Well, they have a small point though:

By allowing to upload to a third party image host and allowing to embed images from other sites directly into Lemmy, the load on servers could be reduced while also allowing for larger/higher quality files.

This would obviously come with a downside to privacy.

The current solution would be: upload a highly compressed file to Lemmy and then link to the external high-quality version in the post.

An alternative solution from Lemmy devs could be, to allow external sources and hide the image until the user confirmed they want to load it from an external source. Or just… Add a toggle to settings to automatically load them.

I mean, with federation and all, everything in Lemmy is an ‘external’ source anyway unless you trust every single federated instance. So why not allow external image hosting/file hosting sites as trusted sources.

Unknowingly?

Ingress was quite transparent about the goal of gathering real-world data to allows development of future technologies like self-driving and navigation.

It’s the reason, why I started playing it around 2012.

OK, yes, that obviously makes sense, considering the amount of these Charakters.

I know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.

Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence

契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈

Which means (according to DeepL)

The sound of the wind rustling through the trees

And now I’m confused, why.