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jablalaon Lots to See in Firefox 93

It is anecdotal but we had a JPEG at ~115KB and after encoding to AVIF the quality remained the same but the file size dropped to ~15KB.

Having looked at caniuse.com it seems that Chrome, Opera and (only just now by default) Firefox support it. With Edge, Safari, and the majority of mobile browsers still to catch up.

jablalaon Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

I would also add 'The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus' as a loser. Having to now take electricity from Turkey, further solidifying this horrible depending relationship.

jablalaon Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

Humans don't kill people, guns do.

jablalaon Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

I think that's a porkie, I am with Vodafone (Openreach) and it's completely crippled.