I'm very interested in DarkTable, but I have years on photography in Adobe Lightroom. I'm growing tired of LightRoom, but I feel like I'm now locked into that ecosystem. Is there some kind of migration to move my LightRoom edits out of there and into something like DarkTable?
No, it's simply not possible. You can migrate some information using sidecar files but Lightroom's edit details are proprietary and so cannot be migrated.
I’ve been using Digikam for 20 years, and although it’s pretty good now, it has been a rough 20 years in some respects. Nevertheless I’d do it all again rather than suffer the trap of putting data into a system designed to prevent you getting it out.
Edits are essentially impossible to transfer between RAW development software, and even between major versions of the same software. It's not specific to Lightroom, Digikam, or Darktable. You would have to replicate everything, from the color science to quirks and bugs. Adobe literally ships previous versions of Lightroom's processing code in each new Lightroom version, to avoid messing anything up. As does Darktable (it still contains the previous code for compatibility) and any other software.
I wrote this [1] when I moved from LR to DT. Its my best attempt to batch-create xmp sidecars (which DT can^Wclaims to read) from the LR catalog. Despite the terrible name it was adequate for my purposes, but I only ahoot jpeg not RAW.
The ONLY Apple AI feature that was even remotely interesting to me was the photo clean up. Works pretty good for removing objects from a photo, which would be hard to do on a phone otherwise without opening in another app or messing with it on a desktop application
In my experience it's pretty bad at it. The replacements have really bad repeating patterns/textures that aren't even part of the image. 6-year-old Photoshop content-aware fill was so much better on 10-year-old hardware.
Android has had that for ages, and its cool to play with maybe twice and then I kind of forgot about it. It just turns out I dont take a lot of pictures that need cleaning up.
I've still got a 55" Sony HDTV from around 2008. Zero network or smart features at all. Just a way to display images from another box. It's been so good and still is. I kind of of want to upgrade to something larger and in 4K, but every time I see an article like this I remember what is actually available in the market I feel like I'd rather just save my money and keep what I have that works how I like it
I have a 56" Panasonic plasma TV of the same vintage. It's great -- dumb as hell and displays images and turns on right away (not as fast as an old CRT, but compared to a modern TV fuggetaboutit). Its internal input switching is janky so I bought an external HDMI switch and I couldn't be happier with the setup.
It's mounted on a wall and weighs a ton. Every time I think of upgrading I see the mess of software that they shove on a TV and it's horrifying. I would love to see a dumb TV but I think the best I can do is to have a smart TV that I don't connect to the network, lock on to HDMI1 and never touch the TV remote ever again.
Youtube is now embedding ads midstream - I think it's just a matter of time before other providers adopt similar approaches. When adblockers were tools exclusive to nerds it didn't make sense to build countermeasures - as advertising has grown more pervasive and obnoxious adblockers have gone mainstream and there is now an arms race that adblockers are currently on the losing side of.
With adblockers disabled, I was seeing ads midstream ages ago. Ads that I don't see with an adblocker. Anecdotally, my subjective experience when adblockers are disabled seems to get exponentially worse whereas my adblocker experience seems to degrade at a much slower rate (e.g. manually skipping author recited ads on a podcast). Currently the TV is the weakest link, and people should be publishing layman's guides to pihole, or as others elsewhere have mentioned, refer them to a adblocking DNS redirect from an adblocker company. Midstream ads are especially obnoxious with music streams and I hope the majority's intolerance tips them over the edge.
Em... Adblockers still work perfectly? It's an annoyance to keep uBlock Origin updated, but it still blocks all ads on youtube. So it seems they're keeping up just fine.
What in the world are you trying to learn from applicants with these questions? How can a hiring manager look at a screenshot of someone's computer and make a decision to proceed or not?
I love this, but could you imagine if this were something done today? In the current political climate and news cycles it would be "look at how the stupid {{political_party}} is wasting your tax dollars!" or probably every worse/dumber things than that.
This project wasn't undertaken for artistic reasons. It was done so that the US government had records and depictions of domestic produce that could be used in efforts to promote trade. Watercolors were almost certainly the best available option at the time.
Today it would be a waste of money. We have digital cameras and pretty good records of what produce American farmers grow without hiring several dozen artists to traipse around for years.
Oh man I am trying to apply but the application has so many odd questions I have never seen on any job application before:
- "What are the most important things that shaped your personality and world-view?"
- "What are your prospects, dreams, or expectations, career-wise?"
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"Upload a screenshot of your desktop"
- "Explain the organization of your desktop"
The questions related to needing a photo of my desktop are for sure going into my collection of strange job application & recruiter interactions: https://github.com/finitelooper/recruiting-hell
OT: I know I'm a weird and a Linux user (probably redundant, I also know), but am I really the only one who just doesn't have any icons on my desktop? If I want to open something, I just use my desktop environment's search to type the name of it; for the purposes of professional work, 95% of the time it's a browser, text editor, or a terminal, and I don't feel the need to have three lonely icons in the vast sea of my desktop background. If I need a certain file for some application, like a document, I also can just search for it easily using the same method, or just hit the "open" shortcut in whatever app I'm using and find it in the file manager. These are all things that ostensibly are not Linux specific; MacOS has Spotlight (and third-party alternatives like Alfred), and Windows literally a dedicated key with with their logo on it to open the start menu, and if anything I'd expect their users to use Finder/Windows Explorer _more_ often than Linux users. I always thought this was one of those things like "leaving everything in the inbox forever" versus "archiving it once you're done and just keeping the unread things in the inbox" where most people probably do the former but a small but opinionated minority do the latter, but it sounds like whoever wrote those questions hasn't ever met anyone who doesn't use desktop icons.
Because they are trying to discourage people from applying. Given their post history on whoishiring threads, I would confidently say they are just prepping to H1B someone.
Yeah, these guys have been posting the same job ad on HN for nearly four years. They _still_ haven't filled the position? Either they're insanely selective, they have a ton of positions to fill, or no-one is applying. No doubt the stupid application questions are contributing to the latter.
Looking at their linkedin profile, they appear to be Slovenia-based so I'm saying that theory is likely incorrect and they're also unlikely to pay US-value compensation.
Posting a job req for a while (with no intentions on hiring anyone) and then claiming that they are not able to fulfill it with US workers (pretending none of the people they interviewed had the “special knowledge” needed for the position)
