[00:15] <Gen_Otmin> http://youtu.be/NVg7nmNYfys
[00:20] <phillipsj> how come few website use automatic content negotiation?
[00:21] <phillipsj> Being asked to set my language preferences is one of my pet peves.
[00:22] <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
[00:23] <phillipsj> depends whose work you are counting :P
[00:24] <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.
[00:25] <phillipsj> The debian website implements it, and leaves a hint about that at the bottom of most pages.
[00:25] <phillipsj> Though I suppose Debian users can be expected to be a little more tech-savy.
[00:25] <qial_> yeah, your grandma likely isn't visiting Debian :)
[00:26] <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.
[00:27] <DFJustin> lots of people use an OS that doesn't match their preferred language
[00:29] <phillipsj> Automatic content negotiation does not require a binary choice: you rate your language preferences on a scale of 0..1
[00:29] <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
[00:30] <DFJustin> I guess the real answer is that browser vendors should be more proactive about getting users to set it up properly
[00:31] <DFJustin> then content providers could be more confident in it
[00:54] <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
[00:54] <joepie91> so much this
[03:48] <yipdw> wow
[03:48] <yipdw> so I was reading http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/aaron-swartz-memorial-jstor-liberator-sets-public-domain-academic-articles-free/
[03:48] <yipdw> Ars Technica is full of wankers
[03:50] <yipdw> for that matter, aaronsw.archiveteam.org appears to be down
[05:39] <godane> i'm grabbing lddb.com laserdisc collection
[05:40] <godane> its also grabbing all images off of these numbers
[05:41] <godane> there are only 00001 to 53213 numbers
[12:17] <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
[12:35] <ersi> It's to create an account on the wiki. Instead of captchas, which are broken and will let bots through.
[12:59] <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)
[17:46] <odie5533> phillipsj: bots could easily raise the contrast on it
[18:14] <phillipsj> To a bot, contrast does not exist, It is simply up to 256 different colours
[18:14] <phillipsj> you need a lossy compression format to take advantage of poor contrast.
[18:15] <M1das> put the images in a tiff file
[18:15] <M1das> it would piss me off
[18:43] <Schbirid> how big is an average flac for a random music song?
[18:52] <Schbirid> random sample of 50 tracks says 26mb
[18:56] <Schbirid> so jamendo in FLAC would be about 12 TB
[19:22] <mistym> What's the best way to extract bin/cue stuff in Linux?
[19:24] <Schbirid> mistym: i like bchunk for that
[19:26] <mistym> Schbirid: Thanks!
[19:26] <mistym> Aw, bchunk doesn't figure out for itself where the bin is from the cuesheet?
[23:45] <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