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Re:We are now Solar Powered by dvh on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:39AM (#28660805)
Because of dithering, that photo is 50kB, jpeg could easily have the same size and look much better.
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Re:We are now Solar Powered by painchoc on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#28661069)
Exactly. Dithering creates a lot of noise and PNG is poor choice to compress that.
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Re:We are now Solar Powered by shadowfaxRodeo on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:15PM (#28665509)
it's the opposite way round. png is especially good at compressing dithered images.

It's a reduced color palette, (in this case just black and white) so there's lots of repeated sequences. Which works very well with lossless compression.

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Re:We are now Solar Powered by Sophistifunk on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:59PM (#28666029)
And yet, a 50kb JPG would look much better.
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