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Álvaro Montoro
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Álvaro Montoro 🧑💻 Software Engineer 📝 HTML, CSS, and other web things ⭐ Microsoft MVP ⭐ Google Developer Expert 💬 Español | English | Français (un peu) 👽 99.9% not an alien (he/him)
![Screenshot of a text message: hi Álvaro, we're looking for DJs in [redacted] county for election gigs! Get paid and help build voter turnout by spinning outside the polls. Apply or nominate your fave local DJ: [redacted URL] - DJs at the polls + Our voice. Stop to end. [Open link button]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xei4kpuuaogvgnvufre7wvjm/bafkreifggea6vqkuw6ku5b5rxn4bcls6fmd4bka7hxmkqx2ap55ng5pcjq)
![Screenshot of what looks like a technical article online.
Daily News - Tech
Computer prodigy discovers a way to compress photos to mere bytes
13-year-old Eugene Hogwoof figured out a way to compress photos to unimaginably small sizes. A typical 20MB JPG file can now be converted to a mere 600 bytes.
[Photo of a young person working with a laptop]
The system works in two steps. First, it uses AI to generate a few words describing the picture and saving it on a file. Later, when the user wants to see the picture, the software uses AI to regenerate the image based on the description of it.
"The file is essentially a prompt, thats why its so small", said Gen AI boy.
After converting all their family photos, the boy erased the files and destroyed the print pictures, saving precious space at their home. When questioned about the software never generating the same picture, Eugene stated that our brain memories are fuzzed anyway, so the picture mimic how our brain generates images.
My app can even create photos fom moments you had no camera at the moment.
His next step is to create a new compression method for video files, as he seems eager to destroy his dad's VHS memories.
[Photo of a couple covering their faces in despair and crying, the footer of the picture is "Tears of joy: parents sob after seeing all their photos converted to the new format.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xei4kpuuaogvgnvufre7wvjm/bafkreifarrlv5l3bcoxz7h5zpmaxn2kvm733cefetsvhzaytzs37bhvgr4)
![Screenshot of MacOS modal before switching off the machine:
Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?
If you do nothing, the computer will shut down automatically in 54 seconds.
[checkbox unchecked] Reopen windows when logging in
[Cancel button] [Shut down button]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xei4kpuuaogvgnvufre7wvjm/bafkreihsaez44s6hxt6ygv4hkn3vwebsiu24i5cfvv4btgi2fhbemrdrfa)
