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