m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Hyolobrika
They couldn't get that something that would incentivise them to return back to their normal life — so something relatively minor that made you start drinking could ruin your life forever.

At the same time those who were exhibiting personal initiative were hated upon in their work collectives — because you doing something better than the others didn't mean that you would get rewarded, in most cases it meant that next time everyone HAD to perform better.

@Hyolobrika
Of course no one should be struggling with basic necessities!
But outright antisocial behaviour shouldn't be sustainable either, some people have to hit rock bottom to muster the motivation to get their shit together. This was quite common in USSR — people were becoming alcoholics, and you were of course frowned upon — but you don't really care about such things, you ARE anti-social. But society still somehow kept you afloat — people were doing their work, at times completely drunk.

@neural_meduza
Ну в пещерах, положим, уже не жили, но вот в деревянных бараках — очень даже. К моему ужасу, некоторые до сих пор живут, при чём — даже в Подмосковье 😩

@newt
All this stuff feels quirky, right?
But have you ever tried using WAsm component as audio plug-in? 🤪
https://github.com/wasm-audio/wasm-audio-examples

@ruisan
It's bad for my skin… and my mental health 😅
On a serious note, I've already answered here: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/112775932785553569
And here is an even more elaborate answer in case you're interested (cc @bohwaz ): https://breloma.m0xee.net/objects/988ae23c-f5d4-4408-9aae-bb769e16099b

In short — I think that WebP (and few other technologies) serve no other purpose than maintaining Google's grip on modern Web.

@cuchaz

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
These mailer programs got pretty advanced actually, there was T-Mail, later there was The Brake, and there was another one that I can't recall the name of — it even had support for translations, which wasn't common for software of that time at all. And it had "hacker" language pack with humorous messages like "Boring… no one's calling us" — reading the logs was quite entertaining 🤣

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
Yeah, I think at some point someone realised that and implemented it in the software that was interacting with modem, doing calls and file transfers: this node we're calling has several addresses in different networks so we can exchange mail for those too — in one go. This helped reduce the redundant calls.

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
Funnily, they were claiming that using modems led to greater wear and tear for telephone lines and equipment at their hubs — all the usual bullshit 😂
I wasn't even realising at the time how great it all was! Internet allowed for greater anonymity — which I was more comfortable with, I was always paranoid, but it still wasn't as synthetic as we have it nowadays 😩

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
It was a great way to discover some new music, borrow CDs/vinyls.
Smaller networks had regular offline meetups — usually just getting together to talk and have a couple of beers, some had more elaborate events.
This is how I took part in my first street protest BTW — national telephony operator wanted to introduce time-based plans (it was flat monthly rate before that), this was going to make things expensive and disrupt the communities — so of course no one liked it.

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
I was never a prominent part of greater Fido — mostly read-only, I don't think I ever posted much. We had such a term as FTN: Fido Technology Network — smaller networks built on the same stack. There were plenty of these, everyone participated in 3-4 I think 😁
These were smaller communities, usually built around some hobbies, there was even one — I kid you not, for Depeche Mode fans. There people were also into Industrial music — nice crowd actually!

@Tendar
Not only airplanes: infrastructure in general, when people were left without heating in winter, it was part of that too. The money that was supposed to be spent on maintenance was getting outright stolen, so everything is worn. And now there would be no money to spend on these things as everything is funnelled into war. Accidents are bound to happen more and more often.

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
I did BBS, I did Fido, early Web, including DOS browsers, such as Arachne, I even had the rare opportunity to use UUCP, (ex-) Soviet countries had this Relcom thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relcom
So when I was reading about it in the books later, it didn't feel like something that only exists in the books, which I think is great.

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
I had the opportunity to use a 2400 baud modem. A friend gave it to me when my faster Sportster got fried, soon after I got myself a Sportster patched to Courier, that thing was amazing!
Later I was also given the iconic 56k external Courier, but my friend took it back, I've never really owned one.
And then ADLS was starting to become common: easily reflashable D-Link thingies, that was actually fun too!

@bohwaz
Some think that I go way over the top, but I want to have as little Google in my life as possible. I do not consider it an open format: it only has one widely used implementation — the one developed and wholly controlled by Google.
I don't think we should depend on Google for codecs too, especially ones providing minimal compression benefits.
Now that JPEG XL and AV1 exist — better both compression-wise and in terms of governance, I see no point in adopting either WebP or VP9.

@cuchaz

@SteveBellovin
@kevinrothrock
Exactly my thoughts — the hardware might be still more than enough for most tasks, but support for is unlikely to last longer than 3 more years.
And messing with Linux drivers built using reverse-engineering… is just not for everyone 🤷

@slashdot
The headline is kinda clickbait — the interview is rather vague on what exactly those mistakes were and just states that hardware and software development are different in nature and in the end he even claims that RISC-V is still good, it's just not where ARM and x86 are yet 🤷

@moonchild Self-sufficient? 🤔

@cuchaz
Okay, it looks like I'm staying on FF 118.2.0 on my Android and Windows devices — the last release to have a preference to disable WebP support, and on 124 on my Linux boxes — on which I could patch the option to disable WebP back in and build it myself, building FF for Android and Windows seems like going into too much trouble.
After 124 my userChrome.css hacks started breaking and I stopped updating — now I see that it's not even worth it. Thanks for bringing this to attention!