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New comment by fantyoon in "Is OOXML Artifically Complex?"

fantyoon — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:26:40 +0000

> The voting that followed was among ISO’s most contentious: several national bodies abruptly swelled with new members, many Microsoft partners, who then voted in favor. Sweden’s initial approval was voided after incentives linked to support came to light.

Direct quote from the article.

New comment by fantyoon in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

fantyoon — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:01:58 +0000

35kB after its uncompressed. On my end it sends 13.48kB.

New comment by fantyoon in "Kite News"

fantyoon — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:47:05 +0000

> Kagi has no ads and is fully funded by its users.

None of the 4 plans say anything to the contrary either.

New comment by fantyoon in "Meta does everything OpenAI should be"

fantyoon — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:56:40 +0000

I suppose the difference is that Meta didn't just contribute to Torch, they created it. Meta seems to be quite good at open sourcing things in a way that provides real value to people.

The Github org you linked to mainly seems to have repos for the OpenAI API, which doesn't quite rise to the same level of React and PyTorch.

New comment by fantyoon in "VLC vs. the App Stores"

fantyoon — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:31:00 +0000

Unless VLC is one of the historic cases, F-Droid builds apps from source themselves [1]. They are more like a Linux Distro than an app store in that way. VLC hasn't had a new stable version tagged since 3.5.4 so that's what F-Droid ships[2].

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_App_Developers/#will-my-ap... [2]: https://code.videolan.org/Skantes/vlc-android/-/blob/master/...

New comment by fantyoon in "To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune"

fantyoon — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:25:34 +0000

Seems reasonable to me. Unless there is a good reason to believe that they have valuable information, ignoring condescending people seems worthwhile. How likely is someone to understand you and your problems when they are condescending? I also have a hard time imagining that this is something limited to Gen-Z.

New comment by fantyoon in "Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update"

fantyoon — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:00:32 +0000

Mozilla has now the chance to release a Gecko version of iOS Firefox to people living in the EU. That version currently doesn't exist and, depending on how valuable Mozilla thinks a port of Gecko to iOS would be, might never exist. But Apple would be unable to keep it off the App Store without drawing some serious ire from the EU, which is probably not a good thing for them.

New comment by fantyoon in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

fantyoon — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:41:39 +0000

I think it would be wise to reflect on whether the next logical step from "I think fines are not effective enough and decision markers should face jail setences" is "I think we should set people on fire as punishment and public entertainment". Do you genuinely believe that a person arguing for the first, would agree or would be close to agreeing with the second?

New comment by fantyoon in "Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects""

fantyoon — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:54:05 +0000

Its worth noting that this article is based entirely on an anonymous comment made below another article. They also link a Tweet alleging that "[..] other usually credible, usually careful folks positing same idea.", but no links are provided to that.

New comment by fantyoon in "MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names"

fantyoon — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:24:28 +0000

Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Microsoft would do for backwards compatibility, but on the other hand it seems like a weird API to provide.

I found GetVersion[1] but that returns the version as two numbers.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoa...

New comment by fantyoon in "The era of cheap streaming is officially over"

fantyoon — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:05:14 +0000

Music can also be cached on device and is often replayed. Reducing the amount of bandwidth requirements even further.

New comment by fantyoon in "Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%"

fantyoon — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:50:37 +0000

Instead its owned by the Government which can borrow an infinite amount of money and does for all kinds of reasons. Right now they spend 1.5 billion Euro each year for the Deutschland Ticket[1].

I am super happy about the ticket and think its a good thing. But lets not pretend its financing would be possible without heavy government spending.

[1] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/deutschland... (German)

New comment by fantyoon in "So, you don't like a web platform proposal"

fantyoon — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:09:30 +0000

The central issue seems to be that Yoav frames this as a technical discussion. That people are unhappy with how Google tries to achieve the goal.

> Focusing on use cases would enable you to distill the essence of the proposal, and potentially propose alternatives that still address them without the bits you find harmful or risky.

But I think its obvious from discourse around the proposal that the goal itself is the problem. People aren't "constructively involved", not because they don't know how, they aren't because they don't want to construct anything. They think your goal is bad. They want you to stop.

New comment by fantyoon in "It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input"

fantyoon — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:02:41 +0000

Its safe to assume that whoever OpenAI outsources to does not get access to the model. Collecting data and training models on it will be two different steps.

New comment by fantyoon in "What can I do for Arch Linux?"

fantyoon — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 10:54:18 +0000

Seems to work when you go to that link via the homepage but fails to load when you use a direct link or refresh the page. It appends a / to the URL when you use the direct link, which I assume is what breaks it.

New comment by fantyoon in "Why fusion will never happen (2012)"

fantyoon — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:06:29 +0000

It seems to me that this article is not wrong, yet. Unless I misread, it argues that there will never be profitable power plants using fusion, rather than fusion being impossible.

New comment by fantyoon in "Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig"

fantyoon — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:40:20 +0000

The need for bootstrapping in this context comes from the lack of a compiler for the language you want to implement, as in before the Zig compiler in C++ there was no Zig compiler.

New comment by fantyoon in "Nintendo apologizes for Pokémon performance problems, promises “improvements”"

fantyoon — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:02:40 +0000

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were created by a third party studio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Brilliant_Diamond...

New comment by fantyoon in "My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)"

fantyoon — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:49:54 +0000

This post should probably get a (2020).

New comment by fantyoon in "Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox"

fantyoon — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:35:14 +0000

Huh, this is the first time I have heard about interventions. Checking about:compat on Firefox for Android reveals (perhaps unsurprisingly) multiple fixes for Google sites. I wonder what constitutes deploying an intervention versus letting the site break. I understand that part of the reason Google sites are being fixed by Mozilla is because they are popular.