AnAustralianPhotographer

@AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world

Photographer and open source software fan. I’ve also made a few tutorials at youtube.com/
Blog: anaustralianphotographer.wordpress.comWebshop: anaustralianphotographer.threadless.com where you can buy prints and other merch featuring my photos.

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AnAustralianPhotographer,

I reckon a Pelican would easily be able to get a skateboard rolling. I’m just now sure the best steps to proceed testing it.

I’d try a skateboard at the top of a hill and see about getting a cockatoo to somehow get the board to roll under it’s own propulsion so it can sit back and enjoy a ride down a hill. That’d be the way I’d try if I wanted the bird to do it repeatedly.

Is it me or does reddit feel, weird?

So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like “what game ______ for you?” or “what game _____ like this?” Now I could be wrong but it doesn’t feel ‘organic’ (if that’s correct...

AnAustralianPhotographer,

My guess is with the protests that some of the top content creators moved away and never came back.

I remember sorting by hot once gave a wide variety of things and now it seems to be more drama posts like AITA posts.

Although it feels like I’m still following an ex, There was one place over there I used to visit a lot and I believe if you took a snapshot of the top ten posts of a random day few years ago and today, they’d be very different. Today’s seems to be a group picking up a trend and running with it and before it was more original content. I remember going there because I knew there’d be something new I’d likely laugh at or be amused by and now it feels heavily recycled.

The subscriber count is still way up, but I’d you look at the online/active user count, it feels like its around 10% it was off recent highs.

It felt like the sub had a ship of thecleus moment where it seemed to just be growing, but was also losing people until the group changed but the name was the same.

Someone else said the new reddit gold allows people to receive real money* if people gild their posts (by spending real money) * receiver must be in certain countries.

I saw a post recently on a wholesome memes page where someone tagged repost sleuth bot and someone else commented that todays post was literally a copy of the third top voted post of all time. It was.

I also remember that bot support got affected and this led to a spam detector bot being moved from active development to sunset mode where it was still supported but not actively enhanced.

AnAustralianPhotographer, (edited )

Edit: my comment isn’t about exactly the same thing, but …

Some new camera tech might be opening a can of worms about whether what’s pictured can be taken literally.

There was a story late last year of a woman trying on a wedding dress in front of two mirrors and someone snapped a photo.

When they looked at it, the reflection on the left mirror had a different pose to the reflection on The right mirror.

And this cast doubt on what exactly was going on the moment the shutter was pressed.

It looks like the camera had one of the stitch together the best photo of the people pictured (e.g. don’t show shots of people blinking etc) and it treated the mirror images as different people.

jeze, to memes
@jeze@kzoo.to avatar

It does feel like that.

@memes

AnAustralianPhotographer,

Roll for perception…

AnAustralianPhotographer,

You also find some xkcd comics.

[Update: fixed] Can't post pics. Getting the follow error: {"data":{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url... (full error in the body section of the post)

{“data”:{“error”:“unknown”,“message”:“Request error: error sending request for url (pictrs:8080/image): error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Connection refused (os error 111)”},“state”:“success”}

AnAustralianPhotographer, (edited )

I’m getting the same error message, attempting to upload on Linux with firefox. I originally tried a 3.7meg file, then 2.0meg and then 0.6meg and all gave same error. Edit: i am now able to upload.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I just tried again and was able to upload. lemmy.world/post/13207765

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I just tried about 10 mins ago and was able to upload.

AnAustralianPhotographer, (edited )

It wouldn’t be all I’d eat, but lamingtons for dessert would be nice.

Lamingtons: a cake cut into cubes and coated with chocolate sauce and then coated with coconut. May be sliced in half to be joined by a later of cream.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

Lorenzo von Matterhorn?

AnAustralianPhotographer,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67a037f3-a01e-449e-8e5a-610e2417edab.jpeg

It’s a photo I took while out on a walk. A hoverfly on a sunflower.

I try to post interesting shots to mastodon and c/pics and help grow Lemmy and the fediverse.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I can’t help directly, but the people at lemmy.world/c/techsupport mighr be able to.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I’m not sure it fully meets the specs, but have a look at the TIC80 it’s an open source fantasy console you can write code for.

Imagine something like a 1st generation console game system fully sypported by emulators. I’ve touched on it on a recalbox.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

And when it learns something new, the response will be “Holy Hell”.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

You have a point of merging the Senate into the House.

I’m a fan of Australia’s federal voting system. We have a house of Representatives where the country is divided into 151 regions by geography of roughly the same number of people. One in Sydney is a few suburbs, the one in the south of northern Territory is almost the whole territory excluding Darwin.

Then there’s the Senate, where each State gets to elect twelve(six every 3 years[1]) Senators. Territories (Australian Capital Territory & Northern Territory) elect Two Sentors every election.

Everyone in the state gets a say in who represents them as Senators and allows minor parties to get representation as only 16% of the total vote is needed to get a seat. (The Greens typically get 1-2 of seats in each State)

So for areas with geographic issues get to have a say (rural people vote for the National party who represent farmers interest).

And there’s the occasional independent who gets in too and some other minor parties.

The other major difference is we have optional fully preferential voting. You can nominate anyone running in your seat as your first preference on voting day and you give everyone on your ballot a number from 1 to however many. When the Australian Electoral Comission counts the votes if the person you put first is eliminated from the count (they only get 175 votes from the 110,000 who cast a ballot), then your voting slip still counts and your vote transfers to your second choice.

Also we have compulsory* voting here. If you are enrolled, you are required to vote and will get a small fine if you don’t. *You might think all politicians are bastards and cast an unfilled ballot paper into the box, but you have had your ability to have a say. I’ll also note that people may take the time in the polling booth to draw a penis on their slip which isn’t illegal and doesn’t invalidate the vote a long as the intention for who is being voted for is clear. There are also prepoll stations and an option to postal vote exists.

We also have a tradition of voters getting a “Democracy Sausage” after voting. It’s common that voting stations (elections held on Saturdays) are schools and local clubs have barbecues and sell cakes etc as part of fundraising.

In summary, I like out two house system as the Senate allows minor parties to get representation where they wouldn’t otherwise if we just had the House of Representatives. [1] we sometimes have double disillusion elections where the government has the options to call one if they keep passing legislation in the house and the Senate keeps rejecting it and in that case all seats are vacated and the states elect 12 Senators, but it’s not normal.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

Thanks, There are some more in the queue to appear here and I didn’t take them on my phone.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

For me if it was a magpie or cockatoo, i’d have kept on walking, but as it wasnt something i didnt see every day, the phone came out.

AnAustralianPhotographer,

I’m not aware of them being poisonous. I wasn’t in fear of my safety at any time while near them and treated them like a chicken or turkey. When i did try and get close, they moved away a little and I wasn’t trying to pick it up or touch it, i don’t think anyone recommends that. If i did, i guess the worst I was have expected was a scratching.

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