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  • In line with Ea Nasir, Artifactually Speaking is a youtube channel run by an archaeologist who works on digs around Ur. In one of his latest videos (the ancient toilet one) he mentions this:

    “Sin-nada traveled a lot, but he often wrote letters back home to his wife […]. In the letter […] Sin-Nada asks Nuttuptum ‘why she is angry in her heart’ . It appears Nuttuptum was concerned that her husband was paying too much attention to his work for the temple, and neglecting his family.”






  • It was kind of like that. They were asking whether copying jpg files and compressing/decompressing them into and out of zips worsened their quality.

    I don’t have the post’s text but this was my answer:

    As others have pointed out simply copying the file, or compressing it in a zip will never ever change it. It is fundamentally the exact same file. If you load it up in a photo editor (not just viewer), and resave it from there, then it might lose more quality.

    Renaming it to png changes essentially nothing about it. Most software will still recognize that it’s a jpg, and open it up as such. If they tried to open it as a png, they would fail. If you load the jpg into a photo editor and save it as png from there then it will actually change formats. But there is no point in doing this. The png’s file size will be much larger, and you can not get any of the quality back that you lost when initially saving it as a jpg.

    The post was prior to deletion renamed to:

    DELETED FOREVER. LOSER

    so that’s cool…


  • As others have pointed out simply copying the file, or compressing it in a zip will never ever change it. It is fundamentally the exact same file. If you load it up in a photo editor (not just viewer), and resave it from there, then it might lose more quality.

    Renaming it to png changes essentially nothing about it. Most software will still recognize that it’s a jpg, and open it up as such. If they tried to open it as a png, they would fail. If you load the jpg into a photo editor and save it as png from there then it will actually change formats. But there is no point in doing this. The png’s file size will be much larger, and you can not get any of the quality back that you lost when initially saving it as a jpg.