Notices by Gianni Rosato (gianni@disobey.net), page 7

"YCbCr and RGB" by Master of Zen

https://master-of-zen.xyz/yuv-vs-rgb/

#encoding #rgb #photography

i have seen plenty of nice liberal and leftist and atheists people fall into this trap. it’s deeply ingrained into us by culture. gotta fight it.

@alyssa I mean, shitpost all you want, I’m here for that too :)

@alyssa Your incredible strength & determination clearly hasn’t stopped at software development. I’m entirely on your side here, and this country should realign itself in pursuit of the obvious greater good. It is wonderful to hear you’re in a better place now, and *everyone* should fight for *every* trans individual to experience that joy. 🙏

@film_girl @nmn Yeah, it was unfortunately a very weak analogy because it was almost entirely incorrect. I don’t even hate your initial point, but as someone who actually understands multimedia codec technology, you ruined your message.

But I'll tell you right now who will not win: the protocol and community that wants to make it as difficult as possible for people to adopt/build-off of and interoperate with. Ogg Vorbis, Opus, and Theora tried to do the whole "open" standard audio and video codec thing. It was bad quality and hard to implement, but “open.” Everyone smart used MP3 anyway. And eventually, MP3 became patent free. Even smarter people started working on things like VP8 and VP9 and HEVC and eventually we have AV1

@film_girl @robUx4 How are you defining “winner?” HEVC has had zero penetration outside the Apple ecosystem, & essentially doesn’t exist on the Web. And AV1 is very much not VP10 - it is built off Daala as well as technologies proposed for VP10. That’s like saying “Opus is essentially CELT, SILK sucks.” I get the point you’re trying to make, but these codec comparisons are wholly uninformed & off base.

Hear me out: 1-click privacy-conscious quoting. And you don't have to move to a different server. And you don't have to install new software. And it's visible to anyone on any client. And it's available now* at https://elk.fedified.com

*Still a work in progress but ready for public testing

If you're in the anti-quoting camp kindly take a deep breath, and read the rest of this thread. I want to share what I mean by "privacy-conscious" (1/x)

@atomicpoet @socialmedianews This is really bad. Anyone who knows the phrase "Embrace Extend Extinguish" probably gets that this is not good.

I've seen the argument that the Fediverse needs to roll out the red carpet to giants like Meta. We can do that & lose everything great about the Fediverse, or we can resist it & let Meta try their lunacy elsewhere.

@film_girl Opus & Vorbis "were" "bad quality?" Opus has completely taken over for anything real time - Discord & *many* communication apps have adopted Opus. Vorbis is used by Spotify. I don't know who "everyone smart" is, maybe I'm just an idiot

AV1 is winning largely because it is Google's baby. Development of the reference encoder isn't "open" at all, and their monopolistic influence has caused problems for competing codecs (like JXL for images, which is superior to AVIF) because of Chromium

XFCE’s screenshot tool supports AVIF & JXL!

https://9to5linux.com/xfces-screenshot-tool-now-lets-you-save-screenshots-in-avif-and-jxl-image-formats

#jpegxl #AVIF #xfce

@danhon I think taking the time to choose a unique, personal instance could be more valuable than hopping on the one a friend invited you to. My instance only has 8 people, and I wouldn't readily invite most friends. The interests of those close to me vary greatly, and directing them toward multiple interesting instances I think they may enjoy has its benefits.

That being said, for medium or larger instances, invites would definitely help more than hurt.

"JPEG-XL is what we need"

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/jpeg-xl-is-what-we-need/idi-p/13756494

#photography #adobe #jpegxl

@strypey @shauna Yeah pretty much all of these ring true for me

Texts like these :)

“Fedora Won’t Be Shipping GNOME’s New Console App Anytime Soon,”

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-console-and-fedora-woes/

#fedora #GNOME #linux #gtk4

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/hdr-image-format

This is really cool, but this is also very much a solved problem with newer codecs like #jpegxl. If Google would just embrace JXL & push for widespread support, we might actually be able to move past JPEG instead of using hacks like this. #AVIF isn't going anywhere outside specific Web use cases, as much as I really like it due to its great coding efficiency for certain quality ranges.

#android #google #hdr

@matteorosato & I have a long road ahead of us with this thing!

#riscv #pine64 #sbc

@encthenet Mozilla is "neutral" on #JXL. It has partial support in Firefox Nightly - enabling the flag there will show most JXL images (on Android, too). Waterfox (based on Firefox ESR) supports JXL fully, as does Mercury (FF-based) & Thorium (Chromium-based). Google doesn't want to support JXL & hasn't provided great reasoning behind the decision.

@mttaggart I think people are interpreting this as "developers should be sugar sweet all the time," rather than the core idea that it is appreciated when devs address feedback more inquisitively. "Developers don't have time for you," might be true, and they may be the ones saying "open a PR," and that's fine, but it is greatly appreciated when this isn't the case & a productive discussion can be had. I get that the software is free & there's no obligation for this to happen, though.