| ▲ | jyoi 11 hours ago | |||||||
Hi HN, I just found this MediaReduce compression software. Do people pay for file compression? I mostly do it if needed on terminal. I am not being hard here, just to understand if file compression is really a big deal, cheers! | ||||||||
| ▲ | sksrbWgbfK 11 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> I just found this MediaReduce compression software No you didn't, you work for MediaReduce I guess. > Do people pay for file compression Why would we when we have imagemagick, xz/zstd/tar/..., ffmpeg, etc. > just to understand if file compression is really a big deal According to Wikipedia, the first algorithms were created in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It's "kind of" a big deal. It's so big I'm surprised you haven't heard about it before. | ||||||||
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