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"in favor of the homegrown and inferior AVIF" I am using .avif since some years; all my old .jpg and .png files have been pretty much replaced by .avif, in par
by shevy-java 10mo ago
"in favor of the homegrown and inferior AVIF"
I am using .avif since some years; all my old .jpg
and .png files have been pretty much replaced by
.avif, in particular fotos. I am not saying .avif is
perfect, but IMO it is much better than .jpg or
.avif.
I could have gone .webp or perhaps jpeg-xl but at the
end of the day, I am quite happy with .avif as it is.
As for JPEG XL - I think the problem here is ... Google.
Google dictates de-facto web-standards onto us. This is
really bad. I don't want a commercial entity control my
digital life.
- senbrow 10mo agono one asked, but FYI in English it is more commmon to say "for several years" instead of "since some years" :)
- phatfish 10mo agoGerman speakers usually have very good English, but this is one of their tells.
- lsecondario 10mo agoAnother one I've noticed is using "I've" as a contraction in e.g. "I've a meeting to attend". Seems totally reasonable but for some reason native speakers just don't use it that way.
- rottencupcakes 10mo agoI’ve is only used when there is a verb to follow and the have is part of the verb’s construction. As in “I’ve done it” or “I’ve seen it” It would not be used before a noun, in the context of ownership, as in “I have a meeting”
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- darrenf 10mo agoWait, what? Englishman in my 50s here and I use phrases like that all the time — “I’ll be missing standup cos I’ve a GP appointment”, “leaving at lunchtime as I’ve a train to catch”, “gotta dash, I’ve chores to do”. No one’s ever said I sound German!
- mpyne 10mo agoI think it's more fair to call it a distinguisher of American English vs. British English. Even just reading "I've a train to catch" gives a British accent in my mind.
- timc3 10mo agoA particular part of Britain as well. I have never used “I’ve” in that way ( I speak more RP than with an accent)
- jamiek88 10mo agoNah that’s just Americans. Brits and Aussies say it all the time. Not sure about Canadians.
- Grosvenor 10mo agoGerman speakers usually have very good English, but this is already one of their tells. Fixed that for you.
- bxparks 10mo agoCould also be French speakers. They would say "J'utilise le format .avif depuis quelques années." I think the "depuis" throws off the French speakers when they translate that literally as "since some years" instead of "for some years". Another common tell: I wake up in the morning in the US/Pacific time zone, and see the European writers on HN using "I have ran" instead of "I have run".
- rottencupcakes 10mo ago> I am not saying .avif is perfect, but IMO it is much better than .jpg or .avif going crazy reading this sentence
- mrbluecoat 10mo agorecursive logic is recursive logic is
- aidenn0 10mo agoFor making compact high-quality jpeg files, consider trying jpegli[1], it does an impressive job. More specifically, if I try a bunch of AVIF quantization options and manually pick the one that appears visually lossless, it beats jpegli, but if I select a quantization option that always looks visually lossless with AVIF, jpegli will win the average size, because I need to use some headroom for images that AVIF does less well on. 1: https://github.com/google/jpegli https://github.com/google/jpegli
- asddubs 10mo agojpeg-xl seems to do the best being successively re-saved, which is important on the web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UDJUCMTng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UDJUCMTng