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submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But that’s not got anything to do with quality. That’s compression size

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lossless encoding, by definition, won't have any quality loss.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Watch some startup "invent" a revolutionary lossless format that discards some information.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Xerox did that ages ago.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 10 months ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago

did that ages ago

That's the point of revolution, no?
Going back to something that was in the past, except giving it a new name and context:P

[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh? The OP literally said “their lossless beats png” and then you proceeded to talk about file size which wasn’t ever part of the conversation. The conversation was about quality.