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This shit happens every single Hacktoberfest. Nothing made me racist faster than being involved in OSS. These people are worthless subhumans and if millions of them died it would be a net positive for the world.
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Hm, did it happen this year? Pretty sure there was no t-shirt this time around.
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It thought it did, but without the free shirt nobody cared. iirc they did some weird psudo-nft thing or smth.
I wish they would bring back some kind of reward this year, but maybe something smaller like a pin. The shirt was too big of an incentive (and too costly nowdays) and made many projects despise Hacktoberfest for the flock of low effort PRs, which often outright stated "please approve so I can get my shirt".
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Total indian death.
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Okay, I'm about 85% sure that the "Apna Collage Express" one is just trolling, Indians have awful grammar, but their spelling is usually fine.
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lol, lmao even
Reminds me of DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest events where you would submit four pull requests during October to receive a T-shirt and some gay stickers, which apparently was incentive enough for people to spam retarded pull requests making nonsensical changes to a README and the like. Used to be a lot worse a couple years ago peaking at 2020 when some Youtuber showed the event to his fanbase of wannabe programmers, but they began cracking down on abusive users after that by making projects opt-in and disqualifying PR's labelled as invalid.
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So, it's been a month. Mihon is properly established as the successor, all the existing forks have survived without issue, the extensions are now legally separate from the core app, and ultimately nothing has changed. The app is still readily accessible, and the functionality hasn't changed. It's actually more functional now than it was after the initial legal threats, because the new extension repo reinstated the extensions that Kakao demanded the removal of.
Perfect timing for a tweet (archive pending) from Kakao talking about how effective their anti-piracy team has been.
Article in question is linked here (archive), it's in Korean.
(SEOUL, South Korea) Nov. 1 (Yonhap) - Kakao Entertainment has shut down its Webtoon Edition Nunutvision application, which was used to distribute illegal webtoons globally, following a crackdown by the company.
Kakao Entertainment has been actively monitoring illegal webtoons since 2021 by organizing a dedicated team called Peacock (PCoK), and with the termination of the service, it has blocked major illegal distribution channels. PCoK has been sending out around 30 million warning letters per month to illegal distributors in Korea and abroad and removing illegal posts.
According to Peacock, a team dedicated to monitoring illegal webtoons under Kakao Enter, the original app for Tachiyomi was recently removed from GitHub.
Tachiyomi is a Japanese Android-based webtoon distribution app that has been illegally distributing webtoon files without paying for content.
Last month, Peacock threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against Tachiyomi, which was later backed down when the company announced it was shutting down.
Currently, the Peacock team is preparing to check whether the original Tachiyomi app has been properly shut down and to focus on major apps forked from Tachiyomi.
In particular, every quarter, we inform rights holders (webtoon creators and CPs) about the infringement response for each work, so that creators who are unaware that their works are being distributed illegally are informed of the damage. In the third round of notifications, over 500 works and 90 CPs were informed of the status of illegal distribution.
The Peacock team cracks down on illegal webtoon distribution to maintain the ecosystem. Illegal webtoon distribution has become rampant and is having a devastating impact on webtoon creators' profits. Not only are webtoons being used illegally without paying royalties, but there have also been cases of webtoonists collecting picture and text files and publishing their own books, which directly affects their profits.
In fact, according to the Korea Creative Content Agency's webtoon writer survey, the total annual income of webtoon writers decreased by about 25% from 85.73 million won to 64.76 million won in 2022.
After three years of monitoring illegal webtoons, we have gained know-how. One-time reports or warnings to illegal sites may have a temporary effect, but they tend to change their domains or vocalize their illegal distribution channels on social media.
The Peacock team continues to cooperate with global portal sites such as Google to block illegal posts or conduct undercover investigations to block illegal distribution channels at the source.
Last year, we identified the operators of the largest global illegal distribution sites, and we are also responding to large global illegal sites with English and Turkish services by identifying major operators.
