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US bolsters military presence in Middle East as threat of regional escalation intensifies
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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looks sourly at reduced GIF color palette
This is 2024. That's an encoding from the 1980s. Can Lemmy do better?
investigates
Apparently webm works. And it's smaller.
EDIT: And upon further investigation, at least in the Lemmy Web UI, it scales up with the webpage and it lets the viewer choose whether to download the thing, for people on slow connections.
EDIT2: Though apparently on mbin, neither GIF nor webm files are shown inline; rather, the mbin web UI just links to them (though they're both viewable in that environment via clicking through to view them).
One problem with the fediverse at the moment is there seems to be a wide variance in feature support between clients and servers so it's nearly impossible to guarantee media (even static images, sometimes) will display as intended for everyone.
I don't have a solution, just noting it. Though the webm you posted looks and works great for me, in Voyager on Android 🙌
checks Eternity on Android
Neither the GIF nor the webm shows as animated there, though you can see a thumbnail on both.
The GIF is absolutely tiny on my Android screen on Eternity, though. Looks like the same "GIFs display at 1:1" issue, but on a higher-res display there.
In voyager I literally see zero difference between yours or the previous commenters.
What?! I’m on Voyager and I see a big difference. The original is saturated in many shadows and has the effect you get when the picture isn’t quite coming through digitally while the movement is slightly janky. The response is crystal clear and smoother and the little brother in the background actually moves.
How about the kid on the left not moving at all in the first image?
That’s exactly what I was referring to in my last line.
Well, it HAS been about a generation since we invaded. Gotta do something with this overinflated budget.
What? No, we can't afford Healthcare. Shut up.
So let me get this straight. The government that supposedly represents the most famous victims of ethno-nationalist violence in the 20th century grows up to become the most famous perpetrator of it in the 21st century? And one of their allies who helped defeat the original villains is now facilitating this new villainy? And because of our shared inability to admit this horrible irony we might just have a THIRD world war? Am I getting that straight?
Maybe instead, Israel trying to provoke WWIII means we should get out of the area.
Do you mean WW3?
Bad autocorrect. Thanks.
Let's see, there's a threat because why? Oh, Israel won't respect the sovereignty of other nations? How we let them get away with this shit blows my mind.