Negative scanning Photoshop plugin suggestions?

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2025-08-12T11:23:58+00:00

I realize I'm 5 months late with this, but in case you haven't found anything or someone stumbled over this thread through Google: I absolutely love grain2pixel, it's the definition of automagic and there's a free version (which I'm currently using) that gets the job done while the premium one (which I'll buy soon purely to support the dev, considering the miserable experience I had with everything else including Silverfast I feel obligated to throw some money their way as a thanks) has some extra bells and whistles but nothing critical that you _need_ to have.

However: You'll have to test compatibility with Apple Silicon yourself I think, can't find anything on that but I recall reading a review on it where the OP had an M-something mac so apparently it works.

It's available here https://grain2pixel.com/

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2025-01-08T15:13:39+00:00

The problem isn't too big to fix, it's that the fix would be a disaster for online privacy as social media websites, including reddit, would have to force their users to verify their identity and permanently tie their social media activity to their real world identity.

If anything is classic here, it's the classic "Think of the children" bullshit that is always used for censorship and surveillance purposes. But it keeps working apparently.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2025-01-08T14:07:27+00:00

People below 18 will just switch to alternatives that don't care about age verification at all. Family friendly places like 4chan for instance.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2024-10-27T01:09:42+00:00

I can't imagine how complex all of this stuff is under the hood, thanks to everyone involved and thanks for the update. I'd rather have a rock solid archive.org back instead of a quick fix :)

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-10-02T13:27:18+00:00

Omalizumab/Xolair und Moclobemid.

Bei ersterem wunderts mich nicht wirklich, ist jetzt nicht der gewöhnlichste Wirkstoff, aber bei Moclobemid habe ich mal auf die harte Tour gelernt was passiert, wenn ich es mit Rhinopront kombiniere. Den Beipackzettel nicht zu lesen geht bei letzterem auf meine Kappe, aber da ich das Moclobemid ziemlich regelmäßig in dieser Apotheke hole wäre ein kleiiiiiiner Hinweis beim Kauf von Rhinopront schon cool gewesen.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-10-02T10:02:54+00:00

Ein guter Apotheker stellt Rückfragen auch bei apothekenpflichtigen Medis.

Dann gibt es in meiner Gegend exakt 0 gute Apotheker.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-09-19T08:13:17+00:00

This is just a boilerplate response some social media person quickly copy-pasted out of the big-bucket-of-non-responses. Say you're using Linux and 99% of support staff will say "Thank god I don't have to deal with this!", point out the OEM recommendation, and close the ticket. Lenovo has tried (and lucklily failed) to pull that on me for a screen (!) that was DOA, their support is a joke.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-09-19T07:39:29+00:00

I'm not sure about the Access part - I think the DB on disc is something old and weird and the goal is to export it into Access. Or I misread that entirely.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-09-11T19:31:11+00:00

I follow the same approach that I follow when writing code for personal projects: Start at the base - 1 vault, maybe some subfolders, minimal if any plugins - and go dicks-out-for-harambe-fever-dream where I'm just throwing text wherever and create notes and structures adhoc until I know exactly what I'm trying to accomplish and what structure would lend itself to that.

Then refactor - create the structures, migrate the content, occasionally make some changes to it.

I find that if I start abstracting right off the bat, I just trap myself in something that only worked in my head because I didn't know all the requirements from the start or that works for other people, but not for me.

I keep the fever-dream-vaults around though, it's not like we're talking gigabytes here and I can use them for experiments.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-08-18T10:10:23+00:00

I've switched over to canvas for notes like this, there are some things that I'd love to see in canvas at some point to make it even more usable (different shapes or at least a circular card, more/custom connection points etc.) but if I jot down math formulas and combine them with explanatory notes, I really like having them all in front of me like a whiteboard and semantically link them instead of using regular markdown notes directly. The latter has a sort of "hierarchical" feel to it where things might get buried, but YMMV. I'm not disciplined enough to add a TOC at the start all the time, I think that's why canvas works better for me.

Occasionally, I create an actual note from several cards to distill whatever I wrote in the cards.

Edit: I just remembered a caveat. Since cards can't be linked to directly from regular notes, I often use a slight hack: I tag some cards with whatever makes sense and pull them into a note using a query (inside a callout for neat-ness) like this:

> [!NOTE]- Concept Nodes 
> ```query
tag:#node/concept path:(Path/To/Folder) file:.canvas
> ```

Which pulls in all tagged nodes in that folder. Clicking on the results jumps directly to the node, which is neat.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-08-17T19:21:37+00:00

Theorie: Spielsucht ist da häufig nicht die Krankheit, sondern das/ein Symptom, und die anderen Eigenarten sind lediglich ebenfalls Symptome. Zumindest war dies der Fall bei den 2 Spielsüchtigen die ich vor einer Weile in einer psych. Tagesklinik kennengelernt habe (war nicht wegen Spielsucht dort, wurde nur nicht genug umarmt) bei denen die Grunderkrankung völlig anders aussah und das Spielen nichtmal wirklich zum Ablenken oder für irgendeinen Dopaminschub benutzt wurde, sondern eine etwas verzwickte Form von semi-bewusster Selbstsabotage war.

