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  • JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code

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  • No, I'm saying that JPEG XL can perfectly represent old JPEG/JFIF data, so on the server side you can store all your image data once and more efficiently, and still support old clients without any lossy cascade or the CPU load of having to re-encode. That is what is meant about it offering backwards compatibility.

  • Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

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  • So now it will be an intentionally ineffective unintentional waste of money, rather than an unintentionally ineffective unintentional waste of money.

    I'm not sure that's actually any improvement at all.

  • JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code

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  • It's "compatible" in that it can represent old JPEG/JFIF data more efficiently and in less space, and the transformation to JPEG XL and back to JPEG/JFIF is lossless (in that you don't lose any /more/ quality, you can get the same bits back out) and quick enough to be doable on-demand. You could, for example, re-encode all your old photos on your CDN as JPEG XL without loss of quality but save a bunch of disc space and bandwidth when serving to modern browsers, and translate dynamically back to the old format for older browers, all with no loss of quality.

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • Does CrossOver Office support a version of Excel which ticks your boxes? Are you in a position at your workplace to move them off Excel? I honestly have never found an organisation where they were using it for what it was meant for, often being used in place of proper tools - databases, issue management systems, requirements tracking, etc - where the better tool would be better and cheaper.

    But, like JIRA, the people who make decisions only know one tool, and that tool is a hammer.

  • Does anybody here owns a PineNote? How usable is it?

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  • I've bought several Pine products over the years, and they're all on a shelf gathering dust. If you like writing software to make a cost-engineered piece of hardware with basically no useful software at all work as you might expect an actual product you paid for from a shop, they're great.

    If you're expecting a useful out of box experience, or even a useful experience after hours of hacking and tuning, they are not for you.

  • What can we do to make flatpaks follow the GTK theme?

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  • Given I can have four Gtk apps not in FlatPaks all have different title bars in GNOME proper, I don't think this will ever work properly.

  • Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse

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  • Reminder that The Canary is run by frothy-mouthed moaners who spin everything negatively unless personally blessed by Corbyn. It is not balanced, fair, or independent reporting. It's clearly also nonsense, as "en masse" implies the entire group previously described, and I'm pretty sure a) the Labour Party still has members, b) Your Party can't even decide how it is you become a member.

    A much better, less sensationalist article is the one they link to: https://walthamforestecho.co.uk/2025/09/30/21-leyton-and-wanstead-labour-party-members-resign-over-right-wing-drift/

  • Debian Trixie

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  • It's boring and predictable, which is precisely what I want from a distribution. It also benefits from not being a desktop OS, or a server OS, or an embedded OS, it's all of those: learning Debian is useful even if you hate it and don't run it personally because you will encounter it somewhere.

  • How bad is my partitioning?

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  • You have swap, which is pointless in this day and age, and will just burn a hole in the flash and delay the OOM killer doing its work. Look at ntfsresize to shrink that Windows partition down to the minimum. Then maybe image the partitions and obliterate them from the SSD. Use LVM instead to give yourself future flexibility. 1TB NVMe SSDs are so cheap these days they might as well put them in boxes of cereal.

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  • No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they're all destroyed. Otherwise it's a gimmick that just inconveniences.

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • I don't seem to be able to upvote this twice.

  • Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule

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  • Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule

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  • This is karma for saying it works in tea.

  • Is anyone here using an enterprise Linux distro?

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  • Yes, Debian.

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  • Wow is it still a thing? I had no idea. It always seemed to sit in this weird limbo between Spotify and YouTube Music (for people who just want to listen to music) and Qobuz and HD Tracks (for people who just want to listen to their new £250 power leads). Never sure what it was actually for.

  • Tired of bluetooth problems, should I get a wired mouse or a bluetooth dongle?

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  • Air is fundamentally a terrible conductor of electricity and is full of noise. Use a wire.

  • What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

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  • ext4 because I value my data and don't want to lose it. I used to mess about with ZFS for mass storage but it's a university course to learn how to use and have decent performance.

    I used to use XFS, but ext4 caught up.

    And I used to use XFS... on something other than Linux.

  • IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux

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  • Helix. It's modal like Vim but the defaults just work, and a quick "hx --health" will list every mode and what package you need to install for the language server.

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    Drew DeVault on the biggest threats to FOSS and some proposed solutions

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  • He missed "Drew DeVault forking maintained packages and abandoning them"