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by 0x006A 3245 days ago
its for images on the internet - are you sure it's not a good match?

Joke aside, Pik is also Spades in German. Since its a compression library and it looks like Jan Wassenberg works at the the Zurich office, it might also be some food, in line with the other work they have been doing: brotli, butteraugli, brunsli, guetzli