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True, DO has no Pis. Why does it have to be a Pi, though? With the 1TB of bandwidth and the focus on IPv6, I'd think it would be geared towards networking, so that makes the machine irrelevant.

DO does, rent out decent machines that have IPv6 connections. At that point you can just turn off the IPv4 interface. Done.

The part that I like the best about this one is that it gives you 1TB of transfer. Why? Overkill, no?

I think you'd still be better off going with Digital Ocean or something comparable. Probably performs about the same for a lower price.

Thanks for the reminder.

I have found Fossil very good for solo version control. I swear by it, but then again I don't work in the industry.

Reminds me how some video games would use really garish default textures, so that the errors in texturing stand out.

I believe Thief 1 and 2 have done this, but I may be wrong.

It isn't meant to be enticing, but factual.

It will break stuff. It will run forever. The software that I committed works in theory, but I don't think you should actually deploy it in its current form.

If you aren't interested in some playful carnage on a slow news day, no worries. Different strokes, eh? :)

I really should be doing something else, but this is too interesting.

It doesn't yet, but it could. Keep it mind, at the worst case scenario I get to pick which of the four individual minifiers I run. I will always at least be able to match the best one.

There is absolutely nothing that prevents me from running zopfli over the final outputs and comparing the sizes. I can use the compressed size to drive search. A matter of a change in metric used to consider what is an improvement.

I'll add this to my todo list on this project. Looks like I may be doing more on this than I originally intended...

The funny thing about the software I wrote is that you can have it do that too. You just need to define what a minifier is. I do permit command line parameters.

But honestly, just use pngzopfli as post-processing and pngquant as pre-processing.

I'm an academic. I get very unwell if I'm not pompous at least half of the time. I also had two days to put this together, from conception to submission here. I could have been more innovative, but given the time limit...

The best part was that the whole description is technically correct.

Pay me and I will do this. Otherwise I have to do my day job and my project that I will use to survive when my job finishes.

I will even learn CSS and JS to a degree where I can contribute the patches myself.

Won't anyone think of the bytes!

I'd call this half-satire. Half joke. Half thought experiment.

The idea is that you can run this once, benefit forever.

I'm myself in a need of a website that fits under 14K because I'm insane or something. Saving bytes might start to matter.

It is a plan for a followup post to have that.

No, but you can do this yourself quite easily. I am way too tired and sleep deprived to do more on this for at least a couple of days. Even then I have other priorities.

I'm not recommending doing it either! :)