• lime!@feddit.nu
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    3 hours ago

    the big win is that it can re-encode existing jpegs to shrink them by like 30%. also the image is compressed spatially (i think that’s the word) so it can be displayed as it’s downloading rather than coming in line by line.

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      3 hours ago

      I think many of us have several GBs of JPEGs that have accumulated over the years. It would be nice to shrink them a bit.

      However I wouldn’t do it until the majority of my software supports it. At least with JXL, you can transcode it back to legacy jpeg without losing quality

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        1 hour ago

        The biggest hurdle are messengers, especially including cross-platform support and mobile devices.