I've considered doing #laserselfies at #emfcamp for a few years now, bit I can't really take any more on. I want to spend more time on the dancefloor as it is! π #emfcamp2026 #emf26 #lasers #nullsector
I don't generally do portrait photography because: a) I haven't got much practise with it so I don't have confidence they'll turn out as good as folks expect for decent portraiture, and b) I'm autistic so I find dealing with strangers and directing them in terms of position and expression kinda difficult and stressful.
*BUT*... I think this is cool, I think people would enjoy it, and if I make it clear that you'll likely not get your photos until after I have time to edit them post-camp and find a way of organising it so I don't get overwhelmed with requests... Maybe I could make this work.
@gsuberland if I wanted to do some practise runs to figure out the technique I want to use for a good result, would you be open to providing lighting? (not deliberately excluding you @yagfox , Graham is 5 minutes from my house π ).
@DanHatesNumbers @gsuberland Thinking it over, a lot of people at this event aren't keen on having their picture taken, so it may not be the right crowd. Maybe a setup where they could take their own pictures might be more favourable.
@gsuberland yeah, I think if we were to try this I'd maybe organise it like a scheduled piece of content, so if only a few people signed up, I could reach out and bunch their times up a bit, and if no one fancies it I'm not sat there for drop in slots no one takes me up on.
Coming back to Riomaggiore the next day, because it was my absolute favorite village in all Cinque Terre, Italy. There was a sever heat wave hitting, and I was walking long distances, so I deserved my daily dosis of gelato. If I have a weakness, it would be for ice cream, and Italy is the best on it, and probably one of the best I've ever had in my life was that day in Riomaggiore: very soft, perfect amount of sweetness, very flavorish, you could feel the fruit on it.
Repaki, this red panda/fox, was representing my mood completely.
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@discontinuity Nothing really to the camera, the only adjustment to this image was a slight increase in contrast, to make the black areas darker (as the smoke was illuminated somewhat in the air) and adding the #emf26 logo! :)
This feels like a weird BBC "compelled balance" piece to me.
Feels a bit like the whole "the environmental crisis is your fault because you didn't recycle enough" signed by energy company CEO on Β£3m/year situation. Guilt tripping normal people for doing what they can given a shit situation.
The reality is air-to-air heat pumps ("air conditioning") solve lots of immediate problems. But we can't just say that. We have to go off and find somebody with a contrarian view that it's irresponsible and people should be focussing on making their roof reflective to drop the indoor temperature from 43C to 30C (!?).
Complete with photos of arrays of 8 20kW outdoor units, clearly commercial deployments - you know - totally irrelevant to residential users. No photos of a typical small residential split system that looks less imposing than a typical air-to-water heat pump?
@green itβs not bad - Iβd have liked to see some INABA DENKO Slimduct SD used to cover & protect the linesets from UV, and some galvanised cable tray for the power feeds. Appreciate the attention to detail of the fall of the condensate drain. Isolators being closer to ground level so you can reach them with stepladders is appreciated too. 7/10.
INABA DENKO is a JAPANese leading brand of Installation accessories for Air conditioning and Heat Pump. LINESET, Truncking system Slimduct, Drain Hose, Bracket, etc.
So they're likely focusing on this because home air conditioning is a somewhat foreign concept to England until the last few years of record-breaking heat waves. But you are absolutely correct, if we are talking about luxuries we take for granted, there are a lot more wasteful producers of excess heat than what we need to keep our personal environments at healthy temperatures. Such as, oh, I don't know, all of the goddamn data centers.
My hometown's library had a good solution but I haven't been there in a couple years. Anything that left circulation or never went into it from a donation pile, that was still legible, got piled into a book sale room, where an older lady was there to take 50Β’ per book. But we were a smaller library where that was just barely below an overwhelming number of books, and our throughout at book sales was high.
@BluefoxLongtail Our local had that as well, but only one mobile shelf full of books, and a lot of those still got chucked because nobody bought them before the space was needed for other rejects. And yes, only the legible ones: a lot were thrown away because pages started falling out, somebody had written/drawn all over them, or the cover fell off completely.
