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It depends what kind of shooting you are doing. I depend on autofocus for a lot of the work I do (sports) but I have more fun shooting with my manual 7Artisans lens with the aperture ring than I do with a Zeiss 55mm/1.4. The 7Artisans lens has weaknesses that show up when you try astrophotography with it (definitely some light goes the wrong way and bright stars turn into weird shapes) but it also takes great…
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3 days ago
The Mastodon User Count account suggests there are 15M accounts on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/113143345340883118
Mastodon Users.
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7 days ago
No, unfortunately this one won’t support trackball AFAIK due to space constraints: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/113081056191730605.
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13 days ago
Miaplaza | Infrastructure/Automation Engineer | REMOTE (Most countries, work time must overlap with North America) | Full-Time Mini hiring video about the job: https://mastodon.social/@purpleidea/113075362647034036 I’m officially hiring! Want to work for me improving mgmt config and using it to do infrastructure automation? https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ I’m…
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20 days ago
Mastodon thread on the building of this volumetric display: https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames/110948067275036967.
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19 days ago
And Madtodon! Here’s a post from Eugen Rochko on August 31st (2 days ago): “Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.” https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113059113589150365.
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20 days ago
There is a Mastodon thread on it, by one of the authors: https://mastodon.social/@mbonsma/111564828670828672.
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25 days ago
Seems there is another increase in last ~2 hours: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/113056992789219982.
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22 days ago
I also recommend this book. I’ve been working through it over the last few months and expanding it and I’ve still got a lot of book to go! Really fun, interesting, and a great change from some of the usual work. I’ve been posting my progress with it on mastodon. Generating animated GIFs of the generation and traversal to solve it has been a whole fun sub-topic I’ve been working on too….
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about 1 month ago
Not yet, but it’s on the roadmap. https://mastodon.social/@alshafei/112974828655984716.
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about 1 month ago
Short summary: Netdata – “The open-source observability platform everyone needs!” (from their GitHub description) has been shipping their new dashboard (UI v2) as closed source blobs under a proprietary license (Netdata Cloud UI License v1.0) with no access to its source code. The old open source dashboards (UI v0 and UI v1) are going to be removed, leaving users no choice but to use the proprietary dashboard….
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about 1 month ago
I moved almost all of my physical media videodiscs (DVD/Blu Ray) to the “cat room” in my other house https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112780806461056458 (at this point the videos are stacked on the shelf underneath the camera) and what I came to realize is that I’m never going to watch most of these movies ever again. Right now I am planning to move Bob B to a spray-resistant room in my main house which means moving…
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about 1 month ago
I have a NVIDIA Shield which has a really great television viewing interface from Google which integrates FAST services like Tubi, Pluto, Plex and such that looks a lot like the UI from a cable box. My understanding is that it hides the “video on demand” aspect in that it creates a “Death Note channel” that like a linear TV channel that plays nothing but Death Note. That Shield was my introduction to…
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about 1 month ago
There’s also no easy way to iterate over an entire feed.” https://mastodon.social/@Edent/112956234931686903.
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about 1 month ago
Excellent article, with multiple directions of rabbit holes to descend. I liked the linked essay on “The Bitter Lesson”: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html I liked the Mastodon thread linked from the appendix, re Dave Sirlin’s theory of “scrubs” (who’d eschew the post’s geometric tactic) versus “good players”: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/110544419353766175 Which in turn links to the…
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about 1 month ago
— start quote — The Mac is an expensive tool. On average, Mac costs more than iPad or iPhone. I dislike the idea that computing freedom belongs only to those who can afford it. That seems classist to me. Gruber says, “Computers are such an essential part of the modern world — and almost everyone’s daily lives — that computers-that-work-like-computers aren’t for everyone.” I agree they’re essential, which is…
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about 1 month ago
Related post on Mastodon from one of the project organizers: https://mastodon.social/@Chrislintott/112887574262558270 > New data up at Galaxy Zoo: we urgently need help to classify images of galaxies from ESA’s Euclid mission – if you have a few minutes and want to see images no one has seen before, join us > The urgency is so we can use the results in time for the upcoming data release, so helping us in the next…
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about 2 months ago
For me it’s been a stray cat. My wife trapped him and another cat a few months ago, the other cat escaped but “Bob B” stayed. I set up a “cat room” in our other house which is under renovation and go over there to read books, watch TV, and things like that. When I was there he would always hide on a high shelf in the closet but I had a breakthrough a little more than a week ago when he started coming down to eat…
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about 2 months ago
I do side projects mostly for fun and not for profit though I had a site that made $1000+ in advertising revenue years ago. I’ve found there is nothing that gets recruiters calling than having a few good side projects on the web. For a while I’ve done most of my projects on my own for my own entertainment (such the “three sided card” decoration system that I use to make things like…
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2 months ago
Beats EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC On the 4th floor of my building the computer systems lab has a glass front that has what looks like a punch card etched in frosted glass but if you look closer it was made by sticking stickers on the glass. I made a “punchcard decoder” on a 4×6 card to help people decode the message on the wall https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112836035703067309 The EBCDIC code was…
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2 months ago
You posted this very relevant question (https://mastodon.social/@RicoElectrico/112814402646545749) but you included a hashtag that I filter out of my stream, because it’s fucking annoying. I think Mastodon is much more specific in terms of what you should talk about and what you can read. Like, look at this screenshot: https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/112813902808042779 That’s how, I feel,…
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2 months ago
