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New compression technique (lemmy.today)
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[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is not funny, you don't understand how long and how many nights i spend overengineering compression pipelines for family photos and videos...

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've got mine down to 32 byte string to describe the location, datetime, and people in the photograph, with flags for who's smiling and/or blinking.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to see your porn metadata.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Absolutely debauched. Especially when you haven't even bought them coffee yet.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Then I bet your stuff is actually good.