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dylan604yesterday at 7:28 PM1 replyview on HN

I feel like you need to find better places on the internet. It's no longer 1997 downloading from dial up.


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notatoadyesterday at 8:02 PM

What makes jpeg compression bad isn’t low bandwidth. It’s really good at compressing an image for that.

What makes jpeg bad is that the compression artifacts multiply when a jpeg gets screen captured and then re-encoded as a jpeg, or automatically resized and recompressed by a social media platform. And that definitely isn’t a problem that has gone away since dialup, people do that more than ever.