it's interesting how in computing fields we say that anything old "sucks"

"zip compression sucks" so do internal combustion engines but for a while it was pretty much the only form of powering a car

there's a lot of this shifting perception of something being stationary while what moves is time and how it changes how we think and talk about it that i don't think other fields particularly have

or maybe i'm just spewing bullshit again. but i still think there's brain rot in computing

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png is more than plenty adequate for lossless images such as drawings and pixel art, was never considered adequate for things like photorealistic photographs, and yet now simply because it's old we think that it needs to be replaced by webp, a much less adequate format, introducing incompatibilities with anything that is no longer being currently developed (a budget BRICS smartphone from 2 weeks ago, for example), shoved down our throats by a company that quietly stopped saying "don't be evil"

now i'm not saying that evolution and new developments shouldn't be made

but i don't think that the conglomerate that couldn't keep an RSS reader afloat should be in charge of what those new developments look like

@mavica_again it feels like showing up at the hardware store to buy a shovel and being told by the salesman that shovels are too old and obselte, and he offers you a gigantic fork and proclaims it's more efficient because the head is less heavy, nevermind it doesn't actually fulfill the function you need of it

@mavica_again and JPEG is mostly adequate for photographs, and where it isn't, there's JPEG 2000 and XL!

See also: the so-called "HTTP/2". Which is not HTTP. Real HTTP 1.1 is perfectly fine, and it being plain text is a valuable thing.

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