RMS: Only stream my talks in OGG Vorbis (it's about ethics in video streaming)

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Lain Iwakura: Aug 5, 2004; The body exists only to verify one's own existence.; Taco Defender

https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysociety-community/zkyZpOXjgoQ/_8xyXSxv9zYJ

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Dear all,

Richard Stallman is visiting the UK and he's looking for opportunities
to give a talk/lecture on November 2, 4 or 5. I guess he probably needs
no introduction but there is a biography at the end of this email.

The offer came about when he contacted me after
reading a letter published in the Guardian last Wednesday about the
Sociological Imagination. (This was following the death of Steve Jobs,
see letter here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/12/the-power-of-apple).

It's short notice, I know, but if you run a class, club or society or
simply wanted to organise a public meeting at short notice then you can
contact him or his assistant directly. Their details: Richard Stallman
r...@gnu.org and his assistant Jeanne Rasta rms-a...@gnu.org .

Best wishes,

Andrew Wood

Andrew Wood, Oxford.

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I don't write my speeches in advance--that would take too much time.
However, transcripts of my past speeches are available. If you can
make a transcript of my speech after I give it, that would be quite
useful.

quote:

If you are thinking of erecting a larger event around my speech, which
includes inviting other speakers to speak before or after me, please
talk with me about the plans for that larger event _before_ inviting
other speakers. I want to make sure the event entirely supports the
goals and principles I work for, and I want to review the publicity
plans for the event.

quote:

A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I
really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar,
any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we
use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

If I am quite sleepy, I would like two cans or small bottles of
non-diet Pepsi. (I dislike the taste of coke, and of all diet soda;
also, there is an international boycott of the Coca Cola company for
killing union organizers in Colombia and Guatemala; see
killercoke.org.) However, if I am not very sleepy, I won't want
Pepsi, because it is better if I don't drink so much sugar.

quote:

I can try to give a shortened free software speech (about 30 minutes
of material). With consecutive translation it will take an hour or
more. I will be forced to omit many important points in the usual
speech. I do not like to omit so much.

quote:

If you plan to restrict admission to my speech, or charge a fee for
admission, please discuss this with me *personally in advance* to get
my approval for the plan. If you have imposed charges without my
direct personal approval, I may refuse to do the speech.

I'm not categorically against limiting admission or fees, but
excluding people means the speech does less good, so I want to make
sure that the limitations are as small as necessary. For instance,
you can allow students and low-paid people and political activists to
get in free, even if professionals have to pay. We will discuss what
to do.

quote:

If corporations sponsor my talk, I am willing to include a small
tasteful note of thanks in announcements and brochures, but no more
than that. There should be no descriptions of their products or
services, and no banners with their names. If a would-be sponsor
insists on more than that, we have to do without that sponsor.

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The fact is, I have no vacations. (Don't feel sorry for me; idleness
is not something I wish for.) I have to spend 6 to 8 hours *every
day* doing my usual work, which is responding to email about the GNU
Project and the Free Software Movement. Work comes in every day for
me, and if I skip it one day, I have to catch up another day. During
the week I usually fall behind; on weekends I try to catch up.

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Please do record the speech if you can. We are always looking for
good recordings of my speeches, both audio and video, to put on line.

[...]

Please make sure that your recording is not compressed with a
substantially lossy codec (unless it is an Ogg codec). If we have to
transcode the file, starting from a lower-quality base will reduce the
quality of the result.

It is best to provide audio recordings in the original recorded sample
rate, up to 44100Hz. Monophonic is generally adequate for speech
recordings and saves a lot of space over stereo.

For video recordings, please save the master recording, which will
probably be in miniDV format.

[...]

If you would like to put my speech on the Internet, or distribute it
in digital form, I insist on using the formats of the free software
community: Ogg Vorbis or Ogg Speex format for audio, and Matroska VP8
(Webm) or Ogg Theora for video. Please do not distribute my speech in
any other format.

