Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Saffron finch, all in white

    Saffron finch, all in white

    Saffron finch, Sicale bouton d’or (Sicalis flaveola)Brazil, August 2023. While working on some pictures taken last year in Brazil, I stopped on this nice little saffron finch I caught in a tree along a nice little river. It reminded me that I had not mentioned my portfolio, “Blanc, c’est blanc” (White is all), for a…

  • Brazil 2023 – Toucans

    Brazil 2023 – Toucans

    What bird could be more emblematic of South America than the toucan. Madly colored, with a beak you’d believe prohibits flight, you can’t miss this family of birds. Brazil, August 2023.

  • Designing and comparing alphabets

    Designing and comparing alphabets

    Thanks to the very interesting (and very simple) website of Paul Hsieh GeekPress, I want to share two little gems about English scripture with you today. He found two ways to compare some alphabets. One is about grouping them (a bit like in a Venn diagram): The second is a more hierarchical walk between alphabets.…

  • Make noise with AI

    Make noise with AI

    Artificial intelligence (AI) succeeded at generating a lot of (marketing and media) noise about itself. We all heard about its ability to produce credible/readable text and realistic (or not) pictures. But there is less publicity to the fact that it can produce… noise or sound. Of course, it can generate music and musical tracks. I…

  • New hummingbirds

    New hummingbirds

    After a recent trip to Ecuado, I had the possibility of enriching my collection of hummingbirds. All my new hummingbirds are here: https://photo.roumazeilles.net/tous-les-portfolios/colibris/ I love these small (or tiny, rather) birds. Colors, shiny feathers, high speed make them adorable and excellent subjects for photography. Truly fascinating…

  • Theme security for a WordPress site

    Theme security for a WordPress site

    It is a fact of life on the Internet that hackers are roaming continuously in search for a chance to apply their knowledge to abuse your web site. Recently, I had the occasion of noticing an opportunity that I should not have let happening on Roumazeilles.net My web site is using WordPress as the “engine”…

  • Artificial Intelligence to upscale photographs

    Artificial Intelligence to upscale photographs

    Did you notice that I am interested in/attracted by Artificial Intelligence? Among various tests, here is a nice little resulting application for digital photographers. I finally found how to significantly (x4) increase the resolution of my photographic pictures (upscaling) without losing details. An AI allowed me to recreate the “missing pixels” to build a picture…

  • Install LLAMA under Windows

    Install LLAMA under Windows

    I just wanted to start playing with something similar to ChatGPT. I have a Windows 10 PC based on Intel i9-13900K (so pretty much top of the line in terms of performance both for single core and for multicore) and 64 GB of DRAM (a bit over what most people have, but I understood from the…

  • Evolution to favor user privacy

    Evolution to favor user privacy

    After the recent information updates from CNIL and other European privacy-supporting public agencies (in Austria, in Italy, etc.), it was becoming clear that the use of Google Analytics to track visitor statistics on our web site was non-compliant with parts of the requirements of GDPR (specifically but not only, because Google data is stored in…


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