pgeorgi

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by pgeorgi 3y ago
"I represent the holders of the patents in question" is simple enough. I wonder if it's fraud, if all you're putting out is an unverifiable claim on the net. The pool operators do that all the time.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
A drive-by patent owner can show up on anything, and if they don't want to license to you, your entire product is bust. Even if it's AptX and Qualcomm issues you a license in exchange for money. I wouldn't even bet on being a
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
You're right. I could still amend the post, so I added the 20+ years caveat. Thanks!
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
No codec (or any other technical development, really - edit: except for 20+ years old stuff, and only if you don't add any, even "obvious" improvements) is known patent free, or clear on "who owns what." Folks set u
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> Why do you assume that the benefits would outweigh said costs? That's a weird burden to set on the format. I'm not assuming that there are those benefits, but that there are people to see them. Those who _very_ vocal about br
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
if you're quoting me, do so completely: you silently dropped "threatened to do so"
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
In 2009, Gazprom proposed various alternatives to the main route, some including alternative routes through Ukraine that Ukraine rejected. In the end they shipped some ~12% of their usual through-Ukraine amount as additional shipments on ot
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Before 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and threatened to do so again in 2014. I'm not sure what other country or bloc would ever accept the national security concept of "we can cut you off from energy at any
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Nordstream 2 hasn't transported a single m^3 of natural gas for sale (there was probably some minor net flow from initial pressurization), as promised in case of russia ending the peace. That thing was a money sink: About 5bn€ of Gazpr
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> This type of stuff also might explain one of the reasons why German governments and big conglomerates seemingly have a mental block when dealing with Putin's Russia. The guy is Austrian. > The Nord Stream might be the most &quo
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Both issues seem to have known workarounds that could have been integrated to support JXL on iOS properly earlier than by waiting on Apple (who integrated JXL in Safari 17 apparently), so if anything that's a success story for "pr
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> It's so frustrating how the chromium team is ending up as a gatekeeper of the Internet by pick and choosing what gets developed or not. https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js is based on Chromium tech (Squoosh fro
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I guess you're referring to the idea that the flag made the previous implementation practically non-existent for users. And I agree! But "implement something new!" is a very different demand from "you took that away from
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Actual users, perhaps. Or maybe concern trolls paid by a patent holder who's trying to prepare the ground for a patent-based extortion scheme. Or maybe Jon Sneyers with an army of sock puppets. These "actual users" are just a
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It has a flag implication because jpeg-xl never came without being hidden behind a flag. Nothing was taken away from ordinary users at any point in time. And I suppose the Chrome folks have the telemetry to know how many people set that dam
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
"jxl without a flag" can't be re-added because that was never a thing.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
All those requests to revert the removal are funny: you want Chrome to re-add jxl behind a feature flag? Doesn't seem very useful. Also, all those Chrome offshoots (Edge, Brave, Opera, etc) could easily add and enable it to distinguish
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/80790
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Not "highly curated" but "not showing certain types of results that were specifically blacklisted" (there, I said it. Boo.) A sure hit in that regard with American services is anything remotely sexual. I'd expect su
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's a petabit in raw data, the way they're writing it. After error correction, framing and whatever else is done to the data, the capacity that users care about will be a fair bit smaller.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
That argument was tried by Lindows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com... . While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the tradema
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Capped at 0.3% for credit card transactions, 0.2% for debit card transactions See https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> I'm just hoping the EU doesn't decide we need another annoying pop-up or something. We've got enough of those already. It didn't. The website operators decided to be a pain towards their customers so they can contin
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Residential electricity has the full rates on everything. Commercial electricity is a bit cheaper because taxes and network fees are reduced, and industrial electricity is even cheaper because the reductions are even higher. In case of the
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
ETH is Switzerland. The claim was "nearby". And when you're in Germany's south (even in Munich, which is relatively far east), the major French universities are pretty accessible, too.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Check your provider's current rate, it's probably closer to 30 cents. Then call them and ask if they want you to switch at the next opportunity or if they're willing to hoist you over into the new rate. They even backdated my
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
A ship off the Canaries has a pretty high chance of finding Africa. A ship off Africa has a pretty high chance of missing the Canaries.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/102/2010284.pdf has a list of railway infrastructure elements (track switches, bridges, overhead electrical lines, rail tracks, track crossings, signal boxes, support struc
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's a matter of focus: Having some time to tinker and try out stuff that might just fail is great. If it consumes so much development time that the must-haves deteoriate, you let down your customers.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's fewer operators that are full of shit and might mess up things. Cattenom, Fessenheim, Tihange etc are already getting their share of criticism and protest, but that's all German citizens can do about foreign reactors that hap

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