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diddledaninteresting: https://veertu.com00:15
diddledanrun virtual machines on your mac without custom kernel modules00:16
diddledan(using hypervisor.framework)00:16
* diddledan gives it a go00:16
* zmoylan-pi casts ward corruption on diddledan's mac00:20
diddledanaww, won’t let me install from iso in the freebie00:21
daftykinso000:24
m0nkey_Fusion4Lyfe!00:30
diddledanthe problem I have is I want to run docker (which now uses the hypervisor framework) in addition to a win10vm in addition to vagrant (which charges for vmware capability)00:32
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* daftykins rams diddledan 01:43
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/so3sjnde3hrvs3e/IMG_20160718_024118.jpg?dl=001:44
diddledanoh myy01:44
* diddledan is rammed01:44
diddledanthe new ones are on the left?01:44
daftykinsleft hand stuff came out of my server - right hand stuff i've been testing in these different boxes01:44
diddledanaah01:44
daftykinsthe juggling continues!01:45
diddledanlol01:45
daftykinsi'm thinking i could put the working good mobo from the coolermaster stacker server type case into the smaller case and consider it more saleable as a desktop01:46
diddledantime for me to hit the sack methinks01:56
daftykinsnn sir o/01:58
MooDoomorning all06:58
knightwisegood morning everyone07:29
popeyGreetings from Heidelberg07:36
knightwisepopey: Have some BratWurst!07:44
popeyHah! I probably will at some point07:46
knightwiseWeather ok over ther e,07:47
knightwise ?07:47
knightwisepretty smoochie warm here in .be07:47
popeyyeah, pretty warm here08:02
davmor2Morning all08:06
MooDoomorning davmor2 et al08:08
davmor2MooDoo: oh get you mr foreign la di da08:09
popey 😃08:12
davmor2popey: how was your break good sir?08:14
TwistedLucidity23°C here right now....08:14
TwistedLucidityHence I am wearing the lightwieght hiking kit with zip-off bits.08:15
TwistedLucidityMaye get a bucket of ise for feet later08:15
Myrtti27 in the bedroom the whole night. I think I'll start cooking the dinner now so we can just microwave it in the evening08:15
knightwiseMyrtti: thats bad08:15
TwistedLucidityIt's my Siberian Husky I feel sorry for....08:15
Myrttiinstead of going to the kitchen with the conservatory heating it up all night08:16
Myrttier, day08:17
foobarryARM got taken over :(08:20
popeydavmor2: very08:20
foobarryowned shares in the since 199908:20
knightwiseso how about the ubuntu forum hack08:20
knightwiseis it as bad as they say ?08:21
popeydefine bad08:21
popeyhttps://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/07/15/notice-of-security-breach-on-ubuntu-forums/ covers it08:21
Myrttifoobarry: softbank was extremely good owner to Supercell08:22
davmor2knightwise: only user names which they can get as easily by setting up a bot to look through google+ facebook and twitter08:22
davmor2foobarry: they aren't moving it from cambridge and they are looking to double the staff to improve throughput for the internet of things I'd say your share will only get better :)08:23
foobarryshame to lose a fine british owned company thoguh. now profits sucked out of the country.08:24
foobarrythe share will be bought out by the new owners for a premium08:24
foobarryi would have been a millionaire had i bought the acorn shares when i wanted to but didnt knwo hoiw08:24
davmor2foobarry: oh I'm sorry you think we have industry in the UK still ;)08:24
Myrttithat wasn't exactly what happened with supercell. most of the profits were put back in08:25
davmor2Myrtti: doubling the 3000 workforce won't be cheap so I'd say that was a huge investment in itself08:26
Myrttiyup08:26
MyrttiI'd be more worried what happens when they decide to sell08:27
foobarryits better than intel buying them though08:29
foobarryor MS , AMD, etc08:30
JamesTaitGood morning!  Happy Monday, and happy Caviar Day! 😃08:55
TwistedLucidityStrange that they'd pick now to do this, what with Article 50 looming.09:00
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:00
foobarryshare price increased by 20% over last few months though09:01
foobarryi checked my avg cost per share of my shareholding09:02
foobarryhard to tell as i locked in profits over the years.09:02
popeyArticle 50 won't be invoked at all. Is my prediction.09:02
popeyBrexit department under David Davies will be allowed to fail.09:03
foobarryquite possibly09:03
TwistedLucidityfoobarry: Sell yer shares, retire to Caymans.09:05
foobarryi think some people are suggesting keeping them in case there is a counter bid, but i think there is already agreement09:06
TwistedLucidityAh, sorry. Thought the deal was done-and-dusted09:06
