🎞️ A developer managed to reverse pixelation in video using FFmpeg, GIMP and edge detection - no AI involved.

By analyzing motion and edges across frames, they could reconstruct original content from blurred areas.

It’s a reminder: pixelation is visual, not secure.

🛠️ Code & demo: https://github.com/KoKuToru/de-pixelate_gaV-O6NPWrI

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A high-quality tool for convert PDF to Markdown and JSON

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Dear #academia, as a woman in a male dominated field (compt. biology) I don't need more mentors. When I don't know what to do or want opinions, I have a list of wonderful women and men that I contact for advice.

What I need is champions that will put my name forward when someone ask for an expert, a collaborator on that grant that will get funded for sure or for a conference invite.

That's what privilege gives, and I have some*, but would do with a bit more.

*I promise to give it forward

Here's a fun thing to do if you're enamored with AIs writing code: make it write some code from scratch (the skeleton of a simple python+flask webapp in this case). Then, in a new session, immediately ask it to critically review this codebase and describe how to improve it.

In this case, the first section of its analysis is that there are three security issues in the code that, were this released to the world, would all easily qualify for quite bad CVEs.

It is, of course, my fault: I didn't explicitly tell the LLM to write secure code. Silly of me, I thought that might have been a default assumption built into the tool that writes code.

Its analysis contains 5 other sections, that basically all amount to "this code is kinda mediocre in every respect lol". Which, again, silly of me, I didn't instruct it to write good code, I thought that was implied by "write code".

Anyway, I've spent 2 hours so far fixing the code that was written in ~5 minutes, and by the time I'm done I think probably 80% of the code will have been rewritten.

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Via dryak@mstdn.science Thank you
Actually used as a tool to help kids going into surgery. ..but still