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nikitalita··on Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica
For reference, this card has been cloned at least 3 times now by hobbyists, but all the prior ones refused to release the source.
nikitalita··on Ted Turner has died
It's funny to me that, whenever these uber-rich old ghouls that were widely despised like 40 years ago die, they're remembered fondly, simply because we have much, much worse rich old ghouls now.
nikitalita··on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
someone post an archive link, I can't read that
nikitalita··on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
This is very transparently an attempt to prevent regulation of AI companies
nikitalita··on Why is Zig so cool?
This article made me want to beat up Zig.
nikitalita··on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
In a few months, we'll have some high quality deep-fakes used to ruin people's personal lives.
nikitalita··on The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
It seems that issues started here:

https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-95541...

Basically, the discussion somehow got turned into berating the OBS team for relying on an EOL runtime (which, as they carefully explain, was due to regressions when upgrading). I assume that waiting three weeks for any sort of movement and then getting insults in return is what caused them to reach for the nuclear option.