@kerravonsen @phil @maxleibman turns out I screenshotted the difference at the time (this is a crop from it, maybe about a sixth or an eighth of the whole image)

@kerravonsen @phil @maxleibman it was just outside standard printer low-resolution bounds. There was a well-photographed but low-res non-losslessly compressed TIFF with much hidden in shadow detail. Order of magnitude, let's say it was 2K pixels high, and to meet the DPI requirements (implied, not explicit!) I upscaled that by three times to give a 6K high image (at roughly A4 proportions) and re-toned it by hand, embedding an AdobeRGB profile. It was a medieval coloured sketch from Italy.

@phil @kerravonsen @maxleibman the sad thing is, AI means "terrible, must be destroyed" to many people and "positive marketing term" to many others. We were turned down because the author *told* them it was "AI", with no distinction between neural networks and GenAI used or even comprehended by either party, and the publishers (quite rightly) had had a policy meeting and decided they were allergic to "AI" in general, rather than GenAI...

@kerravonsen @phil @maxleibman yep. I had a picture rejected for a book cover because I used Pixelmator's Super Resolution to get it to print resolution. That's a very light edge enhancement trained on public domain images that runs locally.

In the end I had to upscale with the Lanczos algo, which produced a far inferior result, and it's all because "AI" was mentioned in marketing by Pixelmator before the term became utterly tainted. It's just a local neural network. I used one in 1991!

Bam Bam was looking a bit regal, so now you get to enjoy some regal Bam Bam #CatsOfMastodon

The EHRC's remit is

"Using our powers to defend your freedom and promote a fairer England, Scotland and Wales"

However, it's had extremists planted in it. It's currently acting counter to this remit. When it rolls back human rights with "guidance", it does so as quietly as it can manage, on a Friday night.

These people are weasels.

@aral

@aral good pun, but might I suggest not concealing the image's actual content from trans ppl rn. They don't need to see this unwarned

@aral

Horribly dangerous framing from The Guardian here, normalising the writing of code as something that doesn't have to be done by humans.

A human always has to take accountability. Always. And the non-human has a worse-than-humans track record at getting it right.

brb just renaming some odd bits of sea

Bristol

@aral "We've got a machine that can make the tea
Why not build one to drink it as well?"

https://mastodon.social/@rgarner/113826851660416456

@jamiemccarthy @jrose @inthehands @RuthMalan so far, my experience is: they may have seen the discussion, but they don't "remember" it, and they certainly have no idea which are the salient points. Sometimes even when you ram said points down their throats.

In short, I'm fine asking them to show me a depth-first search, but I would trust them with architecture and logical design decisions about as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

@inthehands @RuthMalan every dev wants a greenfield project. LLMs shade even greenfield projects brown.

But then it's not the devs that are asking for this* so much as a managerial class looking for the sort of silver bullet that brings down both pay and the amount of time dealing with a type of worker they find difficult.

*not the ones who are any good, anyway

@floppy it's the best current option *to me*, and I do contribute from time to time.

However, I cannot find up-to-date info on where they currently host.

@urlyman @aral

I felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices screamed out "Democracy dies in darkness is a mission statement" at once and were suddenly silenced

@aral I'd sign it, but you know, we got confidence-trickstered out of *those* rights

@aral *sigh* I shouldn't speak about this stuff to be dispirited before I've even had my toast