I have a whole blog post talking about using Godot for GUI development. The short of it is that it’s surprisingly good but has a few drawbacks, and it doesn’t have a bustling ecosystem like webdev tools. I’ve yet to try it on mobile, though.
The choice of Godot for a UI library is an interesting one; how big is the program in the end?
Not small but not huge either, the app itself will be within 25MB uncompressed (<10MB zipped) - but it doesn’t matter that much since most of the file size will be the dependencies used to convert stuff. I have a blog post talking more about Godot for GUI apps if you’re interested.
The rest of the feedback is appreciated! I was just about to add some text showing which file was being converted when processing.
Video files are an exception since it would be too slow on WASM
Q: What happens with video files?
Video files get uploaded to our lightning-fast RTX 4000 Ada server. Your videos stay on there for an hour if you do not convert them. If you do convert the file, the video will stay on the server for an hour, or until it is downloaded. The file will then be deleted from our server.
VERT is really close but not totally what I was looking for, it’s a web app rather than a local program and AFAIK can’t convert videos locally, you’d have to upload it to a server and download them again.
Appreciate the feedback!
I’ve yet to see any AVIF in the wild. I think support for it is not quite there yet, everybody is still relying on WEBP.
It’s a heavily modified and upgraded version of source 2, but yeah.
What a stupid, nothingburger article.
The company is considering releasing millions of old email addresses that were originally created by bots in its early years. These accounts were disabled almost immediately, but the addresses lived on. […] The problem is that many of these addresses are extremely common.
So what? The author rambles about the horrors of getting emails from people who have accidentally written in a generic email handle. It’s not a huge deal. Tons of people using other email services like Outlook and Gmail also have generic usernames, it’s a user’s choice on whether to get one or not. These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade, so it’s not like somebody would send emails assuming it was the old person using the handle.
Proton says it wants community feedback, which is good, but the fact that it is even considering such a reckless idea makes me question the company’s judgment.
“I’m mad that the company is surveying their community”, great argument.
Have you read the article? These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade. It’s in the very first line.
Microblogging has always sucked IMO. It’s always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren’t ready for this take, though…
I don’t know what weird-ass stawman you built, but it’s obviously not from anything I said
your position seems to be “we won, everybody drop your weapons and party, google is good again”
No?
and you follow by bashing linux phones in your subsequent comments…
“Bashing” Linux phones by saying they’re buggy and won’t be ready soon, which is literally true. Even PostMarketOS says the same thing on their website. I guess you’d prefer I gaslight people by saying Linux phones are awesome, let’s all switch to phones that barely work, lack any phone apps, have a terrible battery life, etc.
Deluded or in bad faith for sharing official news?
The Linux phones that exist today (including Pine Phone) are more like early dev kits. They have really weak specs, are incredibly buggy, lack all sorts of features you’d expect, and I’m not totally sure if you can even make calls through them because phone carriers require a verified device and proprietary tech to work.
There are efforts to get things in order but these will take maybe 10 years at this rate.
I’m guessing they’re going to hide it in developer tools with a bunch of warnings and no explanation on how to get there so regular users don’t turn it on by accident.
That’d be nice, but Linux on phones is still a pipe dream.
This is good info, thanks! I’ll add it to the fstab entry in a bit.
Edit: I’ve tested it for a bit and made sure the symlinks still work with non-Windows characters. Added it to the guide :)
A standardized file format isn’t comparable to them changing software they own though. They can’t “take back” WEBP and it’s well-supported by basically everything these days. There’s zero risk of a rug pull, so why wouldn’t you use it when it’s objectively better at compression compared to something like jpeg and gif?
Proton’s official account said the company was “alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service,”
Proton’s CEO later announced that the accounts were reinstated, following another post by the company that said the company does “stand with journalists,” but that it “cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.”
Sounds reasonable to me? It’s not a good look but it sounds like they quickly re-instated the closed accounts. The article title is misleading.
Your comment posted 3 times so I’m guessing there’s something with your internet haha
I’m still deciding how “serious” the project is going to be, but if all goes well I will definitely add support for other formats. I’m already looking at adding Pandoc for document conversions.