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Latest #darktable edit of Craggy Range Winery shot from Te Mata Peak a few years ago. I’m trying to dial back the heavy handed edits of previous years in Lightroom for a more natural look with a bit of creativity added - it’s a process! Really enjoying exploring and learning the darktable modules while coming back to older images with fresh eyes and skills. #photography
The usually lovely Debian documentation has a good section on discouraging use of sudo, but blots the copybook a bit by having examples of it all over the place...#linux
One of the nice things about the Fedi is you run your instance pretty much how you please. There was some friction a few years ago when people formed factions that were all about bullying people into who they should or shouldn't federate with, to which I say: fuck that noise.
It's funny seeing all the drama at BlueSky about blocklists, because those people learnt the hard way this is not the safety utopia one thinks it is.
Don't judge them though, because exactly the same thing happened here, when a whole fucking bunch of users decided that what a community needed was lots of policing, and they behaved accordingly.
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Consider the possibility that they were never coming here
I'm not so convinced that a lack of safety features or quote posts or whatever is what drives people away.
Decentralization is less user-friendly, DIY/open source is also less user-friendly. We're dealing with people raised on apps who want a definitive, single, unified experience. And any "jankiness" in the experience becomes a quick, justified trip to 'uninstall the app.'
The thing is, Bluesky shares your block list publicly, a HUGE user safety issue, and so I think if people really cared about user safety issues, they'd not be on Bluesky.
So why are people actually there?
They are on Bluesky because it's the alternative to Twitter for most people who want a simple, unified (centralized) experience.
Oh, onboarding along with a prebuilt list of follows? Yes, I'll take that.
I can see the appeal.
Meanwhile, on the fedi, you start with NO home feed at all and have to find people or hashtags to fill it.
So you do some searches, you find like 20 people and you think that's good enough to get started. And then you wonder why you're not really seeing many posts, or why the feed seems so slow and it's because the 20 people you followed aren't high-volume shitposters, also they are in a different timezone, etc.
And there's no other "you might like these posts" algorithm kinda thing going on, and there's little onboarding to speak of at all.
Finding "your people" is a bit harder, etc.
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VDLM2 Message From: N381HA / HA0021
Message: ON CLIMB OUT BASE 16K TOPS 26K OCC LIGHT CHOP ON CLIMB SMOOTH ABOVE 280 HQM
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TIL: https://ladybird.org a truely independent browser built by engineers not motivated by data driven revenue. DNSSEC, DANE, no shady CA list, etc. Theyvare always looking for help. #Browser
My youngest son decided to spend his pocket money on a bargain table book of dad jokes at Barnes & Noble. I did not know of this development. He ran into the living clutching it and shouted
"BAD NEWS DAD. NOW I HAVE *ALL* THE JOKES"
Hmm
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says X rival is 'billionaire proof' https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-says-x-rival-is-billionaire-proof.html
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teepee view 2, indian trading post, route 9, lake george, new york, 1983
This is a machine I cloned out of prod and onto a private dev network, never had an issue with it breaking snap before.
Upgrading an Ubuntu server with do-release-upgrade and snap doesn't pick up web proxy by default? Come on, canonical.
Similar to when Steven Toast uses 'Royce Coolidge' to check into a hotel, I keep registering VMs on our network then can't remember what I called them
3wks ago, on the M25 on the way to Dorset, a Camera Van perches on a flyover. One thing I definitely don't miss about the UK. #travel
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The seafront at Swanage. It was cloudy and cold, and honeslty I would not have had it any other way, because that's how I remember the seaside back home.
#travel #photography
As it's work purchased it has to have certain things installed, which limits distros. Annoying but that's the situation.
I don't think I ever got it working in Arch. It's just a camera, but still. Supposed to be fixed in 6.10.* But it ain't.
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