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mikae1on DaVinci Resolve – Photo

This was bound to happen. I've edited stills in Resolve for years thinking this day would come. Resolve has supported DNG raw files (as long as they're not converted from funky sensors such as Fujifilm X-trans). But, it was always a bit of a hack.

Kind of stoked to see this release even though I've transitioned to a 100% open source photo workflow on Linux now.

IMO, most exciting developments in photo editing today happens in open source. But this is really something.

mikae1on Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)

Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts

I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.

mikae1on Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?

I looked at more competent alternatives to Scribus for Linux and I must say VivaDesigner[1] looks pretty awesome. It's 149 € for the buy-once version. But I believe you have to pay for upgrades...

[1] https://viva.systems/designer/

mikae1on HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab

First thing I do when I install macOS is to set application switching to cmd+tab and to cycle windows inside an application using cmd+§ (that's possible without third-party apps). On a Nordic keyboard § is above tab (perhaps it's same for US keyboards). I use KDE Plasma at home and have it set up the same way.

mikae1on 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images

> I don't think many players are doing it.

Do we have to think? Apparently they amassed 30B images. :)

mikae1on GIMP 3.2 released

Content-aware fill has been in PS since 2010 I believe, long before the genAI craze.

mikae1on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

> they even explained it at WWDC

Did they explain the reasoning?

mikae1on FrameBook

The palm rest plastic and screen frame cracked on almost all of these. Not a model I romanticize.

https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/exchange-your-cracked-macbo...

mikae1on Stop using grey text (2025)

The idea that "nothing in the natural world has the contrast of a modern display" is backwards and keeps being repeated. The real world has far more contrast than any screen that can be manufactured.

Think about standing outside on a sunny day. The sunlit pavement might be tens of thousands of times brighter than the shadow under a tree. Look up at a bright cloud and then glance into a shaded doorway. Your eyes can still make out detail in both. The dynamic range of the real world the ratio between the darkest and brightest things present at the same time is enormous.

Cameras struggle with this. When you take a photo, the camera can't always capture both the bright sky and the dark ground correctly at the same time. Either the sky blows out to white or the shadows become black. That limitation is why HDR photography and exposure bracketing exists.

Even modern digital cameras still capture a far wider range of brightness than most displays can show. That's why we use tone mappers in photography and video. Tone mapping compresses the huge brightness range captured by the camera so it can fit onto a display that only has a tiny slice of that range.

So screens are not "more contrasty" than reality. They're the opposite. Displays are a bottleneck that force a very wide real world brightness range into something much smaller.

Your eyes are also incredibly good at adapting. If you look at a white page of paper in sunlight and then look at black ink on it, the contrast between the two is extremely strong. Snow in sunlight next to a dark rock is another example. Nature is full of intense light and dark differences.

When web developers avoid strong contrast because it feels "unnatural", they're misunderstanding the physics and the biology. High contrast between text and background isn't artificial at all. It's actually closer to how humans evolved to see clearly: dark shapes against bright surfaces or bright shapes against dark ones.

The real ergonomic problem with screens usually isn't contrast between text and background. It's screen brightness relative to the environment. Many people run their monitors far brighter than the room around them. If a screen is glowing like a light source in a dim room, the whole display becomes visually harsh and fatiguing. In ergonomics, the usual advice is to match the screen's brightness to the surrounding lighting so the display feels like part of the environment rather than a flashlight in your face.

When display brightness is set appropriately, strong text contrast simply improves legibility. The discomfort people blame on "too much contrast" is often just a monitor that's set far brighter than it should be. Reality itself contains vastly wider brightness differences than any display, so high contrast text isn't unnatural at all. It's a practical way to make information clear within the limited dynamic range that screens can actually show.

mikae1on MacBook Air with M5

At least you have the choice to pick one that does not.

mikae1on MacBook Air with M5

Even for the M1 generation feature support is not complete. Also, this a thread about current models. Asahi is still awesome though!

mikae1on MacBook Air with M5

> You can maybe get a cheaper Windows laptop but it will be terrible in almost everything

It will be worse at almost everything, except running my preferred OS (Linux). Being able to upgrade/repair RAM, storage and battery at home is quite a perk too.

mikae1on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Two years? What has this world become... Come back in six years. :-D

mikae1on How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

Also interested.

mikae1on European Tech Alternatives

Was just looking at the map thinking: have the all moved to Gamla stan? :)

mikae1on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19

And how easy is it to replace an aging battery?

mikae1on Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

Have you https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/?

If you really just want the text content you could just save markdown using something like https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/llmfeeder/.

mikae1on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

It's a native Android app vs. a bloated multi MB web page. Of course NewPipe and PipePipe are better. :)

mikae1on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

> I use it for a chronological feed of my subscriptions.

YouTube provides RSS feeds. You could use an RSS reader to subscribe to your channels. I do, it's marvellous.

On mobile I use PipePipe for listening to stuff (like presentation videos) in the background and downloading offline audio and video.

mikae1on GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding

Text me back when there's a working PDF to EPUB conversion tool. I've been waiting (and searching for one) long enough. :D

EDIT: https://github.com/overcuriousity/pdf2epub looks interesting.

mikae1on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number

> they could purge and stop collecting identifying data on Americans.

That's their entire business model though...

mikae1on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code

mikae1on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

Barley is also beta glucane rich and likely has an even greater impact on glucose and insulin levels: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15930484/

mikae1on I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

I'd love to see a combination of the two as one comment section.

mikae1on JPEG XL Test Page

This...

I would not install non-recommended Firefox addons for things that can be achieved in about:config.

Just do set image.jxl.enabled flag in about:config to true.

mikae1on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

"Just award them with some stars or points or whatever, and they'll be happy."

I wish these people would wake up and spend their time helping peers on a forum for some open source project instead.

mikae1on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

> I wonder if this makes room in the market for some simpler device for payments.

Like a credit card? They've been around for some time.

mikae1on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

Tape to pay, that is.

mikae1on Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

How do you know that? Source is closed. Is a network analyzer enough to determine?

mikae1on Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

> Webkit on Linux has essentially been relegated to embedded devices or the GNOME epiphany browser

Don't forget about https://falkon.org. It's a browser I enjoy using. WebExtension support will be big if it lands in Orion though.

EDIT: apparently Orion is not open source. Not particularly interested in a closed source browser, TBH. In 2022 they said they plan to open source "when there is merit"[1], whatever that means. No merit yet, it seems.

[1] https://orionfeedback.org/d/3882-open-source-the-browser/2