On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, 12:41 Nicolas George, <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Jacob Lifshay (HE12025-07-24): > > ok, I prefer to never do that though because it makes reading the > > patches very annoying. Anyone should be able to read the patches > > without having to download files and open them in their editor (which > > is particularly annoying on phones), leaving a bunch of unwanted files > > around when you're done reading. > > I see your complaint about mail. But then I notice that you are posting > from GMail. > > You have to realize that GMail's software is not meant for the likes of > you or me, it is not meant for people who see a plain text file and > think text/plain, it is meant for people who see a plain text file and > look for the way to set it in Comic Sans. > > GMail's software is designed to sustain Google's cyberfeudalism market > model: make it very easy to enter and very hard to leave. Making it hard > to leave has the unavoidable consequence to give very little control > that power users can use. > > You, and anybody who does not exclaim “I'm not a computer scientist” when > they see a dialog box with more than two buttons, would greatly benefit > from replacing your use of GMail's software with a real mail client > running under your own control. > > Not just for your contributions to FFmpeg but for your daily use of mail > also. For example, where GMail only shows you a “conversation” with all > mail in chronological order, a real mail software can show you it as a > tree, making it clear who is responding to who. When the discussion is > not linear, it makes a world of difference. > > Note that you can use a real mail client running under your > responsibility and still use Google's gratis hosting, you just need to > connect your client to your GMail account. > > And even if you do not want to change your habits, even if you want to > continue to use the GMail webmail-for-lusers in your day to day use of > mail, you can still use a second client just for the patches on the > mailing-list, preferably automating it: a few shell scripts and the > patches will be ready for you in the format you prefer. > > In short and imaged, I see you arguing that screws are too difficult to > use and we should use twisted vines instead, but the real issue is that > you are using a Playskool Plastic Tool Set instead of a proper > screwdriver. > > Regards, >
The internet is there to sustain cyber feudalism of big tech. You should be using Faxes and BBSs hosted on true analogue telephone systems. None of this digital nonsense. Kieran > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
