m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@rl_dane @s1r83r
It's not a Google project, it's JPEG — Joint Photographic Experts Group, the same group that's behind original JPEG and JPEG2000, it's a further development of the latter. AFAIK Google only contributed one of the algorithms used — they aren't the sole developer, nor they have complete control over it, like they have over WebP.

@ozzelot @prahou
The dinner became supper, but a success nonetheless! 🤤
Sorry for non-vegan content, in case you're one — I assure you, it was already dead when I found it… in the fridge 😏

But what's best — I now have a week worth of it: huge bowl of bulgur and over 3 litres of soup. Now I can just reheat it — all the more time to waste on computerneering!

@aliceif @feditips @ApostateEnglishman
Also not a native speaker, I find character limit helpful in keeping my thoughts consistent — it makes me avoid more spacious descriptions and stay on point. I have my own instance that I sometimes use for longer-form replies and I know from practice that what was five 500 character posts won't become one 2500 character one if I lift the limit, it becomes three 5000 character ones 😂

@ozzelot
I used to be into portable computing thingies, but since phones became more performant than workstations of the not-so-distant past, it kinda lost its flair for me — I either take a smol laptop with me which occupies less space in the backpack than a book would or just the phone: it's enough for communication, videos, music — not a fan of reading books from the screen, but it's also a possibility, and it's nice to take a break from other computing things once in a while 🤷

@ozzelot
Not that I know of — neither they have the budget to develop their own fork of Microsoft Wendy's emulator, but you know what…
(three letter) Galaxy Deck — that would actually sound quite cool 🤩
Besides, not sure it's still true, but a significant portion of their catalogue would run nicely even on my T43, I even remember playing original C&C and Planescape Torment during that summer… in WINE! I know these games aren't exactly new themselves, but man — this laptop is insane! 😂

@ozzelot
> -game management (but our DRM is the good DRM!) electron
There is an alternative!
…DRM-less game management… electron 🥺

@gemlog @trebach
Yes, they rely on that quite often to make it emotionally coloured: our noble king vs their evil tyrant — things like that.
There is a plethora of these images, I think it demonstrates the approach quite well.

@trebach @gemlog
Yeah, it's the original definition, but it's often used that way… including by Russian propaganda — I kid you not, they've been using «Киевская хунта» (literally "Kiev junta") nearly universally in the aftermath of 2014, which was particularly inconsistent as neither Poroshenko, nor Zelensky had to do with military and no one related to the army was even remotely in power at the time 😂

Original Evangelion: OMG, a cult classic! 😍
Guilty Crown: Pf-f-ft! It's so overrated! 😤

I mean… WHY?!
For emotional response they both exploit the perpetually depressed protagonist who strives for something humane, but gets manipulated by everyone around him, but as unoriginal as it is — sometimes to the point of obvious visual references, it's still an entertaining show. GC at least doesn't fall apart entirely towards the end, and remains consistent both in terms of writing and animation 🤷

@prahou @ozzelot
That's a great plan, sticking to it!
And not that I'm surprised, but Firefox downgrade worked! 🤩

@prahou @ozzelot
Yep, I've been eyeing it for years now, but my (mostly fruitless) attempts to tone down on computer-related autism get in the way.
Should I turn T43 on and test newly built Firefox or should I consider starting cooking the dinner instead now that I have all the ingredients?
Or! Maybe I should shut down my Plenomer instance (so slow on G4, barely usable anyway) and switch to snac2 finally? 🫠

@prahou @ozzelot
It very well could be, on Linux it's rock solid though. I was actually thinking of switching to some sort of BSD on this machine… Yeah, the Fish most probably, FreeBSD is about to drop support for x86 anyway.
I'm a bit scared that it might turn into another big procrastination quest — so… no, let's leave it be!
(I'll restrain myself to just building FF for it 😅)

@prahou @ozzelot
Not to brag, but I've spent the whole COVID summer in the country having only this machine on my hands. I've been using it in multi-display setup even… OMG, why, it only has two gigs 🤦
And… (drum roll) I had tried Skype calls on it a couple of times — without video of course, T43 if so cool that it doesn't have a web cam, but audio calls worked!

@prahou @ozzelot
Yeah! Mozilla did not abandon marginal architectures like Google did. I've even built Firefox for my PowerMac G5 — it's buggy and it's slower than snails on their lazy day, but it runs!
On i686 Firefox is still in excellent shape — at least on my machines it's stable. I'm paranoid and have dozen of extensions which might contribute to bad performance, but with a couple of tabs open it's quite usable even.

@prahou @ozzelot
It's cool and all, but I could not build it for this x86 machine. Surprisingly, for 32-bit PowerPC and ARM machines I've built it with minor fixes 🤔 It's a very odd error, but I'm not skilled enough with Nim to fix it myself.
It has a weird public domain license that for some might be off-putting, if you aren't picky — check it out, it's really cool, it supports the Web AND Gemini, albeit without client certificates — so for Gemini it's "read only" at the moment, still not bad!

@prahou @ozzelot
Otherwise I mostly use TUI software there: gomuks for Matrix chats, tut for Fedi, mutt for email, Amfora for Gemini and vim for everything else, the Web… I'm of a w3m man myself — it can display images in patched st with sixel support, which is nice.
There is this new chawan browser: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
It also supports images and even has support for CSS and JS which you do not normally see in a TUI browser.

@prahou @ozzelot
I use that ThinkPad in a different room with no other computers, helps me concentrate. And sometimes I have to resort to using Firefox — better than going to a different room, turning another computer on. It's like casual "old computer challenge" for me, this old machine with only 2 gigs of RAM can only handle a few tabs in Firefox, so it's not even running most of the time, but I have it there just in case 😉

@ozzelot @prahou
Sadly, this does NOT help the procrastination problem 😩
Right now I'm cross-compiling old Firefox ESR for my ThinkPad T43 — because that is what I now use on my other machines. Why am I doing this? I don't know — I barely ever use the web browser on that machine.
I mean it's probably better than scrolling through funny cat images — fixing compilation issues is like solving puzzles, right? 🤓
But that is now what I SHOULD BE doing 😅