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Regarding decentralized internet, your idea is being enacted! I posted a couple short docs about that over on !breadtube@slrpnk.net

Here’s the first one, I’ll go hunt down the second.

Edit: found it!

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

Fahrenheit 451 is certainly worth a read. I read it late in life, and could see immediately why it’s so often read in schools. Very well written, and a compelling story.

Another book that you may find quite personally compelling is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Archive.org has a free audio book version), due to the themes it covers.

If your main value is small government, have you looked into classical anarchism?

I slightly prefer Joe’s brand of humor, and I think he’s doing well on his own, but the two had great chemistry, and complemented each others style.

If you haven’t come across an Ahoy video, then you’d be in for a treat, as he has pretty excellent production values and has a way of turning mundane information into a compelling story. In this video in particular, he shows us his search for the real sales figures for the Amiga after showing the current information was basically heresay with an unreliable source.

After this video was put up, it became the new official source linked to on Wikipedia as the most accurate estimate of total Amiga sales.

The information I’ve seen regarding deep discharge life-cycle for sodium ion is that the latest tech is actually extremely good, at least according to this. I don’t see how the lower voltage is a problem, since for grid situations you’ll have step-up transformers anyway, and the batteries can just be hooked up in series to increase the voltage.

They use abundant materials, will be much cheaper than lithium ion, don’t need to be actively cooled, and massively lessen the risk of rupture and fires.

The low density per unit of weight isn’t relevant for grid storage, so they seem pretty ideal.

Sodium batteries require very little rare earths in comparison to lithium batteries.

Sodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.

Curious how much that still applies, being a decade old now.

Open source software in general. Seeing Blender become an industry standard was awesome, and it looks like the Godot engine may do the same for gaming. Krita has evolved into a truly wonderful painting program (and not half bad as a Photoshop replacement), and Linux itself has come so far, having become a genuine gaming platform.

Quite happy about all of that. :)

There should be a tl:DW in the comments here.

Oh damn, even better than the estimates I found.

Ladybird is in a prime position if they keep up their steady progress, I really hope they succeed.

PNG is a lossless format, and hence results in fairly large file sized compared to compressed formats, so they’re solving different issues.

JPEG XL is capable of being either lossy or lossless, so it sorta replaces both JPEG and PNG

JPEG XL supports lossless compression with a roughly 35% reduction in file size compared to PNG.

No worries! :D

Ah! quite right, thanks for the correction :)

That’s a good argument, and as a fan of permacomputing and reducing e-waste, I must admit I’m fairly swayed by it.

However, are you sure JPEG XL decode/encode is more computationally heavy than JPEG to where it would struggle on older hardware? This measurement seems to show that it’s quite comparable to standard JPEG, unless I’m misunderstanding something (and I very well might be).

That wouldn’t help the people stuck on an outdated browser (older, unsupported phones?), but for those who can change their OS, like older PC’s, a modern Linux distro with an updated browser would still allow that old hardware to decode JPEG XL’s fairly well, I would hope.