Lichtblitz

@Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t shoot the messenger. The regulations are pretty draconic. I have to ensure the training for that every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it’s feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn’t matter, the outcome is still worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can not over express how happy I am with having setup my NAS from scratch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what containers are for. Fucking up the container won’t fuck up the host. That was the best decision in self hosting I’ve done. Even that one virtual machine feels weird and uncomfortably legacy now but it needs to interact with hardware in a certain way that just won’t fully work with docker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating. That’s much more than I expected from the theory. Thanks for taking the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The image doesn’t look like a photo. The meme is about porn. Digital images can contain large areas of repeating patterns (uniform color areas for example) that can be compressed losslessly pretty well. Even slight noise from an image sensor can block that kind of compression pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. png can be lossy but that’s uncommon in the wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bmp should not compress more than other media files. jpeg, png, etc. can compress so much because they are lossy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s visible in the PDF. I have used that extension to mark draft versions of documents. This makes it very obvious and saves you from accidentally handing in a draft. At least back when things were printed out much more often. With PDFs I find that the file name is sufficient.