Darktable 5.0.0 released
Release release 5.0.0 · darktable-org/darktable
We're proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not ...GitHub
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Hundreds of thousands of Cuban people participated in the mass demonstration against the six-decade US blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of Cuba on the US state sponsors of terrorism list.
Cubans march against the US blockade : Peoples Dispatch
Hundreds of thousands of Cuban people participated in the mass demonstration against the six-decade US blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of Cuba on the US state sponsors of terrorism list.Peoples Dispatch
Neurosymbolic AI -- Why, What, and How
Neurosymbolic AI is a hybrid approach aiming to bridge the gap between neural networks' ability to learn patterns and symbolic AI's capacity for logical reasoning and explainability.
This approach may offer the best of both worlds combining robust learning from data and clear with understandable reasoning based on knowledge. It has the potential to outperform systems relying solely on either neural networks or symbolic logic and to provide clear explanations for its decisions.
The approach involves encoding structured symbolic knowledge into a format that can be integrated with neural networks and then mapping information from neural patterns back to structured symbolic representations.
Neurosymbolic AI -- Why, What, and How
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Reflecting on static types
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet
ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
Illustration of the production of antihyperhelium-4 (a bound state of two antiprotons, an antineutron and an antilambda) in lead–lead collisions. (Image: J.CERN
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Ukraine faces difficult decisions over acute shortage of frontline troops
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Depleted army is increasingly made up of older men, but Zelenskyy is reluctant to lower mobilisation age from 25Shaun Walker (The Guardian)
I don't understand this file pathing
Hi, I'm trying the desktop Grayjay app and it seems to work fine.
I just have to keep locating the app in folder whenever I want to launch it so I found out how to make it appear in the GNOME Apps and launch it there.
However it requires me to copy 2 folders (cef,wwwroot) from the app folder into my "/home/werecat" folder and I don't understand why when it can launch just fine from the executable without me having to do that.
Any idea on what I'm missing or doing wrong? The main goal is to add the app to my Dash to Dock.
Try adding a PATH=/home/werecat/Grayjay
line to your .desktop file. Without it the application will run with your home directory as your working-directory...and there the data files are missing (Why you need to copy them to your home). The path entry makes the program work in /home/werecat/Grayjay where the data directories actually are.
Edit: That is assuming when you started it manually you did a cd Grayjay
and a ./Grayjay
or similar. So you changed your working directory there first before starting it. If that is not the case ignore my post ;)
Yeah this looks right. The program is launching other tools, in this case when it gets to CEF (chromium embedded framework) it is looking in the default path it's picked up when the .desktop file is launching it. So it's essentially looking directly under /home/werecat/ instead of where the /Greyjay programme is running from.
So if you specify the path in the .desktop file it should fix the problem.
An alternative route of that doesn't fix it might be to edit any config files (if it has them) to ensure they explicitly point to the correct Grayjay directory.
Path
as was suggested worked after removing TryExec
.
Thanks, that actually worked even though it did not at first.
I've tried to also do export PATH=/home/werecat/Grayjay:$PATH
but that did not work either. And finally I had to remove the TryExec
for some reason for the Path
to start working.
It launches now with Terminal even though I've set it to 'false' but at least it runs.
Just to make this clear (Sorry if it's unnecessary, but maybe still useful info for others)...Path= lines in .desktop files are not related at all to the $PATH environment variables. They do something completely different (And yes, picking Path as key was a terrible choice in my view). Path= lines in .desktop files change the current working directory...they do about the same as a cd <directory>
in a shell.
They do not change where a .desktop file looks for executables....only indirectly if a executable runs another file relative to the current directory or looks for images/icons/audio/other data relative to the current working directory.
And I have no clue why it doesn't work with TryExec...the desktop file spec doesn't mention anything about that :( ( specifications.freedesktop.org… )
Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children
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Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics
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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare
Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare
Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its declining birth rate. In 2023, the country...Carlos Prego (Xataka On)
It has two sources of funding
Taxes is the same source of funding. Workers.
there isn’t a middle man skimming a cut
Er. The government.
