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• The format works for both lossy and lossless compression, depending on the use case and need. Photographs can be encoded in a lossy way much more efficiently than JPEG and things like screenshots can be losslessly encoded more efficiently than PNG.

Someone made a fair point that having a format being both lossy and lossless is not necessarily a great idea. If you download a jpeg file you know it will be compressed, if you download png it will be lossless. Shifting through jxl files to check if it’s lossy or not doesn’t sound very fun.

All in all I’m a big supporter of jxl though, it’s one of the only github repos I actively follow.

That’s what PieFed changes though. You can still track how someone votes

You need a way to identify which profile is tied to the vote profile so that you can deal with the root account.

Admins need a way to track votes to detect abuse/bots though. And anyone can be an admin if they set up an instance, so votes will still be public.

Vote manipulation

Hmm, I can understand how someone can be concerned about that, but personally I find it too theoretical and unlikely to matter.

Any company wanting to harvest data from the fediverse would likely just create their own instance to easily copy the databases from every major instance, private voting wouldn’t help against that. I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.

If you only lurk, you will stay anonymous as long as you use an anonymous username. If you comment, you are way more likely to “leak” your opinion through comments anyway.

But those are just my thoughts, I might be way off base and lack the full range of perspectives.

To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.

I guess I’m just of the opinion that if someone has that concern, they should rethink how they use social platforms and maybe look into creating a more anonymous profile that suits their need better.

But now we are just down to differing opinions, which is all fine to have, I won’t claim my thoughts are the best one.

I have felt the want to have a more anonymous profile from time to time since being an admin means I need to avoid controversial topics, but it isn’t any more difficult than simply not engaging with it.

Votes doesn’t break the anonymity is my point. You achieve anonymity by using a fake name and not sharing too much personal information in your comments. No amount of voting will reveal that fj4j2l32@instance.com is Jonathan Brown from Newcastle.

I’m surprised most people are against public votes. Most people already seem to have an anonymous account via some weird username not connected to their real identity already. What difference does it make that votes can be viewed, other than for transparency during discussion?

Maybe I’m the odd one out that uses my real name on the Internet and generally try to behave/vote the same as I would in person, but it seems weird wanting a hybrid account that’s private (votes), yet not private (comments).

It’s against the CoC of programming.dev and we have issued warnings to abusers before. Last warning given for that was 13 days ago and was spotted by a normal user.

Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain

It started long before that, I think ubisoft in general was hugely influential in that trend.

I think Spyro was the first mainstream game to standardise achievements, you could do random stuff in-game and it gave you a little pop up

Which one did that?

Someone can easily host a website to leak this information

Anyone with a kbin account see them by default, no need to create a special website for it

Just don’t buy/play on launch day, that goes for almost every AAA open world game.

Nowadays most websites leaves half of your horizontal space empty on high resolution monitors, so you have a lot of unused real estate. Verticals tabs can also fit in more tabs while showing tab title and can implement features like collapsible tabs.

dare I say Arch is easier and users friendly than Ubuntu

No, please stop trying to fool Linux beginners into starting out with Arch.

PS5 is way better at decompression, so the textures are likely less compressed for better performance. Most likely the PC version will ship with higher resolution textures which would play a bigger role though.

What about websites providing CSAM, hosting livestreams of animals being tortured for payment, selling drugs, etc…

Blocking a website is the only way for a country to stop these kind of illegal activists, short of shutting down the physical servers.

This exaggeration gets tiresome, there are some great uses for LLM. The copilot autocomplete got to be one of the greatest QoL functions in a modern IDE.

It also generally work great for tech support, and lowers the skill requirement for installing and maintaining a Linux distro. Nowadays I will usually just redirect tech support questions from family members to an LLM.

Just because it won’t solve cancer in 10 years like the tech bros preach doesn’t mean the tech is without uses.