in the world. What happened?

Because no one stopped Israel from killing medics in Gaza and now they kill medics with impunity. Along with everyone else with a pulse.

Israel is escalating against Lebanon to scupper the Iran deal. If there's no state of emergency, Netanyahu has to face trial for fraud. An infinite number of people can die before that happens. Israel is ruled by psychopaths.

Israel is bombing residential neighborhoods in Tyre, Lebanon. Tyre is a biblical city, and Israel seeks to destroy it 😞

This is Tyre in South Lebanon today. Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet. One of humanity’s oldest cities. Is being systematically wiped out. And not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.

There are still accounts saying 'this is just summer'. Actually, this is warmer than summers used to be. *And it's still only Spring*.

This is the Coolest May will ever be for the rest of our Life. x

@TheDryhtscipe They jabber complete shit about everything else, why make an exception for the weather?

"it's a humid heat" why do British people just shit out of their mouths about the weather tho? genuinely fascinated

@StateDept The US struck 30 universities, 13 hospitals and health facilities and killed 156 people in a strike on a school including 120 children. Shut up.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Iran would rather invest in the rapists and murderers of Hamas than their own people. The BBC and these other media outlets should be covering how evil these people are in Iran and the damage they’ve done to people all over the world.

@JohnDonker Careful man, the pentagon will be calling it a UFO.

Ridiculous balloon

The revolt in Bolivia is a genuine propelled movement for justice — and that is precisely why your mainstream media are not reporting it.

Venezuela is lost US property now

@QalaatAlMudiq shooting down someone parachuting from a damaged aircraft is a violation of the Geneva Convention

This man robbed a bank for $1, sat down and waited for the police, just to get free healthcare in prison In 2011 a man named Richard James Verone walked into a RBC Bank in Gastonia, North Carolina Handed the teller a note demanding $1 One dollar Then sat down in the lobby and waited calmly for police to arrive He was 59. No job. No insurance. A growth on his chest. Two ruptured discs. Calculated that a federal conviction would guarantee him full medical coverage inside prison The judge sentenced him to 3 years He got the surgery He got the treatment He told reporters on the way out he had no regrets A 59 year old American man robbed a bank for $1 because it was cheaper than seeing a doctor

Make them all black and you’d get the Elon Musk retweet

OUTRAGEOUS! In front of their families and the entire Basque press, our Flotilla volunteers were attacked by the airport police in Bilbao, Basque Country-Spain, upon returning to their home country.

@Qurtuzi @jacksonhinkle ... and why exactly would Western markets need to ban it? youtube.com/watch?v=wM1LzU…

@jacksonhinkle Bro, let's be real – nothing touches NVIDIA. AMD has been trying for years. Intel gave up. And now China's 'new' GPU is probably a rebranded, reverse-engineered, or heavily subsidized copy that will be banned from Western markets by lunchtime.

🇨🇳 China Unveils Gaming GPU To Challenge NVIDIA.