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  1. @mangeurdenuage There isn't much to that, it's just worded in such a way.
    I guess they're trying to say that they only vouch for extensions in the "Recommended" list.

    Friday, 21-Feb-20 23:03:06 UTC from loadaverage.org
    • ♲ @emanuele@quey.org: Did you know # is collecting data from every page on the open web that relies on Google Fonts?

      Here you are some public stats: fonts.google.com/analytics
      (the best data, for sure, they will keep for them).

      #


      libranet.de/display/e7cf69fa-5…

      Thursday, 20-Feb-20 13:43:55 UTC from libranet.de
    • @tealturtle "Homeopathic" products still should be checked for whether it has funny stuff in it though.
      It's still to be ingested/injected, so some assurances need to be that it really is e.g. a harmless sugar pill and not something less harmless.

      Thursday, 20-Feb-20 21:13:26 UTC from loadaverage.org
      • @clacke It is somewhat disappointing when mundane suspicions that I've had about Google Fonts turn out to be well-founded.

        Thursday, 20-Feb-20 21:13:22 UTC from loadaverage.org
        • @schestowitz Aligns well with the Microsoft's new policy to kill Firefox off (and every other non-Chromium web browser).

          Monday, 10-Feb-20 19:07:18 UTC from loadaverage.org
          • Made a little video illustrating quality of malware detection by antiviruses for Windows (Avast in particular): https://i.imgur.com/MLt1Ajw.mp4
            I've got to wonder how many users think that it really does protect them from "threats" when stuff like this happens.
            More threats may be lurking! You just never know…

            Saturday, 08-Feb-20 18:16:14 UTC from loadaverage.org
            • @schestowitz 3 hours to replace an expired TLS certificate sounds perfectly reasonable… for Microsoft.

              Saturday, 08-Feb-20 18:08:30 UTC from loadaverage.org
              • @schestowitz They changed the default in GIMP 2.10.
                It's easy to toggle back from https://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html#single-window-mode

                Saturday, 08-Feb-20 08:41:32 UTC from loadaverage.org
                • why was it such a big deal that Anakin Skywalker had a secret wife, and why did she need to be a secret, did anyone ever watch the Clone Wars show?? Obi-Wan was a FrankerZing grapey-slaying Potato Knishes machine, this man kiwied CONSTANTLY and nobody seemed to give a rat's ass about it.

                  Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:28 UTC from web
                • I just want to start challenging politricksters to trial by combat in exchange for their positions

                  Tuesday, 04-Feb-20 15:52:20 UTC from web
                • I had the best terminator batcavepost but the file is too big :c

                  Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:58 UTC from web
                • Just got back from a shooting range, it was pretty cool

                  Wednesday, 29-Jan-20 22:40:05 UTC from web
                • Watched "Little Witch Academia". It's alright. The overarching plot however is weak and with a lot of wasted potential.

                  Sunday, 02-Feb-20 19:19:15 UTC from web
                • special shoutouts to the woman who just called me ugly to her daughter in Spanish because she thought I couldn’t understand her. When I raised my eyebrow she turned to me and said “I was just telling my daughter you look like someone we know”. Okay, ma’am.

                  Sunday, 02-Feb-20 02:29:46 UTC from web
                • O Lord, the Girl Scout cookies...

                  Saturday, 01-Feb-20 08:29:42 UTC from web
                • the whole experience did sort of underscore everything i believe about that sort of thing though, there was a guy with an AR-15 in the booth next to me and a guy with eight(!!!!!) magazines on his belt in the other booth, and it made me SUPREMELY uncomfortable

                  Thursday, 30-Jan-20 07:29:10 UTC from web
                • @moonman Ferengi have been explored in Deep Space Nine a lot.

                  Saturday, 01-Feb-20 09:03:14 UTC from loadaverage.org
                  • I'm not sure what digital magic my cousins' tv is doing to The Simpsons but man is it ever uncanny

                    Monday, 27-Jan-20 22:05:43 UTC from web
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                    • @adiwan The high frame rate video debate is scheduled to be the next big generational tech gap, according to one headline I skimmed once online. "Gemini Man" will remain dumb, regardless.

                      Tuesday, 28-Jan-20 08:00:37 UTC in context
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                    • @scribus High frame rate video is one thing but another thing to interpolate frames of lower frame rate to a higher and smooth out "choppiness", especially with non-contiguous motion like in animation with few feature points in the picture. High frame rate video will be the norm some day. Right now the amount of data is mostly not feasible or the technology is not good enough to simulate. Current films are exported in 2k because all of the rendering time and visual effects. Also visual flaws get more obvious with a higher temporal resolutions. I heard that "acting" is more apparent at higher frame rates, meaning that the acted motions and emotions are perceived as not genuine.

