theandrewbailey

I think it's only a matter of time before we decrypt the Voynich manuscript and the fourth message of Kryptos.

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/beinecke/collections/beine...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/kryptos

It's part of libavif. I've usually compiled it myself.

https://github.com/aomediacodec/libavif

avifenc supports args like enable-chroma-deltaq. I've used those but recently stopped, and nothing substantial changed.

I've been using AVIF on my blog for a few years. My blog's image corpus is almost entirely videogame screenshots, and I keep the original PNGs so I can re-encode if better encoders release. Despite playing around with JPEGXL every year or so, AVIF images usually looked better (if only a little) at the same file size (vs JPEGXL).

After reading this article, there's something to point to prove I'm not going crazy.

> I think one overlooked aspect is that AVIF is container based.

Many other image formats are. AVIF uses HEIC, the same container that HEIF does.

> when AV2, AV3 etc. will come out, there won't be a need to go through another very difficult phase of sites adoption - it will still be AVIF just with newer codec inside, and it will be just up to browsers to catch up on newer versions and newer codecs will address technical needs as times goes.

Fingers crossed, but AV2-based AVIF specs haven't even been finalized, so who knows.

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av2-isobmff

Won't somebody please think of the trillion dollar multinational corporation?

/s (if it wasn't obvious)

> (non-programmable until GeForce 3) hardware

I think the term you're looking for is fixed-function hardware.

Windows will always assume that it is the only operating system on a computer. It's not interested in sharing.

Guilty as charged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976609

> and trashing the PNG.

I don't delete my original source images, in case if I want to change the encoder parameters later, or if a newer encoder version improves quality.

I've played the LOUD mod for years, seems to solve a bunch of performance problems.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/loud-ai-supreme-commander-forged-...

Bring back DDR4? Journalists need to check their "I got new shit" privilege. I work in e-waste recycling. I've sold terabytes of RAM over the past year and a half. DDR4 never went away, and for that matter, neither has DDR3. (DDR2 and older isn't as common.)

> Images usually offer the least painful savings

Others here wonder why I'm so fascinated by compressing images to around 1 bit per pixel.

This is long overdue. What happened to that $100,000 H-1B application fee? Has that not taken effect or was that scrapped?

It's great that Chrome is shipping JPEGXL.

AVIF is still better at 1 bit per pixel and less. (JPEGXL is more efficient at more than that.) Is it possible for JPEGXL to beat that?

Oh, the horror. I remember when a 12GB disk was more than you could ever use in your life.

Side note: I parse this domain name as "D-Bus hell", and I expect a rant about how Linux IPC is completely broken, then I remember that this is somebody's blog.

Nvidia's latest drivers don't support GTX 1000 and older GPUs. They are barely 10 years old and are still plenty fast for a lot of software.

> edit: 35 year old cds is 1995

35 years ago is 1991. Don't try to age me faster than I'm already going!

I work in e-waste recycling. I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of Chromebooks come in from schools. They are five years old maximum, and most are in pretty bad shape.

The permanent floating accessibility menu is irritating. I'm reading this on a tablet, and it's very difficult to not have it cover text.

> letting you choose a degree of stability with one word

Debian Sid: the original rolling release distro.

May I suggest Debian? It's 90+% the same as Ubuntu, and is updated about as often as Ubuntu LTS, but no snaps.

I had a programming class just as Ubuntu was getting started, and the instructor gave us live CDs. I toyed with it for a few months, but went back to Windows.

A few years later (2008-ish), my college issued everybody Thinkpads. The default solution to nearly every problem was "re-image". Strangely, the images they used still had the 4-ish GB OEM recovery partition. I had enough insight to know they didn't use it. After searching for a user-friendly distro that could fit in 4GB, I settled on Xubuntu. I've since moved away from it (and Ubuntu in general), but not XFCE.

I work in e-waste recycling, and I can assure everyone that many schools issue Chromebooks to students.

Once again, CD Projekt Red treats their customers with respect. I look forward to replaying the Witcher 3 along with that new expansion soon.

When someone makes a submission, the text field becomes a comment when the URL field is not empty. (but sometimes not?) It's a poorly designed form that should be redone.

> ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

That's quite the statement, considering there's still more than a quarter left in 2026.

I work in e-waste recycling. About a year ago, one of these came in with a Mega-LD PAC. The Laserdisc/CD mechanism needed work, but it otherwise was functional. A co-worker called just about every retro game shop and collector nearby. We discovered that everyone who knew what it was already had one, and shops would rather have shelf space for things that sell faster. (It takes the space of like 5 Wiis, which can sell in less than a week.)

For several months, said co-worker would make a sales pitch to everyone that came in the warehouse. It eventually sold for about $800.

(2015)

It's a subsidy by proxy. The government forgoes tax revenue on money that goes to interest payments. People deliberately get loans for the interest deduction.

If you earned $100,000 in a year but paid $5,000 in mortgage interest, government will not collect taxes on that $5,000, because you gave it to the bank. The bank gets money, but government doesn't: makes little difference if you gave it to the government first (who then handed it on to a bank), or you gave it directly to the bank.