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Nickname |
Message |
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00:15
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Gen_Otmin |
http://youtu.be/NVg7nmNYfys |
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00:20
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phillipsj |
how come few website use automatic content negotiation? |
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00:21
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phillipsj |
Being asked to set my language preferences is one of my pet peves. |
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00:22
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qial_ |
My first guess would be SEO-wise, its better to have separate content trees for language options, and doing that automatically requires more work |
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00:23
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phillipsj |
depends whose work you are counting :P |
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00:24
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qial_ |
Second is, do browsers tend to automatically set the Accept-Language header? I would assume most non-technical users aren't going to have set that up. |
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00:25
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phillipsj |
The debian website implements it, and leaves a hint about that at the bottom of most pages. |
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00:25
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phillipsj |
Though I suppose Debian users can be expected to be a little more tech-savy. |
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00:25
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qial_ |
yeah, your grandma likely isn't visiting Debian :) |
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00:26
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qial_ |
For more general consumer sites, my assumption is that most visitors would be more confused about it not asking and automatically choosing whatever the browser sends. |
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00:27
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DFJustin |
lots of people use an OS that doesn't match their preferred language |
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00:29
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phillipsj |
Automatic content negotiation does not require a binary choice: you rate your language preferences on a scale of 0..1 |
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00:29
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DFJustin |
also a lot of people that may prefer a non-english language in the abstract don't like being shunted into a poorly maintained ghetto version of the site |
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00:30
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DFJustin |
I guess the real answer is that browser vendors should be more proactive about getting users to set it up properly |
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00:31
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DFJustin |
then content providers could be more confident in it |
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00:54
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joepie91 |
<DFJustin>also a lot of people that may prefer a non-english language in the abstract don't like being shunted into a poorly maintained ghetto version of the site |
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00:54
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joepie91 |
so much this |
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03:48
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yipdw |
wow |
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03:48
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yipdw |
so I was reading http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/aaron-swartz-memorial-jstor-liberator-sets-public-domain-academic-articles-free/ |
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03:48
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yipdw |
Ars Technica is full of wankers |
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03:50
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yipdw |
for that matter, aaronsw.archiveteam.org appears to be down |
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05:39
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godane |
i'm grabbing lddb.com laserdisc collection |
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05:40
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godane |
its also grabbing all images off of these numbers |
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05:41
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godane |
there are only 00001 to 53213 numbers |
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12:17
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BlueMax |
does someone want to fill me in on the secret word business? I can't say I ever found out what it was about |
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12:35
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ersi |
It's to create an account on the wiki. Instead of captchas, which are broken and will let bots through. |
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12:59
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phillipsj |
for the xkcd forum captcha, I had to use a paint program to increase the contrast to read it: a bot wouldn't notice the low contrast due to the limited number of colours (8 bit pallate I believe) |
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17:46
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odie5533 |
phillipsj: bots could easily raise the contrast on it |
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18:14
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phillipsj |
To a bot, contrast does not exist, It is simply up to 256 different colours |
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18:14
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phillipsj |
you need a lossy compression format to take advantage of poor contrast. |
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18:15
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M1das |
put the images in a tiff file |
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18:15
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M1das |
it would piss me off |
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18:43
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Schbirid |
how big is an average flac for a random music song? |
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18:52
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Schbirid |
random sample of 50 tracks says 26mb |
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18:56
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Schbirid |
so jamendo in FLAC would be about 12 TB |
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19:22
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mistym |
What's the best way to extract bin/cue stuff in Linux? |
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19:24
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Schbirid |
mistym: i like bchunk for that |
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19:26
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mistym |
Schbirid: Thanks! |
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19:26
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mistym |
Aw, bchunk doesn't figure out for itself where the bin is from the cuesheet? |
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23:45
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dashcloud |
for those using KDE on Linux, what distro are you using? I've got to reinstall anyway, so it would be a good time to change things up |