webcubus

webcubus, 3 days ago to scuba

Some pictures I took over two dives in Gloucester, Massachusetts back in November.

#scuba #scubaDiving #macroPhotography #underwaterPhotography #anemone #fish #seaSlug #crab #glow #olympus

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webcubus, 4 days ago to macrophotography

Here are a few pictures from a dive at Old Garden Beach in Rockport, Massachusetts in November 2023

#underwater #underwaterPhotography #macroPhotography #seaStar #crab #fish #scuba #scubaDiving #olympus

A small sculpin peeking out from some seaweed lit with a narrow beam
Close-up shot of the arm of a sea star with red skin, white surface structures on the skin, and a dozen or so translucent tube feet reaching out across a sand bottom

mcc, 5 days ago to random

A THING I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ERROR MESSAGES

Language: NullReferenceException, the object was null on line 37

Me: Which object?

Language: The one on line 37

Me: Yes, but which of the objects on line 37?

Language [patronizingly]: It was null

GossiTheDog, 5 days ago to random

I strongly believe we're within 5 years of the generative AI boom collapsing almost completely, and it will have a profound economic impact, as the use cases for the products being sold almost entirely suck arse.

LillyHerself, 7 days ago to random

@SecurityWriter That is probably a good investment, as I've had a MacBook Air in intensive daily use since 2014, and the only maintenance has been replacing the battery, which I did myself.

malcircuit, 8 days ago to random

Remember: it's not your responsibility to improve the world.

If you want to do stuff to make things better, that's great, but it's not automatically your burden.

webcubus, 9 days ago to Red

Tulips are a sure sign that spring has arrived and this one was among the most interesting color variation we had. Love those tulips!

https://briangweber.com/featured/red-and-yellow-tulip-brian-weber.html

#tulip #red #yellow #flower #spring #garden #olympus

webcubus, 9 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to solar

I'm still waiting for those notifications to start streaming in about a geomagnetic storm! In the meantime, I guess I just have to settle for imaging that monster sunspot region. That chunky one in the lower left is the one to watch! (this image is from earlier today)

https://www.astrobin.com/wh5qfd/

#solar #sun #star #sunspots #aurorawatch #qhyccd #skywatcherUSA #astrophotography

WEATHERISHAPPENING, 12 days ago to random

/ PARTYS OVER
/ U THOT UR UNITED STATES JUSTICE SYSTEM MITE END DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM?
/ O PLS U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
/ & STOP THE GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE
/ & STOP UR POWERS & OLIGARX FROM DESTRUXTING U & UR PLANET
/ & END DEATHSPIRALISM
/ & STOP DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM
/ REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
/ REPENT

webcubus, 13 days ago to girlyposting

We have a lovely selection of tulips in our garden, so it's always fun to capture them in different ways. I managed to catch this one with water clinging to it before the sun burned it off.

https://briangweber.com/featured/dew-covered-tulip-brian-weber.html

#tulip #garden #bokeh #olympus #pink #dew #waterdrops #photography

webcubus, 14 days ago to photography

Did your latest import cause Lightroom CC to keep crashing on you? Well, that happened to me yesterday but I managed to fix it!

https://blog.briangweber.com/2024-05-28-lightroom-cc-fix/

#photography #lightroom #adobe #fix

mhoye, 14 days ago to random

This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

webcubus, 15 days ago to Canon

I spotted this painted turtle at the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary a couple years ago. There were tons of frogs and turtles so it was a fun day for photography.

https://briangweber.com/featured/painted-turtle-in-the-sunshine-brian-weber.html

#turtle #reptile #swamp #pond #canon #log #lilypads

webcubus, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to macrophotography

I spend way more time photographing sea slugs, but this time I took the camera to the garden to find some land slugs. I really like the shine off the slimy coating. Not sure this one will be a big seller, but prints are available 😄

https://briangweber.com/featured/slug-munching-in-the-garden-brian-weber.html

#macroPhotography #slug #garden #green #grass #olympus #spring

scalzi, 18 days ago to random

Iceland is photogenic.

douglasfur, 19 days ago to random

how long to microwave asphalt

thomasfuchs, 19 days ago to random

There's this unproven assumption that "we just need to train it more" is the solution to generative AI lying and being generally mid.

What really happens is that with more data, it will approach absolute midness.

If they (as they plan) try to feed to generated-by-AI text to "learn" it will even regress (actually a good Bible quote for this, "as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly").

webcubus, 20 days ago to scuba

It's World Turtle Day, so here's my favorite turtle picture I've taken to date! It's always fun to see a turtle on a dive, especially when they are chill or even curious about us. This individual in Bonaire was not bothered as I snapped some pictures against the backdrop of the beautiful blue water.

https://briangweber.com/featured/sea-turtle-brian-weber.html

#turtle #worldTurtleDay #underwaterPhotography #scubaDiving #olympus #blue #tropical #Bonaire

GossiTheDog, 21 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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thomasfuchs, 23 days ago to random

My kitchen range just adjusted its clock and is now two hours wrong.

But sure, AI will work great when they add it to appliances.

webcubus, 23 days ago to scuba

Clownfish of the day: OK, one more clownfish to share. This time we have tomato clownfish in the beautiful reefs of Apo Island. Wide angle photography is not my specialty, but I really like this reef scene with the clownfish moving through the huge anemone arcing across the surface, giant clam in the foreground, and soft corals in the background.

https://briangweber.com/featured/tomato-clownfish-giant-clam-and-lush-soft-corals-brian-weber.html

#clownfish #reef #anemone #anemonefish #scubaDiving #underwaterPhotography #Philippines #coral #colorful #clam

thomasfuchs, 23 days ago to random

Who are the people who constantly need AI to make summaries of emails and then go and generate a thousand-word email because a single sentence “isn’t professional”