Posts by adrianhon@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ASFwC0XXiPJKSWVDeK by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-02-01T18:33:54Z
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Yes please https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/products/E458729-000/00
(DIR) Post #ASa3BCrR8cKtLoSjSa by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-02-11T13:54:01Z
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Apropos the Tories wanting to bring back the death penalty, I saw someone saying “why not reserve it for people with multiple murder convictions, because it’d be vanishingly unlikely they could be innocent of them all?”My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to a concept called “correlated errors”!
(DIR) Post #ASeOtDQTH1O1VyW1zM by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-02-13T20:06:43Z
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Apropos everything, I’m reminded of this from Douglas Adams:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
(DIR) Post #ATAjiTHKJFbFagfqbY by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-01T11:00:14Z
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In the beginning, Twitter outages were every twelve weeks. Then six, then three. Then every two weeks. The last one, in Sydney was a week. In four days we could be seeing an outage every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. We should witness a Double Event within seven days.
(DIR) Post #ATVh96h6qLqO389sLw by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T11:32:55Z
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Interesting thread concluding that Samsung is using an AI model to replace users’ blurry, super-zoomed photos of the Moon with slightly higher res textures.How did they discover this? 1. They downloaded a high res image of the Moon2. Downscaled it to a blurry 170x170px image on their computer monitor3. Took a photo of it on the Samsung with the room lights out…and they got a magically higher-res Moon! Clever.https://reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/
(DIR) Post #ATVh98pgtPtegKBl0S by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T13:14:05Z
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AI image enhancement and upscaling isn’t new or exclusive to Samsung, of course. Take a blurry image of some grass and an algorithm can fill in the gaps based on what it thinks “grass” looks like. People usually don’t notice or care; with the Moon it’s weird (and weirdly effective) because it looks the same for everyone, and everyone knows what it looks like.
(DIR) Post #ATVh9AceEseUES6MxE by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T13:15:32Z
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Is it bad? I’d need to think more about it! Smartphone photography is already incredibly processed, lightyears from film photography of old. People should probably be more aware that the image their phone shows them is increasingly distant from “reality” – though most of the time, people don’t want reality!
(DIR) Post #ATVh9CG29vkdItXKz2 by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T14:24:16Z
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I was trying to think of a good sci-fi short story idea around this. Turns out I already wrote it in my book, A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, three years ago! I've just put it on my blog for free.https://mssv.net/2023/03/11/enhance/
(DIR) Post #ATcwZUFJf7waA3xFmC by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-13T20:26:55Z
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nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's enhancednasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a daguerreotype and getting back on the rocketship* moon's enhanced
(DIR) Post #ATw7ifaHfQQtQoa9ce by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-03-24T09:33:24Z
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@billt RIP - but what an amazing run!
(DIR) Post #AW2ybXYWR8tNp34XhY by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-05-26T12:36:25Z
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@simon @Cameo it’s on my list!
(DIR) Post #AWnQTveHP28vyBzgJs by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-06-17T22:24:56Z
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@clive surely at least a couple of orders of magnitude too low?!
(DIR) Post #AWsr2lWoaiDXJeZeN6 by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-06-20T13:11:28Z
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Subs with Xbox controllers complaining about being in the same ocean as subs with PC controls
(DIR) Post #AXkv6OqisImWvlPg5Q by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T14:49:24Z
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From Threads/Meta’s perspective, dangling ActivityPub support to enable federating with Mastodon is a shield against regulators, that’s all - to be deployed at the last possible instance, in the crappiest way, as they always have done. Anyone believing the contrary has ignored the past 20 years of history.
(DIR) Post #AXx9ltWCPrDDHAe8zQ by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2023-07-22T03:18:56Z
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I know it’s cool to hate on the Galactic Starcruiser (aka Star Wars hotel) but it’s an idea before its time - bizarrely so, given Disney made it. I already have over 3000 words just in notes - prepare for an epic writeup!
(DIR) Post #AhfqM8I6j57hJvwrZI by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2024-05-07T17:38:03Z
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This interview with Riley Testut of Delta/AltStore is fascinating. Tons of details, plus he thinks users are more willing to pay via a Patreon to an individual creator/dev, versus an impersonal subscription for an app. https://www.theverge.com/24150467/delta-emulator-apple-app-voice-notes-ai-vergecast
(DIR) Post #AhvFWUDfSosgS2Iw6K by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2024-05-05T22:34:31Z
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feel like pure shit just want to rewatch jacque tati’s playtime
(DIR) Post #AhvFWWZ0kR8rioJ0e8 by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T10:39:55Z
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I have no reason to doubt that Tati built an entire airport terminal, multiple office buildings, shops, and a restaurant just to film a single movie (Playtime), yet my mind rebels. How? How?!?!
(DIR) Post #Ao1oiy6ihQxRPHTBtw by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2024-11-14T08:33:35Z
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Sure wish someone would write a book about the dangers of gamification https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/14/world/asia/china-livestream-blind-box.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.TKoK.CZMlYzSH_zqr&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #Ao1oj0mckbfJhp5gUi by adrianhon@mastodon.social
2024-11-14T08:35:45Z
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“Best I can do is quoting Addiction By Design again, apparently the only book that’s ever been written about gamification even though it’s not actually about gamification.”