Returning to Vernazza, this time to walk inside their streets, and I found this spot, perfect for another painting, also the time of the day was helping to create some cool shades. But then the person living in that house came out to see what was happening, they saw me like telling me "what are you doing?", our Italian - Spanish/English conversation was not going anywhere, he didn't seem upset tho, he seemed okay with I was doing but I'm so shy that I felt intimidated, so I left, and I had to finish that painting later, based on a picture of the place.
Instead of the intrigued Italian, we have Dahan, appreciating the contemplative life, as cats tend to do.
I'm a fan of NightTrips. I initially feel lethargic, then fall unconcious for about 8 hours, and am mostly paralysed during it. I have vivid hallucinations on and off during this period, which can vary from utterly joyful to absolutely horrific, and I lose all ability to distinguish them from reality, no matter how weird they are. Luckily for me I tend to enjoy the ones I remember, but short-term amnesia is a common side effect that wipes many. I usually recover with a mild stimulant.
What about kicking the blankets nonstop while cackling? Or emptying coffers to hunt for rare varieties? Or standing in lines for HOURS in the biting cold just for a single tome? Readers are crazy, man.
Obligatory #emfcamp2026 sign photo! You would not believe how tricky it is to photograph white costumes when the sun is being a full on deadly #laser π #emfcamp #cosplay #emf26 #furry
Getting from the train station to Corniglia requires physical condition. Corniglia is a village from Cinque Terre, Italy, up in a mountain, the only one in Cinque Terre without a direct beach. I saw there were many people waiting for a collective transit for getting to town, but I decided to walk, and it was during a heat wave so I got completely tired. After drinking a liter of water, I stopped to by a coffee and then to appreciate the beautiful views to the sea. I also found a great spot for another painting. While working on it, a whole bus tour got in town and I experienced a bunch of tourists treating me as part of the entertainment, taking me pictures and even putting their phone in front of my face to take the picture of whatever I was painting, no questions nor small talks to me, just pictures and speaking their own language among them. More than getting upset for how rude all that was, I was laughing so much for how unexpected it was what I had experienced.
On this view, you can see Monterosso on the distance. And on the foreground you see Zak losing a sandal while seating on a roof. Watercolor painting for Backlash.
Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.
Just got to the end of series 1 of Helluva Boss and I'm actually starting to warm up to BlitzΓΈ. I really don't find myself liking loud, brash characters and never really realise they could be hiding a more likable personality until that's explicitly revealed, because why would they make themselves deliberately seem horrible? But I ought to remember that a lot of people think loud and brash = confident and popular, so ugh, it's a "me" problem.
With my dad's help, I cut and pulled down all the ivy off the side of my house. In the two years since we got here it had covered pretty much the whole side wall from the back of the house to the chimney stack half way to the front, and all the way from the ground up to the gutters two stories up. Lots of stuff to hack down. My dad thought it wasn't normal ivy, and having checked the web I think it might actually be boston ivy, which apparently is actually in the grape family and doesn't damage structures in the same way as true ivy because it sticks with adhesive rather than whatever the heck true ivy uses, so that's nice.
Just wonderingβ¦ If I started a Signal/Telegram/somethingelse channel where I'd post stories I've written, would anyone be likely to actually follow it? It feels having an announcements channel is something that an actual "creator" would do rather than just some idiot trying to sate their tame-ass lame-ass kinks in prose and hoping to be Seenβ’β by another tame-ass lame-ass idiot, butβ¦ I dunno, could I be worth it?
@Skintight Chee π€π€π€ Thank you. I've never started a channel before, or a group, it looks like there are both. Going to have to look into it. It looks like Signal only does groups, not channels, but I don't know if there's a significant difference, or which to useβ¦ hmm.
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I've just finished editing a little (~6k word, 25 minute read) story I wrote recently. I'd like people to read these things but I have posted links before and had almost no hits and no feedback. Not sure what the best way to get them out there is. Multiple posts? Signal/Telegram channel? Skywriting? Any ideas?
*sigh* Very few hits, and no feedback of any kind. Oh well, I had hoped to self-host this stuff and that folks here might be interested, but I guess I'll just upload it all to a third-party site where it might actually be discoverable!
I want to formally announce that all of my books are NOTAFLOF*βif you don't have the means to afford them, but have an interest in reading them, please let me know.
