Friendship has no SLA. There is no uptime guarantee. The person you love best might have a memory leak. They might deadlock under mutex. They might suddenly decide to transcode their entire personality into a proprietary format you cannot parse.
And every once in a while, you send a keyframe—a full, uncompressed, undeniable message that says: friendship libvpx
Friendship works the same way. The container is the coffee meetup, the text message, the yearly phone call. But the friendship itself—the libvpx layer—is the compression of shared history. It knows that you don't need to re-explain your childhood trauma or your political beliefs every time you speak. It sends the delta : the small change since last Tuesday. Friendship has no SLA