Notices by Gianni Rosato (gianni@disobey.net), page 6

@andrewprice @GossiTheDog When I'm deeply unhappy with a product/service, I usually don't jump to the next product/service the person who created the one I didn't like creates

@GossiTheDog BlueSky = journalists cranky about what happened at Twitter, completely ready to let it happen again

The events that have happened here today marks a new era for the internet. Websites that derive their value from user-submitted content are continuing their move towards sealing off that content and information from the world. Their libraries were created by everyone, but will soon be available to only those who pay.

Sync for #lemmy is happening!

https://lemmy.ml/post/1390682

I never used Sync for Reddit, & I'm happy with Jerboa right now, but this is cool!

"Safari goes all-in on images"

https://dev.to/robole/safari-goes-all-in-on-images-c4m

#jxl #AVIF #safari #apple

@ploum If you're every interested in moving away from Discord, I'd check out Revolt: https://revolt.chat/

In 2020, Signal bootstrapped a small board, drawing on people close to Signal or directly involved. We are grateful to Moxie, Brian, and Meredith for working during this phase to grow and advise Signal. Meredith and Brian will remain on the Board for an interim period, before stepping off to focus on their leadership duties–Meredith as Signal’s President, and Brian staying on as Signal’s CEO, following a search.

Hey everyone!

- There's a brand new #jpeg encoder around called jpegli, and it promises to improve JPEG encoding by implementing some of #jpegxl's quantization heuristics. How does it fare? I wrote about it: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/jpegli/
- The #av1 subreddit is dark amidst the #reddit blackout. Interested in following AV1 news outside Reddit? We're on Lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/post/1264208

That's all!

@buzzdee You already reached out on GitHub and opened an issue. We are going to investigate it further, but if the answer ends up not satisfying you, I would encourage you to contact me privately if you'd like to communicate more directly. A public post isn't going encourage my support very much, unless you are looking for support from encoding professionals within your Mastodon circles, in which case I'd explicitly acknowledge that if I were you.

If you care about #signal , you should want #jpegxl support, especially as Apple now supports the image format ecosystem-wide. On Signal's iOS & macOS clients, users will become frustrated if they can view an image but can't send it to anyone using their favorite messaging platform while alternatives like #telegram support JXL. Please bring attention to this feature request:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/jpeg-xl-support/50331

There is an open GitHub issue:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/6312

Apple bringt Unterstützung von #JPEGXL für alle seine Plattformen in #WebKit! #WWDC

“Apple’s came porting toolkit is WINE,” via https://www.osnews.com/story/136223/apples-game-porting-toolkit-is-wine/.

Many seem worried this will turn into another KHTML/WebKit situation, but considering how many companies (eg Valve) rely on WINE I have higher hopes myself.

#apple #linux #gaming

Check out Impression by @adhami if you’re on GNOME: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.gitlab.adhami3310.Impression

Looks great for flashing USBs!

In #WWDC, it looks like Apple may have secretly dropped a hint about a new feature in Safari. Hopefully this is legit and we can welcome #jpegxl to Safari & the Apple ecosystem soon!!

#internet #chrome #firefox

@ligniform You won't regret going Linux full time. As Windows gets worse, Linux gets better :)

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

No, I am just making you aware that what you are recommending is the Windows model, where you have one binary/package that works everywhere.

That defeats all kind of innovation than can be created by multiple distros in terms of package managers and ways of packaging applications.

@thelinuxEXP @boilingsteam @jorge Do you know if the Firefox Flatpak still defaults to xwayland, or does it use Wayland by default now? Only reason I still install Flatseal.

"Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor,"

https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

#amd #intel #pc

Today I released Aviator 0.4.0 for #linux. Besides the audio filters, this is a special release because the version of SVT-AV1 I'm shipping features custom psychovisual optimizations & a new tune that seems to prove itself in real-world testing. My eyes agree with the metrics here, and this was only possible with #Flatpak, which lets me ship my own version of SVT-AV1 that is different from the system's. Look at that, a GUI outperforming most CLI implementations by default! #av1

It is stuff like this that keeps myself & many others going. Don't forget to thank your favorite open source devs :)