Really Bad Compression

created by fondue

(idea) by mrichich (1 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Aug 20 2000 at 15:50:48

To be fair, I thought this node would be about some new file compression algorithm that made your files bigger than when they started. That would be really bad compression.

The best compression is the 'rm' command. Infinite compression, minimal CPU. Yeah, it's completely lossy, but you didn't specify that, did you?

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