The entire point of a Ponzi scheme is you are pretending there is money being generated that isn’t.
Exactly. State Pensions are promised but there is no money held aside for them.
It is literally not a Ponzi scheme by definition.
I've already given you the Ponzi literature, and shown that PAYG pensions satisfy the description.
I’m done man.
Cos, like your PAYG error, you just can't admit being wrong.
US State Dept gives nod to $5bn in potential arms sales for Egypt
US State Dept gives nod to $5bn in potential arms sales for Egypt
Huge sale likely to go through despite ongoing concerns over Egyptian government’s human rights breaches,Al Jazeera
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That's a gish gallop, and the core premise that people believing it's democratic makes it so is incorrect.
~Edit: added link~
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The very first article yogthos showed you, had a poll that showed half of usonians don't think their country is a democracy (they're right)
The US congress, its highest governing body, hasn't gotten over a 20% approval rating for many years.
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Because China is capitalist, despite being formally led by a communist party. It has private property on means of production, and it is defining Chinese economy just like any other capitalist one. Socialism, by definition, requires social ownership of means of production, which is not the case in China; the term was appropriated and wrongfully used by US and several other countries to define economies with more state control and/or social policies, but this is simply not what socialism is.
Interestingly, China has entire ghost towns full of homes ready to accept people in - but, as in any capitalist economy, homes are seen as an investment, and state subsidies are low, pricing out the homeless. They have more than enough homes, they just chose to pursue a system that doesn't make homes and homeless meet.
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Capitalism is not defined by how the poor are treated, but by the economic relationships and mode of ownership.
Nordic countries have low poverty and generally good social support. Like it or not, this is achieved with private property on means of production, hence they are capitalist.
China has private property on means of production, hence it too is capitalist.
Both of them feature strong state oversight, which allows them to direct more of the capitalist profits to help the poor - which is good! But this doesn't make them "socialist".
Capitalism is defined by which class holds power in society, and in China it's demonstrably the working class. The reason the economy works in the interest of the poor is a direct result of that.
All the core economy in China is state owned, and the role of private sector continues to decline piie.com/research/piie-charts/…
You might want to learn a bit about the subject you're attempting to debate here.
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- A China misinformation Megathread.
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Thoughtcrime. web.archive.org/web/2020072715…
Love how you respond to a bunch of information from the World Bank, NYT, and the National Bureau of Economic Research with a definition from Wikipedia.
Consider that you could learn more here.
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Do any of the sources define socialism?
All of this could be true - none of this makes China socialist.
You said:
China is capitalist... It has private property on means of production, and it is defining Chinese economy just like any other capitalist one.
The response was a well-souced refutation of the idea that the Chinese economy is developing like a capitalist economy. You replied with Wikipedia. All I'm saying is that you're not looking at this in a whole lot of detail and you might have some things to learn.
For instance, you say Nordic countries have low rates of poverty and good social supports despite private ownership of the means of production. But in reality a lot of that is due to sovereign wealth funds, like Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, which is owned by the government and managed by a state-owned bank.
This is all true - state intervention and state-owned businesses and funds bring about a positive change for the majority, and they should be there, but seriously calling those economies socialist would be missing the definitional mark, which is what I have highlighted.
I do believe that moving entire economy under public control would be beneficial, and that, actually, will be what can be called "socialism". Virtually no country, except for heavily sanctioned and blatantly tyrannical North Korea, is currently there.
What we have right now, with heavy state intervention, is certainly better than "free" market economy though, and it reflects in quality of life for the economically disadvantaged - this very intervention leads to these economies following a different path compared to traditional capitalist societies. I do not argue there is no difference between China and, say, US in that regard - the difference is big, it's just not what it takes to call the economy socialist.
There are historical examples of completely and actually socialist countries, so it's not some impossible idealistic notion for me.
