The title is hyperbole. PNG is lagging behind modern lossless formats in terms of new features. This doesn't mean it's a bad format or that it shouldn't be used. In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn't support or really need to reduce file size.
In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.
I disagree. It is wasteful (we're talking ~30% savings with lossless WebP or JPEG-XL) and widely misused, which matters at the massive scale of the Internet with technically inexperienced people making up plenty of those images.
Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It's not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.
Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let's go with that. Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he's wasting more disk space than before.
So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it's even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.
It's ironic how WebP lossless mode is actually better at compressing the image than the lossy mode.
I bet most people would use the default thinking that they are making a compromise and that increasing the quality would make the compression worse. They wouldn't know unless they tested making the images themselves, because it's not easy for users to differentiate lossy webp from lossless webp.
This imho is why lossless should be in its own format, instead of trying to make a single container format do everything like WebP was trying. A new compression level for PNG would be most welcome.
Last year, China generated 834 terawatt-hours of solar power.
Which is more than the G7 countries generated, and more than the US and EU combined. In fact the only country group that generates more solar power than China is the OECD, all 38 countries of it.
È a dir poco sconcertante (!), ma la maledizione di Murphy si è gravemente abbattuta su di me in questi ultimi giorni… mi si sta letteralmente rompendo tutto, ogni cosa che possiedo, tutti i miei averi tangibili. Questo è ovviamente un duplice problema, perché da un lato sono tirchia e non voglio (ri)comprare assolutamente niente, […]
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È a dir poco sconcertante (!), ma la maledizione di Murphy si è gravemente abbattuta su di me in questi ultimi giorni… mi si sta letteralmente rompendo tutto, ogni cosa che possiedo, tutti i miei averi tangibili. Questo è ovviamente un duplice problema, perché da un lato sono tirchia e non voglio (ri)comprare assolutamente niente, e dall’altro la distruzione di tutti i miei strumenti ed il mio ambiente di lavoro mi porta a distrarmi e dunque a disperarmi ancora di più del già abbastanza alto normale. A parte i soliti problemi col PC, e il telefono che è lento, infatti, ora piano piano arrivano anche degli spacc fisici, e io sto per perdere così forte la pazienza che potrei arrivare a ricostruirmi tutta la roba che mi serve con soltanto cartone e colla, così almeno so che resiste… 😭
Non c’è solo la roba elettronica a rompersi (e a rompere a me le scatole, nel farlo…) infatti, in questo caso. Forse per il caldo e l’umidità insieme (ma in realtà non ne ho idea) gli appendicazzi schifosi che uso per appendere roba al lato del mobile dove ho la scrivania stanno iniziando a crollare uno dopo l’altro, al ritmo di tipo 1 al giorno… che è preoccupante a dir poco. La colla si secca, l’adesivo si spacca, e quindi cade ogni cosa. Prima è caduto quello che uso per tenere rialzata dal pavimento la prolunga elettrica, poi è caduto quest’altro su cui avevo tanto accuratamente posizionato il ventilatorino da scrivania… è veramente tutto inutile così il tempo da me speso nel fare interior design però, eddai. Mi fa anche così tanto rosicare che deve finire sempre così che ho volontariamente preso uno degli appendini che è caduto e, con calma, l’ho spezzato… e ora quindi dovrò cambiarlo per forza, mentre se non avessi fatto questa stronzata avrei potuto rimetterlo a posto come nuovo con della colla a caldo, che roba. Vabbè va. 