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		infogulch on May 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zstandard v1.5.0 Your comment made me curious what a Zstandard-compressed tar file's extension would be, and apparently it's .tar.zst

viraptor on May 14, 2021 [–]

I understand they probably tried to keep to 3 letters (because history), but I'm unreasonably annoyed they didn't go with .zstd :(

Even the mime type is full application/zstd

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