Yes the bottom guy is my uncle who works at NASA

Indeed jpegxl appears to be much better than AVIF. By the way two small questions related to images on Lemmy this probably isn’t the right place but I just remembered it

1. In the browser client you make it possible to paste images into the thumbnail field when creating a post? I saw this functionality added to the Jerboa client recently, it’s pretty useful for when the scraper doesn’t automatically find a thumbnail in a link

2. On lemmy.ml there’s a filesize limit to uploading images in the post field. I often have to manually downsize them to fit the size limit. Would it be possible to automatically encode the images client side when uploading? Maybe make them even smaller when uploading them into the thumbnail field.

While Europeans are boycotting Israeli goods their governments make sure to send a few billion euros to make up for it.

I watched about half the video (only the intro really touches on the infighting plans). I agree with his premise about the infighting but what we’re seeing now is basically the opposite of it. The US leaving SDF to fall means that there won’t be constant infighting in northern Syria over the oil. Maybe the freed ISISrael fighters can help destabilize the region but I wonder if they can really surpass a directly US-armed SDF. Of course this would all change if the Syrian regime decides to attack Lebanon or Iran which is very possible. But they could have done that while leaving SDF in the north. Defeating the US proxy now just seems nonsensical from empire POV, but I might be missing something.

Kevork’s views on Assad are a bit too romanticized for me. Assad was much more unpopular than for example Khamenei in Iran, because whereas Iran has a majority Shia population, Assad was heavily favoring the small Alawite sect he belonged to with cushy government jobs and heavily cracking down on others. Besides his logistical support for the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance (which was mostly out from his Iran alliance, and not ideologically) Assad didn’t have much going for him.

This is one of the most insane media spins you will ever read. A literal concentration camp where children are born into and never left out of is treated like a “dention camp”. There is no legal process for putting people into the camp. People are simply imprisoned in the concentration camp indefinitely for being suspected relatives of IS fighters.

I recommend reading a bit about it and try to filter out the propaganda to realize how insane it is https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/in-syrias-detention-camps-fears-grow-of-an-islamic-state-resurgence/

Interestingly this has been going on during the Biden administration as well so we can thank Trump for unmasking the empire.

Most certainly but what I found Interesting was the dates of the cases. They have been trying to find DEA dirt on them since at least 2018.

Gotta love it when the US-Israeli backed Junta is freeing all the ISIS fighters to ISIS all over the Middle East. Wahabi 2 electric boogaloo

Respect to Trump for not using AI to fix his letters. He could look like he is more capable than an 8 year old but he chooses not to

I’m actually a tad confused on why they are dropping support for the SDF. Usually the US and Israel love infighting groups and dismantling these groups seems counterproductive to the organized chaos they wish for. It might be Erdogan lobbying against the Kurds in exchange for letting Israel take the Golan and whatever else they stole.

I wonder if it will come back to bite them since the last thing Israel wants is a unified Syria. But the Kurdish seperatists are probably stupid enough to take up the proxy-millitia mantle for the US again whenever they are needed. They seem to love getting backstabbed by the US over and over.

I kind of feel for the Kurds for getting wrecked by Sykes-Picot. But at the same time they’re such incredibly useful idiots for the Western empire doing exactly what Sykes-Picot was made for (creating endless infighting by drawing the nation lines through ethnic groups, and so divide-and-conquer’ing the region) that I’m having a very hard time caring.

I’m seeing Khamenei on the frontpage of every newspaper when nothing is going on in Iran while the Syrian junta is committing active massacres and nobody seems to care so that’s going well

He’s saying the Kurdish militias are not an organic group with popular support, but a proxy militia funded by the West which falls apart the second Western funding and military help dries up.

GN got a Chinese GPU a few weeks ago but sadly no video on it running yet I’m very curious about it. Drivers seem to be an issue

Europe is bunch of lobbying organizations in a trenchcoat. There is nothing to learn for them except how to maximally extract profit from their populace.

Intel is 10% us govt owned and already had to be saved once. I don’t see it doing great long term

Europe is the only place TACO ever wins

Call me crazy but I think I read this headline about 20 times over and over in the past few days