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by pgeorgi 2y ago
Matrix only recently started adopting an (as of now) experimental protocol that allows purging older parts of the append-only data set that constitutes a channel.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
There precedence: https://www.powermapper.com/blog/web-standards-implementatio... says draft spec, then candidate recommendation (unstable), then 2 independent implementations, then recommendation (== spec in w3c terms
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
correction: 25% of the yearly profit
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
> and good luck getting an appointment in Berlin It's our failed state, so what do you expect?
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
Some of its design decisions are showing its age. I'm (low-prio) trying to figure out how to hoist it into the present. https://aegis.ifkee.de at least has a copy that builds on contemporary Linux.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
The failure has yet to propagate to Germany, given how slow internet is here.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
There are a bunch of ideas, like giving different unicode codepoints groups different background colors. That way, а and a show up differently colored. It's more a UX problem than a technical one, so simple "why not X?" techn
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
yes, ü requires punycode encoding. The xn-- prefix indicates that. And because there are way too many ways to confuse people with similar looking characters, the domains can be typed in and converted appropriately, but some webbrowsers ensu
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade organization. As such it's normal to look like an industry body of large Linux (and related software) using companies - and in the current tech ecosystem, those are predominantly clo
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
The format is fine, except for https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
She still doesn't say that the photo is a big deal. "presumably paid for her time" is an interesting insinuation, as it disenfranchises her of her voice just because somebody put a camera in front of her. Do you think she was
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
There have been issues with git's master->main transition as well, once automated systems came into play that expected to find a master branch. This is also my main complaint about that particular episode: Too much "somebody ne
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
She's a lady who asked that this image is taken out of circulation.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
GPL with CLA still allows such stunts.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
If everybody went for vinyl, they'd bring the loudness war over as far as it's possible (the medium is more limited). Right now, sound engineers, not incompetent at all, optimize CDs for the CD audience (and for the most part, the
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
Three posts above the goal post stood at "inaccurate" and "overly-simplistic," now we're at irrelevant. Okay.
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by pgeorgi 2y ago
> Dividing the world into "Pagan countries" and "Christian countries" is both inaccurate That's not what the post said. Just that, before Islam was even a thing, those countries that Jews lived in which these day
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
How about the "Bankers awarding Bankers award, inspired by Nobel"?
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Most consent banners are produced by a relatively small set of providers. As such, https://consentomatic.au.dk/ does a decent job of submitting your preferences and pushing them out of sight.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The EU doesn't tend to require specific implementations - the banners aren't a required implementation, either. It's just what the advertisers thought works best to get their desired outcome. There was the DNT header. Few sit
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Haven't you heard about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(W... , America's finest place of avantgardist music and sound experimentation? (/s)
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The idea of federating wikis is pretty old: https://www.dokuwiki.org/interwiki
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
A German charity whose operations I know publishes their bank account information pretty much everywhere: on their website, on sides of their car. It was a bit of a nuisance at times to roll back a few fraudulent transactions but apart from
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Panoramafreiheit also covers picture containing people as long as they aren't the focus or reason of the image, but things get more complicated there (and individual cases could override things). The blurring of people, name plates, li
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It never was a privacy battle. Germany has the "Panoramafreiheit" (freedom of panorama) defined in https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__59.html , and that allows to do just what Street View does. Other se
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Europe sometimes opts for not providing seriously harmful products - like the pharmaceuticals used for executions in the US. But I think that's pressure group driven, and so might see a change in handling chlorpyrifos eventually.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
People like to buy cheap stuff. And if that fails, there's always Ceuta and Melilla.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Which is my point: "JPEG XL" is "too little too late" after JPEG tried to monetize its brand with various other, pretty much failed initiatives: - JPEG 2000 is popular in the medical imaging space but everywhere else shu
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The point isn't to sell a settlement. It's to publish "oh, we're totally serious that there are patents in our control. We won't tell you which ones, we don't tell you what we want from you. If you're inte
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
eXtremely Late to the party: JPEG was so preoccupied with trying to generate revenue streams that they were totally blindsided by WebP/AVIF which made "generate revenue streams" an explicit non-goal.

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