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Darktable has a "neural restore" algorithm [0] in the development version (intended for midsummer release). Note: - It appears to be an out-of-band pre-processing stage (run the im…

> but Darktable doesn't support Fuji raws darktable has supported Fuji raws since 2014! It currently supports the classic "uncompressed" RAFs, as well as the newfangled "lossless" …

Robert Byron, in The Road to Oxiana, describes a 1930s trip to present-day Afghanistan. But I believe he started the automobile portion in Tehran.

From 3/17/25: > Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research fun…

FWIW, here is the recent merged pull requests from darktable: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... At the moment, this is about a week's work by eight au…

What we're seeing here is one embittered ex-developer spending time/effort saying toxic things about their former collaborators in a public forum. At the same time the former devel…

> So which is more useful, one that doesn't even know there is a new album coming out, or one that knows what was its release date as of just a couple of months ago? To semi-misquo…

Of course one could argue that the hardcore Linux (er, GNU/Linux) document creator will use Emacs with AUCTeX (or canny uses of org-mode), with rendering via XeTeX/LaTeX/LuaTeX... …

The OP is burying the lede! The exciting news [0] is > We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR suppo…

Steve Roberts had a gig (maybe during the Winnebiko period) writing a column about his travels for CompuServe Magazine. In case you don't remember it, CompuServe was a walled-garde…

> I think the general trend is that actual useful applications are emerging from enormous models trained and owned by billion dollar companies only. One way to think about it: Toda…

Also worth checking out Alvy Ray Smith's 2021 book, "A Biography of the Pixel". It is (from what I've read so far), much more in the history/theory of technology field, examining t…

An anecdote from someone in IT at a major university: The registrar has two employees whose sole job is to write SQL queries. These are to answer basic questions such as, "How many…

I'm curious about this as well, but wouldn't be pointing fingers at the Wayland developers. See, for example, one of the most recent comments in the discussion linked to in the par…

Note to mention "In the Land of Oz: The Search for the Wizard": https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/in-the-land-of-oz-th... Which reads like a bad translation of a bad translat…

Quite true. Best case, we're seeing DJ Spooky style culture jamming/remixing. But more likely it is as you write. On the other hand, the market for stock photography was already de…

Indeed. And the artist/creative who can guide DALL-E or GPT-3 will be as exciting as the composer who can make a room dance with music from a synthesizer...or the artist who can ma…

Indeed, there's an argument that the culture around anything (including software) is the main thing. And if the culture thrives, then that becomes the stable backup (or rather stab…

My high school had a computer lab with a networked LaserWriter (this might have been 1987). It outclassed any screen in the room, so far as display resolution. And with its 68000 p…

Exciting! One typo, I think: > Org Mode can be used for anything from managing apartments, writing manuals, literate programs or executing code like a programming notebook. Is that…

> you'll still be in an uncanny valley of recycled information and in the worst case be in some bizarre feedback loop of old content that is permanently recycled and reconfigured D…

There is no innate reason why a Google search on a subject should return high quality results. This is predicated on there being someone willing to write thoughtful, informative, w…

peterburkmisher: I wish I knew! I've been wondering about all this myself, and where even this knowledge lies these days. Materials scientists? Chemists? It sees a question too spe…