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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You can either promote JPEG-XL or say yiff for the rest of your life. The choice is yours.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love seeing people mention JPEG-XL in the wild, I wish it was implemented in more programs and websites too. JPEG-XL was always the superior image file format. I'm sorry if facts hurt the feelings of the webp-Kings, but them's the facts. And I will dig my own grave on this hill. Good day!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us! [email protected]

JXL is fucking crazy good and I take Google's decision to stand in its way personally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Basically my intro to improved jpg is the Library of Congress Sanborn insurance maps. Either download and archive a 300MB TIFF or a 20 something MB JPG2000.

GIMP is a fine viewer for me, but it is incredible

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No thanks, I'll just continue to pronounce the g in graphics correctly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One problem: it's Joint Photographic Experts Group, so by that logic, Jpeg is actually Jfeg... I agree with the pronunciation, but your logic is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

NOOOOOOOO DONT DO THIS NOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

your logic is flawed

It isn't, really. There's no rule or other logical reason to pronounce GIF in any other way, unless you count author intent. In which case you would have to start every phone call with "ahoy-hoy" like Mr Burns since that's what Bell proposed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That is not how acronyms work tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word.

There is no such reason in this case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it isn't, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Its own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, that's the novelty exercise class I joined last Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also the training program for your exotic pet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder which order of discovery would be the least preposterous for the two things to be connected: finding out about the exercise fad at my semi-weekly training sesh with Gary or getting the idea of giraffe ownership from today's hot new animal imitation workout 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

JPEG-XL

y'peg shull

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

jpeg extra large

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

¿Porque no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

When were you when gif is pronounced? I was sit at home shitposting when Piotr ring:

"Gif is yiff"

"No."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pwetty pwease?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what's the origin of this comic panel?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The Onion (as in the news satire place) has a recurring comic with political cartoons and such (though of course being the onion, its meant to make fun of such cartoons). It comes from one of those, though I dont remember which one in particular for context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely perfect usage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's simple to remember. Hard G as in graphics; not soft G like a degenerate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The creator advocated for soft G. I think the creator is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

and your thoughts are correct.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

So were yifs animated in the Old England?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Old English? Are we going to start pronouncing the k in knee, knife and knight and g in gnaw, gnat and gnome as well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Do you have a problem with þat?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, you don't?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

because yiff is life

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This screen shot is 7 years old.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Has the pronunciation changed since then?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Nonono those can't be. He. HE WAS RIGHT. HE WAS RIGHT!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldnt those be pronounced as S so it would be YISS?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are Fs not to be confused with long Ss (ſ)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My argument makes about as much sense as using Old English to pronounce a modern file format.

It's YISS now.

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