JXL is the rightful heir to the throne and none of these treasonous corporate usurpers in the court can convince me otherwise. I’ll never bow to the Webp or Avif factions. While it looks bleak, I pray the crown finds its way to the head of the true king. Long live the Jpeg bloodline!

But really, webp was pushed because it supports DRM and avif is an implementation detail turned feature afterthought just because webp adoption sucked as much as the format does. I love AV1 for video but avif isn’t fit for purpose and webp is garbo. I really wish they didn’t take jpegxl out behind the shed for no good reason… It has some awesome engineering.

You say that but uh, have you looked around recently? I mean, I don’t think it’ll pass either… But way dumber shit has happened in the last 9 months

Me typing “big titty anime girl” into a NSA SCIF

In such bleak times, I’m glad we have the best real fake news outlet operating at maximum journalistic potency to be our guiding beacon

Except it has three coins and a mushroom

Lol I just got banned from deprogram for saying the Xi pooh meme wasn’t inherently racist and that people used as a form of mockery of an authoritarian leader… Some idiot actually tried to argue “do you call all heads of state authoritarians or just communists?” Like bro, the only reason I don’t call myself a communist is because I think it doesn’t go far enough…

But they don’t actually care about communism as a project or theory or even the people it claims to empower; they just want the boot to be on the other foot.

So when’s the movie

It sure fucking feels that way sometimes. I had an argument with one of my parents the other day over the fact that she was completely incapable of understanding any distinction between a war and a genocide. “It’s war; they’re the enemy. You kill the enemy in war” - in direct response to me asking if she was okay with elementary schools being bombed.

Bizarre, surreal, and severely dejecting.

Perhaps being sane in an insane world is a type of insanity all it’s own.

Honestly, I’m a little surprised.

97% chance of whoring, 2% chance it’s platonic and they’re just really lonely and socially inept, 1% chance you get a ride in the TARDIS

Aw, you can’t install a spyware rootkit on my computer? Darn… I guess I’ll just have to get used to playing games that aren’t shit.

M here but… It’s like not being a foot guy and consuming something with a lot of that fan service. You can still appreciate aspects of it but not really get the whole thing cuz it’s not for you. Same goes for every other image tag. Yaoi is just Yuri for people who like boys.

With that said, go watch love stage. Plenty to appreciate even for those not yaoi obsessed

Pfft come on. I watched ISIS beheading videos when I was a kid and I turned out just f-… Hm.

I find it useful to crack jokes like that when in rough places; the half-kidding kind, even just to myself. It depends because everyone’s different. Never a bad idea to take a moment and question it occasionally though…

Booo

Computer silicon and transformer models

Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it’s pretty fucking wild.

AFAIK, nope. There are several personal projects which modify Signal to work on private infrastructure rather than use signal’s centralized service, but nothing intended for public consumption or at least not that I’ve heard of. Maybe search it.

Signal is good enough and has been pushing for more mainstream appeal and polish (e.g. gif search) Its Achilles heel and main drawbacks stem from it’s centralization: needing a phone number and routing thru Signal’s infra. But that can also benefits them in some ways. Most devs who would be tempted to change that would rather spend their time elsewhere: tox, matrix, i2p, tor, xmpp and irc shenanigans, etc. Signal is just hydrated, in its lane, unbothered; chugging along as its LLC dictates. No alarms, no fires, no compelling reason to do a hard fork.

Edit: it completely slipped my mind that Molly exists. So yeah there’s that. But they still use signal’s infra.

AGPL iirc. it can be forked and run independently or modified into a decentralized federation model. So doesn’t really matter if they cave.

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