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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:00PM (#44302620)
At high quality, the artifacts are not visible unless you take a magnifying glass to the pixels, which is a practice anathema to enjoying the photo.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by afiori on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:22PM (#44303514)
I am referring to highly compressed images or low resolution ones, at high bitrates mostly all formats look the same.

what i mean is that jpeg squarish artifacts look ok while av1 angular artifacts look distorted

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