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[-] Fiona 38 points 6 days ago

webp is absofuckinglutely inferior to JPEG-XL and that one is where you actually have that problem. I’m literally providing an avif-fallback on my website, because otherwise pretty much no browser would support anything.

(Speaking of it, avif is also superior to webp.)

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I'll take ASCII art over webp.

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

miss the days when I could watch the entire matrix movie on ascii before BitTorrent and streaming

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Some dude ran a public telnet server, which upon connecting, would present to you the entirety of Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII. It was glorious.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The true best form of image storage. Nothing beats .txt

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[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wait am I the only one who actually likes WEBP and is cheering for JPEG to finally die ? 😭

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago

Webp can die. JpegXL is better in every metric and can losslessly compress existing jpeg images. The chromium team has been notably trying to kill JXL because they spent so much time on AVIF and Webp despite neither offer anything close to JXL.

[-] mastazi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No, I've heard there is dozens of you, dozens!

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago

for my use cases of memes or a PowerPoint type thing once in a while for school. Literally any image format works for me. I don't care about quality (as long as it's not REALLY bad) and just want to get the image from Google to the PowerPoint, and somehow GOOGLES own image format fails to work for GOOGLES PowerPoint product.
I don't understand how you can not support your own format 10 years after it came out.

pro tip by the way, you can open it in Microsoft paint then "save as -> .PNG" to get Google slides/whatever to accept it.

(before someone recommends alternatives, im talking about use on a locked down school computer. I can't use alternative software that's better because they block images in WIKIPEDIA, no shot for using an actual foss software lmao)

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

use on a locked down school computer.

Shift + Win + S

I'll bet they didn't disable that in Group Policy. Lasso that sumbitch right off your screen and then just paste it into whatever.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Paint trick would leave the option for higher quality, a screen grab leaves you at screen grab resolution.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

True, but I'll wager most of the things people are filching for these purposes get displayed on the screen at 100% scale anyway. Unless you're sniping a picture for large format print, in which case I figure you'd probably be under less restrictive conditions... Hopefully.

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

You don’t even have to open it in Microsoft paint, you can just save it as a new format from the standard image viewer software.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 15 points 6 days ago

fucking Telegram automatically converts any webp sent in a message to a fucking sticker

I didn't want that. I want the ability to view the image, including zooming in and panning, and telegram forcing it into a sticker kills that completely

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 4 points 6 days ago

I came to bitch about the same thing.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago

This looks like the most relevant bug on Telegram's bug tracker for the issue: https://bugs.telegram.org/c/4360

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks, I thumbs upped it.

[-] gleb@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

in my honest opinion, it’s a real shame that webp isn’t widely supported. it’s actually really great: it has awesome lossless compression, it’s so much smaller than a png while not losing any quality, it supports animation and loops, etc. it’s like jpg, png, and gif rolled into one format.

it’s like jpg, png, and gif rolled into one format.

and therein lies the problem.

one tool should do one thing, and do it well.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

The giant jpeg square artefact on the side of Homer's head in the first frame undermines the message somewhat.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure that's a JPEG artifact. It looks more like a video compression artifact (since the image is probably taken from a video).

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Wait till this guy hears what videos are made of

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 6 days ago

lol there's a specific AVI format based on JPEG, but other file formats use different algorithms

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

How many people that are clinging to JPEG are also hating anti-AI people for being "Luddites"?

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