                      Tuesday, 28-Jan-20 08:17:16 UTC in context
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                    • @adiwan I can vouch for the last bit, a perfect example is the marvel cape movies. They look just fine on tv or a cinema screen, but look at scenes in >1080 60fps on a high DPI cellphone screen and the actors look awkward, movement looks cartoony and poorly acted, you can notice the weird physics from cable pulls and all that.

                      Friday, 31-Jan-20 22:48:32 UTC in context
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                  • @moonman It kind of was, but then it slowly reshaped itself into the United States of America.

                    Thursday, 30-Jan-20 00:14:03 UTC from loadaverage.org
                    • @lnxw48a1 There's just no current maintainer.
                      It's that Gecko vulnerability, it's been fixed in the mainline, of course.

                      Thursday, 23-Jan-20 01:43:41 UTC from loadaverage.org
                      • @fewl The Arnold Rimmer verse rhymes.

                        Wednesday, 22-Jan-20 01:17:14 UTC from loadaverage.org
                        • @moonman That works, too.

                          Friday, 17-Jan-20 21:25:47 UTC from loadaverage.org
                          • @moonman So, a throwing motion then?

                            Friday, 17-Jan-20 20:55:04 UTC from loadaverage.org
                            • Space Force is actually happening? Space Force is actually gorram happening!? I always wanted to live in a cartoon, but not this one!!

                              Wednesday, 15-Jan-20 02:25:44 UTC from web
                            • @colegotasn@gnusocial.sierranorte.red Affirmative.

                              Tuesday, 14-Jan-20 10:15:07 UTC from loadaverage.org
                              • @colegotasn@gnusocial.sierranorte.red Affirmative.

                                Tuesday, 14-Jan-20 10:13:07 UTC from loadaverage.org
                                • @noyoushutthepapayaupdad Be aware that # was apparently bought by an advertising analytics company. https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/ Probably not a search engine to recommend any more, even if you're willing to take the risk for your own searches.

                                  Thursday, 09-Jan-20 18:27:52 UTC from nu.federati.net
                                • @thegibson @lnxw37a2 @mewmew @mangeurdenuage @lnxw48a1 @simsa03 @moonman @dude Dr. Skrzyk did write that he's okay with how the licence in the footer is now, so it seems like this is over.
                                  Except that I didn't change the footer and it looks just like it was before.
                                  I did add extra links there to address him not being able to find contact information though, but this was after that.
                                  Weird. But if it is all good, then it is all good.

                                  Friday, 10-Jan-20 17:31:17 UTC from loadaverage.org
                                  • > It sounds like @drskrzyk tried to go that route first.
                                    @thegibson @simsa03 @mewmew @mangeurdenuage @lnxw48a1 @lnxw37a2 @moonman @dude It wasn't made clear how to reach out, so I do get the issue here.
                                    The way it happened for me is roughly as follows: he wrote to the datacentre about a "copyright violation", of course everyone took it very seriously and what I got on my plate is an ultimatum to resolve this no matter what, or else.
                                    His request can be interpreted as a "remove me", so that's how the person who provides the virtual machine approached this. I removed it the moment I saw it however, as I think that even though it got scary for us, it can be, and therefore should be, resolved through communication.

                                    Friday, 10-Jan-20 17:30:14 UTC from loadaverage.org
                                    • > I don't think I've been affected yet, but I'm a content creator and I don't want anyone to use my work for commercial and derivative works, etc. just because they might have found it thru your instance.
                                      @ellakane That makes sense.
                                      However, there's a different issue here, that's been talked about for years, yet Mastodon chose not to address (if they have, I have not seen it) by just hoping it doesn't really matter: when a notice goes through the Fediverse, it is being re-distributed, possibly even commercially, so if a notice is not clearly licensed, it may even be illegal to federate it.
                                      But I'm guy an instance admin, that footer is the default of GNU social, the software that started the Fediverse and has been the mainline of it for many years.
                                      I think the only reason I got to be in the centre of all this is because search engines like !loadaverage for some reason. And because that's not the first time this caused problems, GNU social nightly now asks "robots" not to index remote profiles.

                                      Friday, 10-Jan-20 14:20:06 UTC from loadaverage.org