flamingos comments on Webp

Programmer Humor

34,003 readers

8,270 active

983 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
- If the mod doesn't find it funny, you're banned. Ha-ha!... For real: do not use the community for "statements". There are other places for such content. Keep it chill and funny.

founded 3 years ago

moderators

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 5 child comments

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xerox did that ages ago.

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

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 1 year 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

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

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.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent