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New comment by Parodper in "The case against JPEG XL"

Parodper — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:11:38 +0000

JPEGXL is a single format, but when converting from other formats you can do it lossless or lossy, and optionally make it progressive.

New comment by Parodper in "Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements"

Parodper — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:33:36 +0000

> EU anti-AI laws

God I wish.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:09:25 +0000

Doing engineering ≠ being an engineer.

Am I a doctor because I took my temperature and found I had a fever? Am I a lawyer if I represent myself in court?

At least where I'm from, you need to be licensed to practice engineering.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:48:35 +0000

> please tell me ONE app for Android other than Google Messages I can use to send and receive RCS, it surely won't be problem since it's international standard same as SMS, so there must be plenty apps available...

Nice red herring. The number of implementations is irrelevant here, although Wikipedia says Samsung had one too.

Here's the standard, try Ctrl+F "Google": https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/netwo...

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:09:39 +0000

The EU has their own Mastodon instance, but unless you want to have responses (even if the official instance doesn't show them), it's cheaper to run a static news aggregator.

It would be nice, but it seems most people don't care about this.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:57:30 +0000

He isn't. He has a bachelor in economics and physics.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:43:55 +0000

We're just reinventing moderated Usenet newsgroups.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:38:17 +0000

People seemed to like it being stuck in the 1980s.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:14:07 +0000

RCS is an international standard. Google only adds their client (and running the service if your mobile provider doesn't).

Don't know what EU apps are you talking about, but yes, mobile apps need Google services. Web interfaces don't.

New comment by Parodper in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

Parodper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:00:01 +0000

GNU/Linux[1] seems to support it. Windows probably does too.

[1] Tested on KDE Wayland and Xfce X11.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:55:36 +0000

SMS made you pay by character. RCS is the current free alternative.

New comment by Parodper in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

Parodper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:54:56 +0000

Funny, it has already happened: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/developer-portal/me...

New comment by Parodper in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

Parodper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:50:07 +0000

Ctrl/Shift+Insert are the actual standard, from IBM's CUA.

New comment by Parodper in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

Parodper — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:36:10 +0000

Very interesting, thanks. I like they even admit their own bias, that the main reason was that they didn't want another's protocol; except for the word alignment, all the other issues are solvable.

New comment by Parodper in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

Parodper — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:33:10 +0000

> Doing this brings you close to OSI, which famously failed by being overcomplicated.

We're slowly reinventing OSI, one step at a time: OSI had multiple sessions per transport connection (QUIC), 20 byte addresses (IPv6) and a directory system with public-key infrastructure (DANE, vCard, SSHFP, etc).

It's a shame TUBA (CLNP + TCP) failed.

New comment by Parodper in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Parodper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:59:36 +0000

Apparently it's from 1901 (Murray code) or 1932 (ITA2).

The fact that both Apple's and CP/M codes came out roughly at the same time, both on microcomputers, shows that it was probably just a design decision.

New comment by Parodper in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Parodper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:51:00 +0000

The thread talked about sum types, which apparently appeared on ALGOL; although I don't know how much memory did an ALGOL compiler need.

New comment by Parodper in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Parodper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:44:27 +0000

> That's famously a single-pass compiler. Rust is famously unable to compile in a single pass.

I probably should have replied under the other comment. I was also referring to your

> No, I didn't - I asked how sum types were supposed to work in an era of 64KB memory systems.

But context got lost between replies.

> that's why C is what it is

C famously had a big redesign in 1990. The language of today isn't the same K&R printed.

New comment by Parodper in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Parodper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:12:06 +0000

You could start the encoding with two bytes, so that if the most significant bit of the first byte is 0, the length is that byte plus another. That gives you 32KiB strings with just a byte more. Short strings might suffer, but I think the overhead is reasonable.

The next level (110x xxxx) would give you 8MiB strings, which are going to be fine for most things.

New comment by Parodper in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Parodper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:46:09 +0000

Borland's PASCAL did it on the IBM PC.

And which modern C compiler fits into 64KB? Even TCC needs 100KB. But that's beside the point. No machine of the last 36 (I'll push my chances, 40) years needs to fit a compiler in 64KB.