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An off-topic comment:

Interesting for the “GIF” section to have links to .mp4 videos — the “GIF” word now seems to be synonymous to short playable animations. Love that the author did that though, I’ve seen too many repos with multiple giant (~10MB) GIFs on the README and burn my mobile data plan.

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Unfortunately I just see this error on Firefox 96.0.3 on Linux though:

https://i.imgur.com/DgQLXqj.png

EDIT: looks like there is already an issue about it. https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim/issues/4

There is something wrong with either Firefox or Github. I have the same issue on my repo and I know the mp4 files I generated are kosher.

fixed it

I really dislike situations like this where the inferior becomes a name for the category, because it encourages people to keep using the inferior, often because that’s all they hear of and so all they know. “RSS” for feeds is a similar, though somewhat less bad, case (Atom is unequivocally superior, but in ways that seldom make a difference for most consumers for most content).

(Admittedly, actual video codecs are more a minefield, as is seen here in the video not playing in most environments due to the use of full 4:4:4 chroma, whereas GIF is simple and stupid enough that it’s consistent.)

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