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> Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", …

> I guess I wasn't aware that Wine pivoted from trying to be a general purpose, drop-in replacement for Windows to being a platform for games that only supports a subset of Windows…

> I AM saying "people don't want ride trains that allow 5% of the riders to smoke cigarettes on enclosed train platforms and in enclosed train cars." Just don't allow that then? > …

> That's not the reason, but the excuse. The reason firefox doesn't have jxl is that it is funded by Google, and someone at Google decided that it has to die. So what, you think th…

what exactly do you mean by "trivially and stably mapped to a unique subnet"?

WUFFS only works for very simple codecs. Basically useless for anything complex enough that memory bugs would be common.

Some years ago, the Google Photos team asked the Chrome team to support JXL, so that they could use it for Photos. The request was ignored, of course.

> If they successfully contribute an implementation that satisfies these properties and meets our normal production requirements, we would ship it. That's what they said a year ago…

long term support is actually being provided by google... just a different team in a different country :D most jxl devs are at google research in zurich, and already pledged to han…

Since the person you replied to mentioned MozJPEG, I have to assume they meant that WebP's lossy capabilities were a marginal improvement.

The JXL spec already has gainmaps... Also, just because there's a spec for using gainmaps with JPEG doesn't mean that it works well. With only 8 bits of precision, it really sucks …

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Mozilla said over a year ago that they would support JXL as soon as there's a fast memory safe decoder that will be supported. Google …

With incredibly bad compression ratios.

> Both Qualcomm and Mediatek have mobile SoC which are more performant than the M2 and the X2 Elite is in the ballpark of Apple top SoC. At what power consumption? And is that both…

In my experience, hardware companies all believe that software is trivial nonsense they don't need to spend any effort on. Consequently, the software that drives their hardware rea…

> Often the update are just windows only.. That's a choice the vendor makes, and Tuxedo Computers is the vendor in this case. Since they control the product they're making, they sh…

Not particularly difficult. The main Typst crate should have you covered. I've seen quite a lot of projects that do it already.

Google is not a monolith. The Chrome team doesn't want it in Chrome, but many other parts of Google likes it.

> We barely even have movement to webp &avif If you look at CDNs, WebP and AVIF are very popular. > From what i understand avif gives better compression (except for lossless) and h…

> (surprisingly, Firefox is not attributed this - they also do not support it yet, and they are not doing anything _other_ than awaiting Chrome's work for it!) The fuck are you tal…

Other than Jon at Cloudinary, everyone involved with JXL development, from creation of the standard to the libjxl library, works at Google Research in Zurich. The Chrome team in Ca…

FreeBSD does as well, but old ABI versions aren't kept forever.

> stubborn devs, a loaned Milk-V box, and a middle finger to pragmatism. That's not what's happening here though? With skepticism, they're willing to give it another try because so…

You mention only producing a limited quantity, but do you have any plans to do a second batch next year? I know that knowing the future is impossible and that you thus can't make a…

> The maintainers of core subsystems are the people he trusts, at least trusts as much as you can in this space. He'll take their opinions before anyone else, since they know best …