This year, Kakao Ent and the Peacock team will target major domestic and international illegal site operators for civil and criminal actions.
"We will lay the institutional foundation to prevent site operators from monetizing illegal webtoons and web novels," said a representative from Kakao Ent, "and we are also preparing measures to ensure that overseas users can enjoy content legally."
Kakao Entertainment has been actively monitoring illegal webtoons since 2021 by organizing a dedicated team called Peacock (PCoK), and with the termination of the service, it has blocked major illegal distribution channels. PCoK has been sending out around 30 million warning letters per month to illegal distributors in Korea and abroad and removing illegal posts.
According to Peacock, a team dedicated to monitoring illegal webtoons under Kakao Enter, the original app for Tachiyomi was recently removed from GitHub.
Tachiyomi is a Japanese Android-based webtoon distribution app that has been illegally distributing webtoon files without paying for content.
Last month, Peacock threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against Tachiyomi, which was later backed down when the company announced it was shutting down.
Currently, the Peacock team is preparing to check whether the original Tachiyomi app has been properly shut down and to focus on major apps forked from Tachiyomi.
In particular, every quarter, we inform rights holders (webtoon creators and CPs) about the infringement response for each work, so that creators who are unaware that their works are being distributed illegally are informed of the damage. In the third round of notifications, over 500 works and 90 CPs were informed of the status of illegal distribution.
The Peacock team cracks down on illegal webtoon distribution to maintain the ecosystem. Illegal webtoon distribution has become rampant and is having a devastating impact on webtoon creators' profits. Not only are webtoons being used illegally without paying royalties, but there have also been cases of webtoonists collecting picture and text files and publishing their own books, which directly affects their profits.
In fact, according to the Korea Creative Content Agency's webtoon writer survey, the total annual income of webtoon writers decreased by about 25% from 85.73 million won to 64.76 million won in 2022.
After three years of monitoring illegal webtoons, we have gained know-how. One-time reports or warnings to illegal sites may have a temporary effect, but they tend to change their domains or vocalize their illegal distribution channels on social media.
The Peacock team continues to cooperate with global portal sites such as Google to block illegal posts or conduct undercover investigations to block illegal distribution channels at the source.
Last year, we identified the operators of the largest global illegal distribution sites, and we are also responding to large global illegal sites with English and Turkish services by identifying major operators.
This year, Kakao Ent and the Peacock team will target major domestic and international illegal site operators for civil and criminal actions.
"We will lay the institutional foundation to prevent site operators from monetizing illegal webtoons and web novels," said a representative from Kakao Ent, "and we are also preparing measures to ensure that overseas users can enjoy content legally."
Notable points is that they're sending out 30 million "warning letters" a month globally, and that they're investigating the forked Tachiyomi successors. They're also planning on targeting "major domestic and international illegal site operators for criminal and civil actions" which they've been doing already for years, so no changes there.
Important context; there's two completely separate issues at play here.
There are thousands of websites that fall under the umbrella of classic piracy, which rip content from Kakao's distribution sites and rehost it for free. These are your equivalent of Netflix rips, and what Kakao wants you to think of when they mention "piracy" as a general term.
The other side of the issue are fan translations, where people translate Kakao's properties into other languages and release it unofficially. These translations run the gamut from "this series has never been officially translated and ended three years ago" where there's no conceivable harm to the rightsholder, to organised groups profiteering off unofficial translations of titles with easily-accessible official translations. The worst examples come from manga, where you'll find people releasing chapters before the original Japanese release using stolen magazines and begging for donations. Some leakers involved in this got arrested recently, and this article explains the whole situation pretty well. The majority of fan translations are on the nicer end of the scale, and groups will often stop translating outright when an official translation is released - it's a very strange kind of honour situation.
The five websites Kakao specifically targeted in this case cover that entire range, and people are pissed off because the nicer end of that range coexists with official translations just fine but gets tarred with the reputation of the rest.
