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@Wen@mastodon.scot I'm so torn on this. I feel like they need to be licensable for the blind and partially sighted. But your average pervert has no business walking around with them
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mastodon 4.7.3IT worker (Unix, k8s, Go), but here for art (cartoon, poltiical cartoons, animation, photography).
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From the test roll of the new copy of the Ensign Cameo. Everything seems good.
I'm a it out of practice with the MicroFlex, probably pushed the slow shutter speed too far.
I call this one "Badly Framed Guitar", missed it by a couple of inches! I'd forgotten my loupe, this was just down the road from our house and I was rushing as the people in the house were chatting by their front door.
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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com For me manual focus is about not having any other option :)
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@bjorndown@mastodon.social @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk the statement weirdly assumes that there's a consensus that the last twenty years of business transformations have been good!?
I remember being able to book a cab in advance and have it turn up. I remember parcels getting delivered and not just crushed boxes dumped on a door step by over-worked delivery drivers. DVD extras.
Show me a "disruption" that worked out well?
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@nixCraft my linux desktop shows that model at 2.5GB at the moment. So much LLM, but the spell check and autocorrect are still worse than they were 10 years ago?!
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run "the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up", anyone thinking that clearly hasn't worked in tech. I've been in this shit for over 30 years, no one gets paid to clear up anything.
It's rare for a company with paying customers to care if their product is rubbish. This becomes truer the more the customer pays. (and prices charged are rarely proportional to the quality of the product.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social ahhh.. remember when Integration Testing just meant "does this work with the actual DB". But instead we decided that "does our own code work with our own code if we roll it out a bit at a time", was a better question, a better question we could conveniently just ignore.
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@jik@federate.social I have been moaning for decades that software engineering did not really deserve to be called engineering. We occasionally eeked our way toward something approaching it, but most practice never looked anything like a formal engineering process (we just liked the creativity too much, and thought we were smarter than we were).
More fool me. I didn't realise the response to "engineering is hard and boring" would be "lets stop pretending and just ask the magic 8-ball".
Total waste of money, but I reckon #CountBinface can do more to annoy GB news with £20 than I can.
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@p357@mastodon.com.pl I've just had a proper look. I was out walking around taking photos with my 500cm which, by a bizarre coincidence, has a *very* similar light leak! I've been testing my hypothesis that I have an issue with the mirror bumper/ light seal that seals around the mirror in the up position. I'm testing by taking photos in bright sun with the viewfinder closed. You could do a similar test, cover the viewfinder.
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@p357@mastodon.com.pl if it doesn't move at all it is unlikely to be a lens flare. Could it be a bit of the internal flocking/ paint inside the body has come off and so you've got a shiny bit in there?
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@anderseknert@swecyb.com there was a very insidious , and mildly successful promotion via premier league footballers here in the UK about 5 to 10 years ago.
Lip cancer is unpleasant though, and I think they got nukes by vapes.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange that's the most use I've seen a CCNA put to too. Of course, the CISSP course book would fit nicely in that space, and would be doing far more good than any CISSP in history ever has.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I feel like "why am I seeing this" needs to be baked into the web/app experience. If someone has thrown 20 tags on a post, finding the one it came from can be annoying (I mean, I'm muting them anyway, but still, some hash tags hit a threshold where they get interesting to spammers).
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@Yuvalne @mvsde yeah, I'm not sure where LWN getting DDoS'd regularly helps the boring net survive. Or how eyes being diverted to plagiarised copies of the stuff people go out of their way to create helps build communities of interest, (for fun or profit).
I appreciate the sentiment of the post, but I've never given two F's about the death of facebook of twiiter. Stuff moves on, it was always inevitable. But the death of search will kill independent community creation.
A literal square of balls. A slow hand clap. A mockery.
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@phl@mastodon.social @christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social this book is worth a read, though the author warns of the dangers of anthropomorphising the octopus, and then proceeds to spend the rest of hte book doing it.
Good read though.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/other-minds/peter-godfrey-smith/9780008226299
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@bagder I don't think we're giving GitHub enough credit for providing the single most potent attack vector in the tech world, along with a host of tools for mass automation against that attack vector. That's not a small thing. Thanks to them updating software has never been this dangerous, ever, and no one is thanking them.
I may have lived a sheltered life, but in my experience, you can fit all the people in the UK that think hand guns should be legal inside Rupert Lowe.
It's funny isn't it, a man with a bin on his head claiming to be an aristocratic independent space warrior from the planet Sigma IX is arguably being more honest than Nigel "Man of the People" #farage
The good people of #Clacton with furrows their brows in confusion, "I'm not voting for him! He's just making it all up!", they shall cry, and we wont know which one they are talking about.
