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Doctors without borders joins other well respected organizations in declaring Israel's genocide.

#Genocide #Gaza #gazagenocide

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It's that time of year again! Just hung up The Wreath of Khan.
#StarTrek #Kahn

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Farm workers in solidarity with Amazon workers.

Los campesinos en solidaridad con los trabajadores de Amazon.

#SolidaritySeason







Tomatoes sprayed with seafood shell extract, rich in chitin and chitosan, show improved drought tolerance, better chlorophyll levels, & water retention. byteseu.com/582630/ #Science


Probiotics May Not Fully Restore Gut Microbiome After Antibiotics: Benefits Exist, But Proof Is Limited byteseu.com/582628/ #EverythingScience #Science


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.


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I avoided healthcare for a stomach ache and fever because of fear of costs and ended up in the hospital for 10 days after my appendix burst. #denydefenddepose
in reply to It's Going Down

Thank you for this work, I work in medical delivery, all (pharmacists, doctors, technicians) say to me they want to destroy french nationalised health system.


Honestly, all the #AI crap is making me think long and hard about what content I put online, where, and why. I am phasing out Facebook. I don't feel like competing with kitsch and fraud that gathers thousands of likes and shares. It's a no win game that is bad for my mental health.

#venting



Girl unresponsive 3 months after crash caused by suspect in Trump assassination attempt (Joel Lopez/WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm)

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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.




Two US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent 'friendly fire' incident, US military says


Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea by apparent "friendly fire", the most serious incident to threaten troops in over a year of America targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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