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by bcraven 1y ago
Imagine a video is recommended that is for a specific how-to search; if it has a poor rating then you can be confident it's a bad match for your search. E.g. a plumbing video for fixing a tap with a bad rating is unlikely to actually t
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by bcraven 1y ago
Perhaps there were spares in case anyone lost theirs? I don't know enough about the military to say whether that's likely, but as sensible chaps it seems a reasonable assumption.
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by bcraven 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238 (2013) Interestingly it wasn't the OCR that was the problem but the JBIG2 compression.
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by bcraven 1y ago
It's not the camera that is important though, but the technology: https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.2/inde...
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by bcraven 1y ago
Third example may sway you; https://www.computerworld.com/article/1688383/porn-industry-...
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by bcraven 1y ago
Also if someone were running a system to screen out trigger words, such as "suicide", it would not trigger when the word is obfuscated like this. Self-censorship is a worrying trend.
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by bcraven 1y ago
Author: https://www.anatolianarchaeology.net/author/oguz/ They may be using AI for some language conversions, but I think they are real.
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by bcraven 1y ago
"NO PART OF THIS WEB SITE [...] MAY BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, COPIED, PLAGIARISED, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, INCLUDING [...] VERBAL CONVEYANCE" Imagine asking people not to talk about your work. Astonishing.
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by bcraven 1y ago
Fully agree. Watching that chap go ham on trying to destroy phones then give them some sort of reliability score always rubbed me the wrong way.
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by bcraven 1y ago
Well I'd very much like to see those!
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by bcraven 1y ago
Woe betide those who try to communicate science to a wider audience
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by bcraven 1y ago
Actually I'm not sure it's reasonable to complain about a feature that you're informed won't work, on a phone that you're using in a region it's not meant to be in, doesn't work. Yes, Pixels should probabl
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by bcraven 1y ago
>The mom and girl stayed with their neighbor for three days, he said. He doesn’t know where they are now.
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by bcraven 1y ago
The answer is, of course, in the article
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by bcraven 1y ago
Just like birds, some species of hoverfly migrate with the seasons. They move to southern Spain in the early autumn and then as far north as Norway in spring (the northern leg is less well understood, and seems to take place over several ge
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by bcraven 1y ago
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo... In rare cases, you may decide that you wish to allow very specific access from the local network without authentication. You might do this if using a thir
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by bcraven 1y ago
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by bcraven 1y ago
Some of the torrent releases out of MVGroup are done as h266. I think as technical tests as much as anything, but they're interesting to see.
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by bcraven 1y ago
I listened to a recent podcast that discussed why giving people with aphantasia the chance to see images is ethically complicated: https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/third-eye-bl... (Presented by Alex
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by bcraven 1y ago
I know of no phone camera that can produce the portraits of an X100s 23mm lens at f/2.
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by bcraven 1y ago
See the trick is not to buy it new! https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/fujifilm-x-t5 Or, as I have done myself and would recommend: https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/fujifilm-x-t50 (Small
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by bcraven 1y ago
This comment exhibits the normal sort of hideous gatekeeping attitude that is common in photography.
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by bcraven 1y ago
Somehow the fact 'Readers' and 'Words' weren't capitalised meant I completely missed the association. Thanks.
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by bcraven 1y ago
I have to admit I don't understand the epitaph "Family • Readers • Words" Is it a reference to something?
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by bcraven 1y ago
Ooh go on, tell us all about your homelab where you run multiple proxmox servers and have pi-hole DNS blocking for your whole family.
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by bcraven 1y ago
The best part about that site is the page on helicopter landing. Delightfully niche. https://www.diggerland.com/helicopter-landing/
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by bcraven 1y ago
This is a poor format to put forth an argument in.
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by bcraven 1y ago
I'd never heard of that story before I heard the Decoder Ring episode. America sounds _wild._ https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/09/how-if-you-g...
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by bcraven 1y ago
We're getting ai summaries on HN now?
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by bcraven 1y ago
I am always fascinated by articles that contain technical details like: "In order to run all of these, you will need a 64 bit computer (ideally little endian, on BE you will need to use a JIT like box64 which decreases performance) wit

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