Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

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• lifthrasiir 9 minutes ago
  While not very popular, ECT [1] is (still?) the best solution in this space and has been my go-to tool for this purpose.

  [1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

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  • futune 1 minute ago
    I use ect on a monthly basis, at least. Especially for png files. It's pretty great!
• akx 1 hour ago
  > Typically, other archives like .tar.bz2 can be smaller. But those aren’t backwards-compatible!

  Is there any point for (new) .bz2 archives in the era of Zstd?

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  • j16sdiz 36 minutes ago
    Tooling ?

    It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.

    LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.

    No idea when how long zstd will need.