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Chris   wrote:
>On Monday, 1 June 2020 16:37:08 UTC+10, Pete  wrote:
>>
>> To satisfy my curiosity, in the end I did some tcpdumping, and found
>> that vlc is querying 'mb.videolan.org' (aka goldeneye.videolan.org)
>> for the data.
>>
>> Which means it's all open-source stuff, And I was chuffed to see
>> that the html headers videolan returns all include good old
>> "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" (:-))
>>
>
>https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_CodeNames/
>
Ahh.  Thanks for that!  I see (now that you mention it) that my VLC
version is "Twoflower".  Glad that they're honouring Terry.  I suppose
that "Goldeneye" is just a leftover they didn't want to change.

 -- Pete --

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