😵 Ovviamente, comunque, le cose che principalmente si rompono sempre, e che quando lo fanno danno noie serie, sono quelle elettriche. Da svariate sere fa, infatti, non posso più usare la mia striscia LED, perché l’adattatore-microcontroller si è rotto. Non ho capito bene come ma, a giudicare dal fatto che l’innesto jack DC sembra visivamente squagliato, avrà qualcosa a che fare con il fatto che, nelle ultime settimane prima del decesso, il jack in questione diventava veramente caldissimo durante l’uso… e forse faceva già qualche falso contatto, perché ogni tanto le luci si spegnevano da sole per degli istanti. Non ho idea di se fosse l’alimentatore il problema, ma probabilmente è più l’adattatore, perché già da anni dava problemi (per esempio, anche premendo OFF sul telecomando, le luci rimanevano accese di un leggero blu)… magari la porta era di suo prona a rompersi, e facendo contatti sempre più falsi ha fatto disperdere sempre più energia come calore, ed ecco qua. Non ha neanche senso rimpiazzare il connettore a questo punto, meglio comprare nuova tutta la schedina… però il casalinghi cinese non la venderà mai da sola, e online costa più del dovuto, quindi fin’ora sono rimasta letteralmente senza luce colorata, che la sera è una fottuta tragedia. ☠️ Beh, però la luce arcobaleno la ho sempre dalla mia tastiera meccanica cinesissima… eccetto che potrebbe dover sparire pure quella, perché ha ricominciato a fare le bizze. Mesi fa già aveva dato strani problemi, per cui per giusto qualche giorno un tasto (la lettera E) andava e poi non andava, a momenti completamente a caso; da ieri sera, invece, sono i tasti M ed I a fare lo sciopero, e un po’ anche la J… e il tempo per cui non funzionano è gravemente di più di quello per cui lo fanno. Scuotere, pulire e spolverare, così come premere i tasti più forte o per più a lungo, non cambia assolutamente nulla… semplicemente a momenti scrivono, ed altri no; e qualche volta scrivono con un leggero ritardo dopo averli rilasciati, finendo per inserire dopo un qualche altro simbolo che nel mentre ho premuto. Ah e, nel frattempo, ovviamente la mia chiavetta Bluetooth di 20 anni fa non funziona su Windows 10 64 bit (nonostante su Linux andasse, pure se male, mannaggia a tutt cos); e le altre tastiere USB che ho da parte, oltre ad essere a membrana, sono pure quelle mezze rotte (tra cui una che va su altri PC, ma non sul mio fisso; forse avrà il connettore marcio)… è la megafine. 🙃
La tastiera meccanica nuova non la comprerò neanche per idea, perché se questo problema si era risolto da solo prima allora deve farlo anche ora… altrimenti… ci rimarrò molto molto male!!! Però almeno una tastiera così, da battaglia, mi sa che devo comprarla, al casalinghi cinese, altrimenti finirò a pettinare le bambole per interi giorni. Questo post l’ho scritto dal tablet, per esempio, perché preferisco addirittura usare la tastiera touch mezza laggante piuttosto che quella a membrana con i tasti mezzi affossati e mezzi che non si premono se non si da un pugno, e tutte queste cose qui… Ah, tablet che, a tal proposito, per via del fatto che Samsung usa componenti di merda, ha la porta USB-C mezza rotta (un problema noto su questo modello)… e spero che quantomeno continui a caricare per sempre, quel poco che basta per evitarmi di dover comprare ed installare il pezzo di ricambio (che sarà ugualmente fallato, quindi dopo anni di uso andrebbe nuovamente cambiato…). Non ce la faccio assolutamente più, salvatemi da questa spaccnologia!!! 😨😓😭
When you see your own face in the mirror, no matter how far you are, the portion of the mirror showing your face is always half the size of your actual face.
Try it. Look at a mirror and put a ruler on the mirror, the size of your face on the mirror will always be the same, no matter how far you are. It will be half the size of your actual face.
It works because of triangles. Just start drawing some diagrams and you'll quickly figure out how on your own. Which is more fun than having someone give you a geometric proof.
