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There’s a scene in The World Is Not Enough where James Bond shoots a powered parachute in the wing and we hear engine struggling sounds.
I know the exact scene you’re talking about, but you’re misremembering. He doesn’t shoot it, he skis on it.
https://youtu.be/MQQLqRYm4vg?t=269
And then presumably dies from the hard landing as he broke the fall with his legs.
It’s more “smallweb” oriented, but there’s also Marginalia Search, independent index, operated out of Sweden, no ads, and warns about sites that use JS and include trackers.
Might be fine for the internet, but not for the name of a TV show, even one that’s on cable.
Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.
That’s when you bring up Kent State
I mean, that’s just plastic in general, it’s also why you shouldn’t reheat food in plastic containers because it can leach chemicals out of it.
Completely baseless assumption, but if there’s enough chemicals leaching from the containers into your food, you’d be able to taste it and wouldn’t be ingesting it to begin with.
It’s apparently their most asked question, it has top billing in their FAQ.
A single user mastodon instance has the same issues, any hashtags you can see will be from users you already follow. You need to subscribe to a relay to see more posts (Which GTS actually currently doesn’t support, so you need to follow tags from something like https://relay.fedi.buzz/)
That’s what the bomb collars are for.
They really want to promote their AVIF format, and supporting JXL would hinder that (Since JXL is a much nicer upgrade path from JPEG/PNG than AVIF is)
Like you can transparently go from JPEG to JXL and back with no loss, which isn’t possible with AVIF. And PNG to JXL gives you a smaller file, while it’s usually the opposite with AVIF (Unless you get lucky, as lossless AVIF can be beaten by a BMP in a ZIP file). There’s also the issue of speed, AVIF is slow to encode compared to other formats (And while hardware decoding is possible, it’s also geared towards video, so the quality is often lacking, and can sometimes be slower than plain software encoding)
It’s unclear why Google stuck with PNG for HDR screenshots instead of a format supported by Ultra HDR such as JPEG.
Because for good lossless HDR you’ve got a grand total of 2 options, PNG and JPEG XL. And Google don’t want people to know of yet another use case for JXL.
Edge is also following Chrome with the V3 rollout unfortunately.
“Fans claim it may offer an improvement” isn’t exactly a definitive statement.
From what I understand the research does actually show little to no improvement for either mode, which is actually a bit odd because we know the eye performs better the brighter the surroundings (Since it causes the pupil to contract, increasing the depth of field)
Maybe it’s a sign that we just need more research into the effectiveness in interfaces.
Or just plain union organizers.
Yep, Apple paid with shares (More specifically, the right to buy $1 million dollars worth at the initial share price) which, according to a share calculator I just tried, would be worth nearly $328 million these days, I wonder if Xerox kept them or offloaded them early.
Considering Xerox was utterly uninterested in any of the tech they had, it’s worked out well.
I think it’s a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.
That’s the job of a firewall, not a NAT.
That a NAT also blocks connections is incidental, it’s blocking them because it just has no idea how to handle them.
That’s because those adapters aren’t DACs, they’re straight electrical passthrough adapters.
I’ve got an actual USB DAC, a relatively cheap one, and it was still close to $50.
Edit: Doubled the price in my memory.
If it’s any consolation, in Australia that’d make you far-left.
Stuff that’s spec compliant has to follow the rules, non-spec compliant stuff can obviously do whatever, so yeah the cheap cables off ebay or amazon won’t use the right logos.
It’s USB2, so either for charging or simpler devices that don’t need USB3 (Like keyboards).
Edit: Federation issue? I swear there wasn’t an existing reply when I responded.
I like to imagine Gibbs just unplugged the monitor.