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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 17m

Love when life fucks you so much that you can just stare at it, sometimes.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 26m

I'm sure I missed a discussion of it, but was there a chance in the way daily rewards get sent out? Just got a referral awards sometime in the last hour, while I'm used to them kicking in at 1 am (Eastern Time), about twelve hours earlier.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 24m

maybe @k00b kicked the server because it didn't run tonight?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 19m

yes, they deadlocked last night

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 36m

Is anyone else seeing extremely poor performance on GitHub today? I'm getting clone timeouts and 50-100kB/s fetch speeds over https.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 30m

mhh, no, nothing unusual on my end

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 28m

Thanks. Probably increased VPN abuse making them throttle :-/

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h

Any reason .avif files can't be uploaded? images seem to be converted to .avif when we upload them anyway.

100 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 25m

We don't convert images (but we want to for better cross-platform support)

Not sure why we don't support AVIF. I thought maybe because of bad browser support but that's not the case. Maybe we just didn't add because nobody requested it before?

Also, we do support Quicktime from Apple even though that does have bad browser support iirc

Do you have anything to add here @sox?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 17m

haha was about to reply!

So as I was saying, there’s no technical reason to not support AVIFs, pretty sure that, back then, it was useless to consider them. We can add it to the list of supported formats.

QuickTime from Apple is something that we desperately needed for a better iOS UX, before you couldn’t upload them! But that actually made me think about transcoding: a way to convert those proprietary formats to everything that everyone can play. We’ll get there 🫡

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20m

oh, i thought they were converted because when i right-click-save-as on Stacker News, the images are always downloaded as avif

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 16m

our imgproxy service converts images to AVIF for better performance (compression), so that’s expected. To download the true format, click “view original” on the top-left of the carousel ^^

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15m

yes, this must be it, thanks @sox

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 18m

This one is PNG.

~~Are you using Windows? Maybe it's confused because it relies on extensions in the filename? Not sure why it would think it's AVIF though.~~

edit: Wait, I see now what you mean, you don't mean the original images

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 16m

Hmm. So when I click that link you sent and download it, it's a PNG.

But when I try to download the image posted here #1269712 from the Saloon, it's avif.

I assume they are referencing the same image though?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 10m

I assume they are referencing the same image though?

No. The images we load automatically are proxied to prevent IP address leaks and to improve performance by scaling them down based on your device’s screen size (and possibly through caching as well).

For example, if you’re using a small screen, there’s no need to download a 4K-resolution image.

67 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 2h

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h

21 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h

Friendly reminder that insulting someone you're in an argument with and impugning their motives usually just looks like you don't know how to defend your position and probably means you should think about what they said a bit more.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Car 1h

What’s even better is when they insult you and you reply back and they change their response to appear not hostile…atp I just mute them. It’s like talking to a man child.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h

I have a pretty high threshold for muting people, but I need to get better at disengaging.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 33m

I use to do that but at some point I realized those types are not looking to engage they are looking to be right, its "ego tripping at the gates of hell"

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27m

You're right about that, but I still want to grant a lot of slack just in case I'm misjudging the person or catching them not at their best.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h

158 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 2h

assholes can totally lie, for example because they are assholes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h

I'd happily take assholes who can't lie (including to themselves)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 3h

Lendasat swap feature (ln to USDC polygon) is some slick ish. Now I can easily get dollars in to Robinhood quick and easy. No more ACH

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 5h

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 5h

i immediately thot of the Ba'al Gates mosquitoes with a motherload of genetically engineered parasites;

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 5h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6h

Day 672 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 440 sats on 29Oct2025! Running total: 433,240 sats!

Yesterday's comment

60 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 6h

Good morning 👋🤠⚡ Now that I'm back in my country of birth, my great mission begins: to awaken as many people as I can and show them that they've been deceived about money all these years. It's not an easy task, but I feel it's what I must do.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy 5h

that is the Great Work! the deception encompasses not only money as society knows it; the deception is of the mind itself!

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 51m

the deception is of the mind itself!

I completely agree, and that's why this mission is complicated and I won't be applying it to everyone. Most people don't want to wake up from their dream or don't realize they're going through life with their minds asleep.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 7h

Happiness Journal 30/10/25

After getting 20+ students to finish an online lesson on the water cycle, I felt inspired to come up with my own comprehension cloze on the interesting aspects of air. Yup, the pivotal thing to our survival but is non-salient in our minds because it kinda fades in the background.

Gonna get my fifth graders to attempt my literary masterpiece the first thing tomorrow lesson. Quite looking forward to seeing if they have learnt anything from this year-end exam extravaganza.

In other news, I got so engrossed in watching Physical:Asia that I gave up my usual 15 mins of lie-in. Gonna pay for it dearly tonight because my depleted energy tank is gonna run even lower looking after two kids, but it is also strangely exhilarating finding a TV show that I liked so much that I threw caution to the wind!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 7h

Stacker News Horror Movie Posters

Thanks @Scoresby and @deSign_r for their contributions.

Here all the HORROR collection that came out of the 31-Word Horror Movie Review Contest

Check it out https://SWAG.btc.pub/HORROR