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Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Super resolution algorithms are not image enhancement.
> [1]: Super-resolution imaging (SR) is a class of techniques that enhance (increase) the resolution of an imaging system. It looks pretty clear to me that a Super Resolution Algorithm enhances images (aka Image Enhancement). Although I think you missed the point of my post. As long as you can get an expert witness to certify the accurate you can use a technique in court. Somebody else [2] linked the Rittenhouse case…
You linked to an actual imaging technique called super-resolution imaging which is for imaging. It's a technique applied to the capture of an image, and cannot be applied to an already captured image.
Machine learning super resolution adds detail to image that does not exist, in the same way that image inpainting (or even outpainting) do.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/googl...
"It's important to note that the computed super-resolution image is not real. The added details—known as "hallucinations" in image processing jargon—are a best guess and nothing more."
If you go and research the literature on deep learning super resolution techniques, they also carefully use the term "hallucinate" as well.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Lot of people like to troll Ballmer for his "Developers! Developers! Developers!" act, but then again you can't really get any better than being developer centric and by consequence enthusiast, power users, and professional centric. By contrast, Gates was "Embrace! Extend! Extinguish!" and Nadella is "Data! Data! Data!" I miss Ballmer.
And yet under Nadella Windows is way more developer-centric than it ever was under previous leadership.
But under Nadella, Microsoft is far more contemptuous of users than it ever was before.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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They make it very difficult to uninstall that crap. I set up a new windows 11 machine the other day. And then did the obligatory removal of the weather/news, cortana, and 15 other pieces of crap I don’t need or want. While I was doing that it was downloading updates and once the updates were installed, the weather/news thing was back. The stories on there are so bad. Like, borderline conspiracy thinking / conservativ…
I'm in Australia too, and just assumed that stuff was the norm for the US.
It's the norm in certain subcultures in the US, but it would be incorrect to say it's the norm in the US as a whole.
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Defaults are incredibly powerful. For us on here, we expect to have control and to be able to manipulate these things. For most people a computer is just an appliance like a washing machine. Accept it as it comes!
While I appreciate the ability to configure software, I also believe that software that requires too much configuration is poorly suited for my needs and will replace it with something better suited to my needs. There is an incredible number of options out there. We do not have to put up with the nonsense that overbearing businesses subject us to.
> There is an incredible number of options out there. We do not have to put up with the nonsense that overbearing businesses subject us to.
How true that is depends on the type of software. Web browsers, for instance, don't have an incredible number of meaningfully different options. I can no longer find one that sufficiently meets my needs at all.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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> Zelda clones so I don’t don’t need to pay games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve. Huh?
Corrected: > Zelda clones so I don’t need to play games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve. hospitalJail is saying there are similar games out there, and that they don't need to play games from Nintendo that are unfairly rated well just because they're from Nintendo, despite a former obsession with Nintendo.
Ah, understand now.
If we’re querying review bias it becomes inherently subjective so probably not much point in discussing it beyond that even if I disagree.
I’m unsure of anyone producing games of a quality and polish level that rivals Nintendo, but that’s subjective too.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Correct: with the latest images, W11 will not under any circumstances allow you to avoid creating an MS account. It will insist you go online and halt the installer until you do. Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/en/ ) offers an option to revert fix this, but you still have to ensure that you keep wifi disconnected and ethernet unplugged during install.
Actually yes it will - at least as of last weekend. During OOBE setup, after connecting to Ethernet or Wi-Fi, you must select “join a work or school domain.” I got tripped up by this too because I was insistent on not connecting it to the internet during setup, but the local account only switch had moved since I last checked up on it. It will still ask you three or four times ARE YOU SURE you don’t want to sign in to…
Probably only for Pro edition, not Home
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#478Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zoom has issues with hardware acceleration and screen sharing on Linux, similarly with Discord. Netflix requires specific setup to work at all, and you get 720p at best unless you use Chrome with some custom extension to get 1080p at best. And back in the day (2018, not long ago) when you needed Adobe Flash to watch the World Cup on the only legitimate US site for it, Linux was a dead end. > Not a problem with most P…
> Zoom has issues with hardware acceleration and screen sharing on Linux, similarly with Discord. I have no idea what the issues are. I've been using screen sharing for years and I haven't run into any issues. Same with my friends and family who switched to Zorin from Windows. > Netflix requires specific setup to work at all, and you get 720p at best unless you use Chrome with some custom extension to get 1080p at be…
Things usually work out of the box but not always. Might seem fine to you, but suppose you were choosing something else you don't understand fully. Maybe it's a used Mitsubishi with a CVT and you're told it's fine as long as you make sure the VIN is within a certain range, the recall work has been done, and the car computer has a certain software version. You can either get that or the Toyota that'll probably never have problems but is less efficient.
The thing is, like I said, Windows has gotten so annoying on its own that I don't want to deal with it ever again.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corrected: > Zelda clones so I don’t need to play games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve. hospitalJail is saying there are similar games out there, and that they don't need to play games from Nintendo that are unfairly rated well just because they're from Nintendo, despite a former obsession with Nintendo.
Ah, understand now. If we’re querying review bias it becomes inherently subjective so probably not much point in discussing it beyond that even if I disagree. I’m unsure of anyone producing games of a quality and polish level that rivals Nintendo, but that’s subjective too.
>I’m unsure of anyone producing games of a quality and polish level that rivals Nintendo, but that’s subjective too.
like sub 20 FPS, empty worlds, 5 enemies with different skins(okay, factually there were 11 enemies, meanwhile MM had over 70 enemies), same story as the last 30 years, annoying combat mechanics, grindy crafting(food) mechanics.
But IGN said it was the greatest game of all time 10/10 and never mentioned a single issue. That is what happens when we grade on the Nintendo curve.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Ballmer was as bad as Gates (and seemed completely unhinged at times to boot), Nadella only looks good next to Ballmer but has done plenty of stuff that should have never ever happened. All of them were present at MS when they pulled their 'millions of lines of code' bullshit in an attempt to kill Linux and harm FOSS.
As a long-time Linux user, the Nadella era looks far better. Back in the earlier eras, MS was my clear and present enemy: they did a lot of stuff to me, personally, to make my life hard because I didn't want to use their software, and tried to force me to be their customer with various tactics. These days, that's all gone. I don't feel any pressure to use Windows, and I don't see MS doing various legal shenanigans to…
It is probably extend era