Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google[1], who leads the group) in favor of their inferior .avif
format.
Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google[1], who leads the group) in favor of their inferior .avif
format.
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However, getting people used to double extensions is one quick way of increasing the success rate of attacks such as the infamous “.pdf.exe” invoice from an email attachment.
Very good point. Though, i would argue that this would be much less of a problem if Windows stopped sometimes hiding file extensions.
I can’t see how Windows’ convention is worse
I don’t believe what you’re referring to is really a Windows versus Linux/Unix thing.
If I zip a file, it doesn’t matter what it was in a previous life, it’s now a zip - this is also how Unix deals with many filetypes, I’ve never seen a .h264.mp4 file, even though the .mp4 container can actually represent different types of encoding.
I disagree, but i do get what you’re saying here. I don’t think that example really works though, because a .mp4
file isn’t derived from a .h264
file. A .mp4
is a container that may include h264-encoded video, but it may also have a channel with Opus-encoded audio or something. It’s apples and oranges.
Also, even though there shouldn’t be any technical issues with this on Windows, you can still use a typical short filename suffix if you wish, though i would argue that using the long filename suffix is more expressive. From “tar (computing)” on Wikipedia:
Compressor | Long | Short |
---|---|---|
bzip2 | .tar.bz2 | .tb2, .tbz, .tbz2, .tz2 |
gzip | .tar.gz | .taz, .tgz |
lzip | .tar.lz | |
lzma | .tar.lzma | .tlz |
lzop | .tar.lzo | |
xz | .tar.xz | .tx |
compress | .tar.Z | .tZ, .taZ |
zstd | .tar.zst | .tzst |
I get the frustration, but Windows is the one that strayed from convention/standard.
Also, i should’ve asked this earlier, but doesn’t Windows also only look at the characters following the last dot in the filename when determining the file type? If so, then this should be fine for Windows, since there’s only one canonical file extension at a time, right?
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True, but it offered a much more secure alternative to opening up PDFs locally.
What’s messed up is that, technically, we do. Originally, OpenDocument was the ISO standard document format. But then, baffling everyone, Microsoft got the ISO to also have .docx
as an ISO standard. So now we have 2 competing document standards, the second of which is simply worse.
The problem here being that GnuPG does nothing really well.
Could you elaborate? I’ve never had any issues with gpg before and curious what people are having issues with.
Unfortunately currently there aren’t many options to use AV1 in a very meaningful way; you can encode your own media with it, but that’s about it; you can stream to YouTube, but YouTube will recode to another codec.
AV1 has almost full browser support (iirc) and companies like YouTube, Netflix, and Meta have started moving over to AV1 from VP9 (since AV1 is the successor to VP9). But you’re right, it’s still working on adoption, but this is moreso just my dreamworld than it is a prediction for future standardization.
Sounds like a Windows problem
AV1 can do lossy video as well as lossless video.
Different ways of compressing the initial .tar
archive.
So there’s a tool called tar that creates an archive (a .tar
file. Then theres a tool called zstd that can be used to compress files, including .tar
files, which then becomes a .tar.zst
file. And then you can encrypt your .tar.zst
file using a tool called gpg, which would leave you with an encrypted, compressed .tar.zst.gpg
archive.
Now, most people aren’t doing everything in the terminal, so the process for most people would be pretty much the same as creating a ZIP archive.
This is the kind of thing i think about all the time so i have a few.
.tar.zst
.zip
and gzip
/.gz
) and does so faster..tar
), compressing (.zst
), and (if you so choose) encrypting (.gpg
), .tar.zst
follows the Unix philosophy of “Make each program do one thing well.”..tar.xz
is also very good and seems more popular (probably since it was released 6 years earlier in 2009), but, when tuned to it’s maximum compression level, .tar.zst
can achieve a compression ratio pretty close to LZMA (used by .tar.xz
and .7z
) and do it faster[1].
zstd and xz trade blows in their compression ratio. Recompressing all packages to zstd with our options yields a total ~0.8% increase in package size on all of our packages combined, but the decompression time for all packages saw a ~1300% speedup.
JPEG XL
/.jxl
.jpeg
, .png
, .gif
).AV1
.mp4
) and VP9[3].OpenDocument / ODF / .odt
.odt
is simply a better standard than .docx
.it’s already a NATO standard for documents Because the Microsoft Word ones (.doc, .docx) are unusable outside the Microsoft Office ecosystem. I feel outraged every time I need to edit .docx file because it breaks the layout easily. And some older .doc files cannot even work with Microsoft Word.
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For me, it’s not really to the point where I would use it as a primary browser, but it’s still pretty damn good. Definitely worth a try.
That’s just Marxism. That idea started with Marx, not Lenin. He even talks about it in the Communist Manifesto, saying:
Not even mentioning his Critique of the Gotha Programme where he talks about the dictatorship of the proletariat and the transition from capitalism to communism extensively. It’s okay to not be a Marxist, but it’s just factually incorrect to claim that the dictatorship of the proletariat isn’t integral to Marx’s understanding of the transition to communism.