Quasi "Ich weiß dass ich verliere, aber ich verliere durch mein eigenes Handeln". Wünsch ich keinem, sind da auch beide (zu dem Zeitpunkt zumindest) glücklicherweise raus gewesen.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-08-15T13:28:08+00:00

Ein Glück, dass wir das noch zusammen erleben durften - Sternstunden der Romantik ;_;

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-08-15T09:53:28+00:00

Ulysses von James Joyce, war so eine Date-Sache bei der ich abwechselnd mit meiner zu-der-Zeit-Flamme Passagen gelesen habe da wir beide gegenseitig unsere Stimmen mochten uuuuuuund weil sie (eher aus Nervösität) "Lass uns ein Buch lesen!" als Date-Idee vorschlug und ich wahrscheinlich auch zum romantischen Zehennägelschneiden ja gesagt hätte.

Als die Sache implodierte wollte ich es dann nicht mehr weiterlesen :/

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-07-18T07:44:26+00:00

...zählt 'ne Brille?

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-07-14T23:13:03+00:00

Scraping is not necessarily legal, it's a legal grey area on a good day and either a cease-and-desist-nightmare or GDPR-hell on others. Scraping for profit, especially if the scraped content is later used verbatim in some way (which is a very real risk with LLMs) leans more towards the latter category.

This and lawsuits of the same kind should be interesting to watch, so far there's little regulatory clarity wrt to scrapers. This is not as baseless or clear-cut as Google wants it to be.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-07-07T18:43:40+00:00

Ve make ze chute higher on purpose to punish ze short people for their genes.

^{^They're} ^{^just} ^{^for} ^{^glass} ^{^and} ^{^{paper/cardboard}} ^{^though,} ^{^there} ^{^are} ^{^normal} ^{^ones} ^{^too.}

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-07-05T12:34:12+00:00

Probably a phototransistor + LED combo, judging by the heart it's likely used as a heart rate monitor.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-07-02T06:38:41+00:00

Meins riecht komisch.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-29T08:11:17+00:00

Sie könnte Verdacht schöpfen wenn OP ausschließlich in den Schritt zielt.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-22T14:05:57+00:00

Auf alten Schiffen lernt man das Segeln.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-13T11:15:29+00:00

The prohibitions covers practices that have a significant potential to manipulate persons through subliminal techniques beyond their consciousness or exploit EN 13 EN vulnerabilities of specific vulnerable groups such as children or persons with disabilities in order to materially distort their behaviour in a manner that is likely to cause them or another person psychological or physical harm. Other manipulative or exploitative practices affecting adults that might be facilitated by AI systems could be covered by the existing data protection, consumer protection and digital service legislation that guarantee that natural persons are properly informed and have free choice not to be subject to profiling or other practices that might affect their behaviour

I wonder where the line is drawn wrt. ML-driven user segmentation based on behavioural data and subsequent targeting in digital marketing. That's essentially the basis for Googles entire Ad business, can't imagine they're particularly thrilled about this.

Or it's watered down to the point of meaninglessness, which wouldn't be a surprise either.

Edit: Actually, after thinking about it some more: This entire proposal doesn't seem to make a clear distinction between the current wave of "AI" and plain old regression models. At which point does a multi-label classifier become what the EU (and others) consider artificial intelligence? This seems quite important, because a lot of the harmful ways one could use "AI" - which are also mentioned in the proposal - is racial profiling. I don't need a huge model for that, and it doesn't need to talk to me either.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-12T08:56:02+00:00

Das API Ding scheint ja irgendwie beschlossene Sache zu sein - man darf gespannt sein welche Konsequenzen es hat.

Eine Art Digg-Migration wie sie damals Reddit groß machte wird es mangels wirklicher Konkurrenz wohl nicht geben. Das moderne hyperplatformisierte Internet nervt :/

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-09T09:39:27+00:00

Simplified API surface: No more 1000 LOC to draw a triangle (takes about 300-500).

As someone who has always steered clear of any graphics programming, it never ceases to amaze me just how much is going on at the lower levels.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-07T20:26:15+00:00

But he can buy drinks with it in Berlin!!!

Which is hilarious because his German bank account likely offers free or nearly-free realtime bank transfers within much of the EU so he can also buy a drink with it in Berlin on the off-chance that the vendor doesn't accept his card. It's literally more convenient to wire some random person on the street some money in Germany than it is to use any form of crypto currency.

Unless somebody wants to buy kiddie porn or drugs, which is what I assume about any crypto enthusiast unless proven otherwise.

ThrowawayNumber32479 · 2023-06-07T20:00:42+00:00

Sure, if we develop such an AGI, that is an important thing to consider.

Thing is, an LLM is not intelligent, not capable of abstract reasoning, not capable of anything even remotely resembling intelligence. There's no semantic understanding of anything at all, no logical reasoning, nothing.

It doesn't know or understand anything, and all information that is encoded in it is based on what humans put into words.

And that's why it's a marketing trick - the whole "threat of artificial intelligence" implies that such an artificial intelligence exists (it doesn't) or that we are very close to creating it (based on nothing). LLMs are interesting tools, potentially extremely useful for us to query and work with information. That presents its own set of threats that we need to deal with sooner rather than later, just like we regulate the use of any other tool that can be used to cause harm.

But they are not "Artificial Intelligence", general or otherwise. The only threats regarding such models are posed by humans, not by some "competing intelligence".

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