Rather Impressive Image Compression

Can you tell the difference between the two images above? At first glance, probably not. If you look at them side by side long enough, at least in ...

Quick blog post about AVIF, a new (relatively speaking) and pretty efficient image format. #blog #blogstr #avif #photography

How exactly do Nostr communities work? From the looks of it, if I create a community, I (or people I set as mods) would need to manually approve every single post. Is there an alternative - be it automatically allowing posts, using WoT, pre-approving people, or some third party bot that auto approves some/all posts? Or am I just misunderstanding how the modlog works in communities? #asknostr

Piece of life advice: a credit card solves most problems - including shoving one in between brake pads that are stuck together.

I'm gonna make a blind guess and say Motorola. They're probably getting desperate to stay relevant, but they've got size and decent quality phones. No matter who, it'd be cool to have more supported devices (as long as Pixels don't get dropped in favor of a device with poorer specs). View quoted note →

I'm accepting applications for my newly formed biker gang, we'll ride around and annoy people by talking about protocols and operating systems. View quoted note →

The age of "free" online services might very well be waning:

Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage

The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.

Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage

The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.

On a similar note, Hamburg NY's continued failure to paint their water tower to look like a giant hamburger - as they voted to do years ago - is also up there. View quoted note →

Sorry to get political, but New York's refusal to use an Oxford comma is unforgivable.

Thanks ChatGPT, I wouldn't want to offend a fictional metal door. #ai #chatgpt

Toyed around with Gemini's advanced photo mode, seems to do pretty good with replacement and generative fill. Combined two of my photos: Into the following: Seems to have worked real well. A bit low resolution, but still pretty good (the input images I uploaded have been heavily compressed, their originals were higher res). However, it doesn't seem to like to do basic edits. I gave it the unedited original (at least the JPEG, it won't touch RAWs) of the milky way version and told it to do similar edits I did to the one I shared (dehaze, saturation, contrast) - and instead of editing it is just replaced the milky way portion with an AI generated image of the milky way that was fairly similar but obviously a new image. #photography #ai

The future is now View quoted note →

Lol, I swear, last night I was checking out some photos on my chomebook-turned-into-a-standard-laptop and wanted to transfer them to my main computer. There were a fair amount of them, and I didn't want to take up more of my limited space in proton drive, so I thought: "Hey, might as well use Onedrive. I don't have any files there, so I got like 15gb to spare, and it's not like the photos contain anything I'd care about encrypting (I'll probably post some of my favorites here and on my blog) so no worries about privacy or the lack thereof." The page wouldn't load, so I figured it was probably something on my end. Tried again this morning and it's still down, turns out they've been down for a bit now. Google nuked peoples drives accidentally not that long ago, and now MS is been down for probably nearly a day. I guess moral of the story, big tech isn't jank free. Syncthing, Proton, and my (no longer existing) Nextcloud installation all are *yet* to have any extended unavailability or data loss.

"Since I love a questionable analogy for LLMs Research Goblin is... well, it’s a goblin. It’s very industrious, not quite human and not entirely trustworthy. You have to be able to outwit it if you want to keep it gainfully employed."

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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at u...

View quoted note → View quoted note → Random goodies you might find handy. Plus a password manager, I forgot about that.