i don’t know who i have to thank that i’m not the dog of a shitty owner
What is the story here? Man trains his dog to retrieve his cane any time he drops it, but the dog figures this means it can go around town stealing canes from strangers and bring them to its owner to receive a reward for each one?
Yeah. Perhaps also somewhat of a subverted expectations thing. The dog is portrayed as not even understanding pointing, but as soon as food is involved, it understands the transaction 1 cane = 1 bone very quickly.
Smart dog - if they were able to keep up, they clearly don’t need canes.
Why is this a gif?
For all its faults, GIF is a widely supported format. And its biggest fault (file size) mainly applies to animations, not static images like this.
All that said, sure, this image would probably be more efficient as a JPG.
Because it is, so what? GIF format has no obligation to be animated, and for a simple monochrome image like this, it’s not terribly bad at image compression.
Because it makes me nervous that if I download and share this then it’s going to have one frame of ahego or Obama as an NFT ape, or something equally horrible.
Then screen shot a still image of it, save the screen shot.
Nah I have an offline, low permissions, addon for converting webp and other formats and downloading them, so I just used that. But I did have to crop the image afterwards. Still beats losing resolution.
I am having a hard time converting this to a JPG that is smaller than the GIF. Like you say, I think the fact that it is a static black-and-white image plays into the strengths of the GIF format and sidesteps the problems people usually experience with animated GIFs. The biggest downsides of the GIF format are a large file size for animated images and the fact that it only supports limited colors.
Hahaha, I actually have a bit of fun sometimes with limited color palettes, this one is rendered in only 16 colors…
https://lemmy.world/post/44408844
I do prefer PNG over GIF though for static lossless images, but that could have just as well been stored as a GIF if I wanted. The GIF format indeed is limited to a max of 256 colors though (either 256, or 255 + transparency anyways).
That would be our luck if we ever did manage to teach our dog Brownie to fetch or play with sticks or anything 😂
