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- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
- Comment on How long to grow a community? 1 year ago:
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r/on reddit, or#on mastodon (sort of) - Comment on The New 8bitdo Retro Keyboard shipped early. Small-ish Male Hand for scale. 1 year ago:
i’m firmly of the belief that it’s designed to be on the left
if you use a calculator with your left hand, A) your thumb (strongest digit) rests on
=(most used button, and B) you can write with your right handthen some wacko put it on the right of the keyboard, so enter is on your little finger and the mouse is miles away[^1] and now we have to live with the consequences
[^1]: yes i realise mouses weren’t around when this layout was designed
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Aye so bottom line, we’re stuck with what exists until new formats are forced upon everybody… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
yeah… :(
Raw isn’t a format, it’s supposed to just be unaltered stream from the imager, so every camera model is unique in that regard. But DNG is a way to describe that data so it’s more readable to programs unfamiliar with the specific model. And well, some makers prefer to use their own proprietary models.
ah fair enough, i didn’t know that
Actually AAC is mostly Apple’s format and support for it is pretty great. I’m not super familiar with the details but it sounds like a similar situation as with webp.
is it? i didn’t think any android players supported it apart from specifically apple music? and i’m pretty sure ms’ groove music couldn’t play them^?^
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
It’s not. The web site you’re uploading to has to support it to allow you the upload in the first place, and to process it to make previews or lower-res versions for the web pages or apps.
alright yeah i guess. to be honest i was more talking about using images i’ve made on my own site, or publishers using an image format on their own websites. as for uploading to other sites it’s a complete mess: even tumblr doesn’t allow uploading webp, but it then automatically converts to webp which makes a horrible blurry mess
Do believe me, recently I’ve started converting those I want to keep to mp4 and I’m saving gigabytes.
i wasn’t being sarcastic! i do believe you. and yeah, i’d do the same
It’s not all that well supported in lots of those cases I mention. And where it did get, it only got because Apple has actually billions of devices out there and has the power to make the format default among them with one worldwide update. Yet it still has to convert to jpg when sharing elsewhere by default. That’s how huge the resistance is.
sorry, i was talking about jxl here. i agree heif hasn’t got anywhere; but that is, again, mostly due to licencing issues (unsurprisingly, given it’s apple)
I’m not advocating for these formats specifically (definitely not jpeg2000 haha), but I’m saying licences and royalties aren’t that super important when it comes to how supported something becomes.
Hell look at Apple… Everything is proprietary.
yeah exactly - none of apple’s formats are supported outside of apple devices (and i guess itunes for windows)
Or when it comes to formats, mp3 is still the most widely supported audio format (non-free), and DivX has been the most widely supported video format for much longer than anything else… Also non-free.
that’s a fair point, and i can’t really explain that - i can only assume it’s big for the same reason as gif: it was good enough at the time, and got standardised by cds
Haha hardware camera makers are the slowest dinosaurs when it comes to technology. Took them fucking ages for some to support DNG raw format, and before h264 was already getting grey, most would record videos only in mjpeg.
really? now admittedly i don’t know much about cameras, but i’ve had a couple of filmmaker friends and i was under the impression raw was universally supported
But it’s more about phone cameras anyway. And well with those we’ll only have webp and heif at most, so I guess we have to deal with that anyway.
i’m not sure about that - even google camera doesn’t support webp (i mean, it’s called “web picture”, i think they see it as a web format primarily). i think phone cameras will continue to be solely jpg for a long time
Maybe if Mozilla had not abandoned their FF OS, maybe that would’ve been a camera supporting jpegxl now.
that’d be nice. i do wish mozilla wasn’t so catastrophically mismanaged all around
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
That’s not how people use images. For an image format to be viable, you need your camera to support it, your gallery app/program to support it, the web sites you upload it to, the messaging platforms you share it through.
yes. but that’s my exact point. if i make an image then upload it to the internet - the only software that’s involved is on my side (gimp, ps, whatever[^1]) and the browser of the person viewing it. if it was supported in chromium, that’s automatically in chrome, edge, vivaldi, brave, discord, element, spotify, whatever other chromium-embedded or electron apps you care to name. that’s good enough for anyone who isn’t a professional, and they’re already fine. fuck it, it has the joint photographic experts group behind it - they’re quite a big name in photography
Oh you’d be surprised… Gaming videos on Steam, screen recordings, porn clips by amateurs, or just random clips, the amount of low-res gifs with 10s of MB in size is crazy.
meh, i haven’t seen any in the past ~5 years apart from ones specifically chosen for that 256 colour æsthetic; but i will believe you
Sure, it’s shitty of Google to drop the support, but from experience I’m still unfortunately 100% sure it wouldn’t have gotten anywhere.
