BenjaminNelan

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

elizabethtasker, 1 month ago to vr

This week, we're hitting the #Blender3D shop floor for a big design that (I hope) will ultimately become a #VR space for a conference.

So far... it's a doughnut.

Is this to remind attendees that they better getting running around this track to burn off eating too many pastries? We shall see...

kev, 1 month ago to DuckDuckGo

I just searched for something on #DuckDuckGo and got a “DuckAssist” at the top of the results, right below the ads (of course).

It was basically a ChatGPT like message as if I’d typed the question there.

Stop 👏 putting 👏 #AI 👏 in 👏 every 👏 fucking 👏 thing!

BenjaminNelan, 8 months ago to random

The Australian Voice to Parliament discussion must be infuriating to those in the Aboriginal community who would rather all this time and effort be directed toward treaty-making instead of what they see as the formation of yet another powerless advisory body.

Particularly when they share the 'No' vote with so many who are catastrophically opposite. 🧵

BartWronski, 1 month ago to random

If you use Mastodon on desktop (as opposed to mobile), I cannot praise highly enough Phanpy https://phanpy.social/ #phanpy
It really cleans up my timeline, handles replies very nicely, and allows for a great "refresh" (view updates) experience.

BenjaminNelan, 8 months ago to auspol

Reading the comments under posts by the Australian Electoral Commission is incredibly depressing...

For one, people accusing the AEC of offering pencils at voting booths so that they can change people's votes.

How can anyone seriously believe that in a system they imagine to be entirely corrupt, the method of changing the votes would be to manually go through the votes of millions of people and tediously erase and re-write each ballot with the desired outcome?
#auspol #thevoicetoparliament

BenjaminNelan, 1 year ago to fediverse

After 6 years on #Mastodon I now have the same number of followers here as on #Twitter, where it took over 14 years of people accidentally clicking the follow button to get to 138.

BenjaminNelan, 6 months ago to DoctorWho

Just a friendly reminder for all those Doctor Who viewers who feel that the show is 'rewriting history' because of its recent portrayal of Isaac Newton: the Earth wasn't formed around a Racnoss space ship, the moon isn't a giant egg, the fall of Pompei wasn't caused by the Doctor, Vincent van Gogh didn't travel to the future to see his work appreciated in an art gallery etc. (See also: entire show)

#DoctorWho isn't how we record history folks, it not even in the same part of the library.

BenjaminNelan, 9 months ago to random

YouTube has decided that if you don't have watch history enabled you don't get to use the home page anymore.

Don't know who okay'd this one because it's frankly an unintentional improvement over the regular experience, just wish they went a step further and got rid of 'Home' and 'Shorts' - send me straight to my subscriptions! That'll teach me!

They're trying to shoehorn you into giving express consent to collect the data they're already collecting.

Another dialog, this time what you are shown if you do not enable watch history. It just says, "Your watch history is off," followed by, "You can change your setting at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you."
On mobile the same messages take over the 'Home' page of the YouTube app. It now shows a clean searchbar at the top.

tara_bt, 9 days ago to random

Done. What happens now?...
#emfcamp #emfcamp2024 #emfcamp24

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BenjaminNelan, 9 days ago to australia

I could understand arguing for more public transport options, even the idea of cheaper point-to-point 'social uber' that's more affordable to folks (as idealistic as it is given our state government's recent development commitments.. tax payers bankrolling an expensive stadium that no who lives here actually asked for and adding highway lanes into a city with limited traffic capacity while the tracks of a once-existent railway system continues to grow weeds).

1/2

#Australia #PublicTransport

darnell, 1 month ago to iPad

I am looking forward to seeing the new #iPad!!!

👉🏾 Tim Cook hints at new Apple Pencil 3 coming next month – here's what the rumors say https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/23/tim-cook-hints-apple-pencil-3/

BenjaminNelan, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to blender

tintwotin is at it again, adding incredible features to the Blender Video Editor - This time it's audio syncing in #Blender

EDIT: Looks like it's been deleted, not sure why!

https://github.com/tin2tin/sync_sound

#b3d #videoediting #filmmaking #vse

BenjaminNelan, 9 months ago to random

The person who invented auto-playing videos on websites deserves to stub their toe and step on a piece of corner-upward LEGO every day as part of their morning routine.

However, a far more deserved recipient of this fate is the knobhead who then implemented this on mobile, decided it needed to take up 60% of the screen (leaving 39.99% for banner ads ofc) AND MADE IT FOLLOW YOU AS YOU SCROLL. 😤

BenjaminNelan, 8 months ago to random

Wow, #TangerineUI for Mastodon by @nileane is FANTASTIC. Here I am, a devout follower of the colour purple, being lured away by orange. Who'd have thought. (Though the theme is available in purple too)

BenjaminNelan, 1 month ago to random

Somehow only just found out you can target specific folders in #Obsidian using CSS snippets and add custom icons... heeeck yeah!

I know there's a plugin that can do this - but it caused issues with Obsidian sync because it stores SVG files in your vault. This snippet on the other hand is just using emojis.

CSS snippet that makes this happen: /* Folder icons via holroy (https://forum.obsidian.md/u/holroy/summary)

BenjaminNelan, 10 months ago to random

It's unbelievable that cities being designed for people is being spun as a plot to "control you" while the demand of owning a car to the point that driver's licenses are the de facto form of identification is somehow... not.

Which has more freedom? A city where shops/food are within walking distance of your home or... a city designed for cars where shops are accessible only by having purchased an expensive product and being given permission to use said product? Permission which can be revoked.

BenjaminNelan, 14 days ago to ai

Someone needs to tell stock photography websites that 'photography' means something... take a hint Shutterstock, it's right in your name.

#AI generated images are not photos - and allowing me to 'exclude AI images' is pretty pointless if so many of these images are not labelled as such.

BenjaminNelan, 1 year ago to selfhosted

What are #SelfHosted #SysAdmins using for reducing spam on email accounts hosted with #Linux these days?

#SpamAssassin is letting so much spam through on one particular account. Have looked into adding a cloud layer like #Mimecast, #ProofPoint, #Avanan etc but I'm probably too small scale for them.

BenjaminNelan, 1 year ago to random

Do the people working at #Microsoft honestly think that crap like this is what #Windows users want?

The search that they should be focusing on is Windows search. Listary and voidtool's 'Everything' are INFINITELY better and I couldn't get anything done without them.

The ONLY positive thing here is that unlike other features they've auto-installed, this one actually asks you up front if you want to use it and avoids using dark patterns.

BenjaminNelan, 1 month ago to random

What is it with this trend in comedy specials of doing orbiting shots around the comedian while they're on stage?

It makes it super obvious that you are now watching a re-enactment where the audience is pretending to hear the joke for the first time as the comedian pretends not to see the huge steadycam orbiting around their face.

Just stahp, it adds nothing and feels super phoney.

BenjaminNelan, 1 month ago to australia

Afternoon nom-noms.
#australia #wallaby

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