Camera: Canon EOS R10. Lens: Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm. Servo AF, subject tracking with Animal and Eye detection. Cropped. f/6.3, 1/1000, iso 500.
It's so amazing that Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) is back for this episode! Her acting abilities are chilling, this suddenly puts the whole thing on a new level again.
It's the final season and they're wrapping up storylines and characters. Some favourites are already gone. I knew that going in this season. And is it believable that Charlie did what she eventually did? Yes I think so, this was already signalled in the first season she was in.
Reminded that the BBC once replaced a guest that didn't show up with a 'tub of lard', which was just asked questions as normal. That's still a valid idea.
Camera: Canon EOS R10. Lens: Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM. Servo AF, subject tracking with Animal and Eye detection. Cropped and downscaled. f/7.1, 1/500s, ISO 320, 150mm.
Further things I learned in photography today: ducks, like humans, are very skittish when they have a black barrel pointed at them. They don't quite panic, but they do swim the other way. Also, dragonflies are really quick.
Funny when reviewing the photos of the nature walk around my flat to find so many shots of out-of-focus dragonflies with the focus-point marking just behind it... The subject tracking of the autofocus system was able to keep up with them though, but I often was too late to start the tracking.
There's a really good shot of a bee, but since Mastodon doesn't respect content warnings and shows images anyway, I best not post it here. Maybe I'll do Pixelfed and Instagram, guess that'll work better.
Posting on Instagram and Pixelfed both failed, in different ways. Instagram flatly refuses, Pixelfed corrupts the photoset. Maybe trying a single picture?
Ok, single picture on Pixelfed worked, can't post the set I wanted. Instagram finally succeeded when I copied the photos to my tablet first. So if you want to see some other pictures of my walkabout, here's the insta link: instagram.com/p/C-GmSPHo8Tn/ , or maybe wait until I start a photo blog or something.
The film Issac, where Dove Cameron plays Cassi, which has its release date 'coming soon' for centuries now, has its release date coming soon ('the next announcement') but also has a new title: Love Me Dead. They also say that the release is going to be worldwide! #DoveCameron #Issac #LoveMeDead instagram.com/p/C-DSJLypDoE/
I was photographing with my zoom lens for a while but now Mr Bird wants a word.
(Cropped and scaled down for the socials. Canon EOS R10, Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm, ISO 320, Av f/7.1, Tv 1/320, Fv priority mode, Servo AF, Animal Subject Tracking. Yes, I should have increased the shutter speed, I forgot.) #Photography
Miranda Cosgrove has a new film coming up: The Wrong Paris for Netflix. Obviously it involves her character wanting, no needing, to be in Paris, France, but finding herself in Paris, Texas. #MirandaCosgrove #TheWrongParis deadline.com/2024/07/miranda-c…
Emilia Clarke's film The Pod Generation is now on Amazon Prime in my country, but under a new title: "Baby to Go". I really liked this film when I saw it in the cinema, I dislike that new title.
Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.
Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."
The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to fo
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Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.
Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."
The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to form, what it means that oxygen is being produced without marine plant photosynthesis, and how this probably changes our understanding of deep sea life that likely depends on that oxygen (fish need oxygen, they just get it differently than we do.) Science lovers are encourage to read the whole piece.
What I want to focus on here however, is the fact that immediately after we've discovered this natural wonder, deep sea mining companies and resource-hungry capitalists are looking to literally rip these metallic nodules from the sea floor with virtually no concern for how that might affect our oceans, or even life on Earth.
"And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures."
Are life-giving, water oxygenating metallic nodules our only source of lithium, cobalt, and copper? Nope. Have deep sea mining companies studied the potential harm harvesting these nodules might cause? Nope. Might ripping them out of the water affect the delicate balance of not only ocean life but potentially how the oxygen we breath is distributed across multiple ecosystems and even the whole planet? Yeap. Does capitalism give a shit about any of that? Apparently not. The simple truth here is that we don't know how important these nodules are, and if the capitalists have their way we're going to start destroying them to make batteries before we even find out.
