black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes. It loads faster, it has integrated quality levels that increase while loading (so a web hoster doesn't need to have 5 different copies of the same image at different qualities), it has better compression and it also supports more features. It can also be lossless. Most importantly, jpeg can be converted to jpeg xl losslessly, and it will have the benefits of jpeg xl.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't have our current time zone because of that. We have it because a fascist dictator wanted to be on the same time zone as Hitler.

And the logical timezone is of course GMT, the one closer to Spanish solar time. It's been proven that it's not healthy to be in a timezone that doesn't correspond to your solar time, unless you adapt all the schedules to follow the sun.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.

Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.

(Of course, I'd never consider a Microsoft "security co processor" secure, nor an apple or google one).

[edit] I also do not see your point of apple being better (or more virtuous) than google or microsoft for designing their own hardware, for 2 different reasons:

  • Currently Microsoft and Google have immense control over the software of PCs and phones. Apple wants to have full control of both the software and the hardware, and making their own hardware is a big step towards that goal. It means they're restricting you (the user) from using the hardware you bought for your own purpose.

  • Making custom hardware does not make a company more or less virtuous. Manufacturing/designing capabilities are just spending money in the respective industry. As I mentioned before, both Google and Microsoft have designed their own chips, and they also have designed chips for their servers. I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don't have human traits, they're not virtuous, they're just there to take your money and go.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Apple gets money from both their monopoly on user data and their high prices. That's why it's above Microsoft and Google in market cap, even though it doesn't have nearly as much infrastructure and reach.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean like 89% of the shit on Reddit is some OF model advertising.

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

Mv2 is not a website API, it's a browser API, only used by extensions. It tells the browser how the extension wants to deal with the sites. No matter what methods and APIs and standards the sites use, Mv2 would still be able to do what it does now.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Firefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Notes worth making:

  • Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers

  • Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite

  • Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The prohibition is not for your health, it's because everyone else also has to breathe your smoke.

Smoke in private, not in public places, and especially not in public places where children play.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 19 points 5 months ago

Spain used to have a budget of around 1% of their GDP for the military. It was so much that they actually could not spend it. Now that the budget has tripled almost overnight, they are having an internal crisis because there is no way they can use up all that money, even if they overbought 200% of supplies and overpaid for them.

Increasing military budget is useless, because the service will not improve with it, just the useless spending and inefficiency. And because of the rushed spending, I'm sure the move will increase corruption.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

It really isn't that slow, last time I tried to homebrew a working DNS tunnel it maxed my 100mbps card. I never needed the extra speed so I didn't try to see how fast it could be on a 1gbps card

 
 
 
 
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