if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why

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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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in·se·cure (ĭn′sĭ-kyo͝or′) adj.

  1. Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe: A shortage of military police made the air base insecure.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/insecure

Unsecure

a. 1. Insecure.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Unsecure

@hungprocess touché.

One thing I didn't appreciate about English until reading a Europe forum for a while is that it has a lot of different prefixes that mean something like "not", and this is not very intuitive to people learning the language. Their use is not regular.

Consider:

  • "a-" as in "atypical"

  • "non-" as in "nonconsentual"

  • "un-" as in "uncooperative"

  • "im-" as in "immortal"

  • "in-" as in "inconsiderate"

  • "il-" as in "illegitimate"

  • "mal-" as in "maladjusted"

  • "anti-" as in "anti-establishment"

  • "de-" as in "deconstruct"

And sometimes, some of the prefixes are associated with base words to form real words with similar meanings, but meanings that are not the same. For example, "immoral" and "amoral" do not mean the same thing, though they have related meanings.