@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaIt's wise to create a disk image of your Nextcloud server periodically, but even better to see if you can actually restore your server from a saved image.
https://theprivacydad.com/check-you-can-restore-your-nextcloud-server-from-a-saved-di…
@datascience@genomic.socialSometimes you need to know the exact color used in a picture, or you might want to make a pallet from a foto. Check out {eyedroppeR} by @…: https://gradientdescending…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed" and "most" of the images have been removed (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2103587050347995581
@cdarwin@c.imAmericans are neither as hostile to socialism as they once were
nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past.
More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the “communist threat” is a total abstraction.
There are tens of millions of voters (
who were young children when the Soviet Union fell.
There are millions more who weren’t yet born.
For these Americans, communism is as much a concern as the missile gap …
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Leuchtturm' #FotoVorschlag
From holidays at the baltic sea, a couple of years ago.
#photography #balticsea
@seeingwithsound@mas.toEEG/EMG Foundation Challenge 2026: Track 01, Cross-stimulus EEG-to-IMG https://neural-interfaces26.github.io/tracks.html "Given a single EEG epoch recorded during natural-image viewing, identify the viewed image"
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis could hang in a galactic museum as a one-photo summary of the human race and its eventual extinction. @… https://mstdn.fr/@Grrr/116979861291321915
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialEnd of a Trip IV ✈️
旅行结束 IV ✈️
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@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: On (and On) Bullshit
"Bullshitters are more dangerous to public discourse than liars. Liars are laser-focused on reality and must know the truth to successfully deceive the listener. Bullshitters don’t care, so don’t even have to acknowledge reality. "
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-and…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social🤔 Seems like WP (7.1) now uses wasm-vips for processing images and mediabunny to convert opaque animated GIFs to videos (MP4/WebM) https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/22/client-side-media-processing-in-wordpress-7-1/
Its feature detect…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netNuff said:
#StarTrekAdventures
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialSo you heard that file systems are also just an attack vector to your kernel?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Vulnerability-For-Root
Join my file system analysis workshop at @…
@doktrock@toad.socialImage shows weathered reddish basalt cobbles derived from the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, on the shore of Lake Superior, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ⚒️ #geology
https://mastodon.social/@Livelakesuper
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeCan you tell which one of my kids is Autistic? We're at a conference and he started collecting all the little candy bowls so that he could organize them.
He's 20. I love my neurospicy family.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325137427138728
Aside from the original point of the quoted message, just imagine all the information requested in these (hardcoded) "ideas" put forward by the model to be helpful (3rd image) and handing these answer…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#puzzle
Don’t look at the alt-text until you think you’ve found the difference.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social🇸🇪 DSO Mölndal Energi Nät presents the results of the first winter (2025/26) with a local flexibility market: cost-neutral, 12.5% load reduction in the 100 highest hours and 33% in the winter peak hour.
This was made possible thanks to EVs, batteries, district heating, heat pumps and industry.
h…
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.frCrépuscule
#PartageTonCiel #Bzh #MonCielAujourdhui
@wraithe@mastodon.socialApparently I reposted this a couple years ago but I wish to repost it again https://beige.party/@geekysteven/110747642149158404
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialSieht sehr hübsch aus die alte neue Mokka Milch Bar
@Neybulot@pawb.fun:blobfoxcofe:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (Qwen)
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔌 Point standard AWS clients at http://localhost:4566. Existing credentials, regions, SDKs, CLI commands and IaC workflows stay exactly as they are.
⚡ The native image starts in milliseconds and keeps idle memory low, which makes it practical for local development and CI pipelines.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alShits of a feather… @… https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/116974605823919563
@jan_wagemakers@social.linux.pizza
@fennek@cyberplace.socialWegen unten habe ich gerade überlegt, wann wir denn so sind (während wir uns auf die Weimarer Republik reimen). Mit dem AI-Bubble-Börsencrash geschätzt noch ein paar Monate hin...
