The current version of Affinity is great and will continue to work forever—there’s no need to switch to an alternative if you’re already using it. I just don’t have much hope for its future development.

Just over a year ago.

I guess technically, Raspbian.

The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.

If history is any guide, it’s about even odds.

If labor becomes worthless, money will be based on control of resources. Those with resources will sell to each other, and everyone else will have literally nothing to work with.

Or non-random—watch how many Instagram/Meta critics get their accounts flagged as underage.

Plot twist: aliens introduced generative AI so people would dismiss evidence of their existence.

I honestly feel like I wasted my one minute of typing this.

Good news—this one weird trick can make you the fastest typist in the universe!

It’s been towed beyond the environment.

Earth travels at 107,826km/ph

In that reference frame, the speed of the ISS varies between 79,826 and 135,826 km/h.

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

Dammit—I can see that actually taking off with many audiences, if it generates an eye-catching fake image to go with every text post.

Goats will only eat grass if there are no other green plants accessible.

It’s less useful because you can’t modify it to do whatever you want.

It’s less dangerous (than proprietary AI) because no one else can, either.

I realize it won’t be like this forever

You can always keep moving to smaller instances.

Great—let’s test it on politicians and law enforcement first.

Ok… but then what’s the purpose of not having three hands?

And by an LLM you mean the people who train and tune the LLM to generate the type of responses they like.

Yeah, jpeg converts to lab (or something similar, I think). But the dimensions are the same: one channel for lightness, and then a number of channels one less than the total number of sampled frequencies to capture the rest of the color space.

Spectral JPEG XL utilizes a technique used with human-visible images, a math trick called a discrete cosine transform (DCT), to make these massive files smaller […] it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively.

This all sounds like standard jpeg compression. Is it just jpeg with extra channels?