Camera, code, coffee

A while ago, I bought Topaz Gigapixel AI, because my feverish fantasies led me to believe that it would allow me to turn heavily cropped photos into multi-megapixel masterpieces. I mean, it says AI on the tin, which is basically a shorthand for magic and miracle, right? Well, the tool does a decent job of upscaling photos. But you know what? It turned out that RawTherapee is no slouch in this area either. The only difference is that the latter doesn't rely on multi-gigabyte models, and the application is free in every sense of the word.

• The South Korean woman who adopted her best friend (Hawon Jung, Aljazeera)
• Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech (Cory Doctorow, Noema Magazine)
• The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI (Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker)
• How to embrace being a lark or an owl (Shayla Love, Psyche)

• A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (James Somers, The New Yorker)
• Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism? (Chip Colwell, The Guardian)
• The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry Kissinger (Gary J. Bass, The Atlantic)

Push notifications are great. You know what else is great? Gotify, a self-hosted server for sending and receiving push notifications. Distributed as a single binary file, Gotify is easy to deploy and maintain, and the accompanying Android app completes the picture.

• Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not (Dan Falk, Nautilus)
• The people who ruined the internet( Amanda Chicago Lewis, The Verge)
• Notes on Guinea(Matt Lakeman)