Makes more sense when you think of it in terms of Google both getting to control the standard and getting to shove their libWebp binaries into Firefox, Linux, Mac/iOS, popular image processing libraries, etc etc (oh but HURR DURR IT’S OPEN SOURCE yeah that doesn’t matter when every project just uses Google’s source code without looking at it because Google generously made it a complete turnkey solution you can just import. This isn’t even a hypothetical, Google has already managed to backdoor literally every device that uses it and it had already been exploited by their darling Israel for ages before someone outside of Google discovered it, you expect me to believe it wasn’t intentional?). Like so many things in the tech world, it’s not for your benefit, it’s for the corporations’.
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Google: “Webp is futureproof!”
Also Google: “The future definitely won’t have larger images. That’s illegal.”
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Is there something like GitHub, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?English6·5 days agoNo one has mentioned Gitea yet, is there a reason? Genuinely asking.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first timeEnglish1·15 days agoI mean, which one did you learn in math class? Not saying it’s better, but it’s way more common.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml•Acceptance of homosexuality in the US by stateEnglish6·20 days agoHoly shit even the most accepting state is barely an A-
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Blogging platform Bear is no longer open source, moves to source-available Elastic licenseEnglish8·23 days agoThe original MIT license was selected without deep forethought, primarily to make the code easily auditable
What? Wouldn’t ANY open source license make it easily auditable?
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pinkEnglish2·1 month agoHow is this implemented? Is it just functions and the language assumes the first parameter is autofilled with variable.function syntax?
Do Samsung phones even have FM antennas? As far as I know they have to be a minimum length and old school feature phones had a hacky workaround where you had to plug in earbuds to listen to the radio because it was using the earbud cable as an antenna. Modern Samsung phones don’t even have headphone jacks so I can’t imagine they support FM at all. Probably your best bet is to use an internet radio service that has access to the stations you like.
Just use a ternary lol
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Open Source@lemmy.ml•"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpointEnglish302·1 month agoSomewhat tangential hot take: I REALLY think the scope of free as in beer use of open source projects should be limited to personal and small scale business use only (when the business makes below a certain yearly revenue). It’s infuriating how the biggest tech companies openly use open source software as the base of their products while giving NOTHING in return to those open source projects, and in fact only bash them when they show the least bit of resistance to whatever evil profit driven change they demand the project make. If you’re making billions in revenue using open source software which has saved you R&D money, why shouldn’t the open source project itself be entitled to even half a percent of that which will more than cover all their development costs? I’m so sick of companies seeing open source as free outsourced labour they can exploit. There are also existing licenses that only allow free as in beer use of the software if it’s for personal use or in a worker co-op, which I think is also an interesting approach worth considering.
Alternatively, I think we should seriously explore even more copyleft licenses than AGPL. I think it was either Elastic Search or MongoDB that tried to implement a license requiring every software that depends on the open source version of their software be open source as well? Everyone, including the OSF bashed that decision when it came out, and as far as I know there were indeed a lot of problems with how that license was written, but people also denounced the very concept of going beyond AGPL which I don’t get.
I prefer npnm
One day I’ll check out mosfetm and igbtm
As a teaching example for exponential growth:
Virgin viruses
Chad JS dependencies
Might be latency? Python is probably slower to respond to things like when one job is done and the next job can start, since it needs time to interpret the code and call the relevant C libraries.
It’s waiting for the “light weight” node development server to start as well.
After that it’s waiting for the call to open a browser to go through.
Then it’s waiting for Google telemetry to finish phoning home before the page can load.
Python’s core implementation is in C though. It’s just a fancy way to call C libraries.
Whoa the font on the Lemmy web UI actually renders them differently!
The command you want is in the buffered history of a still running terminal that’s doing something you don’t want to close 💀