Digging through my #Steam library and found a game that I apparently last played in 2014: Symphony (Empty Clip Studios). Basically, an arcade shooter that loads up music from your own music library and lets you shoot some vector things, to the beat.

Problem is, most of the music I have downloaded on this computer is via iTunes, in AAC format. Back in the day I bought the AAC add-on for Symphony, but the problem is, Symphony asks me to install QuickTime. #Apple has deprecated #QuickTime for Windows, so I'm not *too* keen on trying to install it. Also the game says "hey we're not allowed to distribute the decoder" - shit, I paid money for the add-on, what did I pay you guys for back in the day? Apple *sucks*, man.

Guess I'll convert shit to sensible formats after all if I want to play this. Hell, these days I can even use MP3s without feeling bad! Remember: Hella proprietary formats *continue* to screw you over, if not today, then one day in the future.

#softwarepatents #videogames

Virtually the same text - a detailed spec/design document that describes a problem and its technical solution in software - if typed into Word and sent to a patent lawyer, will turn into a patent, if typed into a modern LLM (those reasoning ones using chain-of-thought-reasoning), will turn into software that cannot even be copyrighted.

Yepp the legal system is consistent and reasonable. And not at all a decade behind technology.

#llm #copyright #softwarepatents #ai #lawisweird

@dentangle @librecast @gstreamer (also, I was told that #NetworkCoding, other than a simple XOR, were a patent mine field... so much regarding no #SoftwarePatents in the #EuropeanUnion...)

Petition to have it so Blackmagic Design has Linux users pay separately for AAC audio codec support as an add-on to Resolve Studio so at least there's a way for Linux users to have all the codecs easily if they want them and make it so the cost doesn't have to increase for anyone else. This doesn't excuse patents existing, in this case patents for math, I just want easy AAC usage.

#VideoEditing #Resolve #DaVinciResolve #ResolveStudio #Linux #LinuxVideoEditing #SoftwarePatents

📝 Breaking: Senate considers law to patent "clicking things on screens." Next up: patenting breathing while coding!

PERA bill could let patent trolls claim basic software functions. Even ordering a pizza online could require lawyer consultation.

Contact your Senator before Thursday! #SoftwarePatents #TechPolicy

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/12/1724203/us-senate-to-revive-software-patents-with-pera-bill-vote-on-thursday

Fuck #softwarepatents
#software #patent #palworld

@PixelProphecy Unless you live in a country that doesn't recognize #SoftwarePatents

#endsoftwarepatents

I'm not sure how the #Nintendo #Pokemon patent suit against #Palworld would work. #SoftwarePatents do exist in Japan (in fact, explicitly so), but it is still subject to the rule that the invention must be based on "laws of nature".

As I understand it, that's a high bar - a pure software-only claim cannot be patented. (And some pointed out some of the patents could be thrown out on the basis of existing prior arts.)

Software patents are evil, I can imagine to be patented some specific algorithms (such mp3 was) but generic patents such this one, that in theory patented any data analytical engine shall never existed. #softwarepatents #dataanalytics I am really scared to develop any idea. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9275031B2/en

Serious question.

What is a no-cost resource for #counsel #advisory about how to secure one's #intellectualproperty rights in the context of forthcoming release.

Oh. Is that what they mean by software patents? #softwarepatents

I don't know that software patent is relevant.

@Vivaldi
I know nothing of sofware dv, law, copyright, etc. Never cared.

I'm a former music industry dude however, so i might know a little about #copyright already.
:D

For some reason I can't hear anything if I convert an audio track in place with #ffmpeg to be PCM audio in an MP4 file and put that on Resolve's first audio track, but it works if I move it to track 2. Still can't see the waveforms, though. Sure I could extract the audio, but then it's slightly longer than the video for some reason. This is necessary on #Linux because it doesn't support AAC audio (I hate #SoftwarePatents ).

#Resolve #DaVinciResolve #EndSoftwarePatents #VideoEditing

Only 1170 days until the last patents on #h264 codecs expire!

*checks watch... come on

#fedora #rpmfusion #softwarepatents #codec

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F

Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"

Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!"

Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a #Linux middleware & #softwarepatents problem."

Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"

Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."

Them: "DO NOT WANT"

Source: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130

#opensource #freedesktop #softwarefreedom

Kovid Goyal creator of Calibre & kitty shares concerns about the potential harm of software patents in India, highlighting the challenges they pose for innovation and development within the software industry.

#Softwarepatents #clibrekitty #FOSSUnited #FOSSExplained

Kovid Goyal creator of Calibre & kitty shares concerns about the potential harm of software patents in India, highlighting the challenges they pose for innovation and development within the software industry.

#Softwarepatents #clibrekitty #FOSSUnited #FOSSExplained

Software patents and litigation create costly hurdles for innovation. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promotes open collaboration, allowing developers to build on each other's work. By bypassing restrictive patents, FOSS drives technological progress and keeps innovation accessible to everyone.

#fossunited #unitedbyfoss #softwarepatents #patentlitigation

@Madic @lucasmz @CppGuy well, for that there are better solutions like #NextcloudHub by @nextcloud ...

• #Outlook is cringe and the lack of #Exchange support of #Thunderbird is solely dependent on #Microsoft weaponizing #SoftwarePatents.

• If Microsoft wanted it they could make that work...

Just like the impossibility to make Outlook comply to #GDPR & #BDSG is solely their fault and could be fixed by them if they wanted so...

• They chose not to because they know they won't face #accoubtabikity and #consequences...

Very sad to learn that #Mozilla Location Service (#MLS) is winding down.

Even more that this this is partially a result of #softwarepatents.

Will someone step up to take this over? Maybe the some organizations or companies supporting software #freedom could step up?

I think here of maybe organisations like: @NGIZero, @sovtechfund, @purism.

Do you have any suggestions?

Let's stay out of the power of #surveillance #capitalistic #bigtech.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed

#privacy #foss #opensource