• Kairos
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        2 months ago

        Yeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…

    • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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      2 months ago

      Not sure what the original point was but curiously I happened to use file on a an Apple .numbers file recently and found that it was a .zip file in disguise with zero compression.

      So maybe the point was that it’s used often as a container format more often than it’s used for compression? Just my (unrelated) general computer work would also suggest this.