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📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!
The Third Edition of Portable Network Graphics (PNG) today became a W3C Standard.
It adds support for High Dynamic Range (HDR), and adds Animated PNG to the official standard.
This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, greyscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits.
If you're one of my academic publishing folks: sadly, it's true. Due to a funder's unexpected decision to pull support, we've had to make the incredibly difficult decision to wind down PubPub over the next 18 months and regroup to figure out how to best serve our mission.
I'm sure I'll have more to say, but today I'm feeling both gratified and saddened by the overwhelmingly supportive responses to our announcement.
I urge you to learn from our mistakes: https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-06-update/
I rarely subtoot, but when I do just to say: if an open source project that your commercial project depends on breaks something in your software stack, causing you trouble, no matter how much, that's your problem and your problem alone.
"The software is provided as is" is a part of OSS licenses for a reason, and unless we have a contract that says otherwise, I'm not part of your bloody "supply chain".
Apple's beta Speech APIs include a speech-to-text transcription model that runs on-device and blows away OpenAI's Whisper, the model many apps use today. My hands-on tests are on @macstories:
覺得今天網路自由小聚表現不好，拿到麥克風的時候突然整個腎上腺素起來大怯場orz。
想要 callout 的是 Google、Meta 這些平台在網路管制的議題上往往過度關注在對個人的言論限縮、而忽視平台明明有更多資源採取其他倡議手段；在跟著一起喊民主國家獨裁之前，科技寡頭應該也要誠心與公民團體分頭進擊，運用資源跟人脈做 lobbying 以及訴訟倡議吧。
舉例來說，如果覺得菸害防制法一條 30 萬罰起來太痛了，就該拿這個錢去請律師。不能總是把跟行政機關互槓這種耗費心神的差事丟給公民團體啊。
現場講得不是很好，先在這邊筆記一番，希望之後可以再繼續 deepdive。
aha! looks like they WERE in fact 3D rendered! even to the point of using a human figure as an origin point for the camera to make it look like you were actually looking at a desk top
source: https://blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origin-of-the-inimitable-icons/
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