Please do not ever broadcast or publish my speeches in formats that
are not good for free software. I will not speak to make a recording
or broadcast that requires non-free software to be heard or viewed.
Don't use RealPlayer format, or Quicktime, or Windows Media Player
format, or a patented format such as MPEG2, MPEG4, or MP3.

This requirement is very important, because if it is not followed,
viewing my speech will require people to do the exact opposite of what
I ask them to do. The medium's message would contradict my message.

quote:

Streaming is a kind of Internet distribution, so everything in the
previous section applies. In particular, you must use only Ogg format
or Matroska VP8 (Webm).

If you want to stream my speech but you have not done streaming in Ogg
or VP8 before, don't leave the matter till the last minute. By then,
it will be too late. Please try a test session two weeks before the
speech. That way, if you encounter any problem, there will be time to
resolve it before the speech.

If you have previously done streaming using some streaming service and
you can't immediately name the format it uses, chances are it is
unacceptable and I won't let you use it for my speech. So please
check, two weeks in advance, what format it uses. If you find it uses
some bad format, you will have time to arrange for ethical streaming.

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I am willing to stay in a hotel if there is no other way.
Please book the hotel for me and arrange to pay the hotel directly.

But please DON'T make a hotel reservation until we have fully explored
other options. If there is anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I
would much rather stay there than in a hotel (provided I have a door I
can close, in order to have some privacy). Staying with someone is
more fun for me than a hotel, and it would also save you money.

My distaste for a hotel is less if it does not know my name, but
staying in a house with people is normally more enjoyable than staying
alone.

Many countries have a law that hotels must report all guests to the
police. In most cases, this orwellian policy applies not only to
foreigners like me, but to citizens as well! The citizens should be
outraged by this, but often they are not.

Please call the hotel and ask whether they will demand to see my
passport, and whether they report all their guests to the police. If
it has this policy, please join me in striking a blow against Big
Brother, by looking for a place I can stay in that doesn't demand to
see my passport, or report my visit to anyone. If the police want
information about free software, they are welcome to come to my
speech.

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f you have found a person for me to stay with, please forward this
section and the two following sections to that person.

Temperature:

Above 72 fahrenheit (22 centigrade) I find sleeping quite difficult.
(If the air is dry, I can stand 23 degrees.) A little above that
temperature, a strong electric fan blowing on me enables me to sleep.
More than 3 degrees above that temperature, I need air conditioning to
sleep.

If there is a substantial chance of indoor temperatures too hot for
me, please arrange _in advance_ for me to have what I need.

If you are planning for me to stay in a hotel, DO NOT take for granted
that the hotel has air conditioning--or that it will be working when I
arrive. Some hotels shut off their air conditioning systems for part
of the year. They often think it is unnecessary in seasons when the
temperature is usually in the mid 20s--and they follow their schedule
like stupid robots even if there is a heat wave.

So you must explicitly ask them: "Do you have air conditioning? Will
it be functioning for the dates XXX-YYY?"

In some hotels with central air conditioning, it simply does not work
very well: it can make a room less hot, but can't make it cool.
Before using a hotel that has central air conditioning, find out what
temperature it can actually lower a room to, during the relevant
dates.

Or look for a hotel that has a real cooling unit in the room, not a
central system. Those tend to work well enough, if they are not
broken.

Pets:

I like cats if they are friendly, but they are not good for me; I am
somewhat allergic to them. This allergy makes my face itch and my
eyes water. So the bed, and the room I will usually be staying in,
need to be clean of cat hair. However, it is no problem if there is a
cat elsewhere in the house--I might even enjoy it if the cat is
friendly.

Dogs that bark angrily and/or jump up on me frighten me, unless they
are small and cannot reach much above my knees. But if they only bark
or jump when we enter the house, I can cope, as long as you hold the
dog away from me at that time. Aside from that issue, I'm ok with
dogs.

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be
very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I
can visit with, that will be nice too.

DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To
acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If
you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally
scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you
buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating
practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it.
Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

quote:

I do NOT use browsers, I use the SSH protocol. If the network
requires a proxy for SSH, I probably can't use it at all.

If a hotel says "We have internet access for customers", that is so
vague that it cannot be relied on. So please find out exactly what
they have and exactly what it will do. If they have an ethernet, do
they have a firewall? Does it permit SSH connections? What
parameters does the user need to specify in order to talk with it?

Please check those things directly, or ask the people who actually run
the network. If you talk with someone who doesn't understand what
"SSH connection" means, or if he doesn't understand the difference
between "Internet" and "web browsing", that person is not competent to
give reliable information. Don't rely on information from such a
person--talk to someone who knows!

For reasons of principle, I am unwilling to identify myself in order
to connect to the Internet. For instance, if a hotel gives a user
name and password to each room, I won't use that system, since it
would identify me. I would need some other way to connect.

it goes on and on and on

so yeah. anyone want to do a yoscon and have rms speak? i am sure it'll be worth your time

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# ? May 31, 2024 12:21

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

ground floor

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:26

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

i couldn't read all that but lmao rms

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:28

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

actually on second thought i don't feel like it's appropriate to dedicate an entire thread to ridiculing a mentally ill man. i'm out.

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:28

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

quote:

DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me.

too late

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:29

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

ill have him speak at ranch 290

we'll hit him in the head with a bat, forcibly shower him and then put him to work in the weed mines of the high desert

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:30

Cat Face Joe: Feb 20, 2005; goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes

poasting for the new thread

Cat Face Joe posted:

rms at 6:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvfTZmecifc

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:30

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

please remove this thread as vbulletin is proprietary and the privacy policy says lowtax owns everything that is posted here

or ill unleash the eff on your rear end

# ? Jan 27, 2015 23:32

Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

quote:

Computing Puns

Despite asking over and over, I have been unable to convince the EFF to support my positions � for instance, that Digital Restrictions Management should be illegal, that software should be immune from patent lawsuits, and that digital systems must be redesigned not to collect dossiers about people in general.
It appears my views are inEFFable.

Basic is worse than C-sick.

Apple's response to Google Glasses will be called iBrowse.

The Pioneer Award I received is a lot nicer than the pie-in-face Award that Bill Gates received at about the same time.

A pair of travelling exhibits on theory of computation was known as the Turing Circus. (Three meanings!)

In the Greek myth of sysfs, every time the programmers thought it was working, they discovered they needed to rewrite it from scratch.

When a monastery sells jams and jellies over the Internet, is that monk e-business?

During the 1980s, millions of computers came to America through LSI-land.

The computer designers who believe processor chips are obsolete must be high on gate-arrayed.

To go with its AIX system (a variant of Unix), IBM redesigned the X Window System and called it Panes. Thus, users of the RT-PC could have AIX and Panes on their machine.

My femmebot wanted an upgrade to be more attractive, so I gave her a sexy new core-set.

In the 1980s, GNU included a program designed to fake the use of COFF format without really understanding it. The program was called Robotussin (COFF medicine for your computer).

When a particularly nasty bug appears close to release time, is that regression to the mean?

Copyright (C) 2000,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 Richard Stallman

Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire contents of this page contents are permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

# ? Jan 28, 2015 01:33

A Pinball Wizard: Mar 23, 2005; I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands; College Slice

oh good, we got rid of all the funny posters, now we can get back to tired discussions of the same old sperglords again

loving finally

# ? Jan 28, 2015 01:43

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

A Pinball Wizard posted:

oh good, we got rid of all the funny posters, now we can get back to tired discussions of the same old sperglords again

loving finally

we've got no reason to talk about you

# ? Jan 28, 2015 02:14

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Jonny 290 posted:

ill have him speak at ranch 290

we'll hit him in the head with a bat, forcibly shower him and then put him to work in the weed mines of the high desert

