No, web has new info to feed ai
Readit Newsge96 commented on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? cacm.acm.org/opinion/will... · Posted by u/ketanmaheshwari
ge96 commented on Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat aggressivelyparaphrasing.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I have a self-updating github readme, reads a sensor at my home
I joke if it goes down means something happened to me but sometimes the server has a problem like running out of space since an error logger keeps writing over and over
ge96 commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Never mind the content, that is one of the most printer-unfriendly CVs I've ever seen
HP loves it "oops you're out of ink"
ge96 commented on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python github.com/plutoprint/plu... · Posted by u/sammycage
Might need this wkhtmltopdf being bound to bookworm
Digital has never been light-to-pixel.
At a minimum, you have demosaicing, dark frame subtraction, and some form of tone mapping just to produce anything you'd recognise as an photo. Then to produce a half-way acceptable image will involve denoising, sharpening, dewarping, chromatic aberration correction - and that just gets us up to what was normal at the turn of the millennium. Nowadays without automatic bracketing and stacking, digital image stabilisation, rolling shutter reduction, and much more, you're going to have pretty disappointing phone pics.
I suspect you're trying to draw a distinction with the older predictable techniques of turning sensor data into an image when compared to the modern impenetrable ones that can hallucinate. I know what you're getting at, but there's not really a clear point where one becomes the other. You can consider demosaicing and "super-res zoom" as both types of super-resolution technique intended to convert large amounts of raw sensor data into image that's closer to the ground truth. I've even seen some pretty crazy stuff introduced by an old fashioned Lanczos-resampling based demosaicing filter. Albeit, not Ryan Gosling[0].
Of course, if you don't like any of this, you can configure phones to produce RAW output, or even pick up a mirrorless, and take full control of the processing pipeline. I've been out of the photography world for a while so I'm probably out of date now, but I don't think DNGs can even store all of the raw data that is now used by Apple/Google in their image processing pipelines. Certainly, I never had much luck turning those RAW files into anything that looked good. Apple have ProRAW which I think is some sort of hybrid format but I don't really understand it.
[0] https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
It's just crazy that demo they show, imagine the vehicle is actually a truck but you zoom in and it becomes a porsche...
conspiracy tangent, try to take a picture of something you're not supposed to and your phone won't let you ha, well money could be an example which I get the reason (it's printers but that idea)
ge96 commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.
never forget the Ponies CV of an ML guy
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/03/my-little-pony-r...
ge96 commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Oh I saw this recently on ffmpeg's site, pretty fun
It's giving "Samsung fake moon". If generative AI is going to make up details why bother zooming in, you could just ask to make up a whole AI slop picture.
The other thing that was annoying me with a cheap phone I bought, it was applying this generic surface to your face so your face didn't have pores but it looked wrong.
That fake zoom with AI is gross ugh
If I'm taking a picture of something I want it to be real light-to-pixel action not some made up wambo-jambo
ge96 commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
I think it's crazy they sell skins for like a knife and it costs $2,000.00 dang.