• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    Never brought any innovation? VP9, AV1, zstd, GraphQL, React, and many more were made/contributed to by Google/Facebook specifically to improve those services. We benefit from this as they release these programs/formats.

    • @hairinmybellybuttOP
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      -211 months ago

      Programs and format are not research. Nothing new was invented, they’re just alternative to existing things.

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        211 months ago

        They’re improvements on existing things, which is the basis for pretty much all research. A nuclear reactor is just an “alternative” to a coal power plant, but I’m sure everyone here would agree that the nuclear power plant is better. In the case of the video formats, image/video processing is literally part of computer science.

        In the case of React, you could follow the breadcrumbs back to JavaScript, created by a capitalistic company.