In an era marked by an abundance of news sources, access to information significantly influences public opinion. Notably, the bias of news sources often serves as an indicator of individuals’ political leanings. This study explores this hypothesis by examining the news sharing behavior of politically active social media users, whose political ideologies were identified in a previous study. Using correspondence analysis, we estimate the Media Sharing Index (MSI), a measure that captures bias in media outlets and user preferences within a hidden space. During Argentina’s 2019 election on Twitter, we observed a predictable pattern: center-right individuals predominantly shared media from center-right biased outlets. However, it is noteworthy that those with center-left inclinations displayed a more diverse media consumption, which is a significant finding. Despite a noticeable polarization based on political affiliation observed in a retweet network analysis, center-left users showed more diverse media sharing preferences, particularly concerning the MSI. Although these findings are specific to Argentina, the developed methodology can be applied in other countries to assess the correlation between users’ political leanings and the media they share
Dr James Smith, an emergency physician, describes the aid situation in Gaza, where the Israeli military is killing people every day as they seek aid from US-backed distribution sites.
Iran Nuclear Attack: अमेरिकी हमलों से हमारे परमाणु ठिकानों को हुआ भारी नुकसान, ईरान ने किया स्वीकार
Iran News: Iran Nuclear Attack से ईरान के परमाणु कार्यक्रम को गहरा आघात लगा है। विदेश मंत्रालय के प्रवक्ता इस्माइल बाघेई ने अल जज़ीरा को बताया कि अमेरिकी हमलों ने नतांज़, फ़ोर्डो और इस्फ़हान सुविधाओं को भारी नुकसान पहुंचाया। रविवार को बी-2 स्टील्थ बमवर्षकों ने 30,000 पाउंड के बंकर-बस्टर बमों का उपयोग किया। ईरान का कहना है कि कोई रेडियोधर्मी रिसाव नहीं हुआ। यह हमला क्षेत्रीय तनाव को और बढ़ा सकता है।
ट्रंप का युद्ध समाप्ति का दावा
अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप ने Iran Nuclear Attack को सफल बताते हुए दावा किया कि इससे ईरान-इज़रायल युद्ध समाप्त हुआ। हेग में पत्रकारों से बातचीत में उन्होंने कहा कि उनके फैसले ने युद्ध रोका। ट्रंप ने खुफिया रिपोर्टों को खारिज किया, जिनमें कहा गया कि हमलों से ईरान का परमाणु कार्यक्रम केवल कुछ महीनों के लिए रुका। उन्होंने जोर देकर कहा कि यह नुकसान दशकों तक असर डालेगा।
परमाणु कार्यक्रम पर प्रभाव
Iran Nuclear Attack ने ईरान के परमाणु ठिकानों को गंभीर रूप से प्रभावित किया। बाघेई ने विस्तृत जानकारी देने से इनकार किया, लेकिन नुकसान की पुष्टि की। फ़ोर्डो, नतांज़ और इस्फ़हान सुविधाएं गहरे भूमिगत हैं, फिर भी बंकर-बस्टर बमों ने इन्हें निशाना बनाया। उपग्रह चित्रों से नुकसान का अंदाज़ा लगाया जा रहा है। ईरान का कहना है कि वह अपने परमाणु कार्यक्रम को फिर से शुरू करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध है।
वैश्विक प्रतिक्रिया और भविष्य
Iran Nuclear Attack के बाद वैश्विक चिंता बढ़ गई है। ट्रंप ने दावा किया कि ईरान अब परमाणु हथियार बनाने की स्थिति में नहीं है। उन्होंने तेहरान से कूटनीतिक रास्ता अपनाने की अपील की। हालांकि, ईरान ने जवाबी कार्रवाई की चेतावनी दी है। अंतरराष्ट्रीय परमाणु ऊर्जा एजेंसी ने पुष्टि की कि हमलों से रेडियोधर्मी रिसाव नहीं हुआ। यह स्थिति क्षेत्रीय स्थिरता और वैश्विक कूटनीति के लिए नई चुनौतियां खड़ी कर सकती है।
Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’
Some wear balaclavas. Some wear neck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing up prominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBI agent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedented in US law enforcement and a sign of a rapidly eroding democracy. “Masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls,” he said.
🐌 La “lumaca killer” non è un killer. Il vero pericolo è un verme parassita l’Angiostrongylus cantonensis, che può colpire cani e, in rari casi, anche l’uomo.
