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submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.