Month: October 2022

Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback regarding JPEG XL. We will be removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium for the following reasons:

– Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely

– There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

– The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

– By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome

The open source guys are upset. I did not know there was a new jpeg format.

Oh boy. If Google had applied the same kind of standards for WebP, that image format simply wouldn’t exist today. And frankly WebP is a complete shitshow and supported nonetheless to this today.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reasons

When i saw that Dashlane would support passkeys i thought that was interesting. I did not understand how it would work. You can see in the picture how it works. You have to enter Dashlane master password to use passkeys. Passkeys was supposed to get rid of passwords. It is not very bad because you only have to remember one password. Passkeys works much better with Windows Hello and a fingerprint reader.

India fines Google $113 million, orders to permit third-party payments in Play Store

Techcrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/google-hit-with-113-million-fine-in-india-for-anti-competitive-practices-with-play-store-policies/