Look you can call me an alarmist if it'll make you feel better, but this story is merely a microcosm of the entire reason you're living on a boiling planet, facing down a mass extinction event that may well wipe out billions of people and destroy a habitable biosphere for countless other species as well.
We live in an extractivist culture, driven by the capitalist profit motive, where time and time again the need to keep stacking money for incomprehensibly rich ghouls is prioritized over not only nature, but the very survival of the human species. Capitalism is killing us, and literally nobody in the wealthy ruling classes, or the governments they've bought lock stock and barrel is doing anything about it, or shows any signs of even *trying* to do anything about it.
I don't know if tearing metallic nodules that produce dark oxygen from the ocean floor to make more Tesla batteries will compromise the planet's supply of the precious air we all breathe or not. But neither do the rich bastards that want to do it anyway. And you and I both know that if even if they did know, they wouldn't care.
At some point the human species is going to have to get serious about prioritizing life on Earth over the material demands of capitalists and rich people, or we're going to run out of life to commodify; or you know, the very air necessary to sustain our own existence as animals on a planet uniquely capable of supporting that life. One thing I *can* tell you is that after hundreds of years of capitalist predation of our shared biosphere, it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither the capitalists, nor the states they own, are going to make the right choices to ensure our survival, for us.
no no, not a teams meeting, it's a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it's under "all mail", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you're using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you're on workspace for business, it's under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can't use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi
too real. When I was job hunting recently I carefully tested that teams worked well on my laptop before doing a video call interview. Turns out standard teams users can’t join calls set up by teams for business users in the app. Luckily I got it to sort of work in a browser
Hmm, sounds to me like Google needs to set up a completely separate team to develop a new chat and video meetings app from scratch, to replace all the others. Though obviously they’ll need to roll it out gradually.
@robot i'm sorry to hear that you're familiar enough with the byzantine nightmare that is google's messaging platforms that you can point out errors in my post /lh
To add your IMAP account to Outlook, we need to sync your mails to the Microsoft Cloud.
You what?
Since I didn't even ask to use Outlook, that seems like a no from me.
(The 'Learn more'-page says that this even applies to Gmail. You have the let Microsoft copy your whole Gmail inbox, all your mails, onto their servers.)
So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.
Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.
My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:
Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.
I have link previews turned off and I'm a very literal person, so it was only after thinking that all the praise in the thread fitted with Norah Jones too, that I realised it was a misspelling...
Mitra I. Arthur | July 22, 2024“I finally made it to Tiny Desk,” singer-songwriter Norah Jones excitedly declares during her performance. Her first Tiny Desk...
three things that Usenet had that could stand to be revived, in my opinion:
* topic-centric organization. you go to soc.politics.us to talk about us politics, you go to alt.folklore.urban to talk about urban folklore, there's an expectation that you keep the politics out of the folklore group and vice versa. hashtags try to do this but don't really succeed.
* subject lines. functionally the same thing as a content warning but because it's the default, always prompted for and your newsreader only shows you subject lines until you click into a thread, people get way less dogmatic about it in both directions.
* proper two-dimensional threading and thread management. i've seen some third party fedi clients attempt two-dimensional thread *display* but not the associated management features, like "ignore this subthread".
we have a subject field, it's always been here. It's called the summary field. Gargron hijacked it and turned it into the "content warning" field against the wishes of literally every other project that speaks ActivityPub
I've attached a screenshot showing you the raw JSON of your post.
America will definitely get a new president - either the astonishing return of the criminally convicted Donald Trump or it its first ever female president.
Some there will see that as choosing the lesser evil, and I'm not sure which way they will go.
Trump took to Truth Social about 6:25 a.m. Monday to rail against President Joe Biden, whom he suggested was involved in the start of an imminent world war.
More: "It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race yesterday!" Trump wrote. "He is demanding his campaign schedule and arranging talks with Presidents Xi of China, and Putin of Russia, concerning the possible start of World War 3."
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nom...
Wasn't it a line in Doctor Who where the British prime minister was eventually forced to step down by one line whispered in a bystander's ear: 'doesn't she look tired?'
