Eldritch

No you’re fine. I just wanted to be clear that until it’s default it may as well not be there. Outside of my own personal pet projects. No one else would see them that visited unless it was enabled by default generally and therefore not very useful still. I don’t know how much longer it will take them to enable it by default. I hope not much longer. I generally like jxl.

Yes, just not enabled by default.

Eventually. They’ve been dancing around it for a long time. Google tried to kill it.

Oh yes with respect to Avif you are correct. I was more referring to multimedia messages in general. But you are correct about Avif. That format in particular is not well supported a lot of places. I know Linux is probably one of the few areas it sees much. Windows is a much different story and I’m sure Apple desktops as well.

Sadly no. Most browsers don’t render static JXL by default yet. Let alone animated. I wish they would. Though for most things regular video transport streams will usually be as good or better. Honestly at this point animated image formats really are kind of a niche and not necessarily super useful at this point. Apng for instance when it was created nearly 20 years ago made some sense. Today now that it’s finally getting supported it doesn’t make as much sense.

I do regularly. However apple users are largely the bane of this. Apple’s support for things can be very slow and spotty. As long as you keep it extremely old and basic. Say h264 they’ll be able to see. A lot of apple mobile devices could support h265 but apple doesn’t. My last couple of mobile devices have supported it for nearly a decade. But apple enabling it on their mobile hardware hasn’t been anywhere near that long. Apple will hopefully have AV1 support common by the time AV3 is released and AV2 widely supported by the 2030s.

Well that and society as a whole needs to find ways to give parents time and said tools to actually do that. But you certainly are not wrong.

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Parts of Blizzard have unionized as well. Though I did see yesterday that nearly the entire iD Tech development team was let go. Which is a fuck ton larger thing than many people would assume at first.

Think of just about any major 3D engine, that isn’t automatically unreal or Unity. It likely has ties directly back to iD tech. Call of duty, half life and the entire source engine and so so many more. Though it’s branched a lot less since Bethesda took them over and now Microsoft. But if the team is gone and the engine is officially dead this is a massive thing.

No one was spared. Blizzard has been slashed as well. These big Mega companies were never going to be good stewards. No one should have ever assumed they would be. It was always a mistake to sell to them.

Hopefully something good can come up this. Such as the developers Etc unionizing widely. It’s a lesson that we unlearned that we desperately need to learn again. And hopefully many of these laid off can keep cut and form new groups of their own. Which they can control for their own benefit. And keep it that way. So what if these big Mega corporations have all this ip. It sucks that it will decay and die. But the artists and creatives we’re always the heart and soul of it. And we’ll be capable of making more. Even under a different name.

Yeah it’s rather jarring for those coming from discord. For us old goats it’s a bit more palatable, kind of like IRC+++. But we aren’t the median user.

Exactly. It’s all a farce of a pretext on its face. But far too many people believe the state not only can be neutral but benevolent. Something which has never been born out in the long term. And are looking for the state to save them from a system built to serve those that would be the state. It’s the height of fantasy.

Dems threw it away long before he was picked. The opponent they chose to run against him wouldn’t have gotten it either.

The parents who wouldn’t be responsible. Aren’t going to be responsible just because there’s laws. They never have been. And realistically it’s just going to punish otherwise decent ones who due to circumstances beyond their knowledge failed.

Make considerations for child neglect and endangerment charges considering such things when it’s appropriate. That’s workable/palatable. But the state policing basic social interaction is dystopian as fuck and screaming for abuse. No thanks. The state isn’t worthy of that sort of trust in the first place. Not one of them. Leave it to the families and communities, focus on helping them to succeed. It’s cheaper and more effective.

I support guidance and recommendation of age groups and time limits etc for guardians to consult. Just as having a drinking age never stopped those under it from drinking. Realistically this will be far less effective but more intrusive and abusive.

Give the guardians the tools, time, and guidance to do their jobs. There’s definitely no legitimate use for laws and legislation restricting it though. The countries that have already passed the laws are already proving it doesn’t work. Why anyone else thinks it will be different or that they can do better is beyond me. Unless of course they don’t think that and it’s never been about that.

Communism is stateless. It requires an absence of state. Not just non-totalitarian. Previous attempts failed for the same reasons most states fail. They’re states.

They don’t provide much in terms of bandwidth for you to access your own media. Just a few bytes through their web services. Their bandwidth usage comes from their desire to be their own streaming service. They provide access to a whole bunch of other media you may have no interest in.