Notices by Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)

@blueghost
Opus files are also much smaller than mp3 due to variable bitrate. When high resolution is needed, the bitrate is increased, but when there is no added value, the bitrate is reduced to keep the file smaller. In my experience, it is about one third of mp3 when Flac or Wav is converted to Opus rather than mp3.

Also Opus is OpenSource unlike mp3.

#Opus #AudioCompression

@ricci
I tried to understand what sciop is, but the lack of About page and explanation made me confused. Can you point me to the right direction? What is the license of the datasets? I mean from legal perspective. Is there any danger to seeding on clearnet or should it be done on Tor and I2P?

@selea
What software do you use to parse, aggregate and analyse the reports?

@civodul @jas
Yes, to have the image as pure Guix rather than Guix on top of Debian.

I'm by no means an expert in either case, but as the end user it sounds more cohesive to deal with one OS and package manager, than a mixture.

@civodul @jas
Is there any statistics on how much time/resources does it take to have Debian+Guix compared to Guix operating system?

Hopefully, next version of #Mastodon webUI will have #Markdown support 🤔

#JustWishfulThinking

@apps
Can you also publish some statistics on the usage? For instance what is the peak load, what are the general specs of the server, how many connections the server serves during a week or average day,...

I'm thinking about bringing up an instance and such information would be super helpful.

@smallcircles
The "chat control" has some nostalgic and déjà vu kinda ring to it, especially for people like me who have lived in Iran or similar places, because:

>> the chats of employees of security authorities and the military are also to be exempted from chat control.

So the affairs (romantic, sexual, political, financial, ...) of people at power are ironclad protected, but general public should live in a complete disadvantage and bring monitored.

@echo_pbreyer

@freemo
Well, then they are 24 years old and can have a 6 years old child as well (assuming having child at 18yo) 😉

I think some flavor of #Markdown should be integrated into the default webapp of mastodon. It would enrich the users' experience with almost no extra overhead.

That said, I think these should not be allowed:
- adding images `` because it would bring things from outside of fediverse which can contain tracking and also can change on the fly without user's knowing
- adding hyperlinks `[](URL)`because of the reasons above and also it helps masking malicious links (e.g `[good.com](bad.com)`

@Naadiyaar
I do 😉. @apps have been supporting markdown for a while now, and it is great.

@freemo
Looks like a very preliminary sketch of an RFC. Good starting point, but I was hoping for more 😅
@BigAngBlack

@tokyo_0
All browsers are funded by some sort of advert. Firefox's main revenue comes from Google, just by making google the default search engine. They also probably get paid by ebay and others for including them in the search engine list or by adding them to quickdial page.

Vivaldi is free, user don't need to pay anything. Their revenue model should be very similar to Firefox, Opera, and others, but adding advert to address-bar is a wrong move. Like Ubuntu added Amazon to launcher years ago.

It is official, @Vivaldi have included advertisment into your address-bar suggestions. This is opt-out, so it is enabled by default and is triggered only after two characters in your address-bar.

For me, the address-bar in a browser is like terminal in Linux, what I type is sensitive and should not be cluttered with advert and junk. #Vivaldi crossed a big red line here. Having advert in favorites and quickdial is one thing, having advert in address-bar is another.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/what-is-direct-match/

@sumek
My daily driver is Firefox, but let's be honest, Firefox suck big time. The biggest issue of Firefox is lack of customizability, especially keybindings. Additionally, Vivaldi brought lots of goodies including tiling, stacking, side panel, auto reload, etc.

Overall Vivaldi would have been my first choice if it was not based on Chromium. And now this recent type of shenanigans is discouraging me further.

@smallcircles @Vivaldi

@apps
Would be cool if user xan define a threading style.

Some use
1/5, 2/5, ..., 5/5

Some use
1/🧵,... n/🧵

I wrap threads with

🧵👆
Toot text
🧵👇

@metaphil

@peertube
As you know (because it is part of you job), there is no excuse for bad PR. A good PR representative would have convey this opinion to the board to adjust policies, but hey, no expectations here 😉 Keep up the "good" work, but stop complaining why only french-speaking people participate in your campaigns.

Just a funny remark:
https://youtu.be/PMsIK9_THM4?si=xPQpFJ6rP3o0AdXg&t=40s

Just do it

@peertube
I donate because I believe in your cause. But yes, I believe #framasoft attitude toward non-french speaking donors is rude.

How hard is it to translate those "4 to 6 emails/year" to English? How hard? Almost zero. You can send it to libretranslate, get the text, proof read it twice and you're done!

@peertube
Why do you think only french speaking people donate to you? Here is a reason: because you take the money and then overload our mailboxes with french emails. I donated previously and everything was, and still is, in french. To the extent that even the URL you shared is in french! "Soutenir.framasoft.org" indtead of "sustain.faramsoft.org".

I genuinely am highly disappointed that my donation meant I will be exclusively sent emails only in french! This is bad PR from you.

#Framasoft

🧵 👆🏼
@aral @adirtyhippie
These said, your pubmed link has nothing to do with that The Drive thing:
1. it is about metal particles, not plastic (zero mention of plastic in the full text)
2. it is about breaks, and not tiers (e.g regenerative EV break would mitigate that)
3. it is about road-side pollution and not oceans

So, yeah, let's be honest and vigilat about what we share and what we call science.