RayJW
@RayJW@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
Yea but many of them were involved. The Audi CEO at the time was on the board making the decision and the first to be convicted.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
Don’t worry, I don’t think you are. I just think there’s a reason they admitted so easily. Probably just another calculated fallout to save all their other brands from their own mini backlash which would ultimately cause more damage.
But yes, the whole industry is a dumpster fire when it comes to regulations and also lobbying.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
I mean they also own like half the industry. So, I don’t particularly bad for them to be honest.
- Comment on Accessibility 6 months ago:
Just leaving this here for everyone! This browser extension has saved me a lot of hassle so many times. We need to stop paying where possible and this is the convenient legal way for a lot of papers out there: unpaywall.org
- Comment on Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord 6 months ago:
I never actually tried myself, but it seems like the documentation certainly could be improved. I saw that they provide a Docker compose, so perhaps that could be of help if you didn’t use that the last time around. They are currently in the process of cleaning up the projects to make things more maintainable and easier to get an overview, so let’s hope things might improve a bit. I think for me personally, this certainly seems like the most promising Discord replacement because it feels like a set and get solution for non-techy people trying to switch instead of relearning everything like with Matrix.
- Comment on Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord 6 months ago:
Revolt is self-hostable. It isn’t E2EE but if you’re controlling the users anyways transport encryption should be enough since you have control over the data anyway.
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 7 months ago:
Your best chance at a proper replacement would be Revolt, however it is not in the fediverse sadly but still worth checking out IMHO.
- Comment on Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu 8 months ago:
The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service.
In 2013, Mozilla launched MLS as an open service to provide geolocation lookups based on publicly observable radio signals. The service received community submissions of GPS data from the open source MozStumbler Android app. In 2019, Skyhook Holdings, Inc contacted Mozilla and alleged that MLS infringed a number of its patents. We reached an agreement with Skyhook that avoided litigation. This required us to make changes to our MLS policies and made it difficult for us to invest in and expand MLS. In early 2021, we retired the MozStumbler program.
This is from their announcement regarding the sunsetting.
- Comment on Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu 8 months ago:
Please don’t spread FUD like that. This is unrelated to the CEO since this project has been in an barely alive state for a long time due to patent trolls.
- Comment on AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit 8 months ago:
Sure you can delete your Grub or whatever, but generally I don’t think it ever was the goal of Linux to give the user the ability to destroy hardware instead of just having to reinstall.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
So, do you stop rooting for your favourite sports team because they can’t be world champion? Do you not support a small artist you like because he won’t ever be as big as van Gogh?
Like, will desktop Linux overtake Windows anytime soon in market share? No. Do I use Linux on all my machines? Yes. Does that mean I’m not allowed to like it / hope for more adoption or hell, help people who would like to get away from Windows?
I get your point and I mostly agree. But why exactly should that be an argument for people to stop liking / improving something that’s objectively got more future?
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 9 months ago:
Well yes sure, but remember AV1 decoding only became standard like 1-2 GPU generations ago. Encoding only this generation. iPhones only got support with the 15 Pro so it will be another generation before it trickles down to the base models. And what about the hundreds of millions of Android phones in Asia and the likes with dirt cheap SoCs. Pretty sure they don’t have dedicated AV1 decoding hardware for a long time.
So that’s a TON of hardware being made slow and inefficient if everything were to be AVIF tomorrow. Not saying AVIF decoding will be a big hurdle in the future but how long until all this hardware browsing the web has been replaced? That’s why I think somethings that’s efficient and fast on CPUs without any specialised hardware is more suited for a replacement.
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 9 months ago:
Well yes, however without acceleration JPEG XL is many times faster. Also if you only have a CPU for example.
It’s also highly parallelizable compared to AVIF which also matters a lot considering the amount of cores is growing with the likes of ARM and hybrid architecture CPU.
AVIF also fairs badly with high fidelity and lossless encoding, has 1/3 bit depth and pretty small dimension limits for something like photography oriented cameras.
I don’t think AVIF is per se a bad format. I just think if I want to replace a photo oriented format I’d like to do that with one that’s focused on „good“ photos and not just an afterthought with up- and downsides.
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 9 months ago:
I still won’t get over it and will keep fighting for JPEG XL. It would fix so many issues and greatly reduce the bandwidth need of the internet while not either having weird licensing or royalties and / or being a „what if we just took one frame from a video“ picture format. Also it can encode back to JPEG lossless for legacy uses. What more could one want?