Post Ahn8BiMzP89RJS8KHo by sun@shitposter.world
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(DIR) Post #Ahn6Z5r43O6Uu1DkTQ by sun@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:17:32.311405Z
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This is so stupid.THE PORT THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED
(DIR) Post #Ahn7A7MzNsI0Jco9MO by nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev
2024-05-11T19:20:46.700Z
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@sun@shitposter.world just how I bought a laptop that did not support thunderbolt (but the Linux and NT kernels pick it up as a thunderbolt supporting device and all thunderbolt accessories work as expected)
(DIR) Post #Ahn7AJcfpNxwJkEqTQ by vertka@suya.place
2024-05-11T19:19:46.057637Z
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@sun I guess it's HDMI?
(DIR) Post #Ahn7g44jAVl1MeV2Qa by pwm@crlf.ninja
2024-05-11T19:29:41.516960Z
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@sun hdmi was created by a bunch of cocksuckers and I for one can't wait for it to die out
(DIR) Post #Ahn7uEZExJrBxXWnsu by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:32:34.259089Z
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@sun They are wrong. Copyright doesn't prevent you from naming a standard. They are probably thinking of trademark law but even then they are probably wrong.
(DIR) Post #Ahn81uP5o8ZRjuRQ9Y by sun@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:33:57.186332Z
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@jeffcliff you are right about trademark but, I can't remember who but somebody got in trouble saying HDMI for their product
(DIR) Post #Ahn899DF9AsdhBLnWK by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:35:15.911251Z
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@sun yeah you need to pay to have your product support HDMIthat's a HDMI licensing issue
(DIR) Post #Ahn8BiMzP89RJS8KHo by sun@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:35:43.629259Z
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@jeffcliff that's the thing though you can apparently implement it as long as you don't call it that
(DIR) Post #Ahn8FPiAiYAAbSnyb2 by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:36:23.821408Z
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@sun No you can't. You can't use HDMI without their permission.
(DIR) Post #Ahn8Snsq9prtKuBDSS by sun@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:38:48.703265Z
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@jeffcliff that appears to be what they are doing.
(DIR) Post #Ahn8V1PAr88RqrMTNQ by sun@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:39:12.881897Z
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@jeffcliff they are sending a DVI-D signal over a particular shaped plug
(DIR) Post #Ahn8pbn3HpPcUQLYkS by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:42:56.353634Z
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@sun though i guess the problem they'll run into is with implementing the drm/sdmi but ...then that will be a licensing issue and they'll be back into copyright/paracopyright problems when they hit that point
(DIR) Post #Ahn91yQYwoA2AmivgG by not_benis@cawfee.club
2024-05-11T19:45:09.418166Z
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@pwm @sun it's not going to, for the foreseeable future.
(DIR) Post #Ahn99rNz0neWeOHH3A by NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol
2024-05-11T19:46:35.053185Z
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>No you can't. You can't use HDMI without their permission. Yes you can, as long as you do NOT sell it.Once you sell it you are required to pay for licensing. We'll at least in the US.Bluray had the same issue where people were trying to circumvent with HD DVD to not pay sony.
(DIR) Post #Ahn9EljnRHjUa4ozFw by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:47:29.133525Z
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@NonPlayableClown @sun That's a change from 20 years ago, when you could go to jail for even trying to merely reverse engineering it, then.
(DIR) Post #Ahn9vlGZ4GRNZReHpI by NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol
2024-05-11T19:55:14.898977Z
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There's the infamous case that Compaq, took 3 different groups of folks to essentially reverse engineer yet trying to circumventing that case for an IBM computer.I'm pretty sure IBM won the case too.>it's just being able to play Blurays on linux So you can... you just need to pay for hefty fee from Sony to get their codec.One of my projects was actually simulating a CD partition on Linux and painstakingly typing it in octal.
(DIR) Post #AhnA5CHA13VvwhQWTQ by idiot@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:56:41.923826Z
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@sun >Media Interface outputting at a High Definition>MIHD for shortAs in, "that port's MIHD as fuck, use DisplayPort instead or I'll DP your mother."
(DIR) Post #AhnAKXcevomKUlncW0 by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T19:59:43.937789Z
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@NonPlayableClown @sun > you just need to pay for hefty fee from Sony to get their codec.exactly. you need to run their proprietary binary,nothanksreverse engineering did get solid foundation with the compaq case but paracopyright law muddies the water a lot - we aren't living in the 1980s free culture america, we are living in post WIPOCT post-trump paracopyright treaties era where a lot of battles will have to be refought
(DIR) Post #AhnAwU2AiohgMzpCoy by NonPlayableClown@postnstuffds.lol
2024-05-11T20:06:34.788845Z
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>we aren't living in the 1980s free culture america, we are living in post WIPOCT post-trump paracopyright treaties era where a lot of battles will have to be refought😩 unfortunately you are correct. We really need another linux Renaissance. If we can allow more stable builds with a tight and efficient ui design (yet still keep the terminal backend in there for the pros) for the normies, and better optimization of graphics cards than that would be very idea.But last that I know the closest was SteamOS.Ubuntu is getting muddied.Redhat is jank.What you think Jeff, now any good linux OS that fits the billet?
(DIR) Post #AhnHFi17YaLyxrsrlA by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-11T21:17:17.725509Z
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@NonPlayableClown @sun it's a mess for surei'm doing what i can with http://gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion/themusicgod1/LFS-no-microsoft
(DIR) Post #AhnwGtJP90tQPC7OoS by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2024-05-12T04:56:44.055471Z
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@jeffcliff Copyright is NOT relevant to implementing HDMI, that protocol is rather restricted by trademarks and patents.The HDMI specifications documents are under a proprietary license that attempts to restrict far more than is legally possible, but you don't need to even look at those - there is enough documentation online to implement HDMI 1.0 no problem.What flipper appears to be doing is sending a DVI-D signal over the HDMI plug (pretty much what HDMI 1.0 does) and I guess without the audio signal and any patents that restricted DVI-D have expired by now.I don't see why it would be useful to implement HD CP, aside from a circumvention device that removes it, but I would argue that the DMCA is not a copyright law - rather an act of extreme restrictions unlike all previous copyright laws, aside from a "copyright" label slapped on.
(DIR) Post #AhnwRhab4MkPEXJad6 by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2024-05-12T04:58:44.933552Z
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@jeffcliff GNU/Jihad against "open source"¡!¡!You can play blurays with free software, so if you are going to play them, it is your duty to do it in freedom; https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
(DIR) Post #Ahz9Ir3BxYV476MQka by clacke@libranet.de
2024-05-17T14:40:36Z
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@sun @jeffcliff There's a difference between descriptive and nominative use, but in practice it becomes hairy, especially if it's the manufacturer itself who says it.You can't say you made an HDMI plug without having the right to the trademark, but what we are doing here and saying it's a DVI-D signal through a plug that looks like an HDMI plug, that's not infringing.
(DIR) Post #AhzB5mNsCKEhmhvYFk by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2024-05-17T15:04:47.645230Z
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@clacke @sun exactly: trademark not copyright