>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in Japan, 5 are anime (Spirited Away, Demon…
As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a reality and much worse than potentially…
Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ? Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.
Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.
>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden. A couple a months ago when I spoke to my dad, he told me he…
For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable. Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is…
Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.
I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title. Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a Starcraft server re-implementation,…
Then why was this legislation introduced ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to…
>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated. I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like…
>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how they have lied from day one of this…
Do new Android phones save photos in HEIC format ?
>They get slammed for being funded by Google I don't see that at all, I mean they've been funded by Google for practically their entire existence. On the contrary it seems to me that Firefox users find that funding the…
I've not seen any indication that users wanted it, I've also read that Mozilla developers agree that it should be an extension. Yet Mozilla buys this and puts it inside Firefox, where it can at best be disabled by going…
>You can go back from XL to jpeg losslessly as well I don't think so, but I don't quite see the point unless you are thinking of using it as a way to archive jpeg's, but in that case there are programs specifically for…
Yes, it losslessly recompresses existing jpeg's into the jpeg XL format, while also making the files ~20% smaller, key point being lossless. Thus it is the 'perfect' upgrade path from jpeg which is the current lossy…
>Interesting. Where have you seen that adoption will be swifter with JPEG XL instead of, say, AV1/AVIF? Well, it's not finalized as of yet (though it is imminent), so rate of adoption is just pure guesswork at this…
>Likely the format with the best chance of overthrowing the jpg/gif/png incumbents is AVIF I used to think the same as well, however I now think Jpeg XL is poised to be the 'winner' among next gen image codecs. It's…
>Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. No it doesn't, the devs refuse to provide stable in-kernel APIs because they want the flexibility to be able to modify them as they please when a better solution comes…
Another 'estimate' by a 'analytics firm' and this still does not say anything about 'The Mandalorian' specifically.
>is the most streamed television show in recent history Where did you find those numbers ? All I could find was: 'The Mandalorian earned nearly 40 million “demand expressions” during the week of Nov. 10-16, according to…
I've only seen clips of the movie, but those don't look very promising IMO. I read that this had a $95 million production budget, I can't fathom what they spent it on when looking at the end result. Beyond that I'm…
>Blender was a commercial product 18 years ago, since then it's been open source and paid for by donations >and has some big studios doing those donations These big studios started donating this past year when the…
Blender, Krita are notable FOSS projects being sustainable through donations. I'm not saying it's easy, just that it's not impossible.
>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in Japan, 5 are anime (Spirited Away, Demon…
As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a reality and much worse than potentially…
Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ? Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.
Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.
>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden. A couple a months ago when I spoke to my dad, he told me he…
For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable. Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is…
Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.
I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title. Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a Starcraft server re-implementation,…
Then why was this legislation introduced ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to…
>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated. I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like…
>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how they have lied from day one of this…
Do new Android phones save photos in HEIC format ?
>They get slammed for being funded by Google I don't see that at all, I mean they've been funded by Google for practically their entire existence. On the contrary it seems to me that Firefox users find that funding the…
I've not seen any indication that users wanted it, I've also read that Mozilla developers agree that it should be an extension. Yet Mozilla buys this and puts it inside Firefox, where it can at best be disabled by going…
>You can go back from XL to jpeg losslessly as well I don't think so, but I don't quite see the point unless you are thinking of using it as a way to archive jpeg's, but in that case there are programs specifically for…
Yes, it losslessly recompresses existing jpeg's into the jpeg XL format, while also making the files ~20% smaller, key point being lossless. Thus it is the 'perfect' upgrade path from jpeg which is the current lossy…
>Interesting. Where have you seen that adoption will be swifter with JPEG XL instead of, say, AV1/AVIF? Well, it's not finalized as of yet (though it is imminent), so rate of adoption is just pure guesswork at this…
>Likely the format with the best chance of overthrowing the jpg/gif/png incumbents is AVIF I used to think the same as well, however I now think Jpeg XL is poised to be the 'winner' among next gen image codecs. It's…
>Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. No it doesn't, the devs refuse to provide stable in-kernel APIs because they want the flexibility to be able to modify them as they please when a better solution comes…
Another 'estimate' by a 'analytics firm' and this still does not say anything about 'The Mandalorian' specifically.
>is the most streamed television show in recent history Where did you find those numbers ? All I could find was: 'The Mandalorian earned nearly 40 million “demand expressions” during the week of Nov. 10-16, according to…
I've only seen clips of the movie, but those don't look very promising IMO. I read that this had a $95 million production budget, I can't fathom what they spent it on when looking at the end result. Beyond that I'm…
>Blender was a commercial product 18 years ago, since then it's been open source and paid for by donations >and has some big studios doing those donations These big studios started donating this past year when the…
Blender, Krita are notable FOSS projects being sustainable through donations. I'm not saying it's easy, just that it's not impossible.