From a technical standpoint (and that's why we're here isn't it?) the Streisand Effect is actively trying to supress a nibble of information that wants desperately to be free. Which isn't really the case here. Here we have the editors silently ignoring an up-rated story on the firehose in the hope that if it goes away they won't get shit from their corporate overlords. They aren't filing public documents to make it so. Presumably they already have got the shit come down from on high and they don't feel that they're completely irreplaceable.

You want to stir the shit? Get the quashing story on Soylent News or wherever people with a beef hang out.

As for me, just another journalistic straw broken in my respect for the good 'ol site.

you must not be new here.

if the fucking thing wasn't being rammed down our throats there wouldn't be an issue. but it is, so people are up in arms about having something they do not want being rammed down their throats.

personally the saddest part of this for me is to witness the political maneuvering which brought this to be invade beautiful debian. it is toxic to the goodwill of the community, which has always been debian's most valuable asset.

> You have a point. But you wouldn't really have to move the whole
> planet. Just an object large enough to land upon. Like the barge
> in a harbor, arbitrarily close to land.

hovercraft!

> I am watching every try with a great deal of emotion.

When you look at the news today (classic cliche) there's precious little
good news about the progress of the human race. I guess that's why local
rural news about farm shows and parades and even tech news is so engaging.
It's the new, the positive, the hope and it's ever a rare thing to witness.

It's why people follow Musk, he's not innovating, his teams are actually inventing stuff.

gimmie a break, the command line encoder is fine. just cut and paste from the example in the VPx wiki page and you're in business.

Should Handbrake have VPx + Opus support in additional containers out of the box? Hell yes. But until then the command line version works just fine.

Fear of the CLI is just plain Gump-level stupid.

My guess is that VP9 probably isn't quite as good as H.265, but it is definitely in the ballpark.

You'd be wrong about that actually. Monty's given it his usual expert and honest analysis, see one of his blog posts from late last year. Caveat: If you compare VP9 today vs. some tuned H.265 of the future the roles may reverse. Or not. Who knows that's just pure speculation and it's not like VP9 won't tune up either.

But VP9 is not too late for the war with H.265

In fact VP9 spec was finalized quarters before H.265, and Google has the ear and other anatomical bits of all the hardware manufactures in the Android world, so VP9 hardware support from the start is in very good shape.

And what is never mentioned in the press releases is that VP9 and H.265 make their impressive bandwidth (or filesize) improvements at the cost of double the CPU needs. You do not want to be running these codecs without hardware support.

The exciting stuff is Daala.

F-Droid is a true friend. And that's a rare thing in these circles.

Moreover, the mentally ill deserve what help we can give them, and those that care about them.

right.

on cerces square roots you too.

> Ceres gravity is 0.27 m/s2 (Earth's is 9.8, Luna is a hefty 1.6)

Hold your finger out in front of you. Over 1 second accelerate it to
end up 27 cm below where it started. It's still a reasonably attractive
force.