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New comment by xigoi in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

xigoi — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:23:44 +0000

I use JXL/AVIF/WEBP images on my website and don’t have videos, ads or unnecessary JavaScript.

New comment by xigoi in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

xigoi — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:56:44 +0000

> Discoverability in CLI is --help.

Unless it’s one of those programs that are like “unrecognized option --help, use -h to see help”.

New comment by xigoi in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

xigoi — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:54:42 +0000

> But trying to think of examples where the name is not related to the function

Git?

New comment by xigoi in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:31:37 +0000

How does the existence of a serif variant change anything about the original sans-serif font not having serifs?

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:29:09 +0000

Microslop uses it. If you want to login to a corporate Microslop account with a passkey, you have to use Microslop software.

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:46:38 +0000

> or even ones I don't have right now that I log into in the future

How do you log in without having the passkey?

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:37:30 +0000

> Then guess what - people stop using those websites.

You can’t just stop using those websites if your university uses them for student/employee accounts.

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:24:15 +0000

Only if the website allows you to use Bitwarden for the passkey.

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:22:29 +0000

As the previous article says, some passkeys are open, while others require lock-in, and megacorporations deliberately create confusion between the two.

New comment by xigoi in "Passkeys are not a trap"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:21:08 +0000

On an iPad/iPhone, you are not allowed to install apps not approved by Apple.

New comment by xigoi in "Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font"

xigoi — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:56:41 +0000

Where do you see the serifs?

New comment by xigoi in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

xigoi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:37:29 +0000

Whenever I’m SSHing, I am not doing complex stuff that would require intricate knowledge of the shell, so it suffices to remember the basics.

New comment by xigoi in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

xigoi — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:56:15 +0000

Fortunately, 99.9% of the time I’m on my computer, where I can install whatever I want.

New comment by xigoi in "Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation"

xigoi — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:54 +0000

Their aim was to create a correct-looking proof using as little resources as possible, not to create a correct proof.

New comment by xigoi in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

xigoi — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:27:59 +0000

How so? You can literally convert a JPEG to a JXL that contains the exact same information and is 30% smaller.

New comment by xigoi in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

xigoi — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:26:31 +0000

For one, it allowed me to fit several years of photos in a few gigabytes so I can easily back them up without going broke.

New comment by xigoi in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

xigoi — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:31:16 +0000

I put this on all my websites that don’t have a favicon. I hate the default browser behavior of making a request to /favicon.ico without being asked.

New comment by xigoi in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

xigoi — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:41:20 +0000

Nothing prevents you from just using the lower layers of abstraction. I have developed a few games using Raylib and it was really fun.

New comment by xigoi in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

xigoi — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:38:31 +0000

What do you mean by “squishy and satisfying”? Otherwise it’s easy.

New comment by xigoi in "EU Enforcement AI Act"

xigoi — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:07:49 +0000

Good thing we’re getting more laws where the penalties are based on worldwide turnover, so they won’t be a slap on the wrist for big corporations.