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Silicon Valley has made billions , not millions, out of the work contributors give to Python. Now they dare to attempt to put on conditions over their measly donations bsky.app/profile/pyth...

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The optimal approach would be to somehow recover the original pictures before they were digitized and re-digitizing them. But good luck finding them. I guess that would really merit making a book to showcase them though, huh?

Mortal Kombat 2 Subzero upscaled using nearest neighbor

I can say I tried upscaling a similar Sub-zero picture using only nearest and I am not happy with the result. Some sort of filtering would be necessary IMO

So I am not sure if nearest neighbor would be a good approach here. But also I am not convinced how you'd go around to restoring these images for higher print resolution.

It's almost as if these tasks were a lot more complex than they seem and they require some sort of real expertise.

YouTube video by strafefox The Making of Mortal Kombat | Digitized graphics in video games

Mortal Kombat's unique graphics are the product of digitizing actual pictures. So they got actual human actors to wear disguises and then they turned them into sprites www.youtube.com/watch?v=226N...

I do have a comment about the article itself:

"What's frustrating about these cut corners is that upscaling pixel art is incredibly easy. When resizing a layer in Photoshop, you can toggle something called 'Nearest Neighbour',"

The only issue here is that Mortal Kombat's art is not Pixel Art

Mortal Kombat Artbook Claims To Show "Visual History Of The Iconic Series", But Uses AI-Upscaled Art Many are cancelling their pre-orders in protest.

AI upscale used for a collector's Art Book -.-

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truly borg has changed my life. You can just go and mount your file system backup you took 3 months ago and find the right version of the file you needed to recover. www.borgbackup.org

Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage The bill would not only outlaw marriage between a human and AI, but prevent AIs from being recognized as people.

Ohio’s AI bill goes beyond banning human-AI marriage. The measure would define AI systems as non-sentient entities, strip them of any claim to legal personhood, forbid them from owning property, holding financial accounts, controlling IP, or acting as company directors. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Microsoft Demands 30% Profit Margin From Xbox — Report Microsoft had implemented a 30% “accountability margin” for Xbox over the last two years, which likely led to layoffs, cancellations, and price increases.

A new report from Bloomberg suggests Microsoft has mandated a 30% profit margin from its Xbox division, which has been in effect since 2023.

Sources say not every project is expected to hit the goal, though those that are “more likely to generate significant revenue” may take precedence.

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

In the spirit of media preservation and also because I agree with you, but also because I really despise cropped aspect ratio but also because I like showing off my classic simpsons library

WSJ headline: Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

AI is truly the aesthetic of fascism. "Changing leads", "Rewriting Endings" as regional customization. Remove anti-racist messaging. Or maybe you'd like to remove single-sex relationships from the plot where it is not profitable?

Paramount are on the path (helped by Trump) to buy Warner Bros.

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

Something really cool at PRGE was the Art of Nintendo Power exhibit, which had some of the clay figures used in the cover photos. Look at this insanely high quality Dr. Wily!

AWS Just Fired 40% of Its DevOps Team — Then Let AI Take Their Jobs! Leaked internal tools show how Amazon’s cloud is now self-healing, self-scaling, and self-negotiating — no humans required.

On Friday some weird blog that advertises AI shit declared that AWS fired 40% of the devops team and replaced them with AI last Monday. But it looks highly speculative, and some of the descriptions of the supposed new tools sound like adverts. archive.fo/b6aUD

That tracks

Headline 1: AWS CEO: " AI now pushing 75% of our production code" Headline 2: Massive AWS outage takes down Venmo, Reddit, etc

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version Question So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file. After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now. Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Still pretty confused about Sillicon Valley's final plan of making a huge fortune selling AI-made slop to a bunch of job-less people.

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

You hate it how companies like Google and Microsoft keep shoving AI down your throats, you have no idea how much worse this is for tech workers in regular companies, who have to actually report on how this crap improves productivity.

I cannot overstate how much you should not give Meta access to your photo library.

The "article" in question is literally 3 paragraphs-long

The juxtaposition of the first and last sentence of this paragraph is art

Quote from article: “All the data that we see is when people use voice, they love it,” says Mehdi. Some of that data is the billions of minutes that people spend talking in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Ahahahaha

The average person is not informed that Covid is not confined to the respiratory system and infects blood vessels, immune cells, and the brain.

We rolled the dice and have exposed everyone to SARS2 repeatedly, and the idea that this has been determined safe through rigorous study is patently false.