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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I tried protonmail not for the privacy purpose but just to have a normal web email client.

    After wasting an hour before finding out you can’t disable the “sent from protonmail” footer without manually deleting it in each draft you make, I said screw it and deployed my own email server with stalwart lol.

    It’s receive only because outgoing SMTP is a pain to make reliable these days and my ISP blocks outgoing SMTP anyway, but for everything else I now use Thunderbird.




  • Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.

    Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.

    I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.

    Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.

    If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.








  • Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they’re a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.

    JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don’t think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.

    Hopefully will see it in action soon.







  • You forgot the part where they bribed some Venezuelan defense officials to stand down. Everyone saw this regime change coming, they just didn’t expect the US to get directly involved.

    That entire Chinook formation could have been shredded by a single infantry group equipped with some cheap stingers (or equivalents).

    Some of the local reporters even claimed that Maduro’s own security convinced him to leave by helicopter, where Delta was already waiting for him.

    They key note here is that Maduro was not well enough supported within his own circle. If you want a recent example, they could have done the same thing to Assad since he fled without even notifying the CO of his army.

    Countries like Russia and NK have a complicated internal political structure that revolves around the leader ensuring he can never be couped. The US wouldn’t be able to just buy them off to create such a situation.


  • Most of these answers here are not viable because the US has leverage in almost every nation on earth.

    Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, etc are the exception, hence why they are sanctioned (and constantly suffering problems with every new CIA project) bar China which is locked in a trade war and has a sizable military to back themselves up.

    You would realistically require a counter world power that offers an alternative to the US system, which used to be the USSR which no longer exists.

    China is poised as the next superpower, but they haven’t made any significant moves in that regard because they are wary of the USSR’s downfall, and have no intention of engaging the USA in that manner (yet).

    Everyone in the UN, despite all their cries, will fall in line when threatened, aside from the aforementioned exceptions.