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Re:Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:36AM (#50002875)
Thanks for the satire post, the person who persisted on Soylent for 30 days was a nice touch on the expertful trolling (by original definition, ones that let the in-the-knows see that you're joking).
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:47PM (#50001390)
What kind of image viewer are you even talking about? I've never had this problem when updating Irfanview, they're usually first in line to introduce some plugin.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:41PM (#50001363)
People are saying "Bad Support", but that's irrelevant without there being a popular place that supports it and has a LOT of it, and a bunch of other popular places that do not support them.

So yeah.

The REAL reason for WebP hate:

Google started converting image results to WebP automatically. Absolutely, officially diagnosed, mentally deficient move. Having every kid download a image of google and be unable to send it to discord made an ARMY of people who call it the "bad poopoo cringe format for <slur>s"