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png is more than plenty adequate for lossless images such as drawings and pixel art, was never considered adequate for things like photorealistic photographs, and yet now simply because it's old we think that it needs to be replaced by webp, a much less adequate format, introducing incompatibilities with anything that is no longer being currently developed (a budget BRICS smartphone from 2 weeks ago, for example), shoved down our throats by a company that quietly stopped saying "don't be evil"

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

it's interesting how in computing fields we say that anything old "sucks"

"zip compression sucks" so do internal combustion engines but for a while it was pretty much the only form of powering a car

there's a lot of this shifting perception of something being stationary while what moves is time and how it changes how we think and talk about it that i don't think other fields particularly have

or maybe i'm just spewing bullshit again. but i still think there's brain rot in computing

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Psy Chuan :therian:

anyone in UK who hasn't responded to the NHS consultation on banning puberty blockers for EVERYONE except children who agree to be part of a clinical study, you have until Tuesday to do so

engage.england.nhs.uk/consulta

Respond here!

#trans #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #NHS #ukpol #ukpolitics

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POV youre playing minecraft during halloween

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happy pacman syu day everybody hope you emerge from it with a system that still boots

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big disclaimer if you take anything i post too seriously thats tyour'e own godtamn fault bucko

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

maybe .exes were the better binary executable format all along. linux has a lot to learn from windows it turns out

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what sort of brain fog made snap and flatpak look like more appealing propositions to linux users than appimages?

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@arielmt honestly between snap and flatpak i think both are egregious mistakes and the linux development community needs to use a "non-free" computer again to figure out what is it that "normal" people expect of them

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Ana Rodrigues

If you finally found the solution to your coding problem in a deep comment or something after having dozens of tabs open, you should write about it in your own blog.

Really. Describe the problem in your own words and the solution for it, even if the solution seems really obvious now. Doesn’t matter. Give credit and whatever, but use your own words because you will be surprised at how many people will land on it.

Write the blog post you wish you had found.

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Millie

Most recent project, Real grade GP01-FB, gundam zephrantes full burnen (full vernien makes more sense but this is how it got translated ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
This was a fun, challenging build of a really cool mobile suit, I love the detachable core fighter and the little Vernier thrusters around the chassis, definitely worth it

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Hina's Kabukimono Arc

Observation abut the TBS clique 

One thing I notice about the fediclique is that, they literally do not post anything other than political stuff. Like, you never hear about their interests, what they like, etc. It's almost always entirely activist posts, and it's always the most aggressive ones at that.

In my experience being online, people who are only ever activists and do not dedicate any part of their lives to non-political stuff, tend to be really unkind people. Part of this is why I don't even consider myself an activist anymore. Activist crowds are rife with abusive power dynamics and cult thinking, and just generally unkind people
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aeughfh

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Star Trek Minus Context

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

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PSA: Ghostbusters: The Video Game: Remastered doesn't run poorly on your machine. it defaults to locking to 30hz. check the video options

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The Last Psion | Alex

I'm not listed (yet), but I'm going to be showing off the not-disassembled items in my #Psion collection on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th November at the Retro Computer Festival.

I'll also have that #HaikuOS netbook running #MAME for you to try out a few classic #EPOC16 apps and games without risk of breaking the hardware. (Yes, there was a real point to that project!)

If you can get to Cambridge that weekend, come say hi!

#RetroComputing

computinghistory.org.uk/det/71

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kinda want an msx2+ but also at this point i might as well waste my money on a mister fpga instead of chasing retro hardware

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Taylor Sinclaire, Romanceable NPC

I wanted a bloody mary...

I didn't have tomato juice... but I had instant tomato soup powder...
I didn't have a celery to garnish... but I had a hot dog...

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drag paul's run race

really good article about alexithymia as a response to trauma rather than an inherent neurological trait

(cw mentions sui, abuse, CSA)

devonprice.medium.com/is-it-al

pastebin here if you cant read the medium article: pastebin.com/kXi3PH64

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hog gogs

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