I looked at the files modified in the last hour and it’s only three old pictures uploaded by me a few weeks ago. I compared one of them and it’s actually larger than the original.

original

pictrs

I’ll try to find the related post to compare.

Edit: the image from the post is different from the other two. A few bytes smaller than the original.

This is all very strange.

No, if you set the option

{
  pictrs: {
    image_mode: "None"
  }
}

none of the remote media gets stored.

At least the database doesn’t have any references to any. And browsing the communities all the images and videos are loaded from external sources.

At the moment I suspect that lemmy is still instructing pict-rs to store them but not actually writing this to the database. But I’d like some proof of that first.

Ask the Fediverse Chick. She probably has a list.

The Deck is weird in terms of Wayland/X11 usage. Gamemode runs on Wayland, but the Steam client runs through XWayland and for the games another XWayland session is started.

A kitchen planner is a program that lets you enter your room dimensions and then lets you fit kitchen cupboards, shelfs, cabinets and appliances in there. Ideally it comes with everything your supplier or contractor has on offer. Especially for colors and designs, but more importantly dimensions.

Luckily they are usually web based nowadays.

This got me to convince my wife to switch to Linux again. She had the last Windows device in our household. She needed it for proprietary kitchen planners.

Now she’s ranting about enshittification.

I wanted to answer “grey”, full of confidence. Then I decided to look it up to be sure and found out that it’s “gray”.

The test was to spot mistakes in a simple html file. So I couldn’t substitute anything. And my favourite gray color is #666.

I used to work at a company that used XSLT. They know that it’s an obscure language that probably none of the potential candidates have ever worked with. But it’s easy enough to learn the basics in an hour or two.

So the entry test was to strip some tags from an XML file. You had a day or two (maybe more) to do it. My solution wasn’t ideal, I didn’t use several of the shortcuts available in the language. But at least it did what it was supposed to.

A few weeks after I had started working there my boss came up to me, visibly frustrated and asked me whether the test was too hard. Thinking back on my problems I replied that maybe having the desired output ready so that you could test your own solution against it might be nice. But my boss’s problem was that none of the last 5 candidates could even send in a solution that would run.

You had so much time, and running an XSLT script is really easy and takes no time at all. And for some inane reason these people couldn’t even manage to test their code and still decided to send it in.

And I thought I was an idiot when I didn’t know if it was spelled grey or gray in CSS during the in-person interview.