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Introducing better compression of images and animations would be another small step fighting climate change. Less data, less transfer, less energy consumption!
by perenzo 7y ago
Introducing better compression of images and animations would be another small step fighting climate change. Less data, less transfer, less energy consumption!
https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-bad-for-the-environment-how-streaming-video-contributes-to-climate-change/a-49556716 https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-bad-for-the-environment-how...
- flir 7y agoBut more energy required to decompress, surely? (Not counting the compression step because I assume that's marginal at scale).
- maximegarcia 7y agoNot necessarily, the decoding can be stopped once you get enough usable information in regards to the usage of the image (display size ...) with the same source image. That's neat! See the responsive part in https://flif.info/example.html https://flif.info/example.html We can imagine decoding taking into account battery save mode, bandwidth save mode...