Heck, Apple has been using HEIF for years and that’s a trillion dollar company with a huge market share, and you still get shitton of places where you can’t use it.
it did get places. it has got places. again, it’s very new and is already well supported
jpeg2k failed because of licencing and royalty issues. heif hasn’t spread because of licencing and royalty issues ^(in^ ^my^ ^personal^ ^opinion,^ ^webp^ ^has^ ^licencing^ ^issues.)^ png didn’t. jpeg (sort of) didn’t. jxl doesn’t.
but anyways, this isn’t a pro-jxl comment; it’s an anti-webp comment. i used jxl as an example of why webp, and its adoption, is making the web worse even though it’s better than png on a technical level
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Sorry, 5 graphics programs isn’t “support”. You need support from the millon mobile apps, web sites and image and web libraries. A format that you can only use by yourself or with a handful professionals is useless in practice.
i gave those because they’re the most pertinent programmes for people. there are more here if you’re interested
and i’d say that’s not bad for a format that’s only a few years old
Ed: look at the list of formats supported by XnView
i don’t know what this is supposed to mean. xnview supports jxl
There’s been hundreds of new image formats in the last ~20 years, and none has gotten anywhere.
because png is good. i’m not defending gif or jpeg, they suck. but png is simple, fast to decode, and open by design. it may not be the best as an image format, but it is good
Even PNG needed a decade for some things to support it properly, and that one really had a brand new massive use case.
yeah that’s my point, jxl has been adopted faster than png or webp
People use gif to make videos for crying out loud, and bitch about webp all the time, that’s how massive the pushback against new formats is.
i really don’t think many people use gif. most people use gifv or similar (usually webm) without realising it. apart from its very specific use case, gif sucks; so most software automatically converts to something else
Do you really think jpegxl would get anywhere by itself? No, it would be the same as with jpeg2000 and tons of other formats - first supported by a handful of programs, but not used by anyone else and then forgotten.
jpeg2k had issues other than a lack of support - jxl has deliberately avoided those pitfalls
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
jpegxl actually has pretty good support - affinity, photoshop, gimp, krita, etc.
it’s only chrome that’s holding it back (even firefox supported it until chrome dropped support). i don’t think it’s lazyness
i have no love for gif (hence i use apng), but all the other alternatives are either videos so show controls by default, not widely supported, or webp. i realise webp is objectively the better format for most things, but i still argue it’s existence is a net negative effect
webp may be open (although actually i’d argue it isn’t, the licences for the decoder and the format itself are both very woolly), but as it’s actively contributing to enshittification by holding back truly open formats i’d say that doesn’t really matter
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
- Comment on The Imaginary Directory - a [collection] of several "themed art" communities 1 year ago:
It’s a grand idea to make an index, not only for better exposure, but I bet it also makes it easier for FNIC communities to handle potential problems in unity - if they want to.
yeah, there is also a matrix space where i’m doing anything i can democratically as well
I apologize for making assumptions. It is most definitely a good idea to not have the whole of Lemmies Imaginary communities depend on a single persons whims
don’t apologise! (i did steal their naming convention as well)
Though I’ve personally never had any beef with INE, we often see how bad such communities can end up.
neither did i; but better safe than sorry and all that (also i just made !imaginarytrains@lemm.ee because nobody else would, and it’s just sort of snowballed from there - i didn’t know if people would have beef with me, so i don’t want to dictate what happens everywhere)
- Comment on The Imaginary Directory - a [collection] of several "themed art" communities 1 year ago:
thank you, but they’re very much unofficial by design:
i think most of the imaginary network on reddit was the same [group of] mod[s] - i’m deliberately not doing that, and letting each lemmysphere do their own thing (hence the “federated”). this is a descriptive not prescriptive group, and this is mostly for easy discovery for people who are interested
- Comment on The Imaginary Directory - a [collection] of several "themed art" communities 1 year ago:
copying in @ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org - you may be interested
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- Comment on Imaginary Fairies - A community for artwork of fairies and other fae folk 1 year ago:
i feel like indoctrinated is not the word you were looking for there?
- Comment on [GOG] King's Bounty: The Legend (-100%, FREE) 1 year ago:
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
thank you for your work sunaurus, and i’m sorry you had to sort through this
question though - don’t 1 & 6 counteract each other? or is 1 in place until 6 is implemented?
