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This is from last month but there's no newer article about AV1:

Google’s Royalty-Free Answer to HEVC: A Look at AV1 and the Future of Video Codecs

AOMedia Video 1:

AV1 can be used together with the audio format Opus in a future version of the WebM format for HTML5 web video and WebRTC.

What kind of features are you looking for in AV1 (other than the obvious: better compression efficiency than H.265/HEVC)?

Apple is adding HEVC support to its products.

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Oh dear.

Spam (Score: 2)
by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge Neutral on Monday June 12, @03:40AM (#524232) Homepage

If your posts were topical they might be called satire but posting incoherent ramblings into unrelated stories is quite clearly Spam.

Aristarchus modded Spam (not reverted)
realDonaldTrump modded Spam (not reverted)

Sensing a bit of a pattern...

So when I start modding Eth Fueled as Spam those won't be reverted, right??

....and here's mine!

Let's start with a few core tenets.

• Tenet 1: Over time your organization's process flow will align with your org chart

I can't remember where I read this, but I believe it. It makes sense because its most driven by...

• Tenet 2: The maturity and agility of an organization can be measured by the speed with which it communicates

Again, I can't remember where I read this. CMMI training maybe? But again, this makes sense because your ability to change ("pivot") depends upon your communications speed. On my team, we can huddle up and change what we're doing RIGHT NOW if need be. But if it involves another team?

Let me ask you this, how easy is it to communicate with someone on your team? Probably pretty easy. What about someone on another team? OK, you might have a personal relationship with someone so its easy, but structurally and in larger bureaucracies its probably pretty hard.

Now synthesize all these things. What it tells you is,

Your ability to execute depends STRONGLY on your org chart.. Plain and simple.

OK, so....let's think about the product lifecycle. From requirements to deployment and sustainment. Within this specific lifecycle you've got Dev, and you've got Ops. And typically at some point you have to transition your product from Dev to Ops. So, if you have on your org chart, those two teams separate, you have purposefully built in a limiter to your velocity.

So the simple solution? Reorg, and put those teams together. You've now allowed the product lifecycle to speed way up. In fact, in many cases (like CI/CD) its so fast its not even recognizable as a transition from dev to ops anymore.

So there. That's my definition of DevOps.

Trump's Name Will Be Bleeped Out In The Next "Broad City" Season

Would I have seen this important news if I hadn't accidentally opened BuzzFeed? I'm not so sure.

Russia protests: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced

Russia protests: Kremlin critic Navalny jailed, hundreds arrested

Will Navalny make it into the Kremlin or get shot in the night?

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ames/kepler/media-invited-to-nasa-s-kepler-and-k2-mission-science-conference

NASA invites members of the media to attend the fourth Kepler and K2 Science Conference to be held June 19-23. The weeklong science conference will take place at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Probably a good time to look for exoplanet-related announcements.

Exclusive: U.S. special forces helping Philippines troops to end city siege

U.S. special forces are helping the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by militants allied to Islamic State, a U.S. embassy spokesperson in Manila told Reuters.

From one "strong man" to another.

Does anyone know of a good site to watch cricket?
Don't really mind having to register (but would prefer not to), but don't want a bogus/scam site or a pay site.

Any suggestions?

UK election 2017: Conservatives 'to fall short of majority'

The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the UK parliament, but without an overall majority, says the latest BBC forecast. It shows gains for the Labour Party after Thursday's general election.

[...] Prime Minister Theresa May - who had a small majority in the previous parliament - called an early election to try to improve her negotiation positions on Brexit. But analysts say it now appears the PM made a serious miscalculation. The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Mrs May's decision may prove to have been one of the biggest political mistakes of modern times.