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  Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-22 19:14 +0000
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-22 15:25 -0500
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-22 21:26 +0000
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2024-12-22 16:58 -0500
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-22 22:08 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-22 22:14 +0000
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-23 08:06 +0000
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 13:11 -0600
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 01:25 +0000
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 05:59 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 08:40 +0000
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 07:50 -0500
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 13:53 -0500
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-24 09:08 +0000
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 07:43 -0500
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2024-12-23 13:43 +0000
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-23 10:00 -0500
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-27 05:42 +0000
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-27 07:52 -0500
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-27 15:13 +0000
                Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-27 11:25 -0500
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 14:01 -0500
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-23 21:34 +0000
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-24 07:58 -0500
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-25 12:27 +0000
                Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-25 10:49 -0500
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 13:14 -0600
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Nick Charles - 2024-12-22 16:52 -0500

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#681083 — Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows

Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files?  I sure as fuck do.

Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text.  But that
doesn't stop the digital idiots.

However, FOSS has an answer:

https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png

From the link:

"jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved
as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."

I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.

Man oh man!  These FOSS people are always right on top of it!

Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!



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#681086

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files?  I sure as fuck do.
>
> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text.  But that
> doesn't stop the digital idiots.
>
> However, FOSS has an answer:
>
> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>
> From the link:
>
> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved
> as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."

    Installation

    A compiled Windows version is available on the "Releases" page.

(It's jpeg2png.exe).

    Under Windows, you can also drag-and-drop JPEG files onto the program.

Also, the example graphics really don't show any benefit. The first example,
"Lena", the encoding is better than the bogus GIMP conversion, but the jpeg2png
is worse than the original. Why not use an original JPEG as the base. And show
numbers (file sizes).

Just my quick assessment.

-- 
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."

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#681091

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:14:29 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<pan$b93c0$1f07acd8$927f2cd1$a6f91cce@linux.rocks>:

> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files?  I sure as fuck do.
> 
> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text.  But that
> doesn't stop the digital idiots.
> 
> However, FOSS has an answer:
> 
> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
> 
> From the link:
> 
> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as
> JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
> 
> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
> 
> Man oh man!  These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
> 
> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Now I know you're an anti-Linux troll.

There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.

ImageMagick-im6.q16(General Commands ManuImageMagick-im6.q16(1)

NAME
       ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation,
       modification and display of bitmap images.

SYNOPSIS
       convert-im6.q16 input-file [options] output-file

OVERVIEW
       Use ImageMagick® to create, edit,  compose,  or  convert
       bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety
       of formats (over 200) including PNG,  JPEG,  GIF,  HEIC,
       TIFF,  DPX,  EXR,  WebP,  Postscript,  PDF, and SVG. Use
       ImageMagick to resize, flip,  mirror,  rotate,  distort,
       shear  and  transform images, adjust image colors, apply
       various special effects, or draw text, lines,  polygons,
       ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.

       The  functionality  of ImageMagick is typically utilized
       from the command-line or you can use the  features  from
       programs  written in your favorite language. Choose from
       these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C),  MagickWand
       (C),  ChMagick  (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
       (C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick (Lisp),
       Lua  (LuaJIT),  NMagick  (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
       PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for
       PHP  (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick
       (R), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a  lan‐
       guage interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create im‐
       ages dynamically and automagically.
* * *
(
My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:

   https://imagemagick.org/
)
-- 
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   OS: Linux 6.12.6 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"pixel, n.:
	A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays.
	The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology:
	Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial
	intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."

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#681095

On 12/22/24 4:26 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:14:29 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
> <pan$b93c0$1f07acd8$927f2cd1$a6f91cce@linux.rocks>:
> 
>> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
>> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files?  I sure as fuck do.
>>
>> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
>> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text.  But that
>> doesn't stop the digital idiots.

Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of 
compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its 
worth the trade of larger file sizes.

