Also, color pigments might age differently.

Is the image we see today really what was initially drawn?

E.g. the famous night watch picture, which was larger and brighter.

Ah, this is a Ubiquity product. That explains it.

Why did AVM or Netgear Orbi not get this treatment for "works", though?

AVM is great for single-owner use with sub 20 devices.

Unifi is great for small IT companies providing network services to tens of costumers. Being able to manage everything remotely (and even batch things for all of your customers) is great.

No experience with AVM, but Ubiquiti gear is at least a class above Netgear equipment.

Because Unifi is more focused on the needs of businesses and enthusiasts. AVM and Netgear Orbi are products for the consumer market. So they miss a the advanced features Unifi supports.

Unifi is used by the tech-savvy homeowner that needs PoE for their security cameras and wants to control and configure their network without needing a network engineer.

And also Unifi lets you just buy stuff instead of "contact a sales rep". If I go to Netgear and filter primary port speed to 2.5g, which is hardly an enterprise spec, all 3 options are "contact a rep" which... no thanks. Who on earth wants to contact a sales rep for a 10 port 2.5gb switch?

There is now also TP-Link's Omada line at least which seems like the most comparable alternative.

I tried out Netgear Orbi and I don't know who it's actually for. It tried deploying it at my dad's place, but had to return it because it just doesn't work. Dropped in Ubiquiti gear to replace it and I had the entire network up and running within 15 minutes of applying power. And it's had zero of the issues that I had with Netgear's system.

Just wanted to drop another data point that Linksys is also trash now. So for consumer-targeted gear it seems the options are:

1. Eero - great performance, no web config (only mobile app), cloud dependent, half the features paywalled for monthly subscription (eyeroll)

2. Linksys - confirmed piles of crap, a 6E mesh kit I tried last year performed worse than my 2018 Eeros so why bother. Config is even more limiting than Eero, the web UI is a slow disaster that times out constantly, and the app is terrible and the features are badly designed.

3. Netgear - sucks as parent comment explains

4. TP-Link - reputation is that it's bad but I haven't tried

5. Asus - never tried

6. Google - no doubt they'll kill and brick these at some point

Any others I'm forgetting?

TP-Link Deco line is reasonable. Fairly devoid of advanced features but plenty for probably 95% of the households out there - ie an easy VLAN separation into primary/IoT/guest networks, parental controls, QoS, meshing, etc. Linksys should be immediately reflashed to run DD-WRT.

Small aside, AVM have now formally rebranded as "FRITZ!"

"Google revives JPEG XL" works too, in the English language. Why invent a new word?

Varies by country on earth [citation needed].

Now you can feel twice as broken. That is what new, modern standards deliver. Is this part of XCD #927 or another one, too?

XMPP is 26 years old, Matrix is 11 years old.

Right, but we did have efforts to take over hardware security enclaves to deliver user data, instead of copyrighted company data, to user devices.

Tim Berners-Lee tries to make the internet a place where you can choose, what it "forgets". At least that were the news I got from the 2010s and early 2020s. As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

So having privacy by design would be nice, and e.g. many messengers try to do "it is inconvenient to copy a message that someone send you that is marked as view-only-once-or-up-to-a-timespan, but of course, you can use an external camera, i.e. make more low-fidelity copies or even exfiltrate data".

Even F/LOS software can use/would be forced to use these proprietary enclaves or at least non-user accessible key stores. (As far as I understand hardware level DRM.)

>Tim Berners-Lee tries to make the internet a place where you can choose, what it "forgets". At least that were the news I got from the 2010s and early 2020s.

Tim Berners-Lee created the web, not the internet, which is what chat apps use. Also, unless you can provide some direct quotes about it being designed for "forgetting" stuff, I have no idea where these "news" you got came from.

>As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.

I think they're talking about Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's newer venture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

>> As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

> If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.

The point is that with the help of hardware-backed DRM on the client, the Matrix server could send data only to unmodified clients. You modified your client in a way that does not match what the Matrix server expects? No data for you.

You're repeating the same thing with more words. If you cannot control your hardware-backed DRM, then Matrix requires proprietary blobs to work.

Let's hope the reboot, who changes between canceled and "soon" every few months, happens with a good casting for him, again!

I also used pandoc and markdown, and never bothered going back to ascidoc, full HTML, or latex.

Footnotes are the only not always included extension to mmarkdown I need for slides or argument flows that are not killed by sidenotes, and some sites and toolings support that in markdown.

Even table of contents is not a problem, so what else is left? Formula setting? Buttons for UI vs function? Buttons plus Inline JS for step by step state modification?

I am not programming, I want text and something to be easily pasted into Word-like rich text, which seems to be the default text editor for emails for 90% of the population.

Useless propaganda piece.

To probably quote Terry Pratchett, at least it is proper-ganda.

When you like something, it's engaging and informative. When you don't, well, call it propaganda. I suppose anything is propaganda, since nothing is pure facts.

I'd rather have a sourced analysis of something I don't like than read a dude writing an unsourced cheering post celebrating how powerful my army is.

Propaganda can be done by both your enemies and your own side, and the later is the most dangerous one. The more you like it, the more skeptical you should be.

Everything is propaganda. Even your and mine comments are propaganda. Because propaganda can also be called marketing. And every text is marketing of ones own opinion.

> and the later is the most dangerous one

Genuine question: why?

Because buying your own lies about the strength of your army makes you complacent.

There's a reason why dictators have a terrible war time track record.

You tend to distrust the propaganda of the other side. You are not quite as distrustful of the propaganda of your own side. If it is clever enough not to appear as a cheerleader like this article, you may barely notice it cherrypicking the benefits of a story.

Obligatory: "Are we the baddies?"-sketch illustrates the concept very nicely.

Have you never read anything that supported your general worldview, yet it did so using populist and deliberately deceptive talking points?

Why are you asking abouts facts?

Okay, as a benchmark, we can try that. But it probably will never work, unless it does a web or db query.

Okay, so, should I not ask it about facts?

Because, one way or another, we will need to do that for LLMs to be useful. Whether the facts are in the training data or the context knowledge (RAG provided), is irrelevant. And besides, we are supposed to trust that these things have "world knowledge" and "emergent capabilities", precisely because their training data contain, well, facts.