Negli ultimi giorni, termini allarmistici come “lumaca killer”, “strage di cani” o “allarme in Australia” hanno fatto il giro del web e dei vari quotidiani. Ma cosa c’è di vero
Mamdani's emphasis on socialism and redistribution of wealth runs counter to Wall Street's preference for unbridled capitalism and policies that support growth, such as deregulation and low taxes. The 33-year-old has supported taxing the ultra-wealthy, financial transactions and passive income like dividends. He has also endorsed a state-level wealth tax and increased marginal income tax rates on high earners.
Hedge fund magnate Bill Ackman said he woke up Wednesday "a bit depressed" by Mamdani's victory. The Pershing Square chief said he's now looking at the logistics for another candidate, not himself, to run.
Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University, also expressed his distaste Mamdani's nomination.
His potential victory could bring what the Street despises the most — tax hikes and tighter regulation that threaten corporate and investment interests.
In a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence and copyright law, Meta has secured a bittersweet partial fair use victory in its defense of a 'piracy' lawsuit filed by several book authors. While granting Meta summary judgment on specific claims, the court outlined how copyright challenges against AI developers might succeed in the future. The decision emphasizes the critical importance of proving potential market harm, specifically by AI-generated books.
Second, the plaintiffs argued that Meta’s unauthorized copying harmed the relatively new market for AI training licensing. The court dismissed this too, ruling that the harm from the loss of licensing fees is not “cognizable”.
So all loss claimed by media giant for lost subscription (license fee) is not cognizable.
“As should now be clear, this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one,” the ruling reads.
The court also identified a third argument, which the authors didn’t pursue in great detail; market dilution. Under this theory, AI models trained on copyrighted works can generate “countless works that compete with the originals, even if those works aren’t themselves infringing,” Judge Chhabria wrote.
So, even if what you make isn't infringing on their rights, its still competing with them which should be forbidden. That whole argument is a machine shouldn't be allowed to compete with a human. So, if I am inspired by another's work, that's ok, but if a machine does that we need to ban it.
The latter part makes sense to me tbh. Machines should not allowed to compete with humans (in creative endeavours) because it is an intrinsically unfair competition that further erodes the rights of those humans who are more vulnerable, in the circumstance that is opposite to the intent of having machines around in the first place. They are supposed to do our beast-of-burden work, not make it so that our only pending value to be extracted by capitalism is beast-of-burden work.
What I'm not sure I buy is the idea that the "countless works" generated by AI actually compete with the original, in particular if they are non-infringing. Let's say I take the work of an author to train an AI on their style. The author writes exclusively noir; I instruct the AI to generate college drama in the same style. Are the new works competing? The author won't offer me a college drama in the first place.
A recently published study aims to dispel yet another myth about video games, showing that both violent and non-violent gaming sessions can effectively reduce stress levels. The...
A partire dal tardo Medioevo e poi con prepotenza durante il Rinascimento, pittori e scultori iniziarono a rappresentare la scena della tentazione con una mela tra le mani di Eva.
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Nöd i dem Fall, nei. Ussert mer wett da ide Schwiiz go wohne, bringt Schwiizerdüütsch nöd würkli öppis. S Hochdüütsche degäge chan mer au da bruuche. S lohnt sich also viel meeh.
Mer chan ja au Schwiizerdüütsch lerne wenn mer s Hochdüütsche langsam chan. Sött denn au viel eifacher sii.
Schwiizerdüütsch lerne isch au viel schwärer ohni Immersion wills halt eifach chum Lernmaterial dezue git. Und natürlich viel weniger Regle, wenn doch Regle bim lerne hälfet. Somit dänke ich nöd, dass Schwiizerdüütsch em Titel da grächt wird.
La nuova «missione della Lega» sarà «rivedere, circoscrivere, definire il reato di tortura». Lo dichiara il ministro alle infrastrutture, Matteo Salvini.
This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.
Or shows where the characters are supposed to be lower/middle class but somehow afford all sorts of shit that is super unrealistic. (Think the cast of Superstore all getting super fancy halloween costumes every year and buying a new one every year eating takeout all the time and easily affording middle range cars when they work minimum wage).
