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- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
By Trek’s logic, Tuvix’s identical copy lives in an alternative universe of some sort. And that’s really the only way to justify all this.
- Comment on Do other people ever have the experience of simulating yourself doing something in your head, and then doing it in real life exactly how you imagined it? 1 year ago:
That’s how I learned to tie my shoelaces as a kid. I was “taught” by a cousin iirc, who was barely older than me and couldn’t demonstrate it properly. I figured it out on my own by visualising it. It’s the bunny ears method that I use to this day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I use Session Messenger, on the Oxen network. Love it on principle even tho the implementation is a bit lacking in places.
And there’s Tor… Which is what it is.
- Comment on looking family chat/call solution 1 year ago:
Session
- Comment on Recommendations for good YT channels exploring lore and stories 1 year ago:
Check out Like Stories of Old and Joseph Anderson, although the latter haven’t posted anything in a long time…
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
My bad here, I didn’t mean AAC, but ALAC (lossless) and other Apple’s own mp4 variants. Indeed not sure how’s the support in core Android, although I’d guess ALAC should be since it’s part of mp4 specification.
I haven’t goofed around with it in a while, but some ~10 years ago when I was doing tech reviews I was looking into ALAC quite a bit and was surprised how nice it is, and apparently easy enough to implement that even lots of hardware devices supported it without even advertising it. Also 3rd party audiobook players can often deal with Apple’s audiobook DRM.
Basically, Apple did surprisingly well with audio formats while also supporting some open formats (at least in hardware), so maybe that’s also a reason why I’m not so adamant about formats being 100% free from the start, as long as they get the codec ball rolling.
But again it’s been 10 years since I was looking into this closelt so I’m very fuzzy on the details.
- Comment on Fun episodes 1 year ago:
How about outside Trek… Have you seen The Orville? At least the first season is more laugh than serious. Also Firefly.
- 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)_/¯
- Comment on Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders 1 year ago:
It’s gonna be funny if i15 becomes the bestselling iPhone due to USB-C. And shareholders will be like dude, these open standards actually sell, just go with them next time instead of all the proprietary shit
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 1 year ago:
*customers, please. I don’t consume batteries.
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 1 year ago:
If you mean non-rechargeables, all batteries of the same technology are really the same in capacity. Doesn’t matter if you buy an expensive brand or the cheapest bulk store brand, the difference is a couple percent and depends more on the age of the cell and how it was handled.
Just get cheapest store-brand alkaline if you must, but really best avoid altogether and use rechargeable.
- Comment on For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories? 1 year ago:
I have a case with a ring/stand. I also often use one-handed mode in the keyboard or in the UI.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What’s a huus sabatage and what’s posting it?
- Comment on if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it? 1 year ago:
That’s why I’m saying we need new forms of government and new kinds of people, someone willing and able to question everything. It’s possible that eventually it will be moot as AI becomes too good at manipulation, but for the time being, we at least need people to read through AI-generated emails and articles before hitting send. And with more advanced features, people with enough expertise to critique the results AI is giving.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
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.
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.
Well unless you’re uploading directly through ftp and share only the link, but again that’s not how people use pictures.
Then if the person on the other side wants to download the picture, set it as wallpaper, send it through messenger, then those programs need to support it too.
Heck now that I think about it, browser support isn’t even that critical because web sites can make media available in whatever format the browser supports. The important part is the backend, and local apps.
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
Do believe me, recently I’ve started converting those I want to keep to mp4 and I’m saving gigabytes.
Recently I’ve had some debates here with people looking for better support for gifs, or how to encode them better or whatever, and I nudge them towards webp at least. Because simply, if the web site supports only jpg, png, gif and webp uploads, then I definitely prefer webp.
it did get places. it has got places. again, it’s very new and is already well supported
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.
It’s not all that new either, heif was introduced in 2017, webp even earlier and people still bitch that they can’t use it because their oddball app doesn’t support it.
Meanwhile x265 has been a common thing for years, and every few years before there’s been a new generation of video codec, and nobody ever bats an eye when there’s a new update.
jpeg2k failed because of licencing and royalty issues. heif hasn’t spread because of licencing and royalty issues
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.
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.
jpe group have a considerable amount of sway so i’m sure they could persuade most camera manufacturers to support it
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.
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.
