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Submission + - 'Quite OK Image Format' (QOI) coming to a graphics program near you? 1

Tesseractic writes: Simon Sharwood, of The Register (Biting the hand that feeds IT) writes to tell us of a new image format that is lossless, gives much faster encodes, faster decodes and roughly comparable compression compared to what's in use today.

https://www.theregister.com/20...

https://qoiformat.org/

Notably, the specification for the QOI format fits on a single (2-column) page:

https://qoiformat.org/qoi-spec...

There is an active GitHub project for QOI:

https://github.com/phoboslab/q...

Comment Re:2017 iMac - Big Sur Just fine (Score 1) 101

Installed it on Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014 iMac from the App Store, took ~ a hour from kicking of the download to a Big Sur desktop.

Only thing I've found broke so far was the version of Thunderbird I was on. Just upgraded it to the latest Beta,

Still got updating my MacPort installed stuff to try though.

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Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security 142

An anonymous reader writes: His wife thinks he's crazy, but this guy got an NFC chip implanted in his arm, where it will stay for at least a year. He's inviting everyone to come up with uses for it. Especially ones that violate his privacy and security. There must be something better to do than getting into the office or unlocking your work PC.

He says, "The chip we are using is the xNTi, an NFC type 2 NTAG216, which is about the size of a grain of rice and is manufactured by the Dutch semiconductor company NXP, maker of the NFC chip for the new iPhone. It is a glass transponder with an operating frequency of 13.56MHz, developed for mass-market applications such as retail, gaming and consumer electronics. ... The chip's storage capacity is pretty limited, the UID (unique identifier) is 7 bytes, while the read/write memory is 888 bytes. It can be secured with a 32-bit password and can be overwritten about 100,000 times, by which point the memory will be quite worn. Data transmission takes place at a baud rate of 106 kbit/s and the chip is readable up to 10 centimeters, though it is possible to boost that distance."

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