@aliss
I'm pretty sure this would be a case where the bot would be better than a human.
So my question is: is this a captcha to prove someone is not a human?
@sjw
>"You're watching too much TV hooman. Next time it will be your computer, if you don't pay more attention to me."
Oh god, this is complete cringe.
I think this confirms it. Gamefreak is dead.
@icedquinn
LZMA is more multi-purpose. When you make something more targeted for one specific thing, it's gonna be more efficient. It's just how things are.
Never did anything with PPMd myself. Maybe I'll test to see how epubs behave with it compared to LZMA. I wouldn't have any other use for it.
@furgar
I know what they are, but from movies (I think). They were never a thing in my country.
This is what we used.
@icedquinn
Webp/avif are kinda weird. Being video codec derivatives, I think they get to play looser with chroma and other stuff, because normally you'd get another frame in a split second that would compensate for the loss of information of the previous one.
But in a still picture, you never get that. Webp suffers from that. Avif manages to perform well despite that. Which makes me wonder, just how powerful a good, high quality encoded AV1 must be. I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing that to be honest.
@icedquinn
jpeg doesn't have lossless though, and it still inflates a lot, going from 99 to 100.
webp, in imagemagick does seem to go for lossless at q100, confirmed.
@curtis
While I overall approve of what he's doing with Twitter, I kinda hate that this is the guy we managed to find to lead the charge in this battle.
His tweet makes it seem like he's the next Washington or Lincoln, but Elon is so not the person to memorialize as one of the historical heroes of America for fighting for freedom.
@yangwenli
That's the most stupid shorthand for American. Also, would it have hurt your fingers to just say "Ami is shorthand for American"?
Fucking germans...
@icedquinn
The defaults for webp usually lands around 75-80. Did a quick test for imagemagick, and it seems that with no quality parameter given, it defaults to 99 (tested for jpeg and webp). It's quite ludicrous how big of a file size difference going from q 99 to 100 gives. Definitely NEVER test any image format at q100. It completely skews any result.
>lowering quality made the image garbage in an instant
By how much did you lower. I'm sure going q65 or lower fucks it up a lot, but imo anyone going that low with any image format is just plain ol' stupid to begin with. 80-96 has always felt the sweet spot for me, for any image format I've tested. Anything below 80 has never been worth it.
>tends to fuck up the chromatics somewhat
Yes. Avif does the same.
@yangwenli
Red is republican, sooooo....
@icedquinn @RUSHIFA
I didn't even notice. I'm so used to looking for your avatar.
@icedquinn
I saw, but the issue I always have with the webp tests, is that they're usually done with something like q75, compared with jpeg at >q90, and then they ignore the significant quality loss.
At the very least you should test both at same q, but even then webp can be so bad, that it needs a bigger q factor than a jpeg to achieve similar final quality.
I can't get over how stupid and inconsistent people at Google/YouTube can be.
They took the time to make Webp a thing. They promoted it. They made it the default format for YouTube's thumbnails. Even the animated ones. Probably saving a good amount of bandwidth.
But... user's avatars, that are so small that you're definitely not gonna see a quality loss from higher compression, are still being served as jpeg.
Why? No clue. It surely wouldn't take much processing power to transcode them. It wouldn't take effort to change code to display them. I can understand that it wouldn't offer that much gains in freed up bandwidth, but surely someone at YouTube would be autistic enough to be bothered that they're using multiple image formats on the same page for no good reason?
@pimeys @icedquinn
That would explain why they keep making and destroying chat apps.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...