Came here to say exactly this.

Second person into my polling station this morning. Looked at the odds at 0630 and voted as tactically as I could. I am now going to be in a constant state of clenching until the results are announced.

I’m in Manchester and your interpretation is 100% correct. Although… I did grow up in Hythe.

If you saw the keynote at FOSDEM 2025 from Mozilla, you’d almost think their entire senior management are entirely untechnical and have got through their career by repeating buzzwords they heard in other meetings. Totally vacuous, AI trend-filled, and nothing tangible at all. It does not surprise me that it has continued.

I really hope they fix their direction or one of the new browsers in development can become useful enough and different enough to use and be used - having the open web be accessible using only one family of products would be a difficult-to-undo disaster.

It’s a bunch of buzz generated by some fancy electrically-inefficient Markov chain.

No, I’m saying that JPEG XL can perfectly represent old JPEG/JFIF data, so on the server side you can store all your image data once and more efficiently, and still support old clients without any lossy cascade or the CPU load of having to re-encode. That is what is meant about it offering backwards compatibility.

So now it will be an intentionally ineffective unintentional waste of money, rather than an unintentionally ineffective unintentional waste of money.

I’m not sure that’s actually any improvement at all.

It’s “compatible” in that it can represent old JPEG/JFIF data more efficiently and in less space, and the transformation to JPEG XL and back to JPEG/JFIF is lossless (in that you don’t lose any /more/ quality, you can get the same bits back out) and quick enough to be doable on-demand. You could, for example, re-encode all your old photos on your CDN as JPEG XL without loss of quality but save a bunch of disc space and bandwidth when serving to modern browsers, and translate dynamically back to the old format for older browers, all with no loss of quality.

Does CrossOver Office support a version of Excel which ticks your boxes? Are you in a position at your workplace to move them off Excel? I honestly have never found an organisation where they were using it for what it was meant for, often being used in place of proper tools - databases, issue management systems, requirements tracking, etc - where the better tool would be better and cheaper.

But, like JIRA, the people who make decisions only know one tool, and that tool is a hammer.

I’ve bought several Pine products over the years, and they’re all on a shelf gathering dust. If you like writing software to make a cost-engineered piece of hardware with basically no useful software at all work as you might expect an actual product you paid for from a shop, they’re great.

If you’re expecting a useful out of box experience, or even a useful experience after hours of hacking and tuning, they are not for you.

Given I can have four Gtk apps not in FlatPaks all have different title bars in GNOME proper, I don’t think this will ever work properly.

It’s Monday, Captain.

Aww she didn’t even say read the rules and understand them! Still, totally unsurprising. Long may this sort of thing get leaked to show local councillors, especially amateaurs like Reform, are disorganised as the rest of us.

Reminder that The Canary is run by frothy-mouthed moaners who spin everything negatively unless personally blessed by Corbyn. It is not balanced, fair, or independent reporting. It’s clearly also nonsense, as “en masse” implies the entire group previously described, and I’m pretty sure a) the Labour Party still has members, b) Your Party can’t even decide how it is you become a member.

A much better, less sensationalist article is the one they link to: https://walthamforestecho.co.uk/2025/09/30/21-leyton-and-wanstead-labour-party-members-resign-over-right-wing-drift/

It’s boring and predictable, which is precisely what I want from a distribution. It also benefits from not being a desktop OS, or a server OS, or an embedded OS, it’s all of those: learning Debian is useful even if you hate it and don’t run it personally because you will encounter it somewhere.

You have swap, which is pointless in this day and age, and will just burn a hole in the flash and delay the OOM killer doing its work. Look at ntfsresize to shrink that Windows partition down to the minimum. Then maybe image the partitions and obliterate them from the SSD. Use LVM instead to give yourself future flexibility. 1TB NVMe SSDs are so cheap these days they might as well put them in boxes of cereal.

Because he’s not been working in music for years and has instead been championing exactly this subject.

No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed. Otherwise it’s a gimmick that just inconveniences.

I don’t seem to be able to upvote this twice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3njBw0G6k