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This story is a nightmare and I’m not sure if it’s better or worse now knowing that it was ancient ICO files that tipped you off.
Open question to you or the world: for every lossless compression I ever perform, is the only way to verify lossless compression to generate before and after bitmaps or XCFs and that unless the before-bitmap and after-bitmap are identical files, then lossy compression has occurred?
Pretty much, you can use something like ImageMagick's compare tool to quickly check if the round trip produced any differences.
It can be a bit muddled because even if the encoding is lossless, the decoding might not be (e.g. subtle differences between using non-SIMD vs. SIMD decoding), and it's not like you can just check the file hashes since e.g. PNG has like 4 different interchangeable ways to specify a colour space. So I'd say it's lossless if the resulting images differ by no more than +/- 1 bit error per pixel (e.g. 127 becoming 128 is probably fine, becoming 130 isn't)
Hey wow! Thank you!!
This explains a lot—including, likely, your username. Cheers!