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For your edification, the most common form factor of floppy disks:
5¼ inch (no metal door thing)
3½ inch (the one the save icon was modeled after)
There were also 8 inch (used before 1980s mainly), and various not very successful 3 inch, 2½ inch and 2 inch formats.
Note that while the form factor might have been the same, a lot of diskettes aren't mutually software compatible between systems.
There's physical sub-formats (e.g. one sided, hard sectors, varying supported densities due to magnetic properties etc.) too.

heise | Z-Image in der Praxis: Schnelle KI-Bilder ohne Limit – sogar mit wenig VRAM
Mit Z-Image erschaffen selbst günstige Grafikkarten in Sekunden hochwertige KI-Bilder – für Social Media, Flyer und Plakate oder als Vorlage für KI-Filme.

TFANet: Three-Stage Image-Text Feature Alignment Network for Robust Referring Image Segmentation
Qianqi Lu, Yuxiang Xie, Jing Zhang, Shiwei Zou, Yan Chen, Xidao Luan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13070

TFANet: Three-Stage Image-Text Feature Alignment Network for Robust Referring Image Segmentation
Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a task that segments image regions based on language expressions, requiring fine-grained alignment between two modalities. However, existing methods often struggle with multimodal misalignment and language semantic loss, especially in complex scenes containing multiple visually similar objects, where uniquely described targets are frequently mislocalized or incompletely segmented. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes TFANet, a Three-stage Image-T…

I occasionally stop by Reddit for a couple of chuckles. As per usual - the magic is always in the comments
#ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit #shitpost #shitposting

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse

AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
AI image generators are getting way better at creating realistic fakes, by making image quality a little bit worse.

MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalCellularAutomataSimulation
Unlike the recently shared[1] multi-cellular struggles, these here are some selected research stills (handpicked from tens of thousands) of only single CA configurations (aka mono-cultures) which I found interesting/promising and which were then used as raw ingredients/candidates for my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project[2]...
Each of these cellular automata is 1.5D, meaning each pixel row is one generation, but I allowe…

Warum Kinderfotos nicht ins Internet gehören
Unzensierte Babybilder, KI-Bearbeitung und Erwachsene, die Nähe zu Kindern suchen: Warum Experten fordern, Aufnahmen von Kindern im Netz strenger zu schützen.
https://www.

Apple unveils a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, and faster storage, for the same $1,599 , shipping October 22 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-inch-macbo…

Apple unveils new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip, delivering the next big leap in AI for the Mac
Apple today unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro, featuring the incredibly powerful M5 chip.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Warum Kinderfotos nicht ins Internet gehören
https://www.

MAI-Image-1: Microsofts erster eigener Bildgenerator
Der Bildgenerator MAI-Image-1 von Microsoft hat seinen ersten Auftritt in der LMArena gemacht.
https://www.heise.de/news/MAI-Image-1-Mi…