Click to embiggen, right click to save. On desktop. On mobile, long press and save after embiggening.
It's Friday and I found a nifty freebie for you!
Have you ever wanted to send a large file to someone but your email service shook a finger and said, "No-no-no!" We've all been there. That's where Smash comes in. It's a file sharing service with no file size limits. It's also anonymous. There's no registration required. It's a simple site to use. The files stay on the site for 14 days - Plenty of time for retrieval. You can also password protect your files. Recipients can preview the content type of the files before they download. There are also no ads on the site. That made me side-eye a bit, but they offer a premium service (that's dead cheap) to continue hosting content for retrieval for 1 year. It also offers a customized, branded service with prioritized routing and a tracking and history dashboard. That explains the lack of ads. A site that's crammed full of ads rarely grabs the attention of people who want customized services. Smash is one for the bookmarks for sure. To download on mobile (Android) long press on image and save image to desired folder.
On desktop, click on the image to open in new tab and then click "save as" at full size. All wallpapers are 720x1280. Doing something a little different this beautiful sunny Friday! How about Fun Friday? Look at the pictures below. Think you can tell which of these people are real?
Go look. I'll wait here. ... None of them are. Want to generate fake people of your own? Go to this link and hit your browser's refresh button for a new non-person every two seconds: This Person Does Not Exist All of these 'people' are stitched together using Generative Adversarial Networks or GANs for short. It's AI - A type of a machine learning network. It kind of gives me the creeps, but it's also very cool. Right now, it's very easy to see the bits that look like bad image alterations. Some are much easier than others. The guy with the disembodied hand on his shoulder is the perfect example of this, as is the woman with the orange hair. It's clear that the computers thought her hair was the color of the hat rim and thought the hand was an exposed part of his body. It's a color error. Thing is, this network is learning what works and what doesn't, so it will improve with time without human intervention. It's rudimentary now. Imagine what it will be able to do in the future - Make entire videos without the need for any biological input? You can read about it at Wikipedia: To download on mobile (Android) long press on image and save image to desired folder. On desktop, right click image and open in new tab to save at full size. |
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