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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)

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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

photos .jxl
open domain image data .exr
videos .av1
lossless audio .flac
lossy audio .opus
subtitles srt/ass
fonts .otf
container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
documents .odt
archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
configuration files toml
typesetting typst
interchange format .ora
models .gltf / .glb
daw session files .dawproject
otdr measurement results .xml

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

in·se·cure (ĭn′sĭ-kyo͝or′) adj.

Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe: A shortage of military police made the air base insecure.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/insecure

Unsecure

a. 1. Insecure.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Unsecure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@hungprocess touché.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One thing I didn't appreciate about English until reading a Europe forum for a while is that it has a lot of different prefixes that mean something like "not", and this is not very intuitive to people learning the language. Their use is not regular.

Consider:

"a-" as in "atypical"
"non-" as in "nonconsentual"
"un-" as in "uncooperative"
"im-" as in "immortal"
"in-" as in "inconsiderate"
"il-" as in "illegitimate"
"mal-" as in "maladjusted"
"anti-" as in "anti-establishment"
"de-" as in "deconstruct"

And sometimes, some of the prefixes are associated with base words to form real words with similar meanings, but meanings that are not the same. For example, "immoral" and "amoral" do not mean the same thing, though they have related meanings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@hungprocess Also this. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19653/insecure-or-unsecure-when-dealing-with-security

It seems that I was quite wrong, but that a lot of other people are wrong as well. lol