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Not entirely sure what he's saying here. The quantization factor changes for each value in the DCT. Higher frequency values have a high quantization, so they get compressed smaller. Noisy parts of the image will take up more space than will smoother parts of the image, because the higher frequencies in the latter get quantized out. Of course, yaypeg tries to retain that noise as much as it can, whereas I guess the "video" codecs don't?
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Jpgs are ugly and don’t have transparency or animation
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You give me a webp and I’ll tell you what I’d do I’d toss it right in the trash. That’s what I’d do.
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There’s no need to be rude
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i dont get why people way webpregs
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that's PNG's or GIF's job
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webp is absolutely better than jpeg at small sizes, e.g. images used for the web.
jpegxl and avif adoption have been absolute shit, but either would be better than both.
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I think the tide for JPEG-XL just changed overnight because Apple has throw full support for it as of next iOS and Safari (so the fall-ish)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/apple_safari_jpeg_xl/
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Most browsers including safari have had avif support for awhile now and very few devs have adopted it.
At best this might keep jpeg-xl from dying outright.
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I mean JPEG-XL just seems better for the “lossless but instant 30% gains of old jpegs” feature.
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Why is it that even beyond the realm of plebbit you buttholes still feel the need to restrain yourselves from indulging in some quality drama. It's like your fricking yourselves out of habit.
But that's only part of it. Even typing the title I already knew the answer to it. The sad fact is that you bastards have somehow become so jaded, so emotionally stunted, and so nihilistic that you can't even motivate yourself to get invested in some good old r-slurred internet drama.
The culture of Arrr drama murdered itself, because you apathetic bastards stopped caring about shit so hard that you can't even get invested in something or some argument purely for the drama of it anymore. You, as a culture and a community, kept picking apart and tearing down any ideological or philosophical position, and you attacked the very idea of taking any sort of ideological position on an issue to the point where now you cant even force yourself to take the contrarian position or the position of wanting more drama out of something.
You grew to despise the idea of caring about anything so much that you can't bring yourself to care about drama.
Now arrr drama, and all it's spinoffs, have become a place for nihilists created by this place to try to give a shit, if only for the sake of drama, or for emotionally stunted narcissists to try to relive their "glory" days of bullying the weird kids in middle school by laughing at random people acting stupid on the internet, just like the plebbitor who tries to relive his childhood by sperging about capeshit on the internet.
And for those of you who will inevitably reply, "imagine caring", the point of drama is to blow everything ridiculously out of proportion, not to not give a shit whatsoever.
And one last thing. And this is real shit, not just ironic drama tardation: despite the fact that drama is inherently a sort of guilty, immoral pleasure, enjoying it doesn't need to involve being actually terrible and peepeeish. Which some of you are; seemingly prevented from giving a frick or caring about anything at all on the internet because of your irony poisoned brains that have decided that it's ok to be a sociopath as long as it's not serious while simultaneously refusing to take anything seriously.
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