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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Like … Have you ever read a word with w in it?

    I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.

    Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.

    Thanks for making me laugh!

    Edit: in German it is pronounced “we”, with the e like in ketchup.







  • They say the story isn’t true, but the source they cite in the very next sentence says:

    Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen. Es zeigt, wie vielseitig digitale Angriffe geworden sind.

    (This example, which sounds like a Hollywood plot, really happened. It shows how multidimensional (my mind blanks on a better translation right now) EDIT: diverse cyber attacks have become)

    Edit: I hate microblogging sites. Apparently the thread continues on and the company who made the statement in the cited article has backtracked and admitted that this was a hypothetical. It did not happen.



  • Converting from jpeg to jxl comes some serious space savings and can be done losslessly.

    The original image formats for the web, jpeg, gif, png, all have major benefits compared to each other. That’s why they were successful.

    We change video formats without any major benefits of one over the other. I think it’s totally reasonable to do the same with image formats. Especially the data can be losslessly compressed even more.

    I wouldn’t call speed a major factor for image processing anyway. It’s hugely important for movies, where AVIF is coming from, but much less so when there is no hard 30x2160x3840 pixels/s benchmark you need to reach.







  • I can see his reasoning. In fact, I apply the same to cyclist roads here in Germany. My city does not have a (guessing here) 3km long cycle road. We have 5 short ones and cyclists lose their priority whenever a road crosses.

    But even with his argument I don’t think he would be allowed to drive on the first section of the bus lane. After all he did not use that part to make a turn, he used that part to continue straight onto the other section of bus lane.