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Data-Powered proprietary software betraying the ideal of open information that birthed it #chatgp3 #OriginalInternetIdeal

@Suiseiseki Here I thought that both png and webp were lossless formats. I tried with optipng, cwebp, and Gimp, with no noticeable differences to the file size

@fndriven at 70% quality webp are smaller than the alternatives from the camera. I thought this was a big enough boost to go with webp as a "sometimes better" format

@cosmin just tried this. Actually it made the png larger by a few kb

Does anyone know how to convert my images from webp to small-ish png? Right now when I run dwebp, the resulting png is at least triple the file size of the webp. But when my camera saves directly to png, it's same quality but much smaller filesize. What's with this?

You take one weekend off to have a baby, and 450 emails are awaiting... well, at least it stayed in low triple-digits.

One power of the #emacs Personal Development Environment (#PDE): the ability to jump to my notes files from any place in my work. https://orys.us/uG

AND.... suddenly it's working. I didn''t do anything, but 45 minutes of debugging.

I am at a loss in my #clojure app. I've loaded a dependency which has cljc code and works fine in other apps of mine. But now when I load it in cljs, it is all nil. Kondo reads it and knows, eg, function signatures for it, but any effort to use it from the repl is just a lot of nil. I have restarted the repl multiple times, but no dice. "type" on any of it, even the NS declaration, is "nil". But Kondo knows it fine. What!?

Compiled for your (and my later) reading pleasure: #falsehoods #programmers believe about #time and #names, two things so common you think they wouldn't be the epitome of every-day human complexity. https://orys.us/tV

Time is NOT simple. #Emacs #orgmode has made assumptions succesfully for 20+ years, but in today's age, timezones make it tough. How tough? Check out the detailed, non-toxic discussion going on right now. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=emacs-orgmode%40gnu.org&q=date:20230114&o=newest

Updating my #Clojure #Babashka #OpenConnect #VPN wrapper to work with #GlobalConnect VPNs. https://orys.us/uF

Changing the #Firefox default zoom level when I dedicate a super-sized screen to my browser windows. https://orys.us/uD

I was actually wrong about this. Fresh restart on a GB connection this morning and still it froze in the main process.

I want to take a certain RSS link from one of my blogs and have that go automatically to Mastodon. I want the approach to be open source, and repeatable (other blogs, maybe other places). Anyone know of such ready solutions? #rss #mastodon #syndication

I thought that I needed an emacs sub-process to run Telega without it freezing my #emacs #exwm. Turns out I just neeeded a fast internet connection; now that I have true broad-band it works out (after a 30-60 second initialization freeze, which it does in a sub-process, too). Elfeed still seems to choke things down if I don't have it in a subprocess, though. Running "refresh" makes some kind of unescaping loop in the main process.

I converted my animated gif to a webp and the result was 4.5 times larger. Isn't webp supposed to be better?

The "dragon" application (think drag-on) is super handy for #emacs #exwm and probably was made for tiling window managers like iw3m. Go from dired to, eg, Google Drive drag-and-drop. Don't mind the Google Drive view error (I dunno what caused that). https://orys.us/uC