Big +1 for Sync.

I was paying for Sync back when it was a Reddit client, and I moved to Lemmy mostly because that is where Sync moved.

It’s an awesome app. Best app purchase I’ve ever made. (There is a free version too.)

So they tried to open a research center to steal Chinese talent (that has since been closed) and they released the Google Translate app on the Xiaomi store…

That’s not the same as supporting the CCP and the Uyghur genocide.

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What are you talking about?

Google doesn’t operate in China, much less do work for the CCP.

“Getting fired felt like a possibility but never a reality,”

They took over an executive’s office and a cafeteria. Not knowing that you’d be fired as a result is a severe lack of judgement.

Protests are important. But you have to understand that there will be consequences for your actions. Embrace that going in.

Saying that you didn’t think they’d actually fire you comes off as childish.

Are you suggesting we treat North Koreans like indigenous people in Ukraine?

Why would any country allow soldiers of another to “do their own thing” within their borders?

That’s a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.

They’d have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.

Video codecs mostly work by tracking movement, predicting which pixels will change, and striving to only encode the pixels that actually change or change dramatically. In other words, compression looks for patterns.

All of that goes out the window when you try to compress static. There are no patterns. It simply can’t be compressed. This isn’t a matter of the algorithms not being good enough. It’s a fundamental limit of information theory.

Anything fancier amounts to embedding the intro into the compressor as a well-known pattern. And at that point, you’re better off just caching a 4K version of the intro as a standalone video file directly in the app.

My money is on cousin Greg to take over.

Phone cameras tend to ramp up the saturation.

It gives the photo a more vibrant look, which many people prefer, at the expense of color accuracy.

But generally with artistic photography, you’re going more for a style than for accuracy, so I wouldn’t say it’s always a bad thing (though sometimes it is).

You don’t need to provide root access just because you used GPL code, you just have to follow the GPL.

Well, to follow version 3 of the GPL, you do actually need to provide effective root access.

Specifically, version 3 of the GPL adds language to prevent Tivoization.

It’s not enough to just provide the user with the code. The user is entitled to the freedom to modify that code and to use their modifications.

In other words, in addition to providing access to the source code, you must actually provide a mechanism to allow the user to change the code on the device.

The name “Tivoization” comes from the practice of the company TiVo, which sold set-top boxes based on GPL code, but employed DRM to prevent the user from applying custom patches. V3 of the GPL remedies this bug.

As an American looking in, Corbyn has always been the face of UK’s Labour Party.

Why was he ousted? The article says something about an antisemitism statement, but surely that’s not the whole of it.

For Zulip, I’ve only used it on the web. Apparently they have iOS, Android, Desktop, and Terminal clients.

For Matrix, there are many clients on all platforms, but none have ever stood out to me. Element is the official client, and it’s… fine I guess.

I love this, especially the criticism of the FSF.

For coms, Zulip seems OK. I would really like Matrix to take off, but I honestly don’t really like any of the clients.

Great photo. Actually, is this a photo?

What’s wrong with AC if it’s powered by renewable electricity?

Unicode cat 😺

Nearly 3,000 people died in 9/11.

That image is in very poor taste. wtf.

It’s not like the Dem base will switch their votes to Trump.

At this point, now that the nominees are decided, the political game is to attract the swing vote, which is mostly “tough on crime,” anti-imigration, and anti-taxation (as it applies to them directly).

Even though none of these policies are actually good for those in the middle.

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