‘Tremendously Grave’: The First US City Is on Track to Run Out of Water

Their updates are slower than some other forks, but it is getting regular updates.

The domain be will be added to all the blacklists in weeks and the usefulness of the service will be dead.

From Nitter Matrix chat (quote formatted by me for Markdown parsing):

basically, it demands that I:

1. Permanently take down nitter.net and the GitHub repository, and delete all “X Data” in both
2. Stop all use of the “Twitter” and “X” marks
3. Cease all access to X data, including copies
4. Delete all X account credentials and session tokens 5. Confirm compliance in writing within three business days

The claims asserted are breach of X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement and Developer Policy; the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act; and the Lanham Act. It threatens litigation against me personally. X states it has also sent notice to GitHub and to my domain registrar.

More fitting post for something like !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, this is a news community.

I don’t run PatronView, just sharing the blog post from them.

I tried to access angieguardian.org, but was met with “JavaScript is required to access this site” which basically guaranteed I will never visit it again.

There are plenty of browsers with integrated ad blocking. All of them are the afterthought not the focus though.

Also, Google’s Blink, Mozilla’s Gecko and Apple’s WebKit are all developed by companies that have a financial stake in advertising business. Conflict of interests might not have direct impact tomorrow, but it’s not something we should blindly trust.

Cash slave says that unless he gets governmental subsidies world will burn to the ground…

It does and many security or privacy oriented services have already implemented post quantum encryption, but majority of the internet still relies on AES-256 or similar if not worse.

Moreover, JPEG XL includes several features that help transition from the legacy JPEG coding format. Existing JPEG files can be losslessly transcoded to JPEG XL files, significantly reducing their size (Fig. 1). These can be reconstructed to the exact same JPEG file, ensuring backward compatibility with legacy applications. Both transcoding and reconstruction are computationally efficient. Migrating to JPEG XL reduces storage costs because servers can store a single JPEG XL file to serve both JPEG and JPEG XL clients. This provides a smooth transition path from legacy JPEG platforms to the modern JPEG XL.

https://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xl-whitepaper.pdf

Up to 46% compared to PNG is more than a bit extra. It’s also supports both loseless and lossy compression and supports backwards compatability between legacy JPEG. Among many other modern features.

And PNG is so old that it lacks basic modern features like HDR support.

The only competition to JPEG-XL is AVIF. Though both likely to coexist as they have different strenghts.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251204034843/https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/

Good luck.

The cable is not available on Amazon yet, so you’ll need to buy it directly from the Japanese site and find a way to have it shipped.