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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • At a Rennaissance-fair-like event, a workshop had a vat of hot wax and would sell you a wick for $1 that you could keep dipping and cooling as much as you wanted. My autistic self took it literally and stayed for hours, ending up with a candle almost twice the length of the original wick and as thick as my forearm. The wick could not have been enough to support the weight and the vat was not that deep either, so I ended up dipping one end, then the other, cleaning the wick tip off to prevent it from disappearing. They must have lost some money on my candle but me walking around between the workshop and a tub of cool water with what looked like a giant dildo attracted a lot of attention to them, which made many children give it a try. None was patient enough to make a candle bigger than an electric toothbrush so they might have made it back with the advertising.







  • What kind of image is it? Reducing the number of colors in a PNG is usually inferior to JPEG compression. It can be OK for screenshots of texts and simple drawing but otherwise you’re better off with lossy JPEG or WebP.

    Some instance admins don’t even use the built-in pict-rs server so media cannot be uploaded natively at all.

    Some only allow month-old accounts to post images up to 500 kiB.

    Others leave the limits on the relatively high defaults: 10 MiB per file and up to 900 frames for soundless animation/video, which must be in WebM format and VP9 codec (or it will need to be reencoded, which usually fails because of the short timeout). It’s easy to use ffmpeg or HandBrake to create low-bitrate 30-second HD videos that fit but the limits are not visible to users and even the defaults are nowhere to be found in Lemmy documentation, I had to read the source code.