foobarrypretty much09:07
foobarrythe share price has already gone up to reflect that09:07
foobarrybut i bought in the dotcom boom when prices were high09:08
foobarryi have made a profit but not the kind it would have been if i bought 10yrs ago09:08
TwistedLucidityHindsight is always 20/2009:09
TwistedLucidityI keep meaning to buy some share tracker wotsits, but life keeps getting in the way09:09
foobarryapart from a pittance left in hornby shares09:10
foobarryi only have ARM09:10
foobarrythe only 2 companies i believed in09:10
TwistedLucidityOnly shares I hold are in my employer.09:10
foobarryor just liked their products in the case of hornby :S09:10
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:28
MooDoohowdy bigcalm11:28
knightwisehey bigcalm , MooDoo11:40
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popeyhello bigcalm11:57
popeyhello mappps' cat11:57
knightwisemappps: that was ... moving :p12:01
knightwisepopey popey , seen this ?https://www.lynda.com/…/Up-Running-Ubuntu-De…/159637-2.html…12:03
knightwiseFree at Linda.com12:03
bigcalmknightwise: might need a better URI12:08
bigcalmWith fewer ellipsis12:09
knightwisesorry , bad terminal , using cygwin (sucks)12:09
MooDoo:)12:39
* webpigeon thinks that mappps' comment has some positives and some negatives...13:36
diddledanhttp://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/swans-to-replace-trident-201408208974613:37
diddledanhave you ever seen swans surfing? blob:https://www.youtube.com/58183441-123c-4c81-ab3f-59e2039d249214:04
diddledanargh wrong link14:04
diddledanhttps://youtu.be/pja3UPlNHN814:04
diddledanARM are selling! http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/18/uk-chip-designer-arm-acquired-softbank/14:36
MooDooyeah apparently they are not moving it, just japanese buyers14:37
foobarryfor now15:04
diddledanI’ve just put an order in to move broadband onto a&a15:44
diddledan\o/ native IP6!15:45
diddledanalso. none of that nasty censorship crud15:47
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=== diddleda- is now known as diddledan_
diddledan_wow: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/19:26
daftykinsmy my19:35
ali123415 mb per second isn't actually that fast19:53
ali123422% over already compressed data is impressive though19:56
diddledan_especially as it's lossless19:56
ali1234yeah... although the original JPEG compression isn't lossless in the first place19:57
ali1234what they mean here by lossless though is that they can compress user's files and the user cannot tell19:57
diddledan_yeah but lossy on top of lossy would be lossy^219:57
ali1234it's not just lossless, the original file is unmodified when uncompressed19:57
ali1234which is a kind of odd goal19:57
ali1234but not if you are dropbox19:57
diddledan_generational degradation is exponential with lossy compression19:59
diddledan_that's why you should never edit a jpg and only save the final into jpg if you want quality19:59
ali1234yes but this has additional consstraints20:00
ali1234you can represent the same image in multiple ways with jpeg, this can't allow that to happen20:01
diddledan_lossless means that the uncompressed result is identical to the original, so I'm not seeing why you think that's an oddness20:01
ali1234if it did it would technically still be lossless, but no use for dropbox cos people would wonder why their images have a different checksum20:01
diddledan_if the checksum changes then it's not lossless20:01
ali1234sure it is20:01
diddledan_zip is lossless because the files you get out are identical to what you put in20:02
diddledan_I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of lossless20:02
ali1234no, i think you are20:02
diddledan_lossless means literally nothing is changes20:02
diddledan_d20:02
diddledan_i.e. you don't "lose" anything20:02
ali1234if i take a 24 bit PNG and convert it to indexed, it will be smaller. that is lossless compression20:02
diddledan_nope20:03
ali1234it will contain the same data20:03
diddledan_nope20:03
diddledan_checksum different means your compression has lost something or added something20:03
ali1234that's clearly not true20:03
diddledan_note that "preception" doesn't count with compression schemes20:04
diddledan_loss and non-loss with compression is about the bits not whether it still quacks20:04
ali1234then PNG can never be lossless20:04
ali1234also zip cannot be lossless20:05
diddledan_sure it can20:05
ali1234it doesn't preserve all file metadata20:05
diddledan_a text file added into a zip file with the word "flummox" will still read "flummox" when you extract it20:05
ali1234is that ascii or unicode?20:05
diddledan_i.e. the bits are identical20:05