1929?
https://mastodon.social/@rpolenz/116971228968046327
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIdea: open an antique shop specializing in vintage computers and call it "Debian Stable"
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSilicon Image SiI7172CLU dual link TMDS transceiver for DVI 1.0, with HDCP support.
Looks to be TSMC 150 - 180 nm or thereabouts, with 5ish metal layers. Marked with the code name "LOGAN" but sadly no cool artwork like I've seen on other Silicon Image products.
Two different chunks of floorplanned digital logic at the west and south, then probably the TMDS PHY in the top center. Northeast corner looks like some kind of memory, maybe SRAM buffer or perhaps ROM for HD…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialCivic Museums VII - Out! Out!🏛️
民间博物馆 VII - 快走！快走！🏛️
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialOffline Translator
An Android translator app that performs text, PDF/ODT documents and image translation completely offline using on-device models.
Supports automatic language detection and transliteration for non-latin scripts. There's also a built-in word dictionary.
💬 https://github.com/DavidVentura/o…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOh - and it's #mountainmonday !
This is from a summit that I did mid may. I was about to leave the summit when I turned around and saw those flowers - and I thought they could make a good photo.
Well what you can't see there is that the majority of the summit is just rocks and just some little patches of earth and grass - but this bit of earth was enough for those lit…
@roland@devdilettante.comfascists gotta "cult of the tyrannical leader" everywhere including currency sad face
https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116967784103278929
@patrikja@functional.cafeNew pre-print out (and submitted to JFP): "niFite semPurtatoni" (Finite permutations in Agda). We study a first-order representation of finite permutations: every value of this type represents a bijection by construction (1st image). An interesting part is composition — finding a definition that's structurally recursive at all takes some care (2nd image: an example, plus the key lemma that `skip` and `pinch` are approximate inverses). Inversion, and the classical Lehmer-code &q…
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaExcellent [Inser Mr. Burns Image]😈
@gevoel@mastodon.green@… deze ken ik wel
ur,pin_small_front,wide_portrait,750x1000.jpg (JPEG Image, 750 × 1000 pixels) — Scaled (43%)
https://ih1.redbubble.n…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/from-mit-research-to-1-5…
@vibhurishi@social.linux.pizza
@drbruced@aus.social
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialOne of the ways AI has made my work worse and I mean worse in an absolutely unenjoyable way is that when I do image search for "cyclops phallus" I now get at least 50% AI slop, despite using DuckDuckGo's NoAI search, and it just sucks the joy right out of everything. I do image search regularly and it used to be such a fun part of my job. Now I dread it. AI slop is THAT BAD. A plague on everyone who added theirs to the huge pile of shit everyone now has to wade through online.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialCivic Museums V 🏛️
民间博物馆 V 🏛️
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@hikingdude@mastodon.socialStarted as a "cozy afternoon MTB #cycling loop" and ended with apersonal record over 40km 🤔
Fun fact: the whole loop was exactly 40.01km long. But it was a good ride and I feel so much better now.
#bikteooter
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying during internal testing the image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-22/tencent-releases-ai…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI've just reserved the new Miss Marple from the library, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley. I've been disappointed by some books that take a dead author's characters, but have read a couple of crackers recently so am going to give this one a whirl. I can also recommend Longbourn by Jo Baker, P&P below stairs and really well done, and The Golden Hours by Louisa Young, EJH's niece and a continuation of their own family history, The Cazalet Chronicles
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cjust@infosec.exchangeAome kinda advanced calculus gang seems yo have moved into the hood and is tagging things
#ShitPost #Shitposting
@marcel@waldvogel.family«Mit Opt-out setzen Meta und andere Techkonzerne auf die Trägheit der Masse. Die wenigsten Nutzenden ändern die oft versteckten Standardeinstellungen, während neue KI-Funktionen laufend automatisch aktiviert werden. Selbst kritische User geben irgendwann auf.»
@… bei #Watson
@danyork@mastodon.social
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://universeodon.com/@revesdespace/117139888711715466
This is a very lazy cover. Take a JWST image, put a border around it, add author and title and publisher's logo, and there you go. Surprised to see it coming from J'Ai Lu.
