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New comment by d3vnull in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

d3vnull — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:31:30 +0000

But there's a couple orders of magnitude more photo shoots than movies and since once you write software once, you can copy it for free, investing in creating photo editing software still makes sense.

New comment by d3vnull in "US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'"

d3vnull — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:49:05 +0000

Maybe the attacks on allies aren't being done with bombs but the attacks are landing anyway and the hate is growing too.

It's not like America was super popular before all of this, it was more tolerated then celebrated. This very large straw broke the camel's back and everyone is working on moving away and after that's done, why come back?

New comment by d3vnull in "HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me"

d3vnull — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:47 +0000

Everything is 100% possible without AI. AI just shifts the effort cost.

New comment by d3vnull in "I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion"

d3vnull — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:06:21 +0000

It depends on what you enjoy more — building the pieces or putting the pieces together in clever ways.

I'm more on the second group so LLMs let me get to that part faster without having to get bogged on in the "small stuff".

But I do get the people that enjoy the craftsmanship of the finer details instead.

New comment by d3vnull in "Iran official says 2k people have been killed in unrest"

d3vnull — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:27:42 +0000

That's terrible...

New comment by d3vnull in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

d3vnull — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:04:35 +0000

QEMU has been in development for decades.

I'll take the high level language developed solution that I can use now over a low level language version that would reach feature parity with this 10 years from now.

Speed of development is a feature.

New comment by d3vnull in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

d3vnull — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:32 +0000

That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.

New comment by d3vnull in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

d3vnull — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:31:28 +0000

Because it's not just an "image storage solution". A thumb drive would be an image storage solution. If you're indexing, making geo queries, serving over the network, categorize, transcode video and everything else that's needed to create a google photos competitor, you're going to need the hardware to back it up.

New comment by d3vnull in "People may age faster if their dad smoked during puberty"

d3vnull — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:29:57 +0000

It's all probability, not guarantees.

Leading a healthy lifestyle increases your chances, eating like a pig decreases them.

Looking at the outliers and saying "See?! It's all a lie!" is like looking at a lottery winner and concluding that lottery tickets are a sound investment.

New comment by d3vnull in "Microsoft PowerToys"

d3vnull — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:08:20 +0000

Including it in the OS is a much bigger support commitment.

New comment by d3vnull in "Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities"

d3vnull — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:04:09 +0000

I would say that displacement from a disaster-prone area is a good outcome, yes...

New comment by d3vnull in "AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study"

d3vnull — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:00:43 +0000

Seems like a pretty easy fix in treating the system that runs the cancer detection algorithm as an hospital machine and not as part of the IT system. It can be an airgapped system that runs just the needed software in a a controlled configuration.

This is not new, lots of mission critical software systems are run like this.

New comment by d3vnull in "A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy"

d3vnull — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:45:52 +0000

What's keeping anyone from using a trustworthy camera to take a trustworthy picture of a screen displaying an AI generated image?

And that's the low tech version. Taking a trustworthy camera and plugging the CMOS sensor connector into an LLM that generates its output as RAW data that feeds into the sensor isn't that hard if you want to make extra sure you're not detected.

Such a system might even cause more harm than good by giving people the impression that real/AI images can actually be certified.