The transitory period of New Economic Policy lasted only a few years in USSR, and China under Mao was much closer to actual socialism than later under Deng Xiaoping.
And the trend of expanding government control over the economy only comes alive in the 2020's, roughly since the COVID-19 outbreak (just a milestone, not saying they are related). Previously, the trend was strongly on privatization of industries, with the share of state-owned enterprises falling from 80% to 30% in the previous decade, and it's too early to make any conclusions.
They have more than enough homes, they just chose to pursue a system that doesn't make homes and homeless meet.
This is demonstratably false. China has one of the highest home ownership rates in the world, at ~90%. The US is at ~66% for comparison (and most of that isn't actually full ownership, but a debt to mortgage brokers).
Why do you white supremacists think its okay to spout any unsourced nonsense because it fits your racist biases?
This link does not disprove the point. Home ownership isn't the same thing, you can have families that rent, they aren't homeless either.
Using the same source there is twice as many homeless (relative to population) in china than in spain, for example.
I'm not trying to prove that the number is high in China, I don't know what's the average for all countries. However, claiming that there isn't a lot of homeless because 90% of the non homeless own their house is wrong.
The source for that appears to be this article from 2011 : web.archive.org/web/2016093001…
Most of the poverty alleviation campaigns were well underway by 2012, so I'd be interested to see what those numbers are now.
But also, China is responsible for ~3/4ths of the reduction in world poverty via these campaigns.
Not to mention that if you've visited any Chinese city in the past few years, you won't see any of the slums or homeless that you see in the neoliberal countries.
I just used the same source out of simplicity, I didn't double check as that wasn't my point. It would indeed be better to have more recent numbers.
Not seeing homeless people doesn't mean they don't exist, seems like Japanese streets are mostly devoid of homeless people, but a lot of people seem to be living in cafes, to avoid ending up in jail as as far as I've understood, the government has a harsh policy towards that. Might be wrong on japan, but again, I'm not trying to point fingers to a country saying they are bad or good, it's the argument itself that I find "weak".
PS: just to be clear, I do feel that first of all, the OP should be the one trying to prove their saying. Nice of you to try and debunk it though
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However, the people of China can afford to buy these extremely expensive properties. In fact, 90% of families in the country own their home, giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans.
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If China is socialist then Lipton is tea.
Look into the country on the shallowest level. They have socialist programs but, honestly...
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It doesn't, I have no idea where you're getting that from. China eliminated urban poverty over a decade ago (~2013), and rural poverty is nearly eliminated. Source.
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. At China’s current national poverty line, the number of poor fell by 770 million over the same period.
Another anti-China western source because we know white supremacists wouldn't accept any Chinese source about their poverty alleviation campaigns.
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darktable 5.0.0 released
darktable 5.0.0 released
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.Pascal Obry (darktable)
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Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
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Bird flu update: Maps show states most affected
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in reply to petsoi • • •Awesome!
While this release doesn't seem to add a huge amount of new stuff on the surface, the devs focused more on usability, performance and smaller improvements, which were all much needed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong and I oversaw something huge.
I'm really excited to see how the performance will improve on my shitty laptop.
While the program itself shouldn't take too many resources to run, it always felt barely usable on that device, and on my gaming PC, it never used the GPU.
I've often heard many complaints about how Lightroom or Rawtherapee for example run way smoother than Darktable.
What change are you the most exited about?
Bogasse
in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • • •When I tried darktable as a complete begginer I was completely lost and ended up learning rawtherapee instead. Would you say it changed now?
Darktable seems more popular than rawtherapee, but is there a big difference feature-wise?
u_tamtam
in reply to Bogasse • • •9488fcea02a9
in reply to u_tamtam • • •One of the developers got sick of the UX issues and forked DT.
ansel.photos
I only use this stuff occasionally. Is there really a big improvement in ansel over darktable? Or is the ansel dev just super angry for no reason?
u_tamtam
in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •MangoPenguin
in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •EddoWagt
in reply to Bogasse • • •You do need to figure out which modules to use and how to use some of them, its not too difficult when you have all the right modules.
