This seems way less insane than the ‘let’s model online age verification on pubs’ laws we’ve seen in places like the UK and France.

A ‘mode’ in emacs is a set of bindings which associate specific keys with specific functions.

Not quite, a mode is basically a lisp function defined with a different macro that integrates it into the various systems (like showing up in the modeline when active). It can do basically anything, including setting keybinds.

‘modes’ can be stacked on top of each other, with higher modes being able to intercept key presses before they reach lower modes, and changes / manipulate lower modes (I think?)

No, a keybind can only run one function and what that function is is whatever last defined a binding for that key. Like, if one mode defines a key to be something and you activate another that also binds that key, the latter takes over.

Emacs does have something like you describe, where functions can be ‘advised’.

Not really, Chrome has an overwhelming dominance on desktop despite not being preinstalled on any desktop operating system.

You can pry wget from my cold, dead hands.

YDI. Some real Piers Morgan energy you have in that thread.

Lossless encoding, by definition, won’t have any quality loss.

This depends, if your image contains a lot of flat colours (like a screenshot of a website) then PNG can actually give you smaller file sizes than lossless webp. But for most images (especially ones with compression artefacts) lossless webp gives smaller sizes.

The weirdest part of this ‘one-way federation’ drama is that it’s entirely self-inflicted. Why even run an allowlist if you’re not going to vet the instances you put on it?

Every time I see Hexbear mention .world it’s to call them Nazis, why on earth did they put piefed.world in their allowlist?

God, this thread is awful. People will really find any excuse to be transphobic/shitty in general. I might be one of these ‘anti-AI trolls’ (which I’ll admit is half right), but this reaction is completely out of proportion and in no way acceptable. I’m sorry Mystic and the dbzero team are having to deal with this (again).