diddledan_it doesn't matter because the zip format is input agnostic20:06
ali1234lepton isn't20:06
diddledan_you give zip a file.20:06
ali1234that's the point20:06
diddledan_yes and lepton is lossless20:06
ali1234it can only compress jpegs20:06
diddledan_but lepton is only lossless with jpeg. I fail to see why that is confusing you20:07
diddledan_it is producing the exact bits that are input when they're output20:07
ali1234it isn't confusing me20:08
diddledan_the reason lepton can only do jpeg is because it is designed to utilise compression artifacts of jpeg's format to improve in a lossless way the compression ratio20:09
diddledan_it's two step - you make a jpeg with standard jpeg compression and then you lepton it to reduce storage requirements further20:10
diddledan_in the reverse direction you will get exactly the same bits output from the lepton process that you put in20:10
ali1234as i keep saying "same bits out" isn't a requirement for lossless compression. it only has to output the same information20:11
diddledan_that is lossless, then your computer will decompress the jpeg data which WILL be different to the original image data that were input in bitmap form to jpeg compression20:11
ali1234information is not the same thing as "bits"20:11
diddledan_with computer compression schemes lossless and not is about the bits.20:12
diddledan_otherwise you'd be able to say that jpeg CAN BE lossless20:12
ali1234um... it can20:12
diddledan_only if you don't compress AT ALL20:12
diddledan_from wiki: Lossless compression is used in cases where it is important that the original and the decompressed data be identical20:13
diddledan_data = bits20:13
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ali1234no, jpeg can do lossless compression20:18
ali1234but by your definition it isn't really lossless, because you can't get back the original file. the image data is unchanged though20:18
diddledan_the image data IS the original file20:18
ali1234no it isn't20:18
ali1234the image data is the uncompressed jpeg20:19
diddledan_yes it is. you input into jpeg a bitmap. you get out a bitmap20:19
ali1234yes20:19
ali1234bitmap -> jpeg -> identical bitmap20:20
ali1234i can also do bitmap -> jpeg -> different jpeg -> identical bitmap20:20
ali1234this is still lossless20:20
diddledan_in an uncompressed jpeg, yes, in a compressed jpeg --- bitmap -> jpeg -> different bitmap20:20
ali1234bitmap -> jpeg -> lepton -> different jpeg -> identical bitmap would also be lossless20:20
diddledan_you can't compress a jpeg with jpeg again and get the same resultant bitmap as you got from the output of the first jpeg pass though20:21
ali1234that isn't a requirement20:21
diddledan_therefore IT IS LOSSY20:21
diddledan_FFS20:21
ali1234the only requirement is that two jpegs uncompress to an identical bitmap, which is entirely possible20:21
ali1234besides, you absolutely can do that20:23
ali1234bitmap -> jpeg -> jpeg lossless -> bitmap20:23
ali1234the second one would be bigger though20:23
diddledan_your example including lepton wouldn't be -> different jpeg. it would be the original jpeg recreated20:24
ali1234yes, that is what makes lepton so unusual20:24
diddledan_that's not unusual20:24
diddledan_zip20:24
ali1234name something else that does it?20:24
diddledan_gzip20:24
diddledan_xzip20:24
diddledan_they ALL do the same thing20:24
ali1234none of those are tied to a specific input format20:24
diddledan_so?20:24
ali1234lepton is20:24
diddledan_so?20:24
ali1234that's why it is unusual20:25
diddledan_why?20:25
diddledan_what makes being tied to a particular file format unusual?20:25
diddledan_lossless compression it still is20:25
diddledan_lossless means nothing lost ffs20:25
ali1234being tied to a specific input format and also being binary-transparent is what makes it unusual20:25
ali1234i never said it wasn't lossless20:26
ali1234i said it is more than lossless20:26
ali1234because lossless doesn't require binary-transparency20:26
diddledan_YES IT DOES20:26
diddledan_that's the whole meaning of lossless20:27
ali1234you keep saying that, but you have nothing to back it up, and it's a definition which precludes most types of lossless compression20:27
diddledan_name one lossless compression which is cited elsewhere as being lossless where the binary input stream is different from the binary output stream..20:27
diddledan_and by binary output I mean the uncompressed data in-memory20:28
diddledan_also the headers don't count unless they're also compressed by the same mechanism as the body20:30
diddledan_it's the body data we're interested in20:30
diddledan_i.e. the bits that have the compression applied to them20:30
ali1234converting a JPEG to a PNG fits this definition20:31
