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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

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