>> However, FOSS has an answer:
>>
>> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>>
>>  From the link:
>>
>> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as
>> JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
>>
>> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
>>
>> Man oh man!  These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
>>
>> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
>>
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> Now I know you're an anti-Linux troll.

Feeb's merely just a decade or so behind the times...


> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
> 
> ImageMagick-im6.q16(General Commands ManuImageMagick-im6.q16(1)
> 
> NAME
>         ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation,
>         modification and display of bitmap images.
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>         convert-im6.q16 input-file [options] output-file
> 
> OVERVIEW
>         Use ImageMagick® to create, edit,  compose,  or  convert
>         bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety
>         of formats (over 200) including PNG,  JPEG,  GIF,  HEIC,
>         TIFF,  DPX,  EXR,  WebP,  Postscript,  PDF, and SVG. Use
>         ImageMagick to resize, flip,  mirror,  rotate,  distort,
>         shear  and  transform images, adjust image colors, apply
>         various special effects, or draw text, lines,  polygons,
>         ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.
> 
>         The  functionality  of ImageMagick is typically utilized
>         from the command-line or you can use the  features  from
>         programs  written in your favorite language. Choose from
>         these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C),  MagickWand
>         (C),  ChMagick  (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
>         (C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick (Lisp),
>         Lua  (LuaJIT),  NMagick  (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
>         PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for
>         PHP  (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick
>         (R), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a  lan‐
>         guage interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create im‐
>         ages dynamically and automagically.
> * * *
> (
> My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:
> 
>     https://imagemagick.org/
> )

Nice to see that it supports HEIC.


-hh

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#681096

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:17 -0500, -hh wrote:

> 
> Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of 
> compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its 
> worth the trade of larger file sizes.
> 

Holy shiite!  My knowledgeable post has caused a firestorm of
lunacy!

Well, there is no sense in arguing with idiots.

Believe what you will, but the reality is mine and mine alone.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What stupid fucks!


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Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

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#681097

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:08:06 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<pan$87e2$1888bc87$2efeefc0$624edfd6@linux.rocks>:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:17 -0500, -hh wrote:
> 
> 
>> Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of
>> compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its
>> worth the trade of larger file sizes.
>> 
>> 
> Holy shiite!  My knowledgeable post has caused a firestorm of lunacy!
> 
> Well, there is no sense in arguing with idiots.
> 
> Believe what you will, but the reality is mine and mine alone.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What stupid fucks!

"Whenever you point a finger at someone, there are three
fingers pointed back at you."

In your case, you're the guy that said there were no
even prime numbers -- and now you're the guy that thinks
some new utility is the bee's knees, when ImageMagick
has been around since 1999.

-- 
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   OS: Linux 6.12.6 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
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#681115

On 22 Dec 2024 22:14:50 GMT, vallor wrote:

> 
> "there are three
> fingers pointed back at you."
> 

Yes.  Fingers that would otherwise be stuck in their asses.


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#681149

On 12/23/24 2:06 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2024 22:14:50 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>>
>> "there are three
>> fingers pointed back at you."
>>
> 
> Yes.  Fingers that would otherwise be stuck in their asses.
> 
> 


If they're cro-magnons, that's for sure :) It's therapy aimed at living 
with the knowledge that they're cro-magnons, not Modern Humans.

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#681102

On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:

> My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:

Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora 
default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have 
a use for and install.

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#681104

On 2024-12-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>> My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:
>
> Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora 
> default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have 
> a use for and install.

I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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#681118

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.

Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading 
126 packages and a new kernel :)

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#681125

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>
> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading 
> 126 packages and a new kernel :)

Just upgraded on the Debian Sid box, and aptitude wanted to remove skanlite
(the scanner I use for documents)!

So I look at the next solution, which says to keep the related packages at
their current version.

Heh heh, the sig reminds me:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/dsandler/1259007648

-- 
<MFGolfBal> rit/ara: There's something really demented about UNIX underwear...

