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Yes. From the article: "It's [sic] final retail price is set at 1599€" I was actually excited from the title but upon reading further I got really disappointed. It's basically wishful thinking right now, not sure if it's even going to be released. Not sure why this is posted here.


Setting up the email server is the only thing I couldn't do with my own home hosted setup because you're at the mercy of your internet provider to give you the PTR record in their network, and lately many providers outright refuse to do it for "your own and their own safety" reasons. This thing alone could be the difference between deciding to host yourself or use a cloud service.


Just use the Postmark web service API, cheap, reliable, and far more if one really wants to lean into email with their online service. https://postmarkapp.com/email-api


I am aware of the tons of subscription based email services but that is not the point here. What good is self hosting when you still need to rely on some external paid service for a trivial thing like an email server? The costs add up.


Except email is not trivial, it's a time vampire I'm happy to pay $15 a month to not have to deal with.


It's exactly what it was designed for - text processing! Which fits perfectly for the irc protocol.


Awk was designed for one liners and short programs, not tons of lines. See talks by its designers.


Oh great, yet another front-end framework, but this one is with paid features as well. Are we seriously going to pretend this isn't getting out of hand?


they're a 501c3 non profit and they actively dissuade people from buying the pro license, because YAGNI. If you want those features, or just want to support a genuinely innovative framework that people spent years building, you can get the license. Its not that expensive and is a one-time purchase.


What's your concern with the paid features?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537335


it's really a full stack back end agnostic framework. i haven't really seen anything like it.


It was on their SGI workstation that they lugged to home, but yeah, pretty much that's how they recovered most of the files. At the end they barely used the material.


Micro HDMI is basically a non working connector. It baffles me how it was even approved. One of the requirements of a connector is to work. Micro HDMI doesn't work. Sure, it might look like it's working (if you take a picture of a connected device) but in practice it doesn't work. Just a slight touch and you're losing signal. Immediately one might think that their connector, cable or device are broken. And this is a very valid guess. But the connector is not broken by accident, it was broken by design. A consumer connector should not require an additional exoskeleton to work. It means it's broken by design if it does.


normal.php is a perfectly valid php file. Sure, it doesn't contain php code but that doesn't make it invalid php file. If it did have <?php somewhere and if the following wasn't a syntactically valid PHP code, then you could say it's not a valid php file.


yeah ok fair point. from the interpreter perspective. but that is not the tool which checks security. in that context validity is determined by another tool, which will look beyond merely being interpretable by the php interpreter.

its funny often web basted languages have this property tho , i mean, how else you gonna poison logs and execute them :')... js and php are just adorable for providing opportunities :D


Of course there are tons of better formats than JPEG but it needs to be understood that the most important feature of JPEG is to be exchangeable. It doesn't matter what your shiny new web browser supports, JPEG is considered supported everywhere and all editorials actually refuse to accept anything other than JPEG. You can't just break everyone's workflow because Google decided to force WebP (for purely selfish reasons, of course). The web browser is actually one of the least important platforms for JPEG. To day JPEG still executes its mission perfectly and with huge bandwidth increases it doesn't even matter how large the file is.


This article* makes the case for mozjpeg cleanly beating webp when we are above 500x500px image sizes. So. There's a lot more performance/compression to be gained within the jpeg container format than people generally argue for.

* https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg

edit: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli... is likely the real GOAT when it comes to modern jpeg encoders in that it effectively breaks the 8bit color space "ceiling" within the format!


The same thing sort of happened in the compression realm. ZIP is the pretty much the defacto winner for that type of file movement. Oh people use others in a lot of cases. But even when pkzip 2.04 came out there were better ones. Yet here we are still 30 years on using zip. Heck the zip alg is even used in many picture formats.


It helps that in most cases when people make a zip the compression is a secondary feature. What people want 90% of the time is a container format to put multiple files or a whole folder structure into one file. .zip or .tar.gz do this just fine, even if their compression factor and speed aren't that great by modern standards.

Same with jpeg: Most people want to just encode images, reducing file size by 10% is a negligible win for most people


> Of course there are tons of better formats than JPEG

and webp is not one of them.


Naah, even that hack Brian Greene is distancing himself from String theory.


It's not dead at all. You're probably looking at https://github.com/etoile/Etoile which only contains the basic directory structure, but the code itself is in other repositories under https://github.com/etoile


Heh, classic - I stand corrected.

Back then when I saw it, I had hope that Etoile become a really big thing - especially at the dawn of Gnome 3 which initial release bring disappointment to many


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