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@luka Hmm, it does add something new to the result each time, but it doesn't quite touch the original, does it?

@Primavera Hmm, bit rot how? Oh, you mean adding noise to a jpeg encoding table so it decodes worng or something?

@helle Oh, that's an interesting way to do it. Wouldn't work on still images, but cool.

@MiaWinter Yeah, I was thinking it should a) mess with the colors in a funky way, b) add something that wasn't there before, like texture. I'd hope to avoid ai poop, but some of those 'enhancements' that have been going around lately would certainly be fermented.

So, an image can be deep-fried by using extreme jpeg compression (and maybe some automatic 'enhancements').
How would one ferment an image?

@mcc Considering capitalism, probably not necessarily. That's why I said 'not sure if relevant'. If it came to picking WD or another brand though, I'd pick WD based on my own experience, is what I meant to convey.

@mcc Not sure if relevant to an external hdd you'd buy in 2026, but I have had an internal 5TB WD drive running 24/7 for uh, I think it's been 16 years now. So yeah, decent quality there.