Interesting photo compression numbers: 2.1 MB HEIC original, 13.8 MB PNG, 3.8 MB JPEG, 790 KB WebP.
Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how.
I tried cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject.
Science Fiction | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickythepixel/sets/72157616819585543
Animal Photo Art References Search https://x6ud.github.io/
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by proving all those stock photos right about hackers wearing black ski masks when typing.
What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/slab-city-library-photos
On the market for a camera
We have gone through quite a few cameras. The very first one we recall was a Canon EOS D30, with an amazing 3.2 megapixel — sarcasm aside, it took amazing photos. After that we had had many Sony Cyber-shots, a Canon Powershot A640, a couple of Canon Powershot Gs, and another bigger Canon, the [EO … ⌘ Read more
You return to old photos of yours to find the buildings decaying, the portraits aging, the food long molded over
I cannot for the life of me decide where my photos should live
twitter backend changes (secret internal docs) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/912838036714606598/photo/1
OAuth is your future | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/sets/72157629727153496/with/7197182074/
The Uber affair
Using Uber for the first time, in France, was a delightful experience. We were able to summon a relatively cheap minivan within minutes, the drivers were nice, nothing found to complain. Then, once back home, I decided that I might want to occasionally drive for Uber, for fun. That is when the real affair started.
To begin with, the rider photo I had on my profile no longer met their requirements. Then, the driver’s application asked me for information that I did not have handy, making me chang … ⌘ Read more
But don’t end up like the last guy, who spilled a 1 and was cast out, with no way in again https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/869328213692043264/photo/1
is this what the kids call serendipity https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/847250082193752065/photo/1
also a good list https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/state-space-of-drug-effects-results/ (via https://twitter.com/gwern/status/841698455844204544) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841737853478543361/photo/1
one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27025↵totally agree we need more words for happiness/pleasure and ways of things being nice https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841729902055419905/photo/1
@allgebrah@www.synkretie.net I like the photo story!
“List of countries by fractal dimension”↵https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension#Random_and_natural_fractals https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/820401966501294080/photo/1
original joke do not steel https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/818990886180765697/photo/1
404 girl, patron of searchers, is said to appear to only the most desperate of them, lost in the forgotten realms. https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/776886139898789888/photo/1
IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) router/uplink spotted in rural Poland (they get creative with the last mile here) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/770225364757049344/photo/1
the earth is really bright today, we need more shadow http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/751742715893809152/photo/1
@allgebrah I recommend to google-images what that is http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/744991210960470017/photo/1
1-2: uprising and final expulsion↵3: local flora↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714141260106362881/photo/1
1-2: observe their life and customs↵3-4: a challenger appears but is swiftly struck down↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714138754382958592/photo/1
made this little guy out of a cigarette filter and some e-waste at the #eh16 (p0stap0c workshop) http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714136241105670144/photo/1
the self drinking cup↵would’ve been one for the slag heap but I drew it instead http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/709829112899227648/photo/1
*squees*↵When lichen are the last surface life on earth, these will run cellular automata. http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/703329264326807552/photo/1
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“Time and Its Discontents”, Unknown Artist, 2016 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/691721651545882624/photo/1
The humans, like many other races, bring tiny bits of their world along against homesickness↵https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/flowers http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/688513453921816576/photo/1
On a rock
From our last vacation—which occurred four months ago—to Colorado. This one was taken somewhere around Pikes Peak. Kent was daring, and Kim was afraid. I took the photo. ⌘ Read more
iCloud mess
Having lost many photos of certain sentimental value a few years ago has made me paranoid. Ever since I lost my child’s first four years of photographic memory I have kept copies of our family photos and videos in two different places. I keep a copy of photos and videos in our Synology NAS at home, which backup photos to Amazon S3 and videos to [Glacier](http://aws.amazon.co … ⌘ Read more
Cloud backup
I have a NAS at home, a Synology DS411J, which we use for backups, and to keep our family photos and videos. It works great, no complains here, but I am looking to keep an outside backup. A backup in the cloud, to be precise.
The choices are:
- Amazon Drive
- Amazon AWS S3
- Google Drive
- [Apple iCloud](https://w … ⌘ Read more
An analysis of Facebook photo caching https://t.co/Sz08gplOrA
Photo: Днес небето е особено сюреалистично. http://tumblr.com/x9th92408
Photo: Логото на Мулти Видео Център беше прогресивно за времето си. http://tumblr.com/x9tghc7y4
Photo: Родители! Това е безобразие. Купете на децата си цветни фулмастри. http://tumblr.com/x9tgej8or
Photo: Фонтаните на НДК, са красиви нощем. http://tumblr.com/x9tg0it7b
Photo: Един от малкото останали работещи часовници върху (бивша) жилищна сграда в центъра. http://tumblr.com/x9tg0i13k
Photo: Завърших Пощоряване в събота. Ред е на Туп! Пратчет се чете на един дъх … когато намирам време. http://tumblr.com/x9tfxvqaz
Photo: Скумрия с ориз, класическа студентска манджа от Поничка. Чаша ориз, консерва скумрия в доматен сос,… http://tumblr.com/x9tfifpe9
Photo: Фотоволтаичното осветление на парка около обреден дом Красно село е най-смислената инвестиция в… http://tumblr.com/x9tffm0cz
Photo: Тези две статуи на Столична библиотека, макар и доста поразголени, също са разхлаждат. Горкият Сфинкс…. http://tumblr.com/x9tfflo65
Photo: Модна къща София също не е пощадена от глобалното затопляне. http://tumblr.com/x9tffl5mu
Photo: Трите кошмара на БТК ясно са изобразни на сградата на телефонната палата. Кражбата на стълбове, кабели… http://tumblr.com/x9tffkrws
Photo: Новите лични карти са ужасно грозни. За сметка на това задграничните паспорти са с много красиви водни… http://tumblr.com/x9tfcjd6g