The Case for AVIF

Thu 13 February 2025
Disclaimer: Right off the bat, I am NOT an imaging expert, a compression expert, or really an anything expert. I'm just speaking from my own experiences as a relatively ordinary user of image formats.

When I was a young-un in the early, early 90s, PICT was the day-to-day image format …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Philosophy Productivity Retrocomputing Social Media

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Loops is... interesting

Sun 02 February 2025

I, like many, have taken an interest in Daniel Supernault's new Loops video service.

Unlike many, I'm not so much interested in a FOSS, Federated clone of TikTok, YT Shorts, or Vine. I honestly don't care for that kind of media. I don't object to the format (other than …

Category: Entertainment Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Entertainment Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Non-technical post Social Media Video

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"Online" documentation should be offline

Thu 30 January 2025

I'm noticing a troubling trend among FOSS projects, even terminal-only utilities: no manpages (or a 1-paragraph useless one), barely any help screens, and a link to a wiki site like a github page or "readthedocs."

The thing is, the whole ethos behind so many terminal utilities is a hearkening back …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) FreeBSD Linux Non-religious post Polemic Productivity UNIX

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You don't need to share that clip

Thu 09 January 2025

I recall once having a discussion with some friends online about which chat client/network to use for communication, and someone strongly endorsed one over another because it had a better selection of animated reactions/videos. I was pretty incredulous that that was the most important thing to them.

Imagine …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Entertainment Humor Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Productivity

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"Ableism" and the Linux Aristocracy

Tue 07 January 2025
This is Part IV of the series, "Don't use what works for you."

Being an armchair FOSS advocate, there are a lot of anti-FOSS arguments I've become quite used to seeing and answering. Some of them are honestly just pretty dumb:

eloquent_FOSS_apologia();

Well, I just don't CARE about that!

Well …

Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Life Linux Non-religious post Philosophy UNIX

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