anyway, here’s wonderwall

here’s me, posting 1 in every 10 comments I start writing.

Gaza was controlled and settled by Isrealis. In 2005 Israel, by mean of law and force, disengaged from the gaza strip unilaterally. In the process, relocated all the settlers. I don’t think there’s any will, national or political, to annex gaza, not realistically.

asking the real questions!

Thanks, fixed the links.

What most people don’t realize is how much this situation is constant. these escalations are only peaks in an ongoing conflict.

Thanks, just started using boost and I used it’s link function. either I don’t know what I’m doing (probably), or it’s a big.

No matter what “narrative” you seek to believe, the fact is that Hamas hasn’t been firing every once in awhile - They have been firing rockets and mortars regularly. Sometimes daily. You can see a list here and more info here

These attacks almost exclusively target civilians. more than 20,000 rockets in the past 20 years.

Additionally, airborne arson attacks are carried out…

edit:fixed links

doesn’t even matter. what matters is the meta data. if the data from the list say you like science videos with emphasis on electrical engineering, star wars podcasts and mmorpg let’s plays - does that data go away apon history deletion. what about meta-meta data. if the meta data puts you on group X that receive content Y, does that go away apon history deletion. and what kind of integration does that get with the rest of the google knowledge about you…

He just can’t get a break 😔

The workings of your mind are a mystery to me pinky…

you’re a hip young dude as well?

This

And also this

And he also made false teeth

That’s more of a “believing lies told my adults around you” case.

“babies were made of food” gave me a chuckle! a bit of a shower thought moment :)

if there’s one thing good about being a pessimist, is that bad new doesn’t come as a surprise.

It is a federation ship, after all.

Thank you, now the limewire song is stuck in my head…

Open source libraries doesn’t mean it’s free.

Firstly, even open source can have commercial licensing and can be free only for non-commercial use.

Secondly, the process of producing an image from the sensor isn’t a straight forward process, the compression and containerization is only one part. In order to get the final picture all sort of processing is needed, all needs to be tweaked and integrated to work together. dropping some rando library (even if compatible with the hardware) in the middle of that isn’t some plug and play affair.

Lastly, while a format or a standard is free to use, the algorithms and code can be subject to patents and additional licenses. In the case of HEIF, as I understand it, it’s just a container format. it is based HVEC, and that has a long list of patents behind it.

To quote this article

If there’s one major downside to both HEVC and HEIF, it’s that they’re covered by patents that may need to be licensed for use in various apps and services. While this was also the case for the h.264 codec, the HEVC codecs cost more. And per usual in the tech world, the needs served by HEVC and HEIF are also covered by other, competing standards, many of them freely available.