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New comment by mikae1 in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

mikae1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:44:25 +0000

Depends on if you want lossy or lossless.

New comment by mikae1 in "Phloto for My Photo Flow"

mikae1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:22:54 +0000

WebP is pretty much equal to JPEGs via jpegli (for lossy compression). AVIF is better than WebP and jpegli JPEGs for lossy compression and supported pretty much everywhere now. AVIF is worse than WebP for lossless compression.

jpegli JPEGs will convert to lossy JPEG XL without generation loss when JPEG XL is more well supported.

New comment by mikae1 in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

mikae1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:20:58 +0000

You're lucky if that's right. In Sweden there's no fair use of imagery at all. "Citaträtten" (the right to quote) only covers words.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citatr%C3%A4tt

New comment by mikae1 in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

mikae1 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:18:12 +0000

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media's_role_in_the_Ara...

New comment by mikae1 in "Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data"

mikae1 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:06:25 +0000

In my experience, what you call vision-based systems don't even come close to Gyroflow. After I started using Gyroflow I haven't touched the Ronin gimbal many times.

New comment by mikae1 in "Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data"

mikae1 — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:10:49 +0000

Just be sure to turn off any in camera stabilization to get the best results.

New comment by mikae1 in "Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data"

mikae1 — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:08:54 +0000

I use this for near 100% of my video projects at work (with Sony cameras) and it's absolutely amazing. Sony is not exactly class leading when it comes to stabilization (like Panasonic). There's a Premiere and Resolve plugin-in these days.

Fast guide:

* Be sure to turn off any in camera stabilization in Sony cameras.

* Be sure to take the added crop into account when composing.

* The faster shutter speed, the better. Forget about 1/50 for 25p. There will be the most horrible artifacts. For 25p, use 1/100 or preferably use 1/200. For 50p, use 1/200 or preferably 1/400 etc.

New comment by mikae1 in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

mikae1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:30:11 +0000

>> This project requires a special entitlement from Apple. I’ve requested it, and heard they may be open to granting it, but I have not yet heard back, and I’m told that the wait time could be months.

> I have been bothering the VM team for years for VM GPU pass through.

Good luck. I'm sure they're keen on giving people access to this so that people can spend their money on NVIDIA GPUs instead of buying more expensive Macs. :)

Would of course be awesome, but I'd be very surprised if it happened.

New comment by mikae1 in "Bliss (Photograph)"

mikae1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:39:18 +0000

High-res version for your modern desktop:

https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi

New comment by mikae1 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

mikae1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:19:27 +0000

Lovely, but was replaced by KDE Connect for me. Connect works for iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, you name it.

New comment by mikae1 in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

mikae1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:54:36 +0000

CVEs and all, but I just can't wait for firmwares for cheaper modern cameras from Sony, Nikon and Panasonic getting hacked and modified too add features from more expensive models.

They're all firmware restricted to justify buying more expensive models, in one way or another way.

DNG support would be pretty awesome too.

New comment by mikae1 in "DeepSeek v4"

mikae1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:34:56 +0000

Some other reactions:

I wonder which model will try some more common spoke lacing patterns. Right now there seems to be a preference for radial lacing, which is not super common (but simple to draw). The Flash and Pro one uses 16 spoke rims, which actually exist[1] but are not super common.

The Pro model fails badly at the spokes. Heck, the spokes sit on the outside of the drive side of the rim and tire. Have a nice ride riding on the spokes (instead of the tire) welded to the side of your rim.

Both bikes have the drive side on the left, which is very very uncommon. That can't exist in the training data.

[1] https://cicli-berlinetta.com/product/campagnolo-shamal-16-sp...

New comment by mikae1 in "DeepSeek v4"

mikae1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:17:43 +0000

Being a bicycle geometry nerd I always look at the bicycle first.

Let me tell you how much the Pro one sucks... It looks like failed Pedersen[1]. The rear wheel intersects with the bottom bracket, so it wouldn't even roll. Or rather, this bike couldn't exist.

The flash one looks surprisingly correct with some wild fork offset and the slackest of seat tubes. It's got some lowrider[2] aspirations with the small wheels, but with longer, Rivendellish[3], chainstays. The seat post has different angle than the seat tube, so good luck lowering that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedersen_bicycle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowrider_bicycle

[3] https://www.rivbike.com/