Lad I know whose nickname is milk bottle.

AAAAACQUUAAAAAAAAA

Ooof :(

I’m pretty sure it is. That’s my gut. I really fucking hope I’m right.

It has been a long, long ten years.

I was told time would speed up as I aged.

You are incredibly lucky. Like my tap water is fairly great and all but not 4am great. Nom nom nom. Bueno.

Same :D After a few drinks that middle of the night water just hits like an angel crying on my tongue.

There’s a classic that Irish rail used to pull out of their bag of shite excuses until they got slagged to death over it:

Leaves on the track.

No joke. C’mon now lads. In fairness though the train service in Dublin and inter-city is pretty reliable and reasonable.

Dream fight. See you in two hours.

Wild! I would love to know what it feels like.

This one is on my phone because I used to fight Muay Thai and sent it to my best friend who fought out of the same gym and we had a good laugh about it.

Yep.

I hear you but I feel like the definition of a meme has changed with time and I thought it would add some fun because I have a heap more so my plan was to just post one a day.

Shameful.

Wasn’t the pipeline closed after the contract expired at the end of 2024?

Yeah that makes a lot of sense in fairness.

I’m not sure if I’m alone in this but I have a terrible aversion to transcoding. I know the loss of quality is probably not that huge (depending on the original codec) but I just can’t bring myself to get past it.

As a result I have a tiny arm based box with a 2tb SSD and I’m happy out.

You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

• Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
• Reduce the quality
• Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

The resizing is usually enough.

The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.

No worries. Yeah the article is great. They did go to some lengths to try to get to the bottom of it in fairness. Those BBC Verify articles are always absolutely spot on.

That all started from one news outlet that quickly shut it down but the far right ran with it like a baton at the Olympics.

BBC did a great BBC verify article on it.

I remember when that video came out and I was truly impressed at watching good regulations in action.

Luv me some EU I does. 🇪🇺