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JPEG XL is either lossy compression for large pictures, or something named by people who suck at branding.


Made by the same folks who brought you JPEG 2000. /s


I was a fan/proponent of that! Whatever happened to wavelet compression?


Patents.


Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.


And AVIF was that weird video format before mp4 became common everywere, right? /s




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