It's a rough world, and I refuse to gate-keep entertainment for profit.
A little bit of a self-promoβwould love a signal boost if people were willing.
"Ephemeris," the third book in "The Draconyma Cycle," is releasing on the 14th of August in paperback and eBook formats. I'm really excited to get this book out there for people to read. It's been a long time coming.
cisco is proud to introduce the Fiber Anywhere program, in collaboration with styropyro. by sticking a 4kw laser diode inside the sfp module, you can turn a previously-underserved area into one fully equipped with up to gigabit speeds, with no required infrastructure buildout! just point it in the general direction of your backbone provider, and in a few hours you'll have your very own dedicated transit provider.
My never ending quest for slightly weird photography has finally led me to a Leica of my very own! ..but not an M, oh gosh no, weβve got ourselves here this worn out Digilux1 from 2002!
Of course the first outing with it was to a furmeet, as all good camera tests should be. Really fun not-so-little thing. I enjoy it and it shall join me in some silly adventures. #photography #Furry #digicam
Despite Cinque Terre (Italy) is very well known among tourists, because of course those villages are so beautiful, but in the afternoon when the sun is about to hide, most of tourists return to another towns around (mostly from Milan), they don't tend to stay, and the evenings feel more authentic, most of remaining ones are local people. One afternoon I made a quick hike around the hills until I found a spot where I could see the sunset, and it has been one of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen, and there was nobody else in that place but me. It was a good moment to be reflecting about the world we are, the miracle that is to be alive in this universe, and be aware we are here, living the moment, but we are clouded by so many frustrations. We should be less capricious, realize that most of our worries are pointless. We're at such a tiny moment in our lives that we shouldn't dwell on what we lack. Sometimes we should stop, look around, and see what we do have. It might not seem like much, but we're here.
I had started sketching this painting on the site, but I decided to finish it later, and better seize the moment. It was the first piece from my journey that was not made live, but it was based on a moment I got to live. And this was for Cappy, seeing the same sun I got to see.
I could easily have been a knocker-upper's knocker-upper if I'd lived back then. Stay up until 4am, wake a few people up, then turn in? Ya, that'd be fine.
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If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.
That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.
That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.
That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.
I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.
It's certainly worth submitting evidence -- great suggestion! That said, the whole framing of this is that the OSA didn't go far enough and needs to be enforced more vigorously. It's still an opportunity to push for reform (and potentially even getting rid of it), but making progress is going to take some serious organizing to get a very loud outcry so that MPs start to see political costs.
agreed, it's certainly worded with a "how can we push for even more draconian measures?" tone.
I've been saying from the start of this: we need to hammer the point that MPs care about - economy. Ways in which this is hurting the British economy. Holding back movement of information, ideas and curtailing the development of products that can replace the problematic US-owned systems. Get rid of it, and watch innovation flourish.
Yes, I know that's a very libertarian anti-regulation talking point, but honestly I think we need to start playing the game a little bit differently if we're going to win this argument. They do not give a shit about privacy. They do not give a shit about freedom of expression. That much is abundantly clear. Let's pull some strings they do care about.
The official video for βNever Gonna Give You Upβ by Rick Astley. Never: The Autobiography π OUT NOW! Follow this link to get your copy and listen to Rickβs ...
Not gonna lie, I clicked on it worrying that it would be something else. I also watched the whole thing for possibly the first time. What is the story of the Black dude who's dancing behind the bar? I'm so curious now!
RIP Ronnie Le Drew, best known for his role as Zippy from Rainbow, puppeteer extraordinaire and a genuinely lovely guy, pictured here holding one of my puppets "Maurice" at a convention years ago. π
Today is the 30th anniversary of Classic Computer Magazine Archive, site launched July 27, 1996 as "The Digital Antic Project" with the full text of two issues of Antic magazine. Later renamed to The Classic Computer Magazine Archive, it has HTMLized articles from many magazines, with publishers permission. https://www.atarimagazines.com/ #atari
These are the magazines that defined my childhood. I absolutely loved them and would read them cover to cover many times over. I had almost the full run of ANALOG (but I think there were a few issues at the end of the run that never made it to the UK) and Page 6 and Monitor, a few of Antic, and some misc issues of others, plus a few things like a Computer And Video Games annual. Very nostalgia. I think I still have a bunch of them in a box somewhere, can't quite bring myself to recycle them!
