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themerone
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Here's the referenced YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM4CD64xDE
themerone
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
It's been 3 years, I might have people mixed up, but that was the justification at the time.
themerone
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims there was no interest or advantages over existing formats.

Concerns about the implementation only came up after years of pushback forced google ton reconsider.
themerone
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
With that logic, the Django orm should only support one database.
themerone
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
HBO owns Westworld and stopped streaming it to avoid paying residuals.
themerone
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.
themerone
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'm very surprised that you find this surprising. Do you mostly stay at Airbnb? I expect this at any traditional hotel in the US.
themerone
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
How is this relevant to just Mac users?
themerone
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
That project is a pipe dream. They don't have what it takes to continue X11 alive once X.Org pulls the plug.
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Why go through the trouble of exploring such a bug, when you have the ability to just replace the binary with something with a backdoor?
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
AI Slop.
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
It would be easier to ask google than post here. It's the first google result for "blocking website scaling"

Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has cared about since the 2000s.
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Most Kobo books have DRM. There are a few publishers (TOR) and authors that are DRM free, but most of books I've wanted have it.

This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, although I only use it with burner accounts. They run Ancient versions of Android.
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Did I just wake up from a time loop?
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance
themerone
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Wasm can be sandboxed. Its a safe as visiting a website with javascript.
themerone
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Google blocking jpegxl from Chrome is tragic.

AVIF is only better when quality is less important than saving bandwidth. AVIF is also significantly less capable.
themerone
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
What's the legitimate use case for a 1U rack with 32 cell modems (Assuming 1 modem for every antenna in the photos)?
themerone
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Wasm is one of the best solutions for running untrusted code. Alternative are more complicated or have limited language choices.
themerone
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
It's as complex as it needs to be to losslessly convert old binary office files.

A better format would have made us geeks a lot happier, but the average user just wants things to work the way they always have.