As always, piracy remains a service problem; if there is absolutely no official way to access your products, don't be surprised when people go as far as translating and distributing it for free just so people can read it. Take it as a complement, not an insult - there's a market for it.
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Pretty sure some of these are trolling.
Still hilarious though, and not unrealistic.
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If you like codec sperging, there's a lot to be found in this Phoronix thread about H.266/VVC:
Peter Muskrat
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This is actually a very interesting thread. Did get a laugh out of that one guy saying "This is common knowledge among video codecs experts." when asked to cite something
A similar thing got mentioned when the chairman of MPEG was crying about how AOM was going to kill all future codec development, but refused to acknowledge a lot of details:
- HEVC really fucked the license pool model by requiring you to have an army of lawyers and to sign a few NDAs just to figure out who to pay and how much, and even then you're still fearing patent trolls
- They saw the success of Netflix and other streaming platforms, and saw it as an opportunity to start squeezing out a shitload more money out of them with HEVC
- AOM-aligned companies absolutely have the incentive to pour tens if not hundreds of millions into R&D for improved codecs (AV2 is already on it's way), since it affects their margins with network, storage and home-media device costs; as opposed to the MPEG model where the monetary benefits come from licensing to external sources
It's funny to see the similar thing appear in audio codecs; 35 years later and the most popular form of compressed audio on the internet is still MP3 (+ LAME). Anyone needing something more capable is either using Vorbis or Opus; absolutely no-one outside of the Apple/MPEG ecosystem is using AAC
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AOM had its own patent troll scare with Sisvel, although I haven't heard much about that lately. Any new codec could come with baggage. I still think new video codecs are important because the amount of stupid video we want to back up is absolutely massive, and it can theoretically lower operating costs for an alternative video site. It's also fun to miniaturize movies that would have taken a DVD to store 20 years ago, see how small you can store Shrek, etc.
H.266 will get forced on someone somewhere if it's that good. Maybe an ATSC 4.0. The MPEG situation is funny because they have also thrown Essential Video Coding (EVC) and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) at the wall around the same time. Truly innovative enhancements in licensing.
Maybe AV1 can become ubiquitous like H.264 one day. I was surprised to see the H.266 proponent cite a paper showing 20-26% bitrate reduction for AV1 over H.265. Estimates vary but I thought the two were closer to each other.
Peter Muskrat
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Yes absolutely, it's all a matter of the free market. Google/AOM want the absolute widest adoption they can get, otherwise they gain no benefits from having to serve devices that can't play their codecs. So charging any licensing fees at all would be shooting themselves in the foot; even going so far as stipulating that any entity associating with patent trolls (i.e. Sisvel) will basically have to go through Google first (1.3) and risk getting stripped of participation entirely
I'm not too sure how much H266 we're going to see in the wild, it used to be a no-brainer to immediately adopt any MPEG codec since you knew it was going to be everywhere, but very likely everyone in AOM is just going to ignore it.
The ~25% bitrate reduction doesn't seem to be without its cost, either:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202402.0869/v1
I'm also unsure about the quality assesssments; I remember reading about problems where even though HEVC matched technical measurements like SSIM, it had blurriness issues compared to AVC
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That told me dude is trollin'. Especially when he turned around and demanded strong citations from someone else.
The R&D FUD is ludicrous. That might have made sense in the 90s when it was the likes of Philips and Sony doing basic MPEG research, but now the most motivated parties to increase codec efficiency are the big techs - the ones working on AV1/2.
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Properly-written C++ is pretty memory-safe by itself and multiple tools exist to check for potential errors, but the average Rust troon only knows Python or JS and just repeats random shit they heard other Rust troons say anyway.
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Holy shit, I can smell the curry from across the big-I Internet.
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i smell a /g/ user
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We never should have given India access to the internet.
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sometimes i like to fantasize about what it be like if they had an insulated intranet like north korea
I can see this weaponized in the future as a sort of Distributed Indian Denial of Service
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