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#681145

Chris Ahlstrom wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>>
>> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading 
>> 126 packages and a new kernel :)
>
> Just upgraded on the Debian Sid box, and aptitude wanted to remove skanlite
> (the scanner I use for documents)!
>
> So I look at the next solution, which says to keep the related packages at
> their current version.

It turned out that the update broke Qt. Skanlite, qsynth, skanlite.... none
would work.  I had to go back into aptitude, update again, and select a
different solution.

Hardware note: I saw a cheap ($7) USB-to-3.5mm headphone jack and bought it so
that I could free up my Berhinger UCA202 audio codec box. Plugged into a USB-2
port on the back of the mini PC, plugged in my speakers, tweaked mpd.conf and
used pavucontrol to make that dongle the default audio output.

Also edited .xbindkeys (changed "CODEC" to "Audio" to reflect the new device's
name as shown via "aplay -l") to control the new device using the amixer app.

Nice change o' pace.

-- 
The early worm gets the bird.

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#681178

On 2024-12-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>
> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading 
> 126 packages and a new kernel :)

I still haven't checked mine. It's probably got a couple thousand files 
ready and waiting for updates.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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#681124

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>> My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:
>
> Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora 
> default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have 
> a use for and install.

I use imagemagick all the time. Sign the various spots in a document, then scan
each page to JPEG format (better than PNG for emailing), save each one with an
ordinal name, then:

    $ convert *.jpeg official-document.pdf

Easy peasy!

We also used imagemagick (and libreoffice) to convert a variety of documents to
PDF for a project at work (years ago). This was on Windows.

It's also an easy way to take a screen shot (root window or a specific window):

   $ import screenshot.png

More options than you can shake a stick at.

-- 
  If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
		-- Samuel Goldwyn

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#681127

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 +0000, vallor wrote:

> 
> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
> 

[snip assholery]

It is useless to argue with total idiots but I have some time to waste.

This program is NOT a converter.  Understand assholes?

This program addresses the following problem:

Certain types of digital images such as line drawings, text, cartoons,
graphs, etc. should not ever be compressed using JPEG compression.
The reason is that such images contain a lot of very sharp edges
that require extremely high spatial frequncies to reproduce.  The
nature of JPEG compression is to throw away those high frequncies.

Needless to say, when such images are compressed with JPEG the
result is chock full of highly visible artifacts and distortions.

This jpeg2png program attempts to remove those artifacts and create
a distortion-free result that is saved as a PNG image.

There are idiots all over the Internet.  Most, if not all, will
use Microslop Winblows to do their production work.  When the time
comes to save their images they just stupudly press the JPEG compress
button without enderstading the consequences.

I encounter this idiotic junk all the time and now there is a specific
program, jpeg2png, that is designed to provide a remedy.

But one cannot fix stupid, just like one cannot argue with idiots.

This group is FULL of total idiots.


-- 
Hail Linux!  Hail FOSS!  Hail Stallman!

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#681128

On 12/23/2024 8:43 AM, Lameass Larry P wrote:

> This group is FULL of total idiots.


No doubt about that:

*  Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.

*  I need to train some stupid bitch to do the coding for me, but
    bitches have no aptitude for it.  A bitch can be trained to cook,
    clean house, and even type up a document.  But coding?  Never.

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#681340 — Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:38 -0500, DFS wrote:

> *  Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.

Which one has to do with software?

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#681354 — Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:38 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> *  Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.
>
> Which one has to do with software?

One of these days, inevitably, DFS will "code".  :-D

-- 
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Seagoon:	Only in the holiday season.
Maj. Bloodnok:	Ah, another Noel Coward!

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#681365 — Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows

Le 27-12-2024, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> a écrit :
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:38 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> *  Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.
>>
>> Which one has to do with software?
>
> One of these days, inevitably, DFS will "code".  :-D

You should be a little less obvious when you are lying about DFS. You
know well he was quoting LP/NV/DG/FR/whatever.

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