Today is the 30th anniversary of Classic Computer Magazine Archive, site launched July 27, 1996 as "The Digital Antic Project" with the full text of two issues of Antic magazine. Later renamed to The Classic Computer Magazine Archive, it has HTMLized articles from many magazines, with publishers permission. https://www.atarimagazines.com/ #atari
'xlogo' is close to the simplest possible X11 program. But it has so many uses.
β’ A ruler! Make an xlogo, drag it to a size, and if your WM shows a size tooltip as you drag, you can measure distances in pixels. Any X11 app works for this (unless it's sized in character cells or something) but you want one that doesn't try to do any actual _stuff_ as a side effect.
β’ Also, in reverse, 'xlogo -geometry 1920x1080' and then you have a nice rectangle you can check if some other window fits into.
β’ An alarm clock! Sleep until a certain time and then open an xlogo too large to miss. Doesn't disturb your colleagues, but if you're looking away when it appears, that's fine, it's still there.
β’ A colour chart! What do those names like 'OliveDrab' mean anyway? 'xlogo -bg thingy'
β’ An inert X session-lifetime process, if anyone still uses those.
β’ Just occasionally, you might even want to display the X11 logo, or find out how to. (The xlogo source is the official definition of the logo.)
This month I've been using xlogo as a workaround for the fact that VLC is failing to inhibit my laptop's screensaver, so that if I connect to a TV to show a video, there's a risk of it blanking part way through.
$ while xlogo -geometry 2000x1000; do sleep 240; done
Now every 4 minutes a huge xlogo pops up (and my WM placement algorithm reliably puts it on the built-in monitor, because the other one is full of VLC). So I use the mouse to dismiss it, and that _does_ inhibit the screensaver.
(One of these days I'll get round to actually _debugging_ the screensaver situation, but that's a faff, because every time you try something you have to wait 5 minutes to find out if it worked.)
Although, fun fact: xlogo is not quite as simple an X11 application as it looks. It's not just plain Xlib; it's linked against Xt, and in particular, has Xt's standard reconfigurable key-binding system, in the form of an "XLogo*baseTranslations" resource containing a list of key/function mappings. (Even though the only function you can bind keys to is quit().)
The reason I know this is that I once had to report a bug in the default value of that resource. It can't be the simplest possible thing if it's capable of having a bug!
Sadly, that doesn't hold. You certainly know the story of the program IEFBR14, which consisted of *one* instruction, and it had a bug. (Not clearing the register which ought to contain the desired zero value to use as an exit code.)
@pozorvlak I thought about it (or maybe 10 seconds), but on general principles I was nervous of perturbing anything related to what I was investigating.
And I think rightly so, given what the problem turned out to be: who knows if the two screensavers I was simultaneously running would have been reading the _same_ configuration? I could easily have confused myself further!
If I want to work around a screensaver suppression failure by jiggling the mouse, someone else in this thread has already suggested a pure software approach using xdotool, which doesn't cost any money.
But both versions of this workaround have the same problem: the workaround has to be manually turned off when you've finished suppressing the screensaver, or else your screen carries on consuming power when you're _really_ not using it, which is exactly what you wanted to avoid.
My xlogo approach avoids this problem because it involves my brain every 4 minutes, so when the xlogo pops up _after_ we've finished watching our video, I know I can ignore it, and ^C the while loop.
But also, I've fixed the problem properly now, so a workaround isn't needed anyway!
oh now there's an idea!
I don't generally do portrait photography because: a) I haven't got much practise with it so I don't have confidence they'll turn out as good as folks expect for decent portraiture, and b) I'm autistic so I find dealing with strangers and directing them in terms of position and expression kinda difficult and stressful.
*BUT*... I think this is cool, I think people would enjoy it, and if I make it clear that you'll likely not get your photos until after I have time to edit them post-camp and find a way of organising it so I don't get overwhelmed with requests... Maybe I could make this work.
@gsuberland if I wanted to do some practise runs to figure out the technique I want to use for a good result, would you be open to providing lighting? (not deliberately excluding you @yagfox , Graham is 5 minutes from my house π ).