Posts by redfish@emacs.ch
 (DIR) Post #AYUSkiQsmAVH9hEKO0 by redfish@emacs.ch
       2023-08-07T13:10:34Z
       
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       I wasn't quite happy with any of the well-known Linux image viewers, so ended up running JPEGView with Wine since it does exactly what I want.A shell script called jpegview to launch it conveniently: WINE_PREFIX=$HOME/.wine exec wine 'c:\program files\jpegview\jpegview' "$(winepath -w ${1:-.})"and a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ujpegview.desktop (added u to the name to differentiate from Wine's autocreated desktop entry) to make it available in Open With menus:[Desktop Entry]Name=uJPEGViewExec=jpegview %fType=ApplicationStartupNotify=trueComment=Fast Image Viewer/Editor with a minimal GUIPath=/home/REPLACEME/PicturesIcon=B64D_Icon.0StartupWMClass=jpegview.exeMimeType=image/jpeg;image/png;image/webp;image/gif;image/avif;image/heif;Categories=Graphics;
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUXZX3PEz8yRzjgUC by redfish@emacs.ch
       2023-08-07T15:31:42Z
       
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       @oatmeal Problems were various combinations of a) lacking features (f.ex. ability to call external tools), b) lacking file format support (AVIF, WebP), c) usability issues with tiling window managers (less-good fill/fit behavior when WM forces window size, toolbox windows not floating/floatable), d) hard-to-customize key/mouse bindings, e) not fast enough to comfortably flip through hundreds of >1MB images
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUYUQxiYury40CxQe by redfish@emacs.ch
       2023-08-07T15:41:59Z
       
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       @oatmeal Darktable is great and I use it for "serious" things, but for the times when I want to blast through a huge folder of memes it's a bit heavyweight
       
 (DIR) Post #AbPCJaMkpgkiYDZ3xo by redfish@emacs.ch
       2023-11-02T14:56:13Z
       
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       Finished @kissane 's excellent Meta in Myanmar series today: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iv-only-connectThe whole series is worth reading, but since we're on Mastodon, if you read only one part, read part 4 (linked above). IMO the key takeaway here is that Meta/Facebook certainly did a lot of really irresponsible/evil/incompetent stuff that facilitated manipulation, but "decentralized" does not automatically mean "invulnerable to manipulation".At best, decentralized is "invulnerable to certain kinds of manipulation"—but advanced propaganda operators have more resources, more skills and more energy today than ever before to execute both sophisticated and long-running actions. (Perhaps not entirely dissimilar to how "advanced threat groups" employ both highly targeted weapons-grade exploits on targets they care about, as well as massive less-targeted campaigns with dumb-but-effective exploits to stock up on initial footholds.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AcndNmBsMsIyyUwu2K by redfish@emacs.ch
       2023-12-14T10:30:50Z
       
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       Read through ECMA-119 3rd ed. (aka ISO-9660:1999) yesterday and as a filesystem, it seems like it was quite a bit ahead of its time (late 80s/early 90s): 8TB max volume size (with default 2kB block size), max file size is effectively same as max volume size [1], reasonably rich metadata and long filename support [2] by default, support for large extended attributes, backward/forward compatibility with multiple superblocks & directory trees.With the reasonably readable and tight specification it seems like a still-pretty-good choice for long-term archival.On the extended-filenames front, it feels like I need to side with Microsoft and Joliet though: Joliet is largely an interoperability profile that specifies how to use the standard's existing facilities to implement Unicode filenames, and "breaks" the standard only to remove artificial limits that were already pretty dated in the mid-90s. Meanwhile Rock Ridge plops a Unix emulation layer on top of xattrs and calls it a day without even specifying a name encoding. It works, but doesn't really accord with having an archivable, platform-neutral format.[1] Some OSes, notably most (all?) BSD-derived ones have lackluster implementations that are limited to 4GB-1 file size.[2] 31 characters from the set [A-Z0-9_], unless you really need to preserve DOS-and-friends 8.3 compatibility.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlHeXaUtfu2d9hkhd2 by redfish@emacs.ch
       2024-08-24T06:34:45Z
       
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       @foone There's a lot of Motif tribute in that window.