theandrewbailey

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https://theandrewbailey.com/

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I used to program internet shopping sites, but now I work in e-waste recycling: https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling

If you think my views represent The Man, you are an idiot, but I know that's not going to stop you.

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Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 1 day ago
If Anthropic has made promises that its wallet cannot keep (as it looks like), it will fail. Let me remind you that Anthropic isn't profitable yet, and there's no clear path that it will be.
Comment · 1 day ago
Privatize the losses. These are the largest companies the world has ever seen, sitting on piles of assets like dragons. They have hyped AI endlessly to the point that everyone else is sick of it. If they haven't saved any money, and can't bail themselves out, they deserve bankruptcy.

Signed, the Silent Majority

Comment · 2 days ago
Sure, I'll stick them between the racks of Nvidia chips that don't have power plants yet.
Comment · 4 days ago
In terms of aesthetic, I love Windows 7-era Aero glass design (and to a lesser extent, Vista), but I also love the classic Windows 9x/2000 look. If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with Aero simply because of the start menu search bar.
Comment · 4 days ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Windows 8 is a very low bar in terms of desktop UI. It was universally panned as a regression.
Comment · 6 days ago
> What if it breaks? Should I backup the recovery key beforehand?

TPM unlocking uses a keyslot in a LUKS container, just like your passphrase does. There are 10 keyslots, so it's not mutually exclusive operation. If TPM doesn't unlock LUKS (as would happen when you put the drive in another device), the bootloader will prompt for a passphrase just like it did before, once entered it will decrypt from another keyslot.

Comment · 7 days ago
CAA records are requested and used only by certificate authorities. They might as well not exist for web browsers (they don't even look for them). Maybe that should change?
Comment · 11 days ago
Unless there's a test page with a webfont version, no.
Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 14 days ago
It's part of libavif. I've usually compiled it myself.

https://github.com/aomediacodec/libavif

avifenc supports args like enable-chroma-deltaq. I've used those but recently stopped, and nothing substantial changed.

Comment · 14 days ago
I've been using AVIF on my blog for a few years. My blog's image corpus is almost entirely videogame screenshots, and I keep the original PNGs so I can re-encode if better encoders release. Despite playing around with JPEGXL every year or so, AVIF images usually looked better (if only a little) at the same file size (vs JPEGXL).

After reading this article, there's something to point to prove I'm not going crazy.

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