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simoneau | 7 months ago | on: Geocities Backgrounds

I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?

simoneau | 2 years ago | on: RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models

me: Facebook AI, please post a tender moment between me and my father when I was a boy. Include some photos.

Facebook: I'd be happy to. Are there any more details you'd like to include?

me: Please show how he didn't understand me at first, but then he looks at me and starts crying with love and regret.

Facebook: Done. Your relationship with your father must have been deeply fulfilling.

simoneau | 2 years ago | on: RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models

Me: Facebook AI, please post an entry about my vacation on Cape Cod and create a bunch of photos to go with it.

Facebook: Great. I'd be happy to. Any more detail you'd like to add?

Me: Make us look attractive. Show that we're a having a great time. Also, we went to see the Chatham Lighthouse.

Facebook: OK, done!

...

Facebook: You've received 48 likes. Your mother would like to know if you had any salt water taffy.

Me: Yes, and please create a picture of my oldest daughter having trouble chewing it.

Facebook: Done.

simoneau | 3 years ago

In email to customers:

"Over the last 20 years, it’s been our privilege to protect our customers’ memories by hosting over 100 billion photos on our secure servers. We’re reaching out to remind you that we updated our Photo Storage Policy in January 2023; unlimited photo storage is now only available to active Shutterfly customers who make a purchase at least once every 18 months. On March 29, 2023, all inactive account projects and photos will be permanently deleted."

simoneau | 3 years ago | on: Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801

I picture someone 20 years from now trying to find out what their parent really looked like when they were young. The obviously smoothed-out face filters are already giving way to AI-powered homogenization. And the filtering is moving deeper down the stack from the app to the camera itself. There will be no "original".

simoneau | 3 years ago | on: Microsoft Edge is getting a video upscaler to make blurry old videos look better

Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801

I'm with you, but I fear that horse is already out of the barn. I picture someone 20 years from now trying to find out what their parent really looked like when they were young. The obviously smoothed-out face filters are already giving way to AI-powered homogenization. And the filtering is moving deeper down the stack from the app to the camera itself. There will be no "original".

simoneau | 3 years ago | on: Bringing MathML back to Chromium

jsMath, now MathJax, took all the wind out of MathML’s sails by rendering LaTeX equations in the client. I know that MathML is better in some ways, but the combination of downloading custom fonts and JavaScript-based layout solved the problem well enough.

simoneau | 3 years ago | on: Pocket Casts goes open source

I have a moment of morning when a podcast I love disappears behind a firewall, most recently Heavyweight. Then I remember there are tons of other great podcasts out there I’ve never even tried and move on with my life.
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