Comprehensive list of different services in Oracle, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, because fancy marketing names are a nightmare.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/service-comparison/

#Cloud #aws #oracle #googlecloud #azure

Chrom* has finally support JPEG-XL!!! This is the real successor of old JPEG, with all the characteristics, speed and legacy support to have another long live image standard. Apple, Mozilla and the PDF group had adopted as the new gold standard time ago but the most used browser engine refused to used it because the library was not "good enough".

Long live JPEG-XL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL
https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/145#jpeg_xl_decoding_support_imagejxl_in_blink
https://www.januschka.com/chromium-jxl-resurrection.html

I've posted a list of paths from a recent scrapper looking for public databases, backups and credentials. May it helps you to block them: https://gist.github.com/rodricels/15a48ed1a6b4247ca027ca99b5c76050

#security

I've just rediscovered the danger of adding modules without inspecting what other modules or code they are using underneath.
ImageMagick module loads Sophron module that use Mimemap library to detect file MIME types. This library loads more than a MB in PHP OPcache because its MIME array is HUGE.

This char｜is not a regular pipe, it's a "fullwidth vertical line" with unicode U+FF5C. You can search it (ctrl+f) with the regular pipe | of your western keyboard and you'll find both of them, but as it's a different char I've wasted half an hour trying to parse it using grep, sed, awk, perl...

Extracting data from Newrelic to store and process it externally afterwards: https://www.qloudx.com/export-backup-new-relic-apm-metrics-using-the-nerdgraph-graphql-api/
https://github.com/HarishKM7/newrelic-exporter
#newrelic

#Copilot stops working on gender related subjects #72603 - https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603 a reminder that you are not in control of proprietary software; always use #opensource if you want freedom

And an alternative to the fast "Hey" is the faster and prettier "Oha" (pun intended) https://github.com/hatoo/oha

I've discovered a good comparative of opensource load testing tools, perfect for stress tests, saturate your local network or auto denial of service attacks.

https://grafana.com/blog/2020/03/03/open-source-load-testing-tool-review/

Why the accesibility magic plug-ins are bad?
I'm not an expert so let me introduce them and the facts against to use it: https://overlayfactsheet.com/en/

#accessibility #a11y #screenreader

Google is putting links over your content without your consent. if this functionality extends beyond the current Google app on iOS, it could be a serious problem.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ios-app-page-annotation-38451.html

Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE). #PHP
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/11/19/pie-pre-release/

#chromium on #Linux nightly (upcoming 132) now has better #V4L2 hardware decoders support - used by #arm devices instead of VA-API. It's still disabled by default, but the flags to enable it have been unified. To enable it you'll need:
- AcceleratedVideoDecoder (enabled by default for VA-API)
- AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL (only if you use GL, not VK)
- AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL (only EGL, not GLX: use video formats like NV12 directly)

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5872600

#linuxmobile

For all of us who have to suffer MS Teams in the workplace, I can't recommend enough this electron wrapper (yes, I know, another electron...), because with the standard PWA you'll suffer of disconected headsets, missed meeting notifications...
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

And if you want hardware video acceleration it could be accomplised following: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/issues/1324#issuecomment-2273565338

#teams #microsoft

Qwant and Ecosia will develop a new search indexer
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/ecosia-and-qwant-two-european-search-engines-join-forces-on-building-an-index-to-shrink-reliance-on-big-tech/
#search #SEO #google #bing #gdpr #bigtech

A list of tech services based in Europe (and friends) to increase the old continent's technological independence.
Eat local, code global.
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

Modern HTML email (tables no longer required): https://fullystacked.net/posts/modern-html-email/
This is a very good news, welcome to 2023 emails!
#Newsletter

Quick tip for hardware video acceleration in Chrome-like 98+ browsers with Ubuntu, X11 and Intel GPUs:
- Install VAAPI libraries: intel-media-va-driver libva-drm2 libva-x11-2
- Enable in about://flags "Override software rendering list, GPU rasterization, zero-copy rasterizer, Out-of-process 2D canvas rasterization"
- Open browser: <browser name> --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder

#linux #Chrome #chromium #vivaldi #Opera #brave

One of my passions is research about UX and try to absorb that knowledge to guide the development of better products.
Articles like this are gold, the whole site indeed because is one of my favorites, on it you can find how users lose focus during product list and what are their frustrations dealing with it. Let's take a look!
https://baymard.com/blog/current-state-product-list-and-filtering
#ux #ecommerce #web