diddledan_the bitmap output from jpeg is what would be considered the input to png's compression and therefore the stream input will be identical to the stream output. you failed.20:32
ali1234no, you failed20:32
ali1234that's precisely why lepton is unusual20:32
ali1234it has this property that the original jpeg file can be reconstructed20:32
ali1234no other compression schemes have this property except for file-agnostic ones20:33
ali1234(lepton isn't a stream compressor)20:34
ali1234i know they claim it is, but it isn't20:34
ali1234actually i wonder what happens if you feed it a non-jpeg file20:35
ali1234maybe it just doesn't compress it at all20:35
ali1234that would make it a stream compressor i huess20:35
diddledan_it will either not-compress or it will depress20:35
diddledan_the only reason they say it works on jpeg is because the algorithm is tuned to the patterns that jpeg compression gives-rise to. you can feed lepton anything and get back the same result20:36
ali1234that's cool then20:36
diddledan_lepton will probably cause your non-jpeg file to be bigger though20:36
ali1234let's test it20:37
ali1234i'm checking out the source20:37
diddledan_all compression will have the same problems. not everything can be compressed by your chosen compressor and therefore due to mathematics some things you feed it will be bigger in their "compressed" form20:37
diddledan_everything I've said is backed-up by wiki (the oracle of man whom shall be trusted in all topics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression20:39
ali1234it doesn't compress non-jpeg files20:39
diddledan_are you sure the algorithm doesn't, or is it just that they neutered the tooling to reject it20:40
ali1234hard to say, the source is quite big20:41
ali1234it looks like it really only handles jpeg, because what it does is take a jpeg and compress only the coefficients20:42
ali1234from the comments: https://github.com/packjpg/packJPG20:49
diddledan_arg @ idiots outside on mopeds20:55
m0nkey_diddledan_, you played with osx sierra yet?21:12
diddledan_not in earnest21:13
daftykinsi don't think there's anything in it of worth21:13
diddledan_siri!21:14
daftykinsApple iterate too fast now, all their OSs seem to suffer21:14
diddledan_:-p21:14
daftykinspfft that's gimmicky rubbish21:14
diddledan_icloud all the things!21:17
daftykinsugh :P21:17
daftykinsmust say, Apple's storage rates are quite low21:17
diddledan_trident being renewed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-3683092321:21
diddledan_472 v 117 in favour21:22
SebthreeBQM10HDhi21:30
diddledan_yeesh, is that nickname long enough?!21:31
SebthreeBQM10HDdiddledan whatever to people like you,  I have this nick with good enough reasons21:31
diddledan_people like me.. I'll have you know there's nobody else like me!21:32
m0nkey_thank goodness21:32
diddledan_shush you :-[p21:32
diddledan_err wonky smilie21:32
diddledan_better than a wonky donkey I guess21:33
* diddledan_ refrains from mentioning wonky winkies in here 'cos I need to remain family-friendly21:33
diddledan_wait, did I say that out loud?21:34
diddledan_damn21:34
diddledan_interesting: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/GitHub-on-BigQuery-analyze-all-the-open-source-code.html21:36
* m0nkey_ is re-watching Red Dwarf from Season 121:55
m0nkey_Now on Season 2, Parallel Universe21:55
diddledan_dang21:55
diddledan_that's a lotta dwarf21:55
m0nkey_It just played "Tongue tied"21:56
m0nkey_That song makes me smile every time21:56
m0nkey_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU21:57
m0nkey_Then there was a professional version done later21:57
m0nkey_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU1XYvIUOrM21:57
m0nkey_It hit No 17 in the charts21:57
m0nkey_In 199321:58
diddledan_this came up next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4gXaq0fmzk22:02
m0nkey_lol22:02
m0nkey_Im preparing for the new series this September :)22:06
daftykinsdiddledan_: he was rude to you :(22:10
m0nkey_?22:10
daftykinsnah not you, sir22:11
daftykinshttps://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2016/07/ClHnIgKWYAAK0IM.jpg&w=300022:21
daftykinspilot snaps a thunderstorm near Panama22:21
diddledan_NICE!22:21
diddledan_a shareable link is https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2016/07/ClHnIgKWYAAK0IM.jpg (for facebooks)22:23
daftykinsyeah i was being impatient, i already cut that one down from a nasty image viewer22:24
diddledan_lol22:25
daftykinsonly saw the two segments on pasting :<22:25
daftykinsmmm thai red curry cooking22:34
diddledan_just been reminiscing over old phones - my parents had this when I was a kid: http://www.gpotelephones.com/USERIMAGES/Picture%20266.jpg22:37
