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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > great things about VLC VideoLAN Client player besides rebuilding font cache
 
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Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.
From the (in)security fuckup thread:

Carbon dioxide posted:

https://twitter.com/11rcombs/status/1086531879178829824

They verify against a PGP key that they download over HTTP.

Edit: It gets better, apparently they roll their own PGP implementation too. And they don't think they're doing anything wrong.

They're handling it well: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737

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Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

Private Speech posted:

It's very no-nonsense and functional, and it's got all sorts plugins for just about everything nowadays, included in the k-lite pack

No traffic cone though

The cone gets a little santa hat during christmas :3:

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Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

BONGHITZ posted:

he deleted the tweet, whats goin on here

and the bug report page is back up. :psyduck:

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