willamowius - Slashdot User

Comment Second blue screen of the day (Score 1) 113

by willamowius on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:14AM (#63891223) Attached to: Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

"Driver fault in reactor 2632 - Ignore, Restart, Evacuate"

Looking forward to a bright future...

Comment H.323 (Score 1) 156

by willamowius on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:12PM (#59989642) Attached to: What's your favorite video conferencing software?

I still use H.323 and with a GNU Gatekeeper. I like the independence from all these one-vendor systems.

Comment Could there be any better time to disclose ?? (Score 2) 12

by willamowius on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:43AM (#59896256) Attached to: Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests

Now nobody listens to non-corona news anyway.

Comment Re:org (Score 3, Informative) 42

by willamowius on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:37AM (#59462060) Attached to: It's Way Too Easy To Get a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.gov Domain Name

The limitation of .org to non-profits has been removed ages ago. Anyone can officially register a .org.

Comment GNU Gatekeeper (Score 1) 119

by willamowius on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:28PM (#59007526) Attached to: Which company do you prefer to use for cloud-based video conferencing?

Not fresh, but all P2P and OpenSource and by open ITU spec.
https://www.gnugk.org/

Comment I did this before... (Score 1) 201

by willamowius on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:22PM (#58757628) Attached to: Windows 10's Linux Kernel Is Now Available

Playing with an almost usable Linux. I think it was about 1993 and called Slackware. I prefer fully working Linux nowadays.

Submission + - Why Linux HDCP isn't the end of the world (collabora.com)

Submitted by mfilion on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:32AM

mfilion writes: Recently, Sean Paul from Google's ChromeOS team, submitted a patch series to enable HDCP support for the Intel display driver. HDCP is used to encrypt content over HDMI and DisplayPort links, which can only be decoded by trusted devices. However, if you already run your own code on a free device, HDCP is an irrelevance and does not reduce freedom in any way.

Comment Which technology ? (Score 1) 210

by willamowius on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:51AM (#54591991) Attached to: No, Your Phone Didn't Ring. So Why Voice Mail From a Telemarketer?

Which "technology" do they use to leave the voice mail ? I'm pretty sure we can block that in our phones.

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