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.orgOld Saw - "Country Tropics" (2021)
#NowPlaying #OldSaw
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag
Color blue (no sky)
Wow thanks to #immich search, I found a photo that I didn't know I took.. A lot of years ago.
#FlowersOfMastodon
@mia@hcommons.socialHow has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history.
David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in https://museumdata.uk/blog/h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialI Can See the Babies
---
Whenever I see a person, my mind automatically conjures up an image of them as a baby. It's not really voluntary, nor is it the same as other mental imagery. More like I'm hallucinating a visual echo of their past self, floating in my vision near where I see the person. As if they were haunted and I could see the ghost.
It's all in my head, I'm pretty sure, and the babies aren't necessarily accurate. I checked once with a friend, and the baby I saw had curly hair even though all their baby pictures were bald. After seeing those pictures, my baby image of them changed, too, to match the pictures. So that's why... That's why I'm pretty sure...
But the babies are real, you know? I mean, my images of them might not be right, but all the people I see *were* babies. It's not like one of those stupid prophecy loopholes like "everyone was born of woman", you see, it's a true universal, no exceptions. And these hallucinations won't let me forget about that. Ever.
I tried to play a videogame once, one of those FPS games. My friends were all playing and they needed one more for their group. They didn't know about... this. I told them I didn't think I could do it, but I didn't want to tell them why, so they badgered me into it. I thought maybe I could handle it, I mean the characters were basically cartoons, right? But... well, I think I dissociated a bit and then threw up. Even if they were cartoons, all those babies, shooting and killing and dying, again and again. It's... it's not like the babies got injured, even, or played out exactly what the characters were doing. The babies just kinda floated around doing baby things, and they sort of faded out when their character died. No, what's overwhelming is the knowledge, the constant reminder, of everyone's former innocence.
The worst part, you know, the most horrible thing, is not just the innocence, it's the gap. Like, if you were to force me to watch a torture scene, I would hate seeing the victim, but it's the torturer that scares me. Everybody knows that horrible things happen to innocent people. We're all forced to think about that from time to time. But the thing almost nobody thinks about as much as me, is how innocent babies *become* monsters. How there's a hurricane of hurt and fear and apathy and indoctrination and hatred and prejudice and complicity out there that sucks in babies and twists them into racists and abusers and "business leaders" and soldiers and all sorts of people who hurt and kill others. The worst are the ones who take pleasure in that hurting, because the babies for sure don't. Like, how did that happen? And most people don't think about it, because they just label that person as "bad" and don't think about it any deeper. But you can't do that when you can see the baby right there. The baby isn't bad. The person might be, I'm not trying to say everyone's an angel or people don't deserve to reap what they sow. But the baby wasn't! Something between then and now went wrong, horribly wrong, and now you're stuck with a person that hurts others, and you need a drastic intervention just to stop them, let alone prevent them from doing that stuff again and change their future behavior. But you can *see*, or at least, I can see, that there was always some earlier point, some missed opportunity, where some much easier intervention could have headed the whole thing off. None of those babies are destined to turn into monsters, and that's the gap. The gap between the little baby that was and the monster in front of you on the screen or in real life.
Anyways that's it. That's my statement. I'm not a pacifist or anything, but I think you can see why I can't do it, I just can't. You can lock me up or punish me or whatever, but there's just no way you're gonna put a gun in my hands and give me an order and I'll just follow it, because I can see the babies.
#Microfiction
@raysofred@discordian.social
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzVon Miller teases fans with AI image of Dak Prescott in latest bid to join Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/10/cowboys-von-miller-ai-image-dak-prescott-l…
@Defiance@sfba.socialA tale as old as time
@cdarwin@c.im#DrumFire
Area of the 4600 Block of Drum Canyon Road, Los Alamos
Santa Barbara County
https://sh…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialTIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11
@ErikUden@mastodon.dewasn't the whole point of ID verification on W social that it should make AI slop impossible...
