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perhaps not. when we tell you that Google is refusing to implement JPEG XL in Chrome because they want their own, less innovative standard to gain traction instead, we're genuinely not sure whether that's in the spirit of this site. here we are doing it anyway, but we don't regard that as resolving the question

what is definitely in the spirit of Cohost, though, is linking to this art gallery of amazing things that people have created in JPEG XL by hand, working directly in the file format rather than with an image editor, in order to showcase the novel things it allows.


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I think that this kind of thing is different from what most folks would call controversy? Controversy seems more in the vein of "laughing at Elon Musk" (which is distinct from "talking about the way Elon is treating Twitter employees")

What you're talking about (and the aforementioned treatment of employees) are less "controversy" and more "discussions about bad things happening in tech that impact people who are using and working on those things." More importantly, it's done with (I suspect) an intention to start conversation that drives tech to be better. That seems very much in the spirit of cohost.

I knew this was going to happen when Microsoft dropped Edge and replaced it with a Chrome skin. Which of course was probably Google's plan when they kept changing YouTube to break Edge. Honestly, the only reason that wasn't a bigger thing is that Microsoft doesn't want anyone looking too closely at their tricks to "encourage" people into their stuff either.

At least the web we have now sucks a bit less than IE6.

yes, absolutely. your cynicism was entirely warranted. we would say that it doesn't actually matter whether anyone at the company specifically thought this far ahead in this much detail; it's enough to note that their incentive is to exert hegemonic power over the larger software ecosystem for profit.