The_Decryptor

For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.

They’d run afoul of the whole “editing your own article” restrictions.

They really want to promote their AVIF format, and supporting JXL would hinder that (Since JXL is a much nicer upgrade path from JPEG/PNG than AVIF is)

Like you can transparently go from JPEG to JXL and back with no loss, which isn’t possible with AVIF. And PNG to JXL gives you a smaller file, while it’s usually the opposite with AVIF (Unless you get lucky, as lossless AVIF can be beaten by a BMP in a ZIP file). There’s also the issue of speed, AVIF is slow to encode compared to other formats (And while hardware decoding is possible, it’s also geared towards video, so the quality is often lacking, and can sometimes be slower than plain software encoding)

It’s unclear why Google stuck with PNG for HDR screenshots instead of a format supported by Ultra HDR such as JPEG.

Because for good lossless HDR you’ve got a grand total of 2 options, PNG and JPEG XL. And Google don’t want people to know of yet another use case for JXL.

I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).

8 cycles would be an eternity on a modern CPU, they can achieve multiple register sized loads per cycle.

If we do see a CPU with 128 bit addresses anytime soon, it’ll be something like CHERI, where the extra bits are used for flags.

I think CHERI is the only real attempt at a 128 bit system, but it uses the upper 64 bits for metadata, so the address space is still 64 bits.

Yep, Apple paid with shares (More specifically, the right to buy $1 million dollars worth at the initial share price) which, according to a share calculator I just tried, would be worth nearly $328 million these days, I wonder if Xerox kept them or offloaded them early.

Considering Xerox was utterly uninterested in any of the tech they had, it’s worked out well.

That’s because those adapters aren’t DACs, they’re straight electrical passthrough adapters.

I’ve got an actual USB DAC, a relatively cheap one, and it was still close to $50.

Edit: Doubled the price in my memory.

Stuff that’s spec compliant has to follow the rules, non-spec compliant stuff can obviously do whatever, so yeah the cheap cables off ebay or amazon won’t use the right logos.

It’s USB2, so either for charging or simpler devices that don’t need USB3 (Like keyboards).

Edit: Federation issue? I swear there wasn’t an existing reply when I responded.

Better, kid friendly urban infrastructure like dedicated bike paths protected from car traffic, better pedestrian areas, parks and so on. Kids will get outside their house if there is a kid friendly outside. A greener, more human friendly outside where you can socialize with other humans would always be preferred over doom scrolling online.

Good luck with that, people and politicians love cars, parking lots and highways, and the media is demonising kids as criminals.

They were a bit too public with “Dual_EC_DRBG”, to the point where everybody just assumed it had a backdoor and avoided it, the NSA ended up having to pay people to use it.

Unless all the other hardware is bespoke, it’ll use the same drivers as it would if it ran x86 or ARM.

It’s not like they’re going to change when you’re not looking.

Jack Dorsey may have had lofty goals for Bluesky, but he doesn’t even work there anymore.

Which is a point in Bluesky’s favour.