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Over the weekend, a Reddit thread made waves for pushing Samsung into a tough spot. It alleges that the company is misleading customers with “fake” moonshots captured using its 100x Space Zoom feature. Samsung introduced Space Zoom with the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Since then, the company has touted it as a great tool for capturing the moon. Samsung has always maintained it uses AI to enhance these 100x digital zoom shots. A SamMobile report from 2021 called the feature a gimmick, explaining how Samsung overlays textures obtained from much higher-resolution images of the moon on the shots you take using the Space Zoom feature. so first it's years of "it's the thinnest phone ever" and then "it's the best camera ever as a gigantic ugly alien lump on what used to be the thinnest phone ever" to "we've done a new thing with the icon tray at the top" and now here we are. it is just such a freaking colossal amount of effort to go through to trick someone to sell a phone camera under crap pretenses. that the phone has been programmed to detect when someone is trying to photograph the moon, and then actively fake it to keep up the gimmick. do you think these fuckers are out of ideas, or what? that i was also thinking, i hate the phrase "baby bump" with a passion. how the fuck did this become a thing? who the hell wants to see that? so let's have 100x zoom and the phone uses AI to detect when you're photographing a baby bump and overlays "higher-resolution images" from rihanna's abdomen and instagram will be flooded with a bland wash of AI baby bumps and maybe that'd finally kill the concept? no? i'll keep dreamin' |
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> hat i was also thinking, i hate the phrase "baby bump" with a passion. how the fuck did this become a thing? who the hell wants to see that? so let's have 100x zoom and the phone uses AI to detect when you're photographing a baby bump and overlays "higher-resolution images" from rihanna's abdomen and instagram will be flooded with a bland wash of AI baby bumps and maybe that'd finally kill the concept? no? i'll keep dreamin' ~ "Samsung’s photo ‘remaster’ knows what this baby pic is missing: teeth" |
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that, did you know? science has found what is unarguably data compression happening in the optic nerve. that, before your brain even receives a signal from your eyes to interpret, it's already been per-processed; altered. malaclypse the younger thing; capital-T Truth vs. just truth. but i think a camera that wallpapers over the reality in your photos with idealized horseshit is taking it a step too far |
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i think the most genius joke watmm ever came up with -- sorry, they have a few -- is "disappearing up your own butt like an inverse penis sock" and this, i have to admit, this is the agar from which emerged. but i firmly deserve most of the credit for being the shelf that agar was left up on for far too long what i'm getting at is: phone cameras disappearing up their own butt like an inverse penis sock. who wants a camera that does vlad knows wat to your fotos? like, oh, god, that's freaky, what'd it do this time and how do i shut it off? i'd recommend a canon rebel eos for that |
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re: The Squarepusher Joke i firmly remember sitting in my car as i came up with this, and, amusing as it was -- stop it, we have actual work to do, here -- it was no use. and i wound up with a notepad full of it. that i very carefully pruned the words down for maximum cheek and, to this day, i am thrilled to death with it. but rating usually has more to do with what others think that, buried in it all, is some genuine human advice: i'd like to see squarepusher play in a jam band. he's so very constructed about everything, that... oh, perhaps this would have terrified him 15 years ago. perhaps it does now. just relax and don't put expectations into it. add some notes maybe i have it all wrong. who knows |
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i'd like to see squarepusher play in a jam band. he's so very constructed about everything i saw him in boston for ufabulum, and, you could barely see him. but brilliant patterns of flashing lights. i saw autechre either same place or just down the street years back, and they just... you know, pushed buttons. that squarepusher had all these lite-brite patterns going on and frankly, autechre, taking fucking note, that was way more interesting, really opening up for autechre was masonix and he's snuggling an oboe and a juggalo and a saxaphone and i remember feeling: if he just had someone backing him up this could kill it, but instead this is just kind of frustrating, i can feel him being frustrated and let's scramble all this. autechre is on some drum machines. squarepusher has spent god-level computation time programming grids of lights but he's banned from touching them for the show itself. masonix does whatever he likes. squarepusher has to play bass. autechre has to figure it out. the biggest challenge for squarepusher, if i am getting this at all correct, will be that his preprogrammed lights are wrong for xyz improvisation. after a few rounds of this, slap him, play back a recording, and show how it actually worked out far better than he could ever see from where he was sitting. relax man and again. maybe i have it all wrong. who knows |
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