April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Zyurat
MemberI'm really surprised at how small the flash size is for what it has to offer.
Mairo
JanitorThat's vectors in a nutshell. It saves the instructions how to draw and move stuff instead of saving all individual pixels. Reason why all the lines are clear and colors flat or gradient. This is why you can also right click -> zoom in and it still looks crisp and detailed.
Just like what midi is with music, only instructions what computer should play is saved so everything fits inside few kilobytes. But pretty sure that anyone who have heard any midis in their life, you can't get mp3 quality or vocals on them.
Lance Armstrong
JanitorNot necessarily. MIDI audio quality depends on the quality of the sampled instruments on the user's system, and on the specificity of the instructions. Vocals can be generated from text-to-speech and with markup (like vocaloid or SSML). Synthesized vocals have jumped in quality massively in the last 2 years with the application of machine learning techniques by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Baidu with one major goal being the creation of practical voice-enabled assistant AIs like Siri or Alexa.
Now imagine a Flash or HTML5 video that used a cloud service to generate vocals not stored in the file, while loading. Google Home could be forced to generate porn moans in the near future.
Salok
MemberTry Winamp's "Chipamp" plugin with some soundtracks from ocremix.org (personal favourite : Street of Rage 2)
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