This is on the W Social landing page right now.
this does not scream "for verified humans" to me?
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFor #FootpathFriday I wanted to remind me about a really cool hike we did a while ago.
Enjoy
#photography #mountains
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMidjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI'm looking for something that I absolutely *could* DIY but am pretty sure exists as a commercial product.
* Large format red/black/white (yellow optional) eink display, 7 inch or so
* Ethernet or wifi
* Local push based update (i.e. I can make a POST request or something directly to the device to dump an image onto it without needing to go through a cloud server or be on a VLAN with internet access. Timer-based pull update (device downloads an image at regular intervals)…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialGo ahead, drink some bleach.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @theodric@social.linux.pizzaLook! A l(ieveheersbeestje|adyb(ug|ird))!
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI shut my eyes and I see polygonaceae seeds. Sorting through samples that need to be kept wet is finicky and time-consuming, and these ones have lots and lots and lots of these little pointy ridged seeds which alllll need to be picked out with tweezers 😑 *This* is how I get through so many podcasts and audiobooks, currently Lords and Ladies #TerryPratchett
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngTwo small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@cjust@infosec.exchangeOkay, i knew that the infosec industry is being commoditized, but damn, it is completive out there.
#JobSearch #ShitPost #Shitposting
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialYeah, I know it’s not a presidential election, but it’s still amusing. With any luck a resounding flip of congress could take him right out.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey, Zionists! Take a fucking bow. Your latest kills are in. @… https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@gazanotice/116957150028311468
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🐳 #BoltDB metadata store, #Docker image, standalone CLI tool, YAML config, AGPL-3.0 licensed
https://github.com/Kodiqa-Solution…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is having a mental health episode online, posting nonstop AI photos and videos:
11:54 AM - AI image of Robert De Niro holding a “Trump is my president” shirt
1:47 PM - AI image of him and George Washington riding horses
1:47 PM - AI image of him meeting with George Washington at the White House
1:47 PM - AI image of him renaming Lake Ontario
1:48 PM - Suggests renaming New Mexico to “New America”
1:49 PM - Posts image of him at McDonald's
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrivacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
@cjust@infosec.exchange @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAllgäu, Late Summer (2024)
(Almost too cliché, but it doesn't take away its beauty...)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotBee having the time of its life on our hibiscus tree. There are two of them drunk on pollen, absolutely coated with the stuff #wildlife #bloomscrolling
@hikingdude@mastodon.social#goodmorning from our #morningwalk
It has rained a bit during the night, it's nice and chill - until the sun shines on a dark tshirt, then it's nice and warm
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …
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中间 VII 🔲
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…
@cdarwin@c.imPhoto of Trump shows printout that seems to refer to Kennedy Center demolition
The image surfaced hours after the president warned that the performing arts venue could eventually be “ripped down” without his administration’s intervention.
Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a Kennedy Center trustee challenging Trump’s transformation of the institution, filed a copy in federal court Thursday
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social各大公司已经慢慢发现，用AI比用人类还贵了。 https://g0v.social/@tuzzi/116961903678083084
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey, here's another photo from our hike last sunday. as you see, it's was a little dry. Meanwhile we had some rain - finally.
The hike itself was really fine, we found a lot of blackberries and just had a good time. If you wan to read more about it, feel invited to read the blog
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imAn image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming,
with large patches of open water visible near the North Pole on Aug. 29
https://www.livescience.com/planet-ear…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/exclusive-hands-on-with-chatgpts-new-image-edito…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialoh #footpathFriday , I almost missed you. but it fits well with the blog post that I just published this evening!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/blackbe
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semi…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWe expected rain (but no ⚡⛈️).
So we got our jackets, did our errands with our little bike trailer - and were lucky because it didn't even rain 💪
✅ Saved fuel again
✅ Physical activity
✅ Faster way to detach from work
✅ Saw a couple of cats
Totally recommended!
#cycling #BikeTooter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/geminis-perso…
