Daniel @da@mastodon.technology

Comparing file sizes of lossless WebP vs FLIF vs PNG. #WebPerf
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-flif-comparison.html#src=mastodon

Comparing AVIF vs WebP image file sizes at the same visual quality (using DSSIM). AVIF’s 85th percentile was the same as WebP’s 15th percentile! #WebPerf
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-avif-comparison.html#src=mastodon

Enable the sharp YUV option in WebP for better quality WebP images at practically no increase (often a reduction) to the file size. It costs +68 % CPU time.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-sharp-yuv.html#src=mastodon

How to enable hibernation/suspend-to-disk on Fedora Linux. 🐧⏻
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fedora-hibernate.html#src=mastodon

How to auto-lock your computer on a schedule (e.g. at bedtime). For #Linux, #macOS, and #Windows.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/lock-pc-at-bedtime.html#src=mastodon

Any Mozillians know what happen with the client-side translation project? #Firefox #Bergamot

Ctrl blog is now available as an Onion site 🧅
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/ctrlblog-onion-mirror.html#src=mastodon

Updated: Google will now auto-delete collected data after 18–36 months by default for new accounts. Existing accounts still need to manually adjust privacy settings and opt-in to having their collected data expire.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/google-autodelete.html#src=mastodon

I’m playing with the macOS 11 beta. I already miss better contrast ratio from the previous version. The increased-contrast option now has less contrast than the old default. It’s near impossible to tell the difference between a selected and a non-selected toolbar button or tab. #macOSBigSur

Promote your Onion site to Tor Browser visitors with the Onion-Location HTTP header.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tor-onion-location-header.html#src=mastodon

Fun with Apache HTTPD and subrequest variable inconsistencies
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/httpd-subrequest-variable-inconsistencies.html#src=mastodon

How to block web browser-based localhost device port-scans. (Like the ones eBay and banks perform when you visit their websites.) Firefox only.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/block-localhost-port-scans.html#src=mastodon

Embed XMP sidecars into image files with embed_xmp. #metadata
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/embed-xmp.html#src=mastodon

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
https://getimageview.net/2020/06/02/microsoft-defender-smartscreen-is-hurting-independent-developers/

Bing only indexes my website’s .svg, .atom, and binary files. It crawls the .html to find those but they don’t show up in search results. Any ideas what might be going on?

Google Authenticator enables device-transfers – still no back up/export options. #2FA #security
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/google-authenticator-2fa-secrets.html#src=mastodon

P2P apps’ connection amnesia makes them less fault-tolerant. Few apps implement peer connection detail caching.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cache-p2p-connections.html#src=mastodon

How to make HTML native lazy image loading load images earlier (avoid empty image areas while loading).
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/eager-lazy-loading.html#src=mastodon