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DigitalJacobin

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  • ‘This is not cancel culture’: DeSantis defends call to ban pro-Palestinian groups at Florida colleges

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  • That's not what it means

    That's because "cancel culture" doesn't actually mean anything.

  • Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry

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  • Feel how you want, but Spotify has a very clear policy on hateful content. And sure, maybe you won't listen to it, but do you know who will? Bigoted psychos that will go out and commit a hate crime. Allowing content like this on a popular platform will lead to hate crimes. There is nothing wrong with private platforms choosing to not platform certain kinds of content and it is entirely within their right.

    Spotify has the right to deplatfom hateful content and doing so is the ethical thing to do.

  • Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry

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  • The act of book banning itself isn't the real issue. The issue is the homophobia/transphobia motivating the conservative book banning.

  • Kick tankies out of 196

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  • I tend to interpret ‘tankie’ to be people who support Lenin’s dictatorship of the proletariat or similar ideas

    That's just Marxism. That idea started with Marx, not Lenin. He even talks about it in the Communist Manifesto, saying:

    We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

    Not even mentioning his Critique of the Gotha Programme where he talks about the dictatorship of the proletariat and the transition from capitalism to communism extensively. It's okay to not be a Marxist, but it's just factually incorrect to claim that the dictatorship of the proletariat isn't integral to Marx's understanding of the transition to communism.

  • Janet Yellen: America can certainly afford two wars, US Treasury secretary says

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  • We used to support social mobility

    When? Under slavery? Under Jim Crow? Under neoliberalism/Reagan?

    and home ownership

    Maybe to get settlers to move west for manifest destiny.

  • Please, do not use Brave.

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  • There are many, many good reasons to not use Brave. Being spyware is not one of those.

    Boycott Brave for real reasons like their CEO and owner being a raging anti-gay reactionary or because of their cryptocurrency bs.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google^1, who leads the group) in favor of their inferior .avif format.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • However, getting people used to double extensions is one quick way of increasing the success rate of attacks such as the infamous “.pdf.exe” invoice from an email attachment.

    Very good point. Though, i would argue that this would be much less of a problem if Windows stopped sometimes hiding file extensions.

    I can’t see how Windows’ convention is worse

    I don't believe what you're referring to is really a Windows versus Linux/Unix thing.

    If I zip a file, it doesn’t matter what it was in a previous life, it’s now a zip - this is also how Unix deals with many filetypes, I’ve never seen a .h264.mp4 file, even though the .mp4 container can actually represent different types of encoding.

    I disagree, but i do get what you're saying here. I don't think that example really works though, because a .mp4 file isn't derived from a .h264 file. A .mp4 is a container that may include h264-encoded video, but it may also have a channel with Opus-encoded audio or something. It's apples and oranges.

    Also, even though there shouldn't be any technical issues with this on Windows, you can still use a typical short filename suffix if you wish, though i would argue that using the long filename suffix is more expressive. From "tar (computing)" on Wikipedia:

    CompressorLongShort
    bzip2.tar.bz2.tb2, .tbz, .tbz2, .tz2
    gzip.tar.gz.taz, .tgz
    lzip.tar.lz
    lzma.tar.lzma.tlz
    lzop.tar.lzo
    xz.tar.xz.tx
    compress.tar.Z.tZ, .taZ
    zstd.tar.zst.tzst

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • I get the frustration, but Windows is the one that strayed from convention/standard.

    Also, i should've asked this earlier, but doesn't Windows also only look at the characters following the last dot in the filename when determining the file type? If so, then this should be fine for Windows, since there's only one canonical file extension at a time, right?

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • True, but it offered a much more secure alternative to opening up PDFs locally.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • What's messed up is that, technically, we do. Originally, OpenDocument was the ISO standard document format. But then, baffling everyone, Microsoft got the ISO to also have .docx as an ISO standard. So now we have 2 competing document standards, the second of which is simply worse.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • The problem here being that GnuPG does nothing really well.

    Could you elaborate? I've never had any issues with gpg before and curious what people are having issues with.

    Unfortunately currently there aren’t many options to use AV1 in a very meaningful way; you can encode your own media with it, but that’s about it; you can stream to YouTube, but YouTube will recode to another codec.

    AV1 has almost full browser support (iirc) and companies like YouTube, Netflix, and Meta have started moving over to AV1 from VP9 (since AV1 is the successor to VP9). But you're right, it's still working on adoption, but this is moreso just my dreamworld than it is a prediction for future standardization.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • Sounds like a Windows problem

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • AV1 can do lossy video as well as lossless video.

  • if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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  • Different ways of compressing the initial .tar archive.

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  • So there's a tool called tar that creates an archive (a .tar file. Then theres a tool called zstd that can be used to compress files, including .tar files, which then becomes a .tar.zst file. And then you can encrypt your .tar.zst file using a tool called gpg, which would leave you with an encrypted, compressed .tar.zst.gpg archive.

    Now, most people aren't doing everything in the terminal, so the process for most people would be pretty much the same as creating a ZIP archive.

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    Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2023/10/ad-free-facebook-instagram-access-planned-for-14-per-month-in-europe/
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    Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike

    www.vice.com /en/article/k7zn5y/google-flat-out-refuses-to-bargain-with-workers-prompting-youtube-music-strike
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    Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features

    www.theverge.com /2023/9/18/23879221/microsoft-paint-testing-layers-transparency-photoshop-features
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    Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off

    www.theverge.com /2023/9/12/23870547/unit-price-change-game-development