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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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WebP does everything GIF did, just better. The only problem is adoption. Maybe a similar, single-syllable name could have helped.

  • Ends the pronunciation debate: hard G in the 1987 filetype, soft G in the 2010 one
  • Looping soundless video gets a name that's short and does not refer to a terribly inefficient format (that "gif" sharing sites often no longer use anyway), plus some wrong people have been using it already
  • Software peer-pressured into supporting it (nobody wants to hear "they don't support JIF" about their software)
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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but the J stands for "Google"

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

How does it feel to have the objectively best sense of humor?

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

They should’ve called it JPG to settle JPG vs JPEG

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure that JIF is already trademarked and copyrighted by the peanutbutter brand.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That would just mean you couldn't use the graphic format for pictures of peanut butter. It should be fine for everything else.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You'll never end the debate about how to pronounce Gif. Homophones exist. There's a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn't end the debate.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jraphics Interchange Format

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Self-Contained Uoonderwater Breathing Apparatus

Light Aimplification by Ztimulated Uhmission of Radiation

Acronyms do not work that way! It isn't a thing. You're talking nonsense.

[–] dosboy0xff@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as "jay-feg".