- Comment on Alternative frontends 1 year ago:
sunarus said he didn’t plan on doing so, for security reasons - see here
which on one hand is a shame, but i can see where he’s coming from
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
well actually, i did recently make a backup acct. on lemmy.dbzer0.com…
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
but what if going away makes it worse? .world’s downtime has only increased since i made my l.ee acct
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
goddammit
i joined dxcomplex because i liked the name; then i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold; then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold
i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
personally, i chose lemm.ee for, amongst other reasons, the federation policy. at the time i joined, l.e had blocked the fewest instances that i could find, i think it was only burggit.moe. i would choose to continue in this vein. i’m a big boy, and i can curate my own online experience - i’d rather do that than have someone do it for me
i have never had any problems with hexbear users (in fact, the few i’ve seen seem to be perfectly nice). i think if you browse subscribed: just don’t subscribe to hexbear communities; and if you browse all: you have to be prepared to block some users/communities.
this is assuming this is possible: i think it would be considerably preferable for lemm.ee to block individual users and communities, rather than defederating a whole instance
i think if people want an instance that blocks instances they don’t like, they should make they’re own rather than pestering you about it. i personally would rather lemm.ee blocked every mastodon instance so i wouldn’t get the twitter experience in my link aggregator, but i’m not going to request it because that would be selfish
slight tangent:
> Coming back to the events of the past few days: soon after my removal of the comment containing the symbol from the meta thread, two posts popped up on hexbear. One was focused on insulting and spreading lies about me personally. Another was focused on diminishing the horrors of the soviet occupation in my country. In the comments under both of these posts (and in a few other threads on hexbear), I noticed some seriously disturbing bigotry against my people. There were comments which reflected the anti-Estonian propaganda of the current Russian state, things like: i can understand your problems with this. and though i would be disappointed; as you’re a volunteer, i would understand if you defederated on personal grounds
- Comment on Trying to build critical mass for small communities 1 year ago:
Then I will include them on my watchlist and will try to post at least from time to time.
thank you, i do appreciate it
As I said in other comments, thanks to all of you who create and moderate communities. For now, I’m just trying to generate content, which I know is the easier part.
well i haven’t actually had to do much moderating yet — i’ve mostly been balancing seeding some content without spamming the local feed; as well as discussing them on matrix, and sometimes promoting them on threads like this when i remember
- Comment on Trying to build critical mass for small communities 1 year ago:
Note that I said: “you look a bit more organized than small subs”, and that’s not a very high bar, hehe :P.
oi! and i thought you were nice
More seriously, I thought you were related to reddit’s Imaginary Network, which is huge and with some big power-users.
nope, not at all. they’re just the only subs i still follow by rss, and no-one else was making them here so i took up that mantle. and now i have 7 imaginary communities… and there are at least 2 more that i want to exist, so i’m hoping someone makes them soon
- Comment on Trying to build critical mass for small communities 1 year ago:
thank you!
^also, i’m flattered that you think i look organised, i’m very new to this so i don’t feel organised at all^
- Comment on Trying to build critical mass for small communities 1 year ago:
a few others and i are trying to get some of the imaginary network off the ground - the ones i’m particularly fond of are imaginary trains and imaginary dieselpunk, but there’s a whole list in the sidebar
unfortunately a considerable chunk went down with lemmy.fmhy.ml, but i’m in contact with the guy behind them and he plans to reopen them soon
- Comment on Simple Gallery VS Aves. What is your choice? 1 year ago:
i use simple because it’s the only gallery i know of that supports apng
but i probably would anyway. i like the standard material 1 design, it’s faster than aves, and i don’t need all the blur, animations, and eye-candy that’s aves’ draw. perhaps i’m getting old but simple gallery just works and works the same as all the other apps in their suite, so it conforms to standard paradigms
- Comment on A proposal for instance agnostic post and comment links 1 year ago:
actually that is a good point, i didn’t think of that
still though, there’s no reason not to have the original title in the url. transparency, and all
- Comment on Linux community for lemmy.zip! 1 year ago:
i love the banner image
- Comment on A proposal for instance agnostic post and comment links 1 year ago:
I agree with that, however I think that’s a separate issue to federation and instance agnostic links. Fixing both at the same time sure would be efficient, though.
that’s a fair point, i guess i just saw that and my mind jumped to other url related points
it would be nice to have them both solved together though
Edit2: Ohhhh I think I see now, citations, with a link back to the position the citation was in. That looks really good for long comments.
yeah they’re not in the lemmy markdown cheat sheet, but they’re supported by markdown-it, the library that lemmy uses
- Comment on A proposal for instance agnostic post and comment links 1 year ago: