@gemlog @lunarised
That's a good song, I think it's off their best album — Comfort Eagle. At least one of the best, I don't have favourites, but this one — I think I even have it on CD somewhere, that's why I'm more familiar with songs from it 😅
@splitshockvirus
I'll start calling you Bernie Sanders from now on 😜
🚨 BOOST CHALLENGE! 🚨Ok #Fediverse and #Mastodon. If I tell my Canadian Member of Parliament, Gord Johns, that he will get 2000 followers within one week of creating a Mastodon account, will you make that happen?
I want him to be able to say when he stands in the House and presents the #e4769 petition for an official Fediverse server that he himself is the first Canadian MP to be on the Fediverse!
Boost for yes! I am going to show him this post! I'm counting on you, literally! 🔥 🙏 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 🙏
@millihertz
I use apulse with Firefox. It adds a little lag, but works much better, when it uses ALSA natively, it doesn't support mic input, with apulse it works flawlessly.
@nyanide
Okay, I've figured out what larping is, now wtf is sperging? 🤔
@haverholm
> real labyrinth maker would have made it so you have to trace every letter in order to solve it
Sounds like time investment that is unlikely to pay off 😏
It's looks cool as it is!
@lucy
Rust crates still have names like that: parking_lot (I don't even know what the damn thing does 😅)
@mirabilos
> only the originals are federated
True. I was thinking about media proxy. Not sure GtS has this feature, but Masto, Pleroma and snac2 do this (optionally): the instance caches the original media from federated posts locally, so instance users don't have to download it from remote instances — good for privacy and reduces the overall load on the network.
Converting the media cached this way to the desired format on the fly might make sense too!
@rl_dane
Updated graphic #alfredhitchcockanything ... this will appear, once finalized in the printed zine Shut Yer Pie Hole, which you can get a copy of (write to me at Shut Yer Pie Hole, PO Box 2494, Bloomington, IN 47402)
@rl_dane @mirabilos
If those guys at Google are right and everyone indeed wants WebP today — shouldn't be such a big problem.
I intend to try this on my snac2 instance, see if I can come up with a working solution. It might be non-trivial with other Fedi server software, but snac2 uses paths with clear extensions — shouldn't be too hard.
@rl_dane @mirabilos
Like I said, this wouldn't be a problem is servers honoured the "Accept" header, I think it should be trivial to make a filter in nginx in front of actual Fedi server software for paths ending in the likes of ".webp" and if the client requests specific types, not just "image/*" — pass it to a tiny proxy, which would convert it on-the-fly to desired format. Coupled with caching, it shouldn't be a great hit on performance.
@rl_dane
As much as I would like to see AVIF and JPEG XL (but not WebP) succeed, support for them nowadays is indeed still quite limited.
Besides, retro does not necessary mean very old hardware, people often use exotic devices with software those came with for the sake of aesthetics. E.g. my ThinkPad T43 from 2005 is capable of decoding JPEG XL, but not my Lumia 950 from 2015🤷
@mirabilos
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Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.