Why “PNG” is being discussed
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The message is also "love your neighbour as yourself", and this "Lord" that people bow to is, according to the message, someone who died instead of taking that Lordship by force…
by magarnicle · Sep 16, 2026
But supported by no browser today and software support in general is quite limited. If the PNG authors would just incorporate this possibility into PNG from start it would be in…
by quikee · Sep 16, 2026
Probably because living in PNG sucks and they would rather risk their lives at a chance of improving their condition. Same reason immigrants came from Germany to the US to live…
by MaxHoppersGhost · Sep 15, 2026
not my downvote, my feelings were not hurt at all The meat of the book is the references, not the extreme interpretation that catches most peoples' attention. No hallucinations…
by fuzzfactor · Sep 15, 2026
Lived in Lae as well, em tasol. Did middle & high school at tisol. Many ppl I've met since then cant believe that I lived in png - until I show pics.
by 747-8I · Sep 15, 2026
Jared Diamond speaks of this in one of his book (I think "Collapse", but I may be wrong), and highlights how we romanticize the pre-modern world, but we have the clear example o…
by riffraff · Sep 15, 2026
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Portable Network Graphics is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). Read more on Wikipedia