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"Experts Exchange" is like the opposite of "cellar door" — the two most rage-inducing words in the English language.

In the context of video encoding, any manufactured/hallucinated detail would count as "loss". Loss is anything that's not in the original source. The loss you see in e.g. MPEG4 video usually looks like squiggly lines, blocky noise, or smearing. But if an AI encoder inserts a bear on a tricycle in the background, that would also be a lossy compression artifact in context.

As for frame interpolation, it could definitely be better, because the current algorithms out there are not good. It will not likely be more popular, since this is generally viewed as an artistic matter rather than a technical matter. For example, a lot of people hated the high frame rate in the Hobbit films despite the fact that it was a naturally high frame rate, filmed with high-frame-rate cameras. It was not the product of a kind-of-shitty algorithm applied after the fact.

There are plenty of lossless codecs already

It remains to be seen, of course, but I expect to be able to get lossless (or nearly-lossless) video at a much lower bitrate, at the expense of a much larger and more compute/memory-intensive codec.

The way I see it working is that the codec would include a general-purpose model, and video files would be encoded for that model + a file-level plugin model (like a LoRA) that's fitted for that specific video.

Sounds like an excellent class. Probably should be a requirement rather than an elective tbh.

AI-based video codecs are on the way. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because it could be designed to be lossless or at least less lossy than modern codecs. But compression artifacts will likely be harder to identify as such. That's a good thing for film and TV, but a bad thing for, say, security cameras.

The devil's in the details and "AI" is way too broad a term. There are a lot of ways this could be implemented.

Fairphone 5 stands alone as the phone that is most built to last. Its repairability rating on iFixIt is a perfect 10. They've committed to software updates until 2031.

Not sold in the US, unfortunately, but I think it has the correct 4G/5G bands for US networks if you want to import it.

You might also be interested in iFixIt's repairability overview here: https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/smartphone-scores#smartphone-scores

This is why one might theoretically prefer to download videos through unofficial channels, even if they are already paying for them through official channels.

Totally theoretical, of course. Just a little thought exercise.

There was a bit of a scandal when they started merging their Chinese OS with their American OS. I think they were called Hydrogen and Oxygen. I haven't used a OnePlus phone since then so I'm not totally sure what their software is like nowadays.

They're pretty mainstream in the US now.

A DNS server is what converts a domain name, like google.com, into a numeric IP address, which is required for Internet traffic. Think of it like the mail room in an office building. They get mail for Bob in accounting, but the mail only has the name and the building's address. The mail room staff (DNS) knows what floor and desk Bob sits at.

Since many ads are hosted on their own domains, like doubleclick.net, you can block them at the DNS level so your device never actually connects to the ad server.

By default you're probably using your ISP's DNS server, but you can customize it.

if you are looking for something that just looks nice

Honestly, the show can get by on looks alone for me. IMHO, it is the best-looking TV show ever made, by a significant margin.

Which is not to say I didn't enjoy other parts of the show. The music was good, the acting was good, I loved the Harfoots (Harfeet?) in general, I loved Elrond and Durin. A lot of the side characters were charming. The opening sequence was inspired.

I think they missed the mark a bit with the "mystery" elements, though, and if they want me to give a shit about Kemen and Eärien, they're going to need to try harder in S2. But I thoroughly enjoyed season 1 and I hope they stay the course in general.

If you don't already, consider using an ad-blocking DNS server. That blocks ad domains systemwide, not just in your web browser. Mullvad, Adguard, and some others have public DNS servers with adblocking. You can use them on both iOS and Android.

This is not a hill I'd want to die on, but I do understand thinking this photo is fine. If I hadn't been told it was from Playboy, I wouldn't give it a second thought. It's a conventionally-attractive woman in a hat showing a little shoulder. I wouldn't be upset over Michaelangelo's David either. It is less sexual than like 90% of modern TV or mass-market advertising. I suspect a similar image of "cleaner" provenance would not garner much attention at all, honestly.

But it is weird that an image from such a source was chosen in the first place. It is understandable that it makes people uncomfortable, and it seems like there should be no shortage of suitable imagery that wouldn't, so...easy sell, I'd think.

On a related note, boy oh boy am I tired of every imagegen AI paper and project using the same type of vaguely fetishized portraits as examples.

You can also use Bluetooth sharing right out of the box, like with any android device.

Not to mention you can install cloud storage apps on it too. I haven't set up FolderSync on mine yet but that's my plan to keep all my eBooks available across devices.

It's an Apple logo. It only exists on Apple devices. https://emojipedia.org/apple-logo

Probably better to use the generic red apple if you want to use an emoji: https://emojipedia.org/red-apple

Not yet. I'll give it another go when I get Plasma 6 (I'm on Debian, so either I'll switch to Sid or just wait a while).

Last time I tried it, it mostly worked, but mpv had some issues and missing features on Wayland. I haven't kept up with the mpv developments since then so I'm not sure if that's been addressed upstream yet.

A theme is software and software has bugs

I honestly did not know that KDE themes contained executable code. When I think "theme", I think of cosmetic settings that plug into an existing program, which I would hope sanitizes its input and does NOT execute arbitrary code. I don't think "arbitrary executable code running as root".

I'm assuming KDE warns you about this when you try to install a theme, right? I'm not at my KDE system to test at the moment. I did try downloading a theme tar from the web site, and it doesn't seem to contain any code — just SVG files, a colors config file, and a metadata file.

Weird that they act like the 1.7B model is too big for a laptop, in contrast to a...4060 with the same amount of memory as that laptop. A 1.7B model is well within range of what you can run on a MacBook Air.

I don't think a 170M model is even useful for the same class of applications. Could be good for real-time applications though.

Looking forward to testing these, if they are ever made publicly available.

Somehow TV and print media functioned on advertising without such invasion for decades. Online publishing is much much cheaper than print publishing. And some of the biggest companies in the world, like Facebook and Google, make heaps off advertising. I don't buy this argument at all. The exchange of value is overwhelmingly, unprecedentedly tilted toward advertisers. It is beyond reason.

It means it's only one generation behind Apple in ML performance instead of two or three.

Serious answer: it means it has intel's latest generation of laptop chips with better ML acceleration, and — better sit down for this cuz it'll blow your mind — a Copilot key on the keyboard, which nobody outside of Microsoft's branding department ever asked for.

I'll be interested to see the benchmarks. Intel should be tripping over themselves to catch up.

That's true. I was referring specifically to Twitter's SMS integration. I forget exactly when they increased the tweet size limit beyond what could be sent via SMS, but it was a long time ago. At first, SMS was a big part of Twitter's success. People used Twitter on flip phones with no browser or apps. It was basically an SMS broadcast service.