diddledan_daftykins I've made that thunderstorm my desktop image now22:45
daftykins:D22:52
zmoylan-piclassic pots. plain old telephone system23:09
zmoylan-pinear indestructible23:09
daftykinsone of my uni lecturers told us about how some high up meeting was started by a fella saying "we're going to talk about POTS and PANS today!"23:10
zmoylan-pipans personal area networks?23:14
daftykinsdon't think so23:14
daftykinsgiven the era he seemed to be referring to23:14
zmoylan-pibt now does stretch back into the ancient era... :-)23:15
zmoylan-pibluetooth that is not british telecom...23:15
diddledan_android nuggit23:20
diddledan_with the emphasis on the git23:21
diddledan_apparently the developer preview is out (who knew?!)23:21
zmoylan-pithe nsa, gchq, fsb...23:23
daftykinsyeah for quite a while, unfortunately they're ignoring my Nexus 5 for it which leads me to believe it isn't going to get N23:24
zmoylan-piit's more than a few months old and is thus obsolete...23:26
daftykinsyeah, this is what irritates me about the phone situation23:26
daftykinsgotta be current to stay patched and secure, but have to keep shelling out to do so - i just want no part of it :/23:27
zmoylan-pithere are 1-2 build your own rasp pi franken phones23:28
daftykins;)23:29
daftykinsno battery23:29
zmoylan-piuse a mifi for data voip. then a pi with touch screen for io and a powerpack23:29
daftykinsnah no contracts for data for me23:31
zmoylan-piuse prepay for data23:31
daftykinsnot viable over here23:31
zmoylan-piah, yeah, they are trying to eliminate prepay here to.  only tesco left in prepay market.  the rest sell rolling contracts under name prepay23:32
daftykinsi don't really use mobile data too, being an island i'm only ever out and about in the town with mates, or at a place with wifi23:34
daftykinsgonna need to do something in the US this september though :)23:34
zmoylan-pithen lose the mifi23:34
zmoylan-pii use mobile date 1-2 days a month.  usually when i'm playing dnd.  means i spend e5 every 2-3 months for phone credit23:35
daftykinsheh23:35
zmoylan-pii see contracts been advertised all the time for #30-40 a month and i wonder just how much data people use on those contracts...23:38
zmoylan-piand one of our customers back in the days of video rentals had a daughter who spent about 3,000 a month on mobile phone service... pre data... voice and sms while abroad...23:40
daftykinsi think they're all mugs swayed by these silly flagship phones, can't believe it when they're daft enough to let themselves be locked into such rates just to buy a toy23:42
daftykins"oh but it's free!" - *facepalm*23:42
diddledan_how long does 200watts last? http://readwrite.com/2016/07/18/bae-systems-wearable-smart-vest-vt4/23:43
diddledan_idiot journo thinks watts is a capacity of battery23:43
diddledan_"The vest is capable of providing 200 watts of power to devices, before it needs to be recharged back at HQ."23:44
diddledan_daftykins: I like toys!23:45
diddledan_daftykins: moar toys!23:45
daftykinsnoooo23:48
zmoylan-piyellow weather alert for tuesday... 29c possible... i feel whoozy already thinking about it...23:50
diddledan_omg, not yellow weather!23:50
diddledan_I hate yellow weather23:50
zmoylan-pishiny ball in the sky warning...23:51
diddledan_ooh, first contact with aliens?23:51
Myrttiwhee bedroom temp is down to 27 already! parteeee23:52
chronsorry what is yellow weather lol23:52
* daftykins links it to yellow snow23:52
diddledan_Myrtti: sticky night in bed tonight then :-(23:53
daftykinsi'm sleeping on my sofa at the moment because it reaches 30 deg C up in the bedroom >_<23:53
Myrttias always23:53
diddledan_daftykins: :-(23:53
chrontoo hot23:53
MyrttiI've got a sports shirt on23:53
Myrttidoesn't help much, but It's something23:53
chronits nice and cool outside though23:54
zmoylan-pii have small 6" fan in bedroom... wonderful breeze... washed hair before bed adding extra cooling as it dries...23:54
diddledan_I changed my sheets yesterday. helps a bit to have new bedding for a few days23:54
diddledan_lurve the first night in changed sheets23:55
daftykins:D23:57
daftykinsclean and showered in the evening, clean bed clothing and PJs/what have you - no chance in 'ell of getting up23:57
zmoylan-piand also a hot shower so that when you get out you feel wonderfully cool.23:57
diddledan_lol, yup23:57
daftykinsafter 3 years of living here i only just found out the bathroom window upper portion *isn't* painted shut after all23:58
daftykinsfinally i don't die of heat having a shower in summer ;_;23:58
diddledan_ooh.. https://webtorrent.io23:59

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