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by dinkelberg 5y ago
It might not be possible to wipe the data off the flash memory, due to how flash memory works. As you can only reset bits on the flash memory some amount of times, flash memory controllers try to avoid resetting bits and they try to distrib
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
PDF files are often made up of JPEGs internally.
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
I think you might have mixed up the different images at the end of the article. The image labels are a bit confusing.
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
Thank you, I was thinking of doing a write up on this topic as well after reading the article "How to build a low tech website" which recently floated on HN. However I would have shown how you could significantly reduce file size
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
What the author refers to are the three available compression modes on Xerox scanners, which are "normal", "higher", and "highest". It is not clear what that means exactly, but it is possible that all three of
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
In my view, it has become necessary to place some distrust in digital images due to the ML video processing that is being applied nowadays. Artificial neural networks are being used to "upscale" video footage, that is, to create f
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
You should be safe if your scanner uses either JPEG, lossless JBIG2 or other lossless compression. If however it uses lossy JBIG2 compression, it is quite possible that it suffers from the same problem, due to how lossy JBIG2 compression wo
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Software company SAP: World-leading through intellectual property theft?(tagesschau.de)
183 points by dinkelberg 5y ago|118 comments
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
Agree. They could just add color palettes to their PNG files. The files could essentially stay the same. See: [1] Their use of PNG files for photographs does not make sense anyway, though. If they used 1-component JPEG files (greyscale or p
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by dinkelberg 5y ago
Is there a reason why you do not want to use MathML for embedding equations in HTML? If not, it might be a good alternative to SVGs because MathML equations can be read aloud by screen readers. (If the screen reader is good.) MathJax, which