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@anderseknert this was part of a fosdem presentation (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/) That's not to say the approach isn't viable, it probably is.
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@eclectech@things.uk you are not alone in this fight! This has slid for far too long. There need to be consequences.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua most of the bigger ones in the UK have done this for decades. You can buy small metal tokens to substitute for the coin (it's just a little mechanical lock and isn't super picky about what you load into the little "coin" carrier.
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...of course, he's just refused 3 lunatic pots to prove me wrong.
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@clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk @ReCyclist@toot.community its odd having 4 different live feeds doing slightly different things. Not shocking, knowing how these things grow internally. No l7ve subs on iPlayer is not great though.
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@clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk @ReCyclist@toot.community one off thing I noticed. The iPlayer feed is different from the website live stream. Main thing is there are no live subtitles on the iPlayer feed, but they also do different things when the 5v feed ends (web stream usually stops).
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@phil55494@mas.to I'll have you know that his holiness The Nugget never put a foot wrong, even when being robbed by that filthy Dennis bloke with the performance enhancing spectacles!! (the childhood scars run deep, it was a late night I never fully recovered from)
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@filippo@abyssdomain.expert first time I clicked 237 didn't show in the closed list. I remove the closed filter, and check and saw it in the list, but then when I go back to the closed filter view it is now showing.
We've been getting some random 502 on various GH hosted assets today, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some shit happening they haven't reported on yet.
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@finestructure@mastodon.social I'm going to send Vance a thank you card!
Dev'ed my two walkabout rolls (chilled dev 2 or three degrees below target and adjusted time as it warmed up, there come out fine).
The new #EnsignCameo seems to be light leak free at least. 1/25s shutter and aperture seem good too going by exposures (everything pretty much metered out at 1/25th, walk only lasted 90mins). Focus looks basically good, won't be certain until I scan them.
The MPP photos look nice too, will be fun to compare (used some of the same xcenes)
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @eclectech@things.uk I will die on the hill that is option 1. Come at me!!
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca what bugs me is that one thing these things /could/ be good for is fact checking. Never going to be 100% accurate, but it's the kind of thing they are OK at.
It turns out no one is interested in fact checking though.
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@bosak I've not tried any divided or two bath developers (yet?!? probably never).
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@robpike@hachyderm.io this is baffling. With a stolen phone this appears to be trivially exploitable. The idea that "it's not being exploited so we don't need to fix it", is crazy. It's not being exploited because no one has bothered commoditising the exploit *yet*.
If you look closely, you can see the referee's career slowly evaporating before our eyes
Most of these toy cameras are ridiculously over priced, but honestly, for £50, this is quite a lot of camera!
(full frame and half frame, pinhole and a meniscus lens, has bulb mode as well as a shutter speed, zone focus, and selectable aperture)
https://www.bristolcameras.co.uk/product/ilford-pixie-35-ii-35mm-film-camera/
Cone on Steve, tell us what you *really* think...
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@cwebber@social.coop is boot to vim a thing yet?
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk I must admit, it's the major upgrade path that stopped me running debian as a desktop. (not that arch is /that/ much better, but the "do magic step to switch major subsystem" parts tend to be rarer, but scarier).
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party the problem is "Wes Steeting" just sounds like a Tory. This makes no sense, but then nothing makes any sense anymore.
Honestly though, I think Jess Philips going has killed Starmers chances of hanging on. People like her.
It seems like it's all kicking off pretty fast, too fast to get Burnham in place. Maybe Angela Rayner gets the nod?
@rsc@hachyderm.io by way of response to your comment on your blog post on literate programming (from 2008!!), another example of a large literate program is PBRT by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob and Greg Humphreys. A superb book, a good read, and a great renderer explaining and demonstrating a huge variety of techniques.
I decided to order a couple of 3/8ths arca plates. A few of my cameras use 3/8ths. On the Micro flex the little 1/4 thread adapter sits slightly proud so the camera also sites on that on a tripod plate, which is weird.
Also, the MPP is just huge. While I trust the thread inserts, I also think having a completely solid thread to the camera is going to be better.
Probably a waste of money, but worth a go.
Took Ensign Cameo no. 2 for a walk and a test today. Fitted the new ground glass, the glass worked well. The camera does need a bit more work, but at least I'll find out if there are any major light leaks. PanF, so I can really check focus was OK and see how sharp the lens is.
Went around to a friend's for dinner. Of the 6 people there, I was the only one not using AI tools daily. 2 of those 6 were kids.
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@bosak d76 1+3 is probably what started me down a developer rabbit hole. I started off reusing stock d76, then tried 1+1, and then really liked the results with 1+3.