Il Mediterraneo si sta riscaldando come mai prima d’ora, con anomalie termiche che superano i 5 gradi tra Spagna, Francia e Sardegna. Lo segnala l’Osservatorio ANBI, che parla di temperature marine record, con punte fino a 29 gradi attese nei prossimi giorni. Questo caldo eccezionale ha effetti anche sulla terraferma: le aree dove il mare è più freddo registrano temperature più miti, mentre in Europa occidentale il caldo africano imperversa, con punte di 40 gradi in Italia. Intanto calano i livelli di fiumi e laghi, soprattutto al Sud e al Centro. Il fiume Po ha perso il 25% della sua portata in una settimana. Secondo ANBI, servono investimenti urgenti in infrastrutture e una nuova gestione del territorio, per affrontare una crisi climatica che accelera, soprattutto nel bacino del Mediterraneo.
Il Mediterraneo si sta trasformando in un vero e proprio "brodo caldo", con temperature superficiali che raggiungono livelli mai registrati prima. A lanciare l’allarme è l’Osservatorio ANBI sulle Risorse Idriche,
A senior aide to President Donald Trump has claimed Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary is a result of a failure to control migration.
"NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration," Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, wrote on X.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a stunning upset on Tuesday night.
Specifically "disability" benefits or just overall social security transfers?
Bcs that might be due to the total household income too (and the fact that unfortunately a lot of ppl with disabilities & chronic pain don't have a lot of income). \ (Overall we tend to be overly strict about such stuff bcs politicians often exploit it in a manner 'why should we pay for a millionaires basic wheelchair?!??' ... but I didn't know there was like a cut-off income point for overall benefits in terms of using them for specific medical things in Italy & Belgium, iirc that's not the case for glasses & basic dental care, tho the availability of the later in Italy is poor/really basic.)
Well it’s the welfare people with disabilities (who cannot work due to their disability) are eligeable for. The system is different in every country but usually you have a base rate that is not enough to survive on (in the US it tends to be 8k per year, other countries aren’t much more generous), and hopefully you also qualify for other help, like maybe food stamps or subsidised energy payments.
In most of the countries I listed, both of those are slashed down or straight up removed if you marry someone with income, but especially the second. Which basically removes any freedom for the disabled person in the relationship and makes it way easier for abusive relationships to happen.
Because you end up having a huge power imbalance. You cannot fight for yourself, you rely on your partner for your daily care or for transport if you need to go anywhere. You also rely on them for money etc. The relationship can end up as heirarchical as a Parent/Child relationship. So it’s really a problem that if you choose to marry you lose all your independence.
RiceMunk
in reply to Arthur Besse • • •ViatorOmnium
in reply to RiceMunk • • •This doesn't mean it's a bad format or that it shouldn't be used. In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn't support or really need to reduce file size.
comfy
in reply to ViatorOmnium • • •I disagree. It is wasteful (we're talking ~30% savings with lossless WebP or JPEG-XL) and widely misused, which matters at the massive scale of the Internet with technically inexperienced people making up plenty of those images.
ViatorOmnium
in reply to comfy • • •Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It's not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.
Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let's go with that. Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he's wasting more disk space than before.
So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it's even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.
comfy
in reply to ViatorOmnium • • •I just tested with this image:
Default GIMP WebP export settings (90% quality): 88.8 kB
Lossless WebP mode: 85.6 kB
Default GIMP PNG export settings (compression level 9): 189.8 kB
So I don't trust this claim unless you have some evidence.
Ferk
in reply to comfy • • •It's ironic how WebP lossless mode is actually better at compressing the image than the lossy mode.
I bet most people would use the default thinking that they are making a compromise and that increasing the quality would make the compression worse. They wouldn't know unless they tested making the images themselves, because it's not easy for users to differentiate lossy webp from lossless webp.
This imho is why lossless should be in its own format, instead of trying to make a single container format do everything like WebP was trying. A new compression level for PNG would be most welcome.