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Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch:
News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC 4.0 will bring a complete user interface overhaul.
"We modified the interface to be a bit more modern," VideoLAN foundation President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told the publication. Kempf had previously shown some version of a new interface about two years ago, but it's unclear at this point how much that one resembles the one the team plans to introduce with VLC 4.0.
While the article doesn't list every change coming, it does outline a couple other possible directions and priorities for VLC.
Read the article for more details.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 15 2021, @05:36PM
So, my answer here would be: UBI. Not "everyone gets to kick back and live in luxury UBI," but enough to ensure basic food and shelter and let people who don't lust for more than that live a simple, low energy lifestyle instead of having to search for and commute to jobs they hate just to make enough money to not starve or suffer exposure, or worse have to jump through the government/philanthropic hoops necessary to get temporary food and shelter, or worse still: actually suffer exposure and hunger and all the expense that that ultimately brings on all of society.
With basic food and shelter security, people could really pursue dreams, the things they love, and make a little extra money doing it - and if they don't, oh well, they can still live the low cost (low energy) lifestyle while doing things they love - and when they quit loving one thing, they are free to try another and another, and maybe eventually one of those does make them significant money.
End minimum wage, no need. Scale back disability by the amount that people get in UBI. End subsidies for food, fuel and these other "necessities" that people have trouble affording - although I might classify communication as a basic human need to be provided for free to everyone. If energy for winter heating costs too much in a far North state and you can't pay for that with UBI, well maybe those living mostly on UBI should be moving to lower energy, lower cost climates to live, or building their own energy efficient homes in the cold climates.
It's not about killing the big corporations, it's about killing their stranglehold on people's options for employment and survival.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end