yes

From my observation Mattermost is not a software you buy "support" for. It either works and is self-manageable or you use something else. I guess Mattermost (as in the company) saw that too and now uses shitty practices to coerece people into buying it.

Yet.

Yes. This discussion is now. Not in a future which may not arrive.

Hopefully never. Abusing Intra-frames from video codecs is an abomination. Use JPEG-XL.

My Fujifilm X100VI shoots HEIC/HEIF, which is like the AVIF of H.265/HEVC. It seems to offer better compression than JPEG while having smaller file size. iPhone does this too. Why are you calling it an abomination?

Cameras should start using AVIF. HEIF is completely DOA for anything, same as H.265 is.

I hope everyone switches over to AV1 or AV2 stills so we can have completely open image pipelines but It’s silly to say something is “DOA” when it’s been in use for 9 years (since 2017) by one of the world’s most popular consumer cameras (iPhone) and is now popping up in high end cameras. The company I work for (Notion) long ago had to start supporting HEIF uploads because a ton of our users expect their pictures to just work.

It'd still call it DOA if Apple are the only ones keeping it around. No one else is and no one else really cares. Also I think they have an ulterior motive - they are part of those who profit from patents on it. So they likely want to keep it around longer than others.

Android also seems to use it, on some devices (default in the stock camera app?). So does Sony. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

HEIF is the container format shared by AVIF and HEIC.

Yeah, good point. I meant HEIC (image codec), not the container.

On the web? Good luck. AVIF is considered a baseline browser feature as of last year by the W3C; whereas JPEG XL is not fully supported by any stable browser release whatsoever, only Safari has been shipping partial support.

It might change now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330

Until Google (and by proxy their underling Mozilla) becomes sane again, JPG or PNG/SVG depending on content.

leap seconds are deprecated

The deprecation isn't effective until 2035, leap seconds will still be inserted until then.

No, this competes with a lightsource, some stand and a macro lens+DSLR/M. It's a good price if don't have the later ones. But chances are high that you do if you are into photography.

How long does a roll take you to scan that way?

5-10 minutes depending on equipment/skill. You "lose" most of the time if your strip is cut into stripes of 4-6 images, otherwise you can do it in 2 minutes.

Never. 20 Mp if you want "lossless".

I think I see what you mean. It’s the difference between having an image showing the shape and texture of each film grain, and an image which looks like what I saw in the camera and which isn’t going to be any sharper. The former has value but the latter was always good enough for me and, surprisingly, rather low in resolution compared to subsequent DSLRs and mirrorless cameras I bought in the 2010s.

Ilford Delta 400 pushed two stops to 1600 ASA in a 1970s Asahi Pentax SP1000 was always going to produce… artistic results, requiring as much imagination as acuity to appreciate the subject. (Read: see past the blur.)

You send me mail with noreply@example. I go to your MX to see if noreply@example will receive mails. If not you are spamming.

Talk about overengineering. Why not allow users to use the service (or parts of it) without verification?

or 2.

Or requires HTTPS, for that matter. (But then you can s_client into it :)

Admittedly, it’s been decades since I tried this and I was deliberate about saying http and not https.