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Google has launched Chrome 155, incorporating support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that improves compression efficiency and supports advanced features like HDR and animation. The update aims to enhance web performance and visual quality, encouraging adoption among developers and content creators. Chrome's integration of JPEG XL marks a step toward a richer, faster, and safer web experience.
The guide explains how to repurpose an old computer as a home media server by adding storage (ideally with redundancy like RAID) and installing server software such as Plex or Jellyfin to stream content across devices. It compares the two platforms, noting Plex's simplicity but paid features versus Jellyfin's free, more customizable but technical setup, particularly around GPU-based media transcoding.
Cloudflare built a prototype called Cache Transcoding, developed during an intern project, that compresses eligible cached assets with Zstandard before writing them to disk inside its Pingora proxy. Assets stay compressed while stored and while moving between data centers via Tiered Cache, then get decoded only when served to the client. Early tests show this shrinks eligible assets to about a third of their original size with only a small CPU overhead.