A lot of the modules are old/redundant/deprecated, but still there for legacy reasons. They really clutter up the ui
MangoPenguin
in reply to EddoWagt • • •EddoWagt
in reply to MangoPenguin • • •Legacy reasons I suppose, it would suck to go back to a photo you took a while back, only to find out all your edits are gone because the modules you used are removed.
Some modules get a "deprecated" warning, which imo more modules could use, but there are probably still edge cases where someone might prefer the old modules
MangoPenguin
in reply to EddoWagt • • •EddoWagt
in reply to MangoPenguin • • •aln
in reply to EddoWagt • • •I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos and ultimately ended up on like.... One set of settings I pretty much do for most images.
Lens Correction.
Exposure; click eyedropper
Basic Adjustments.
Color Balance RGB
Global Saturation 30%
Global Chrome 15%
Local Contrast
Detail 130%
Filmic RGB.
Click black relative exposure
Click white relative exposure
Crop image
I would love to hear/read some more stuff. I'm an extremely basic photographer who didn't want to pay for Adobe.
EddoWagt
in reply to aln • • •Yeah I'd say something like that is my baseline too, usually just some added vibrance instead of saturation on the color balance RGB.
I think the tone curve, RGB curve, tone equalizer and colour equalizer are useful if you want a bit more if a look in your images
crater2150
in reply to aln • • •Günther Unlustig 🍄
in reply to Bogasse • • •Darktable is WAY better than RawTherapee. Like, lightyears ahead.
I don't want to talk badly about RT, but it's just trash imo.
Development of RT has pretty much stopped, while DT has a huge community and many developers. It has become the only FOSS alternative to stuff like Lightroom.
The only issue I have with DT is that:
1. There's way too much stuff going on for a beginner, and even with some experience, most features are too hidden due to clutter.
2. Some defaults are just badly set imo. For example, why do you not want lens correction and some other (neutral) stuff applied automatically?
3. Many modules are just redundant and should never be touched. There is soo much niche and legacy stuff nobody wants or needs, like 3 different white balance modules for example.
Great news, this preset fixes both of these issues!
It "removes" many of those unnecessa
... show moreDarktable is WAY better than RawTherapee. Like, lightyears ahead.
I don't want to talk badly about RT, but it's just trash imo.
Development of RT has pretty much stopped, while DT has a huge community and many developers. It has become the only FOSS alternative to stuff like Lightroom.
The only issue I have with DT is that:
1. There's way too much stuff going on for a beginner, and even with some experience, most features are too hidden due to clutter.
2. Some defaults are just badly set imo. For example, why do you not want lens correction and some other (neutral) stuff applied automatically?
3. Many modules are just redundant and should never be touched. There is soo much niche and legacy stuff nobody wants or needs, like 3 different white balance modules for example.
Great news, this preset fixes both of these issues!
It "removes" many of those unnecessary modules from your UI and applies some stuff already for you, which you would anyways, like said lens correction, so you can focus on the important stuff, like adjusting colors, contrasts, and more.
This preset should be the default imo, and it makes DT simple enough to use.
Bogasse
in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • • •Thanks a lot for the presets, I'll give this another try.
But yeah you could have stopped at darktable being better without the "shit" part 😅
crater2150
in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • • •In my experience, that is usually a problem with the GPU OpenCL drivers. Sadly, the Mesa OpenCL implementation didn't include image support when I last checked (you can check with
clinfo | grep "Image support"
). For AMD cards you need to have either the "pro" driver or ROCM installed, both aren't packaged by all distros. Similar with Intel, don't know about Nvidia, but I'm sure if it works, it's only with the proprietary driver.I ended up installing darktable in an arch distrobox container, as arch has ROCM packages (in AUR) and ever since GPU acceleration is working fine.