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And that's a good wake-up call. The next thing "escaping" might be a sufficiently advanced model in a country already historically involved in manual cyberattacks.

RapidRaw is too much AI-focused, with the typical drawback that you cannot tell the AI that it is wrong. You want to remove something from the photo by inpainting something else ov…

Even though I am not a Debian project member, let me express my dissatisfaction with Proposal A. The proposed addition to the Social Contract (i.e., the LLM contribution ban), by i…

Try a gaming monitor, Gigabyte AORUS FV43U.

I was one of those initiators of a rewrite. And I was facing a real problem: the codebase was in C, all C developers except me left, I was going to leave too, and both our HR depar…

I do have a DNS server in my LAN, with some records served to internal clients only. But the _acme-challenge record needs to be public for the DNS-01 validation to succeed. The poi…

My preferred procedure is to use DNS-01 validation and have no publicly accessible "A" or "AAAA" record for internal services. Or even a more extreme example: https://crt.sh/?id=27…

I am not a lawyer, but, as a Russian citizen, let me warn you. The very fact that your comment criticizing the EU regime, that you yourself admit could send you to jail, is online …

And the worst part is, I have seen computer repair shops that refuse to work with a laptop if it has an encrypted system drive, under the guise of "how would we then validate the f…

It's Sectigo under the hood.

Yes. Darktable courses go as far as saying "ignore all modules and sliders not mentioned in this course" - which of course works until you get an assignment that is best solved wit…

I think you missed the point. Darktable, effectively, has a parametric curve (implemented by the tone mapper) at the end of its processing chain. And this "curve" will, by default,…

I have a different problem with Lightroom being an industrial standard. If you avoid Lightroom, you cannot find a photography teacher. You can find a Darktable teacher, and I did. …

I suggest that you try https://artraweditor.github.io/ as an alternative.

Darktable 5.6 will have AI masks. Anyway, I tried them, and found that, after you master the "a few rough brush strokes + adjust feathering and mask opacity until it snaps" and "ov…

Except if your country is under sanctions.

I confirm the same experience. I tried to port the Dynamic Range Optimization code in OpenCamera from Java to mathematical formulas (i.e., the spec), with the intention to translat…

Using multi-level grayscale instead of just two pixel states, on and off, can produce readable text at even smaller font sizes. The catch is that I have to say "text", not "letters…

To give DarkTable credit, neural-network-based denoising will be in the next major release (5.6). And even without neural networks, DarkTable denoising is better than open-source c…

The thing is, 127.0.0.53 is a fallback. The real default upstream is nss_resolve, which talks to systemd-resolved via non-DNS protocol on a UNIX-domain socket. Ubuntu disabled this…

General comments below. The article says: "Already, it feels like there’s not much left for a human teacher to contribute, they believed". I also got a question over IM on whether …

> Anyone that cannot take 5 minutes to set up commit signing with a $40 usb smartcard to prevent impersonation has absolutely no business writing widely depended upon FOSS software…

And even a mobile app (or, in fact, any single-person 2FA) would be unnecessary if we had a requirement for another live person to approve the release. As a bonus, a two-maintainer…