I have to say the relentless MEDIA drumbeat calling for Biden to step aside, plus their relentless quibbling about his gaffes, together with their absolute SILENCE over Trump's gaffes, crimes, and general insanity is very, very tiring and depressing.
Tiring, depressing, yet completely predictable and not at all surprising, except for the part where it’s somehow taken *this long* for Americans to figure out that media outlets owned by the capitalist class will only ever publish articles that serve their interests above all else.
I don't discount skullduggery, but a lot of it is because Biden's apparent difficulties are newly-known, and Trump's being a monster has been either well-known or completely discounted for literal years now.
We've been talking about his crimes and gaffes for the past ten years. His supporters don't care. Typically, our response to Trump is that we're not as crazy as he is. But that's no longer a very convincing argument.
Left-leaning media called for Biden to bow out because they wanted a better candidate. They're not going to worry about whether Trump should drop out because he's not their candidate.
Right-leaning media won't call for Trump to bow out because they've drunk the orange Kool-Aid. And they called for Biden to drop out because they wanted to make him look bad, and make it appear as if he had no support.
AI Uncertainty: A state of unease where real photographs all seem a little suspect since you have been fooled by or narrowly spotted an AI generated image.
A feeling of unreality and general distrust of everything. Can also apply to text, and the feeling that you are the only person ever to read it since it was generated.
That was a valiant fight back that went down the wire in the final set, but it wasn't to be. Next year I'm sure.
Some photos I found of her, from earlier matches. Also this match we saw her focus, and her smile, and it's so great to see both in the same person... #JasminePaolini
@philsplace @hacks4pancakes fun fact, the original photo ended at the bottom of my elbow and Photoshop with the prompt" blue photo studio background" Added the pants. I needed to make the image bigger to fit all the text so I expanded it with Photoshop
AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.
In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:
🇩🇰 15,2% 🇫🇮 15,1% 🇱🇺 14,4%.
What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.
The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
I found I have an ancient pc speaker set that I used on a previous pc at least 25 years ago. In trying to see whether it could be connected to modern pc's, I discovered it also has a digital(!) input. I never knew...
I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
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I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
That Linux laptop was probably a really good buy at the time. 16GB memory, i7 cpu, 500GB ssd storage, but a shared video card. Only the storage is probably too small for serious dual booting.
I’m a freelance illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany. My clients are mainly book & game publishers big & small, and museums. I'm available for new projects in 2024!
Illustration with historical themes, nonfiction childrens' book illustration, archeology reconstruction, comics and graphic novels by Kristina Gehrmann Hamburg
it was actually commissioned by CD Projekt Red as part of a promo campaign where the Witcher and his company visit different places in Europe, illustrated by artists from these respective countries. It was a very fun assignment :)
I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm
IO200 is a very nice CMS for photographers. Self-hostable with low prerequisites, though not FOSS. 😕 The Need for your own photo place over pixelfed etc. is understandable. Its not enough to present photos in a kind of feed alongside creations of others. Especially if opening your archives it is good to publish the content with the correct date from the past. This CMS is derived from the great Koken which unfortunately disappeared. io200.com/
Great work. What tools do you use? How are new albums created?
I'm still hesitant to create one. Basically because I have pretty complex ideas about what such a site should do: interface with Google Photos (my preferred photo management tool), handling all viewports (desktop, mobile) in a modern way, subscription to channels and/or tags, comments, purchase/print functionality, merchandize, etc.
Meanwhile my photography is here: @dvidschmdt (and on Facebook, Instagram and Pixelfed)
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Funny when reviewing the photos of the nature walk around my flat to find so many shots of out-of-focus dragonflies with the focus-point marking just behind it... The subject tracking of the autofocus system was able to keep up with them though, but I often was too late to start the tracking.
There's a really good shot of a bee, but since Mastodon doesn't respect content warnings and shows images anyway, I best not post it here. Maybe I'll do Pixelfed and Instagram, guess that'll work better.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Posting on Instagram and Pixelfed both failed, in different ways. Instagram flatly refuses, Pixelfed corrupts the photoset. Maybe trying a single picture?
Gidi Kroon
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