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  • Rather Impressive Image Compression

    calendar Nov 10, 2025 · 6 min read · tech photos cloud  ·
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    Can you tell the difference between the two images above? At first glance, probably not. If you look at them side by side long enough, at least in fullscreen on an HD display, you might notice a little bit of a difference. In one the sky looks an ever so slightly darker shade, and if you look close enough, color …


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  • Non-Generative uses of Local LLMs

    calendar Oct 15, 2024 · 45 min read · tech utility ai  ·
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    Update Oct. 21st: The transcription portion of the post has been updated, what I originally mistook as issues with how the data was formatted was an issue with too many tokens in the transcript I wanted transcribed. At this point we all know how LLMs can generate text, and I’m guessing that everybody reading this knows …


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  • Confessions of a Data Hoarder

    calendar May 20, 2024 · 24 min read · tech projects archival  ·
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    Okay, so I’m not actually sure I would consider myself a data hoarder, but I thought the title was pretty eye catching, and archival is close enough to data hoarding to only be moderately clickbaity. (I actually think I’ve got a pretty well organized and reasonably trimmed home directory). Anyway, I thought I would go …


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  • Get The Most of Win 11 (and the least bloat)

    calendar Nov 1, 2023 · 19 min read · Windows Privacy  ·
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    11/03/2023 Update: I fixed some grammar, and Google just announced they’re going to stop the implementation of WEI (hopefully permanently, but they may just be trying to outwait bad publicity and anti-trust actions - only time will tell). If you read my first post here you probably got the idea I have strong feelings …


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  • Random Tech Tidbits if the Lights (or Router) Goes Out

    calendar Oct 23, 2023 · 8 min read · Mobile Android Utility  ·
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    I count myself lucky to live in a pretty stable and safe part of the world. The last three years or so might have been slightly less so, but still in the scheme of things I certainly haven’t seen the worst of it. But hey, this year is as good of any to think about useful ways to utilize your electronics, specifically …


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