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by F3nd0 3y ago
Seems entirely reasonable, considering that <img> is for images, whereas mp4 is for videos, no?
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by F3nd0 3y ago
But that only works when the JXL has been losslessly converted from a JPEG in the first place, right? So this wouldn’t work for all JXL in practice. (Unless I’ve missed something and this is not the case.)
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by F3nd0 3y ago
This particular feature might not, but if said screenshots are often compressed with JPEG XL, they will be spared the generation loss that becomes blatantly visible in some other formats: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watc
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Hence why AVIF might come in handy after all!
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by F3nd0 3y ago
The Mana World seems to be in a somewhat fractured state at the moment; for what it’s worth, it has a pretty interesting history. Several years back, the game still used to have a single server (The Mana World) and a single client (ManaPlus
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by F3nd0 3y ago
I get that Discord is more practical, but it is at the cost of freedom, trustworthiness and privacy. Communication platforms are the last place you should compromise on this, since your choice is directly going to affect the choices of many
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Frontpage of Mastodon? Just what exactly are you referring to? :o
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by F3nd0 3y ago
A licence which grants you rights to the software, but allows you to strip them away in derivative works. This is in contrast to (for example) copyleft, which requires you to share with your users the same code and rights that you got to us
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by F3nd0 3y ago
I want to feel excited for Ladybird, but it's an incredible shame that such a promising and potentially very important project has settled on a pushover licence and Discord for their communication platform. The latter especially is an
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by F3nd0 3y ago
AVIF hasn’t been around much longer than JXL, has it? Only a year or so. Since both of them are image formats, I assume that by ‘video’ you refer to animated images, in which case yes, AVIF (being based on an actual video codec) seems to pe
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Looks like JPEG XL didn’t make it in the end. Kind of baffling, considering it’s the first image format bringing solid improvements across the board in a very long time. I was hoping Interop might finally be what forces Google to stop effec
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by F3nd0 3y ago
> You were arguing the project should not be MIT but GPL3 though. I was arguing generally against permissive licences and in favour of copyleft, without pointing out a specific one, but as a matter of fact I do think that GPLv3 would be
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Me arguing for copyleft does not prevent users from choosing to use alternative software, either. It does encourage them, though (which I can only assume is your point). I also didn’t write that every ‘FOSS’ project should use GPLv3. The fr
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Copyleft in no way prevents users from choosing to use alternative software. It merely prevents them from stripping away the associated freedoms for other users.
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by F3nd0 3y ago
> What, exactly, is supposed to be so bad about that? The eventual users of the hypothetical commercial OS lose their freedom. (Or don't get their freedom, depending on your point of view.) Permissive licences grant users freedom, b
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Yes, you are entirely correct. Making a language that’s fully ‘culturally neutral’ is likely impossible, but even so, Esperanto could have done much better in this regard (and as far as I know, some other constructed languages do much bet
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by F3nd0 3y ago
In general? No, of course not; I feel that would be an absurd claim to make. But as an international language? I think having everyone learn something that is comparatively easy to learn is certainly more fair than having most people learn
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by F3nd0 3y ago
Compare English with Esperanto, which, in spite of being much easier to learn than English, still hasn't become anywhere near as widespread (at least in terms of number of speakers). Ironically the one biggest thing which presents an
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by F3nd0 3y ago
I don't think they shouldn’t on principle, but they might not need to have them. For example, if there's a limited number of people who are going to work with the tools, and you know that none of them need such features, it could
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by F3nd0 3y ago
That’s where the balloon comes in!
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by F3nd0 3y ago
The pyramid I know? For what it's worth, the pyramid shown on the cover of the book you mention is quite different from the one I know best. The one I use goes like this, from base to tip: 1. fruits, vegetables, lentils, wholegrain
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by F3nd0 3y ago
I still use a food pyramid as a reference to date! Is there any particular food pyramid you’re thinking of? The idea in itself seems very reasonable to me.
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by F3nd0 3y ago
All the more reason to avoid calling any one licence ‘the MIT licence’, in my opinion. While I appreciate that SPDX provides a comprehensive list unambiguous identifiers, I don’t really see why they would be best suited to determine which o
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by F3nd0 3y ago
There doesn't seem to be a single canonical MIT licence, but rather several co-existing variants of it. The part you quote is a standard part of the X11 variant [1], while the Expat variant does not include it. [1] https://w
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by F3nd0 3y ago
It appears to be a custom licence, which, as stated on the page, is inspired by the MIT/X11 licence. The only difference from MIT/X11 appears to be the the part before the warranty disclaimer, which has been shortened. SPDX has a
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by F3nd0 3y ago
I understand that Dvorak hasn’t been great for you, but I don’t think it’s fair to attribute all of its success and merits to touch typing. The distribution of keys is obviously more optimal than than of QWERTY, and even if your analysis ho
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by F3nd0 3y ago
For technical documentation? Sure, I see how the alternatives make more sense. But for more general use, like formatting shorter posts on forums and social media? Markdown seems quite adequate there, and dealing with any of the listed recom
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by F3nd0 4y ago
I care more about the choice of licence… and sadly enough, they went with a pushover/permissive one. This seems like the kind of project where copyleft is by far the better choice.
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by F3nd0 4y ago
So your recipe for doing hard things is doing hard things?
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by F3nd0 4y ago
Because numbers written in the given number system don’t necessarily match up with the words in the given language. Take the number 475, for example. In English that reads as ‘four hundred seventy five’. When you look at the number, the sym

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