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[–] 1 point 2 minutes ago

Remember that Sloot thing from late 90s?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago*

    This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
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    That's nice, albeit I want to point out for anyone wondering that this is only conjectured and not guaranteed:

    One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it.

    There is no guarantee for any specific sequence to appear in π, but for short chunks chances are better (it's not really a probability, but it's simpler to say and I can't explain in details anyway). That's because (from wiki):

    It is widely believed that the (computable) numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 hours ago

    He discovered alt text.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 hours ago

    git-llmfs for JPEG, I kind of wish this was real just to laugh at users

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  • [–] 11 points 3 hours ago

    Here is another one, no compression:

    • read image
    • send a prompt "regenerate image, here is pixel-by-pixel description"
    • enjoy the result

    (sarcasm)

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  • [–] 18 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    a typical jpeg of 20 Mb

    Uh what. Literally should be the highest fucking possible quality from a $10K camera if it's that big. My raw images aren't even that big usually.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 hour ago

    Raw images is where you go wrong. You need at least 10 mb of metadata tags to achieve professional levels of file sizes. How can you even look at a picture without having a full description of all your childhood memories that lead you to take this beautiful picture of yesterdays mac''n'cheese dinner. This is why we need more data centers.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 hours ago*

    Its not typical, but you can get 20 Mb+ jpegs out of an entry level 18MP dlsr. Especially if there's lots of color and at like 5500x3300 resolutions and created with 100% quality preset.
    I checked my immich and I have some (and larger), but yeah, not exactly typical.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I've read that the Trump administration is hiring him to archive all of the Epstein files using that format.

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  • [–] 251 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it's way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.

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    [–] 139 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

    Amateur. I can compress entire seasons of a TV series to a few bytes. All I have to do is type its title in Netflix and then BAM, gigabytes of video come out.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    On a similar note, I saw a story a bit back of someone saving input tokens by feeding the bot an image of a wall of text rather than the text itself and having it read the image via OCR.

    Satire and reality are too hard too distinguish these days.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I compress my meals by putting them into a blender to liquify them before consumption!

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  • [–] 75 points 11 hours ago (1 child)
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