Xystel @Xystel@fosstodon.org

@teh_dude ffmpeg is The Tool people use when converting video and often converting images. It's also the tool people generally use for decoding many types of video, since it has its own really fast decoders. Chromium, VLC, and mpv.io play videos using FFMpeg's libraries.

AVIF and JPEG-XL are the next-gen image formats that usually perform much better than JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Web browsers that are not made by Apple generally support AVIF and will soon support JPEG-XL.

Now that FFMpeg has support, we can do things like encode animated JPEG-XLs from source video while using FFMpeg's cool filters. One thing I like to do is encode screen recordings to lossless animated image formats like WebP, dropping duplicate frames with a filter called "mpdecimate". The resulting animated image is smaller than the equivalent video and faster to encode. Now, I can do this with JPEG-XL.

Are there any #opensource gallery apps that support motion photos? #followerpower

https://9to5google.com/2021/12/10/how-to-save-pixels-motion-photos-as-a-gif-in-google-photos

Work on Gajim 1.4 is making big steps forward! 🚀 After nine months of developing Gajim’s new main window, the code was finally ready to be merged into the master branch. This enables automatic builds of nightlies for Linux and Windows.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2022-01-22-development-news-december-january/

After Mozilla recently began accepting donations via BitPay, many people started being vocal about cancelling Mozilla and Firefox and switching to other browsers.

I know crypto sucks, but don't y'all realize that the other browser engines are developed by megacorps that are LEAGUES ahead in terms of ecologic impact, and that are almost entirely built on top of evil business models?

Mozilla's only sin was accepting donations via BitPay. Please let's stop being so toxic about everything, and boycott BitPay and Bitcoin rather than Mozilla, shall we?

[boosts appreciated]

Introducing the #OneWeekOneDistro challenge

https://twann.codeberg.page/posts/introducing-one-week-one-distro/

#OneWeekOneDistroChallenge #challenge

This should be a teachable moment to everyone in software dev as well: imagine it wasn't Facebook, but Microsoft (including Github) instead where everything goes down?

"Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To #Discord: They are not the same thing, and will never be the same thing."

https://kotaku.com/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord-1847684851 #moa

Es freut mich, euch mitteilen zu dürfen, dass ich einen hochkarätigen Autor für den Kuketz-Blog gewinnen konnte. Ab September schreibt @rufposten regelmäßig für den Blog - geplant ist eine Veröffentlichung pro Monat. 😎

Hey! I'm is on Mastodon now!
Kosmorro is a software to compute your astronomic observation nights 🪐
I will use this account mainly to keep you up to date about the news of the project ☺️

If you're interested, see the official website on https://kosmorro.space 🔭

Ich hatte gerade eine prima Idee. Die App der Deutschen Bahn (DB Navigator) benötigt nur ganz bestimmte Verbindungen zum Funktionieren - der Rest ist oftmals Tracking, Analytics und Werbung - also verzichtbar. Nun könnte ich mal den Entwickler von NetGuard fragen, ob er eine App-Profil-Funktion in NetGuard einbaut. Dann könnte die Community NetGuard-Profile für Apps veröffentlichen, die nur Verbindungen zulassen, die eine App zum Funktionieren benötigt. Was meint ihr?

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/netguard-firewall-android-unter-kontrolle-teil4/

Tame your evil rm (actually replace it with tamed one)

https://github.com/PhrozenByte/rmtrash
Put files (and directories) in trash using the `trash-put` command in a way that is, otherwise as `trash-put` itself, compatible to GNUs `rm` and `rmdir`

Welche Anbieter aus Deutschland/der EU sind euch denn bekannt, die datenschutzfreundliche Videokonferenzen (BigBlueButton, Jitsi Meet etc.) hosten bzw. dies als Dienstleistung anbieten?

Auch Anbieter solcher Dienste dürfen sich gerne hier vorstellen.

#chatcontrol bad day for EU privacy

Gajim Development News: This month brought some fixes for themes and spell checking. Development on the new Gajim version made a big step forward: file previews are working again, and they look even better now.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2021-06-27-development-news-june/

Philipp Hörist (lovetox), maintainer of @gajim, gave a preview of the new Gajim 1.4 User Interface. Gajim is an XMPP client written in Python. It currently receives a big UI overhaul, of which the first results were presented at the #xmpp Office Hours.🎙️

#foss #chat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZaZY2hYzA

Where can I register a personal domain with best privacy and functionality? #askfedi #askfediverse #askfosstodon boosts are welcome