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Apparently the reason my computer has been taking 2 minutes to boot was a faulty network mount

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SVGs are just fancy text files after all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you go far enough, everything is.

But SVGs are one of the few image types that can be human readable and editable

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If you go far enough, everything is.

No, SVG are text files, it's XML. You can write an SVG file representing a square using only a text editor relatively easily.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No, not really. Most image formats produce completely unreadable jumbo only meant to be parsed with clever maths.