If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

Oops, they just admitted that leadership doesn’t really DO anything.

Xbox’s strategy is unclear. Do they mean the XBOX ROG Ally or some other traditional console?

Just about. I did an audit and about 90% of Sony’s games eventually hit PC. The largest one which has not made the leap yet is Astro Bot.

JPEG-XL is only really in limbo because Google chose to kill it in Chrome in favor of AVIF. Had that not happened, there would have been far more demand for it to be properly implemented everywhere. Sucks, but you’re right that we’ll have to stick with AVIF/HEIG/WebP.

I said in a previous article that this is great, but we should be adopting JPEG-XL as it is current and can now compress pixel-perfect / lossless images better than old PNG. IIRC this revision of the spec doesn’t improve compression yet but it’s coming.

I agree with your argument overall, but I think it would be reasonable to say they are broader-purpose computing devices now, and are not yet general-purpose. Consumers don’t have an expectation to reach for their game console to do an arbitrary thing. They generally can expect their phone or laptop to.

“There’s an app for that” just isn’t true for huge swathes of apps on almost all consoles.

I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.

iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.

JPEG isn’t great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG’s forte.

JPEG isn’t, but JPEG-XL, on the other hand, has come into existence and has great compression while being pixel-perfect lossless as compared to PNG (among a host of other improvements).

If only it got the support it deserves (thanks Google for making that harder)

Best I’ve got for you is this

Post in thread ‘Nexus Mods site has been sold’ https://www.resetera.com/threads/nexus-mods-site-has-been-sold.1219452/page-2#post-141554013

Yes, it’s going to get worse

More people speak English as a second language than people speak English as a first/native language, so you’re in the majority!

Yeah, we gotta figure our own shit out first, unfortunately. There’s so many other beautiful and safer places to visit in the world, go see those.

I am a dev. I said I’m glad they won. Epic still sucks, though.

I’m so happy this other large company which wants to embed itself as a storefront and soak up fees won against the other large company which was already doing it.

Like, genuinely I am, but Epic isn’t doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Epic/Sweeney is mostly sad they didn’t have the monopoly first.

FINALLY! This has always annoyed me. If you’re gonna go through all the trouble of identifying that I want to exit, just DO it.

Their company is an AI assistant for shopping, so trying to put AI everywhere including places it shouldn’t be is gonna happen.

I like my build scripts dependable, debuggable, and deterministic. This is wild. When the bot makes a pull request, and the user (who may be someone else at some point) doesn’t respond with exactly what the prompt wants, what happens? What happens when Claude Code updates, or has an outage? Don’t change that GitHub action at the end’s name without remembering to update the prompt as well.

Ah, I see. GitHub reached out to Daniel saying “hey we’re actually doing that” not because it was a reaction to the post.

This appears to have prompted GitHub to warn on ambiguous Unicode characters in diffs like other source control programs (namely Gitea from the article) already do. Love it.

I’d argue this could be true but it heavily depends on the type of monarchism a state has, how nationalist its peoples are, how militant the state is, and if there’s a strict order to society that is trying to be imposed.

Obviously, being a proto-fascist state, it wouldn’t need to have all of these at once and not to the extent they would be if the state was fascist but if enough of these indicators appeared to exist, I think you could make an argument in favor.