▲ 978 ▼ Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! (feddit.it) submitted 2 years ago* by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 175 comments fedilink hide all child comments Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription "Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I'm so excited! Let's celebrate with them!" - nobody
[–] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) a typical (full subtitle) .srt file for a movie is like 100-200 kb - still not much, but 5 is a little off permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) If it's all text, it'd compress quite well, especially since there's likely lots of repeated words. Not to 5kb of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had at least a 3x compression ratio with zstd. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) If it's all text, it'd compress quite well, especially since there's likely lots of repeated words. Not to 5kb of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had at least a 3x compression ratio with zstd. permalink fedilink source parent
