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[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

"How dare they invent a more efficient image encoding! Back in my day we had bmp and we liked it!" - grandpa simpson

[-] tauonite@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, BMP does still work as an uncompressed, artifact-free format.

[-] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

you can have uncompressed png too

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

Sure. But you use bmp when you want to nuke your drive space for no real reason.

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