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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:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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[–] mvirts 27 points 1 year ago

My god please no more yaml

[–] AProfessional 16 points 1 year ago

videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a 'container')

Yes, you’ll never see an av1 file. Typically it’s in a webm container. mkv is common too.

People tend to like videos with audio and subtitles.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah hi can someone explain the logic involved in advocating for Free Lossless Audio Codec as a method for storing photos?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

So you can hear the photos real good

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

list amended LMFAO

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Documents: markdown.

config files: json/hjson

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you disagree dont feel afraid to comment, please do

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

Damn I read this as

" If you disagree, don't comment"

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

mwahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

markdown (md) or org for notes/things that don't require much formatting.

I'm not in a place to make points for which one's better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why odt over HTML?

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No MP3 for lossy audio? :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

MP3 is old embrace opus, high quality audio in small size!

[–] AProfessional 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only reason for it is compatibility with specific software. It’s otherwise just worse.

[–] gerbercj 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AsciiDoc for plain text markup. It handles more use cases, and has fewer ambiguities in the standard than Markdown.

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

Have you seen djot? It's from the author of pandoc.

[–] gerbercj 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't, but I will check it out.

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

Org mode is much better, using === for headings is dogshit