# ? Jan 28, 2015 02:16

Egan Yardley: Jun 11, 2010

im the guy who gets 0 sleep and his ear talked off by rms couch surfing

# ? Jan 28, 2015 03:04

Twinty Zuleps: May 10, 2008; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

quote:

the speech does less good

i was gonna call grammar on this but then i realized he literally quantifies how much good his speeches do for the world

# ? Jan 28, 2015 03:34

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

posting in an :rms2:

thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

join us now and share the software

# ? Jan 28, 2015 06:48

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

i like rms. he is a bit (well, more than a bit haha) odd but he's got good principles and sticks to them better than I could. also he likes parrots so he's automatically cool

# ? Jan 28, 2015 07:08

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

he is very serious about raping parrots

# ? Jan 28, 2015 07:22

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

This is the comedy we've been waiting for. Insanely long effortpost That could have been copied from 2003 about a man who actually keeps to his principles, which is extremely rare, and he's ridiculed for not saying 'gently caress it' And going along with what's easiest like the rest of us

# ? Jan 28, 2015 16:18

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

lol look at that guy. caring about a thing. what a fag

# ? Jan 28, 2015 16:24

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

OSI bean dip posted:

https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/#!msg/mysociety-community/zkyZpOXjgoQ/_8xyXSxv9zYJ

it goes on and on and on

so yeah. anyone want to do a yoscon and have rms speak? i am sure it'll be worth your time

don't use my thread tag

# ? Jan 28, 2015 16:26

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Jonny 290 posted:

we've got no reason to talk about you

# ? Jan 28, 2015 16:31

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

As a Millennial I posted:

lol look at that guy. caring about a thing. what a fag

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:08

du -hast: Mar 12, 2003; BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

emoji posted:

This is the comedy we've been waiting for. Insanely long effortpost That could have been copied from 2003 about a man who actually keeps to his principles, which is extremely rare, and he's ridiculed for not saying 'gently caress it' And going along with what's easiest like the rest of us

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:18

Tayter Swift: Nov 18, 2002; Pillbug

root mean square

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:22

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

lmfao hes scared of barking dogs hahahaha

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:25

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

bump_fn posted:

lmfao hes scared of barking dogs hahahaha

Dogs kill people every day idiot

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:33

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

not the ones that bark, according to the saying

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:48

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

well they dont bite, maybe the ones that bark poison you or do sick choke holds idk much about dogs

# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:48

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

Dogs are extremely powerful weapons

# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:10

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

Can you even imagine a more intimidating weapon employed by a regime of terror than a dog? Didn't think so. At Least you know the gun will kill you relatively quickly

# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:12

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

emoji posted:

Can you even imagine a more intimidating weapon employed by a regime of terror than a dog? Didn't think so. At Least you know the gun will kill you relatively quickly

pablo escobar had hippos and tigers that's pretty intimidating

# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:15

emoji: Jun 4, 2004

And furthermore, nothing is faster than a dog

# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:16

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

yah good point

# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:17

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

newreply.php posted:

well they dont bite, maybe the ones that bark poison you or do sick choke holds idk much about dogs

dogs are incredibly clever about murder. tha'ts why we've use dthem in war and in terror regimes. for their exquisite murder craft.

don't ever gently caress with a dog b/c it can probably think of a way to trick you into murdering yourself. that's a rock fact

# ? Jan 28, 2015 20:13

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

can we get a mod to gas this thread? it's really mean-spirited and not in the interest of the funny computer forum, i think

# ? Jan 28, 2015 20:16

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

i did my part by voting 1, please do the same. reporting the OP might help too

# ? Jan 28, 2015 20:16

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

fanatically principled man with social handicap believes things, explains his beliefs in a socially handicapped way

# ? Jan 28, 2015 20:30

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

mlmp

# ? Jan 28, 2015 20:32

yeah actually they will: Aug 18, 2012

Since the gently caress-tarded op gassed my thread entitld A sexy computer lady that can make all your dreams come true, i'm going to post the pics of the sexy computer lady in this thread instead.

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yeah actually they will: Aug 18, 2012

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