theandrewbailey's comments

On: What a 2 MB Page Costs Your Visitors

[theandrewbailey]

> Images usually offer the least painful savings

Others here wonder why I'm so fascinated by compressing images to around 1 bit per pixel.

On: White House targets tech giants with H-1B visa suspension

[theandrewbailey]

This is long overdue. What happened to that $100,000 H-1B application fee? Has that not taken effect or was that scrapped?

On: Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

[theandrewbailey]

It's great that Chrome is shipping JPEGXL.

AVIF is still better at 1 bit per pixel and less. (JPEGXL is more efficient at more than that.) Is it possible for JPEGXL to beat that?

[gcr → theandrewbailey]

That isn’t my experience. I tried compressing conference proceedings into thumbnails with tiny file size and for this purpose I found that JPEGXL is far better than AVIF

[adrian_b → theandrewbailey]

I do not know if JPEG XL is competitive with AVIF for very compressed images, because that is mostly a concern for those who want to host at a minimum cost Web pages with embedded images. I assume that AVIF must be better for that purpose.

On the other hand, AVIF cannot compete with JPEG XL for high-quality photographs, which is something much more important for me, because it is a format suitable for storing my own photographs and it is a format that would make me appreciate positively a Web site that would have beautiful images in this format.

[Broiler9437 → theandrewbailey]

Definitely possible. The reference encoder has a lot of room to improve. Even for lossless there are things to improve too

On: The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear

[theandrewbailey]

Oh, the horror. I remember when a 12GB disk was more than you could ever use in your life.

On: Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

[theandrewbailey]

Side note: I parse this domain name as "D-Bus hell", and I expect a rant about how Linux IPC is completely broken, then I remember that this is somebody's blog.

[amelius → theandrewbailey]

D-Bus turned Linux into a hairy ball of microservices that breaks at the most inconvenient moments.

Had to run "dbus-launch" to send this comment.

[Joker_vD → theandrewbailey]

Wait, it's not? What is it then, "DBU shell"?

[deciduously → Joker_vD]

David Bushell, its in his banner if you click it.

[Levitating → deciduously]

I was under the impression David just had some strong opinions on dbus.

[timcobb → theandrewbailey]

Same, I came for the dbus hell, stayed for the ...

[written-beyond → theandrewbailey]

lol, I made the same comment the last time this website was shared here.

On: The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

[theandrewbailey]

Nvidia's latest drivers don't support GTX 1000 and older GPUs. They are barely 10 years old and are still plenty fast for a lot of software.

On: Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

[theandrewbailey]

> edit: 35 year old cds is 1995

35 years ago is 1991. Don't try to age me faster than I'm already going!

On: Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

[theandrewbailey]

I work in e-waste recycling. I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of Chromebooks come in from schools. They are five years old maximum, and most are in pretty bad shape.

On: SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

[theandrewbailey]

The permanent floating accessibility menu is irritating. I'm reading this on a tablet, and it's very difficult to not have it cover text.

On: Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

[theandrewbailey]

May I suggest Debian? It's 90+% the same as Ubuntu, and is updated about as often as Ubuntu LTS, but no snaps.

[pluc → theandrewbailey]

This is genuinely what I'd answer to almost every comment in this thread.

For parent: Debian's release cycle is great, on top of letting you choose a degree of stability with one word: https://www.debian.org/releases/

[ASalazarMX → pluc]

I tried Debian before, but settled for Ubuntu LTS for their predictable release cycle and LTS support, combined with Debian's disadvantages of slow and irregular, and needing more tinkering to support my hardware.

Checking out Debian's release cycle, it seems like things have changed a lot. I need to give it another try.

[theandrewbailey → pluc]

> letting you choose a degree of stability with one word

Debian Sid: the original rolling release distro.

[BadBadJellyBean → theandrewbailey]

I usually don't use LTS. Debian release cycle is too long for me.

[ASalazarMX → BadBadJellyBean]

In my case I won't notice a difference. I use Ubuntu LTS for the stability and LTS, and it seems Debian release cycle is also every two years.

Ubuntu LTS comes out every two years, and the x.1 release after the first six months is the point where it's as rock solid as it will be for the rest of the support cycle. Interim releases gave me too much trouble, because there's no stable x.1 for them, only a new release with new potential surprises.

IMO Ubuntu interim releases are the equivalent of Debian Testing, testing grounds to prepare for the next real^w stable release.

[aragilar → BadBadJellyBean]

Unless you only use what's in the "main" section (which is surprising small, far more things are in "universe" than you'd expect), then you are getting the same software (or sometimes even older) than Debian.