Mastodawn

Hacker News Aug 26, 2025

Xz format inadequate for general use
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
#ycombinator #lzip #LZMA #bzip2 #gzip #data_compression #long_term_archiving

Xz format inadequate for general use

N-gated Hacker News Aug 26, 2025

🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦‍♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated

Xz format inadequate for general use

Hacker News Aug 26, 2025

Xz format inadequate for general use

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

#HackerNews #XzFormat #Inadequate #GeneralUse #DataCompression #Lzip #HackerNews

Xz format inadequate for general use

Aaron Toponce ⚛️

Apr 8, 2025

This is Internet Gold.

> "... it is important to note that the compression algorithm used by lzip only discards the unimportant data. And if it was unimportant before, what makes it so important now? Huh? In fact, many users may find that compressing their entire file system and then restoring it will be a good way to learn what is truly important."

https://web.archive.org/web/20010608045914/http://lzip.sourceforge.net/faq.html

#compression #AprilFools #opensource #lzip

Lzip lossy compression

Home page for the lzip project

fenix Jan 26, 2025

LZIP GUIDA RAPIDA PARTE 2

Tarlz è un'implementazione parallela (multi-thread) e multi-membro (multi-blocco) dell'archiviatore tar e del compressore lzip . Tarlz usa la libreria di compressione lzlib ...

#UnoLinux #lzip #tarlz #lzma #compressionedati #archivio #opensurce #linux #tutorial #guidainformatica #compressione #noblogo