Doesn't XL usually mean "eXtra Large"? Who can cure my ignorance of this?

jonsneyers on Feb 7, 2020 | root | parent | next [–]

It may not be the best name, but it sure is better than the names of the projects it was based on: PIK and FUIF. At least if you speak Dutch. A "pik" is a penis and a "fuif" is a party, so the combination would be the "penis party" image codec. I prefer "JPEG XL".

The etymology of the name "XL" is as follows: JPEG has called all its new standards since j2k something that starts with an X: XR, XT, XS (S for speed, since it is very fast and ultra-low-latency), and now XL. The L is supposed to mean Long term, since the goal is to make something that can replace the legacy JPEG and last as long as it did.

Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time?

"well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C"

That didn't jibe with my recollection, so I just checked. The Paris agreement was for 2 degrees C. The IPOCC said it should be 1.5.

The Guardian - We abandoned Journalism and don't care about facts.

Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap
between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual
emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with
holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-
industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels,

Shut up and take my money!

No lawsuit in almost 30 years of internet was able to use robots.txt as evidence.

Reading anything from tabloid news like the Daily Telegraph is a slippery slope. Spreading bullshit and misinformation is their whole thing.

They did a huge amount of damage, for sure. IMO it already became kinda fucked when we joined the Berne Convention, which IIRC started the ball rolling on copyright durations becoming stupidly long (since (AGAIN IIRC) we extended it to match durations in Europe? Someone please correct me if I got that wrong).

(2) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction of such works in certain special cases, provided that such reproduction does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author. (3) Any sound or visual recording shall be considered as a reproduction for the purposes of this Convention.