It is, but it probably shouldn't be any more.
WebP has good support everywhere now and is slightly better than JPEG and PNG combined.
(Better lossy compression than JPEG, plus transparency support, and better lossless compression than PNG).
But even WebP is considered lame these days compared to the new crop.
E.g., JXL (JPEG XL) is much better WebP and is supported by everyone except Google (which is ironic since Google helped create it).
Google seems to want AVIF to be the winner for the new image format, but not many others do.
Anyway, until the Google JXL AVIF hissy fit is dealt with, at least we've still got WebP.
It's not super great, but it's at least better than JPEG and PNG.
A lot of web developers are stuck in their old JPEG PNG mindset and are being slow to adapt, so JPEG is still hanging around.
I feel like this should be required reading for a lot of Linux users.
That article is a couple years old now, but I think is even more true now than it was when it was written.
Having a middleman (package maintainer) between the user and the software developer is a tremendous benefit.
Maintainers enforce quality, and if you bypass them, you're going to end up with Linux as the Google Play Store (doubly so if you try and fool yourself into thinking it won't happen because "Linux is different")
Totally agreed.
I never used Twitter.
I tried in earnest to use Mastodon for a couple years, because I wanted it to to succeed, just kind of ideologically.
Eventually I realized that the whole concept of "microblogging" is just fundamentally awful. (At least for me)
That's Saturday night in North American time zones.
Just a heads up in case you're planning a boys' night out a couple hundred billion years in advance, maybe move it to Friday night in case the world ends Saturday night.
Have you been following any of the court battles involving LLMs lately?
The New York Times suing OpenAI.
Getty Images suing Stability AI.
Sarah Silverman and George R.R. Martin suing OpenAI.
All of those cases involve data that has been scraped.
(In the latter two cases, the memoir/novels were scraped from excerpts and archives found online).
It's too late to say with complete certainty that it's all legal (the appeal processes haven't all been finished yet), but at this point it looks like using scraped and copyrighted data in training LLMs is legal.
Even if it's going to turn out not to be legal, it's very clear that nobody's shying away from doing it, because we have the courts showing as a statement of fact that it's been happening for years.
Everything you've written is just fantasy.
We have a lot of reality which contradicts it.
Every LLM company has been primarily relying upon scraping data (which we know to completely legal) and has been incorporated copyrighted and scraped data in its data sets (which is still legally a grey area, but is happening anyway).
Out of curiosity, did you use it as a daily driver?
A friend of mine tried it out briefly, and it was pretty cool, but the lack of applications meant we couldn't really do anything with it (other than marvel at how cool it was).
Did it eventually get applications developed for them?
Like did they have an office suite?
Has reddit not already been scraped?
With all of that information exposed bare on the public Internet for decades, and apparently so valuable, I find it hard to believe that everybody's just been sitting there twiddling their thumbs, saying "boy I sure hope they decide to sell us that data one day so that we don't have to force an intern to scrape it for us".
I firmly believe US Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and uh, the Iraq, and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should.
Our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, or should help South Africa and help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
In a certain light, you could argue that Linus doesn't really have any control at all.
He doesn't write any code for Linux (hasn't in many years), doesn't do any real planning or commanding or managing.
"All" he does is coordinate merges and maintain his own personal git branch.
(And he's not alone in that: a lot of people maintain their own Linux branches).
He has literally no formal authority at all in Linux development.
It just so happens that, by a very large margin, his own personal git branch is the most popular and trusted in the world.
People trust his judgment for what goes in and doesn't go in.
It's not like Linux development is stopped because Linus goes offline (or goes on vacation or whatever).
People keep writing code and discussing and testing and whatnot.
It's just that without Linus's discerning eye casting judgment on their work, it doesn't enter the mainstream.
Nothing will really get slowed down.
Whether something officially gets labelled by Linus as "6.8" or "6.whatever" doesn't really matter in the big picture of Linux development.
Let's do the CBA.
Keep playing:
Resign:
Tough choice.