It's almost like all those people who said the federal government's post 9/11 power grabs set a bad precedent and moved us incrementally further down various slippery slopes were right.
It seems they’ve learned their lessons on Guantanamo: That was too much hassle with the legal battles so now they just cut them loose with a shoulder shrug and a “no jurisdiction” fig leaf.
This is true, important, and it's also important to recognize how long it was left open by both sides. "Imperial rebound" is very real. If you create a special extra-legal space which allows you to abuse people, it will expand.
First they came for enemy combatants, called them terrorists, shipped them to a torture prison abroad, stripped of all rights and still keep some there despite not having them convicted. But I'm not an enemy combatant, so I didn't care.
Then they care for immigrants, called them enemy aliens, shipped them to a torture prison, stripped them of all rights despite not having anybody convicted, but I'm not an immigrant, so I don't care.
On the gripping hand, just because Bush, our greatest war criminal (derogatory), did something doesn't mean that Trump should. If anything, he should have learned why it's a bad idea.
The point is that what we're witnessing is the logical end result of the preceding decades of giving the federal executive more and more unchecked power (it didn't start with Bush, either).
Trump is indeed uniquely bad in many ways, but the reason why he can do so much damage is because he was given access to the tools accumulated by previous presidential administrations.
I hope that we'll learn our lesson once this is over. But I'm also skeptical.
> If the smiley face on the right is not much much brighter than the page background [...] then your hardware does not support this
Or you're using Safari because my hardware absolutely does support this (tested in Chrome and I am thankful that Safari does not support it because good grief.)
A funny thing I've noticed in Safari is that the play buttons on video elements are HDR white, and so the screen will adapt (turn grey) when you scroll past one.
> and I am thankful that Safari does not support it because good grief
Safari absolutely will support HDR images if it doesn't already. It might not support this PNG hack, but it's inevitable that it'll support HDR HEVC or JPEG images since those are what's produced by iOS and Android cameras respectively, and they obviously aren't going to just ignore them.
I think you're confusing which HDR is being used. HDR photography, the multi-expose combinations, was probably iPhone 5S but that still results in an SDR image. That's a completely different thing entirely.
iPhones have not captured HDR images until much, much more recently. No earlier than iPhone 12 at the soonest (when they first could capture HDR video), although they keep fiddling with which format they use for the result. iOS 17 was when they added support for displaying these images in UIKit & Swift, which was only like 2 years ago give or take. WWDC '23 was similarly when they started talking about handling HDR images. And they just recently announced they'll be adopting ISO 21496-1 at WWDC 2024. ISO 21496-1 being the gainmap style approach that Google & Adobe adopted with UltraHDR in 2023.
> However, if you expose the gods of the algorithm to a new artist, suddenly all the auto-generated feeds will try to include that band regardless of fit.
cf YouTube when you watch one video on X that's outside of your normal viewing and RIP your homepage for the next few days until you've clicked "do not recommend" on enough videos to stop the flood of X and X-adjacent content.
Thanks for the suggestions, but all of those seems like marginal improvements at best to me. If I'm going to have to read through a lot of installation instructions, I might as well keep Mastodon...
When I was thinking of a "better single-user server", I was thinking more in terms of a single binary, or a single container - the Mastodon resource use is less of a problem (unless you run a big instance) than the complexity of it.
I do appreciate the suggestions, though. If anything, looking at how others have handled Mastodon API support will be useful.
That got lost to me in the long installation instructions, and the presence of a docker-compose file I didn't look at because its mere presence suggested multiple containers, but I see now it only includes one...
To me, the length of those installation instructions is themselves an indication this is still not what I'm after.
Yeah, I can see that they've gone for the "To install GotoSocial, first you must create the universe..." kind of approach to their instructions. Which is a shame because it's just "Download a release, unpack, edit the config, off you go."[0]
They could do with a pithy Quickstart page for people who already have domains, servers, etc.
[0] My installation is from source and I'd never really seen their installation instructions as they are now.
> Last time I saw, the entire Supreme Court was requesting that the Executive return people
As I understand it, they requested that USGOV "facilitate" the return which is much weaker than the "effectuate" in the original court order; ie giving USGOV wiggle room rather than compelling them to undo the harm.
To be wafer-thin fair to Trump et al, that was started by Bush with Guantanamo.
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