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In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use "gif" to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.

It's silly, but I can see how it happened.

According to the PieFed developers page:

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

I don't know if there's anything special that Voyager needs to do. Maybe it even works already!

Today I learned how to pronounce "dachshund".

I mean, I don't remember ever saying "dachshund" out loud, but if I ever did, I would have been wrong.

And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don't make sense anymore.

No. Duolingo is a for-profit company.

And even if they were a non-profit org, cutting jobs isn't a good thing. It's sometimes an unfortunate necessity.

Yeah some of the libraries near me have a selection of video games on the shelves. At least one even has board games.

I love libraries.

It's a big part of this blogger's online identity. Offline identity too, based on this quote from the same blog:

... a handful of strangers complained incessantly about my inclusion of furry art on my furry blog, because they felt self-conscious showing my writing to their boss.

Meanwhile, I’ve taken fursuit selfies at professional infosec and cryptography conferences.

There’s an old saying: “Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

The actual luminaries of software security and cryptography quite simply do not give a fuck.

That is to say: They don’t have any of the same hang-ups about my blog’s furry art (or even being openly gay) that some commentators fear from their bosses and/or peers.

Retrospective: Five Years Blogging About Cryptography as a Gay Furry Online

So in that light, it makes sense that the thumbnail is what it is.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the "How To") suggest a title, like a book or something.

Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.

I guess someone thought "popping" and "pooping" were the same word.

Or maybe there's a naked joke to "popping"? Like, uh... maybe something like... popping open button-fly jeans?

Are you lost?

I can't see why you would make this post here.

Maybe you mean one of the "ask" communities?

My friend had light switches that glowed with a bright blue LED glow.

I couldn't stand it. I prefer to sleep in the actual darkness.