Maybe if Mozilla had not abandoned their FF OS, maybe that would’ve been a camera supporting jpegxl now.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
i gave those because they’re the most pertinent programmes for people dealing with creating & editing
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.
If there’s a break in the chain, people will screenshot the picture as png and bitch to you that you’re using something weird.
I’ve been trying to get people to use or support image formats for 15 years, previously as a tech journalist too, and the resistance is totally absurd. “Why change what works”, “just because it’s new doesn’t mean I have to use it” are the typical responses you get from everyone.
i really don’t think many people use gif.
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.
jpeg2k had major issues other than a lack of support - jxl has deliberately avoided those pitfalls
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.
- Comment on if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it? 1 year ago:
We already have AI running all the shit. If you’re looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.
I don’t feel like we’re better for it.
AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn’t seem like a great idea.
Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it’s not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.
Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.
I do think we’ll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.
- 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. all support it fine
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.
holding back truly open formats i’d say that doesn’t really matter
There’s been hundreds of new image formats in the last ~20 years, and none has gotten anywhere.
Even PNG needed a decade for some things to support it properly, and that one really had a brand new massive use case.
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.
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.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Problem is, it takes a huge brand like Google or Apple to push a new format for something basic like images. Do you know how many alternative image formats exist that have tried to be the next jpg/gif/png? Hundreds.
I just really wish people would stop clinging to these old formats, especially gif. Maybe when the tech giants get some traction with webp, more open alternatives can get popular as well, once people realize that jpg and gif aren’t the end of everything, and app developers get off their fat asses and start supporting other formats too. It just needs to start somewhere.
Just like ogg probably wouldn’t be a thing if commercial mp3 didn’t pave the way, or we probably wouldn’t have divx/h264… without Real Media and Quick Time. Signal wouldn’t be so popular either without the likes of Skype and Viber.
Of course I’d prefer open, free standards from the start, but you can see how fucking lazy people are (both users and developers) to support new formats.
That said, it’s not like webp is closed or anything, so I’m ok with it.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Well I hate your stupid png screenshots
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
Sounds like another problem we have thanks to DRM and telemetry.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Sigh, just when I really switched over to making memes in webp
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Maybe don’t use programs from 1996
(Or when you do, don’t complain that new shit doesn’t work.)
- Comment on Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates 1 year ago:
Death to gif
- Comment on What to play after experiencing Chrono Trigger? 1 year ago:
I find the usual large and long SNES/PS1 era JRPGs quite bloated and grindy, to be honest. A while ago I played Phantasy Star IV, which is a lot more lightweight, linear and shorter than say, FF6, and I found that quite refreshing. Maybe you can try that as a change of style.
- Comment on How can I be less competitive about social media engagement? 1 year ago:
I think that’s pretty normal, honestly. Especially for an artist where praise is the only reward, having low engagement can be depressing. It’s just what it is.
I don’t have any advice, and I don’t think advices “think of…” or “take it as…” are any useful. Maybe I can say try to do the art primarily for yourself rather than for others?
Or if you feel like it, you can try doing more niche/different stuff. People who like very specific, oddball things, tend to bs more appreciative, and there’s less “competition”, if you will. And challenging yourself to do something different and new can be good for you too, but it depends on what you wanna do.
I can only guess it’ll eventually bump out, maybe you’ll post less, or find a small hardcore audience, or maybe stop caring about it. Or not. An artist’s life is weird.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Lingo Deer is pretty much the same thing for Asian languages, iirc
- Comment on Yes I know it's not a fair comparison but it's still funny(ish) 1 year ago:
This scene made me wonder how effective recycling is in Trek. If a pocket watch can by recycled to make a meal or boots, well damn, that’s like 500% effectiveness?
- Comment on Can I keep fried eggs in fridge? 1 year ago:
You need to use lower power on the microwave.
- Comment on Can I keep fried eggs in fridge? 1 year ago:
I’m a poor person, I know a lot about how food lasts beyond expiry dates.
There’s being overly afraid of going past best-by date, and there’s being stupid by eating 2 weeks old leftovers from the fridge.
After 5 days I wouldn’t eat anything opened or already cooked from the fridge that isn’t naturally preserved (like cheese or sour cream). Things go bad in the fridge too.
I’ve not tried 2 weeks old rice, and I don’t want to. You want to keep something edible more than a few days, that’s what the freezer is for.