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  • Or color spasecs other than sRGB (8 bits/channel). I've a camera that takes 10 bits/channel photos, a monitor that displays 10 bits/channel, etc. But GIMP will just distort the colors because they hard-coded the color space! Can't edit for print either, no CMYK. GIMP is an image editor for the noughties, not the 2020s.

    Then again, we're talking about MS Paint here. If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

  • Because AIs are (partly) trained by making AI detectors. If an AI can be distinguished from a natural intelligence, it's not good enough at emulating intelligence. If an AI detector can reliably distinguish AI from humans, the AI companies will use that detector to train their next AI.

  • I use wireless headphones. However, I like to have non-distracting background music at work (open-plan office), and I won't put my personal files (music) on a company-owned laptop. So I run a wire from my phone's headphone jack to the laptop line-in, and can thus play music without any mixing of data.

  • This poem by Jef Raskin includes several dozen exceptions:

    "I before E
    Except after C,
    Unless pronounced A
    As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'"
    Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
    Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
    Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
    Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
    We were seized by a feeling
    For fleeing on the ceiling
    To a leisurely meal
    With Keith, Sheila, and Neil
    We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
    Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
    Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
    Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes
    Wherein we're canoeing to a new sovereign state
    While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
    And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
    Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.
    Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
    Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
    And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
    We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.
    So I before E
    Except after C
    Unless pronounced A?
    False decreeing, I say!

  • Roman concrete was more durable than most modern concrete, but was much, much weaker. It also relied on volcanic ash, which isn't as readily available as the ingredients for portland cement. Being able to have larger freestanding spans and lower construction costs due to reinforcement is usually worth a much shorter design lifetime.

    The reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete was clearly a mistake, trying to make a concrete foam to reduce weight meant that more water could get to the rebar and cause corrosion much more quickly than in normal reinforced concrete.

  • Defederation means you don't see their posts. It does NOT mean they can't see your posts.

    I still don't think federating with them is a good idea, but defederating won't preserve privacy. It'll just cut down on the "influencer" BS Meta promotes.