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A clear and concise explanation of why resource based economies have a huge advantage over the economies higher up in the supply chain.




Fängelse för bomber i Frölunda och Önnered. Två personer har dömts för bomber i Frölunda och Önnered. Den dömde gärningsmannen är en 19-årig man som bär samma efternman som flera ledande personer i den så kallade M-falangen i Tynnered.

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in reply to nebula42

... How did my brain never register that as a foot until now? I always thought it was a splat of orange because of the association with slime


2024 Novi Sad protests and blockades (schools, campuses, roads) - Wikipedia


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Treedome 0.5.4: Local Encrypted Notes with Modern Features


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Falska vodkaflaskor beslagtogs. Tullverket varnar för att potentiellt farlig industrisprit i falska vodkaflaskor säljs till unga köpare inför jul- och nyårshelgen. Vid ett tillslag mot ett spritlager i Sundbyberg togs nästan 1 400 liter falskmärkt vodka i beslag. Två män sitter häktade misstänkta för omfattande alkoholsmuggling.

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Kustbevakningen om dokumentären Fiskekriget. Händelserna i Haparanda skärgård år 2001, som går under namnet ”Fiskekriget” sänds nu på SVT. Fokus ligger på de historiska händelserna där fiskare gick samman och trotsade det då rådande fiskeförbudet.

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flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal 1.19.1 released


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flatpaks can do that, but appimages are probably more what you're looking for. most distros have the required appimage libraries to allow them to run. flatpaks are a bit less portable in my experience but there still just single bundles that you can save to a thumbdrive
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As another commenter mentioned, AppImage might be easier in these circumstances. They wouldn’t be dependent on any external Flatpak installation & configuration.


Darktable 5.0.0 released


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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?

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?

in reply to Bogasse

Darktable developers pride themselves for their non-destructive processing pipeline and use it as an excuse for how quirky and inflexible their UX is. I believe they are highly competent on the highly technical bits that ultimately very few people see or understand. Personally I can use it to an extent if I unlearn what other software have taught me over decades of UX conventions.
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?

in reply to 9488fcea02a9

I've compared the two a while ago, seems to me like slightly different takes around the same core ideas. It's true that a couple of things in Ansel feel more natural, but it's not much, and it's probably not worth the risk (AFAICT the bus factor is one, compat with DT isn't a goal).
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

in reply to EddoWagt

Why don't they remove all the old modules? I feel like they're frustrating all their new users.
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

in reply to EddoWagt

Oh yeah I guess it could just only show them on old edits.
in reply to MangoPenguin

I think they are hidden by default with the scene-referred layout, but they will show up when searching. It's a tough situation UX wise
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.

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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

in reply to aln

This is mostly what I use too. Additionally, on images with high ISO I usually add the profiled denoise module, often without changing the default values. If the image has a lot of noise, I sometimes use the preset that only reduces chroma noise (so the image stays grainy, but without the color mismatches)
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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 😅

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in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

on my gaming PC, it never used the GPU.


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.



in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Poof gone! Just as the the Ukrainian neo-Nazis got memory-holed on Feb. 24, 2022.
in reply to davel

Idk if you read through the comments...but the general consensus doesn't really line up as the gotcha you think it is.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

FUCK I was just about to try and collect it. I have him chained up in my basement. What should I do with him?

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

With that many people maybe they could run the Guantánamo occupiers off the island on a rail.
in reply to davel

i envy them for display such solidarity; it gives me hope that masses of people are capable of seeing past their immediate needs and onto the core of their problems unlike my american compatriots.


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.



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I saw my first Cybertruck yesterday. It really does look like a dumpster. It looks so cheap! And it doesn't deliver the performance as advertised at all. I can't believe people would buy this.



CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet


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in reply to Skua

The article doesn't mention neutron stars. Those exotic particles need very high energies like shortly after the big bang.
in reply to scrooge101

It doesn't, but hyperons are theorised to exist more stably in neutron stars

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The personnel shortage has soured relations between Kyiv and Washington over recent months. Officials in the Biden administration felt irritated that Zelenskyy and other officials frequently demanded more weapons, but were unable to mobilise the requisite manpower to fill the ranks.


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By drawing these six maps, you can create a permaculture site design that maximizes your efforts for a low-maintenance garden or landscape.

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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.

in reply to WereCat

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 ;)

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in reply to Aiwendil

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.

in reply to BananaTrifleViolin

Yeah, I've tried finding the config file to edit the path as the first thing but I could not find it. Adding the Path as was suggested worked after removing TryExec.
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in reply to Aiwendil

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.

in reply to WereCat

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… )

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