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FOSS Force is a FOSS News and Commentary Site (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the a-force-in-the-free-and-open-source-world dept.

Christine Hall is FOSS Force's founder, publisher, chief editor, and everything else. She started the site about five years ago, but it has only started to attract notice in the last year. Christine brings the cynicism and writing style of a long-time freelance journalist to this tech niche, which makes her site a welcome addition to the Open Source news pantheon. And on the Slashdot front: this is our first video in a while because we have switched video hosting services. We hope you like this host better than the last one. Native HTML 5 at (long) last. Yay!

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  1. So..... by DougOtto · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I build a shitty website, will you interview me too?

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    1. Re:So..... by Thud457 · · Score: 1

      FOSS Force Five.
      FOSS, as in we're a bunch of Open Source Freedom Fighters. Force, as in we're a force to be reckoned with. Five, as in there's one..two ...three..four..five of us.
      There was a blonde one, Sommerset O'Neal from Baton Rouge, he was the leader. A Japanese one, a black one, a French one and a brunette one, me.
      We all had special skills. Sommerset had a photographic memory, the Japanese dude was a Orc Mohawk Nightelf, the black guy was a demolition expert, the Frenchie's specialty was leeching hentai...

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    2. Re:So..... by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      nice try, doofus.

  2. Video schmideo by arth1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    One day, I hope Slashdot figures out that not everybody wants video, and especially not autoplaying video.

    Either stop the autoplay, make it possible in the setting to choose not to see threads with video, or both.

    1. Re:Video schmideo by Roblimo · · Score: 1

      We understand that running 3 videos/week out of a total of 100+ stories/week is an affront to your dignity, but autoplay? Are you sure? It is NOT supposed to autoplay, and it doesn't autoplay for me in Linux or Windows, Chrome or Firefox. Hmm... I didn't try Explorer. Nope. No autoplay in Explorer, either. Could you please tell us what browser and OS you're running?

    2. Re:Video schmideo by truck_soccer · · Score: 1

      The reason he isn't responding is because he can't come up with a lie that sounds plausible. Video doesn't autoplay for me on aindroir, ubuntu, windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, using firefox, chrome, ie, edge, or safari. I haven't tried opera, or that other one there.

    3. Re:Video schmideo by The-Ixian · · Score: 1

      The video did not auto play for me either.

      I am using IE11.

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    4. Re:Video schmideo by cruff · · Score: 1

      uBlock Origin and/or NoScript stopped the video on my system.

    5. Re:Video schmideo by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      One day, I hope Slashdot figures out that not everybody wants video, and especially not autoplaying video.

      Either stop the autoplay, make it possible in the setting to choose not to see threads with video, or both.

      I can - and have - found many things that annoy me about Slashdot, but the mere presence of occasional posts which contain a video is not one of them. They are easy to identify and ignore, should you so choose.

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    6. Re:Video schmideo by halivar · · Score: 1

      Did not auto-play for me on Chrome.

    7. Re:Video schmideo by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm actually thankful for the video, I always suspected that the FOSS people were mostly cat ladies and now I know for sure. Seriously, what is that junk behind her?

    8. Re:Video schmideo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It appears to me that the video is (unsuccessfully) trying to autoplay. This is using Firefox 43.0 on a fairly recently updated Ubuntu 14.04, set to not remember history (this may be the difference).

    9. Re:Video schmideo by radarskiy · · Score: 3, Informative

      This javascript is in the source code for the page:
                                                      Bolt.getPlayer('playerwrapper').autoplay

      If that's not actually turning on autoplay, that's dumb way for someone to write code.

                                             

  3. Re:It's the new Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Hacker News is what slashdot could have been if slashdot forbid anonymous posting and hellbanned anyone that offended anyone important.

  4. Re:Trailer trash by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1

    It's like the web site - trash. Boring topics ripped from the past. She should spend more time working on the other website.

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  5. See Hd Movei by Raysaafrin · · Score: 1

    See HD Movei http://hdmovei9.blogspot.com/

  6. See Sexy Video by Raysaafrin · · Score: 1

    See Sexy Video https://youtu.be/rOvsUpiMSbQ

  7. songs by mohibullah1798 · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...