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arroz

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Indie Mac developer. Former Apple and survs.com. I program my home computer, beam myself into the future. Living in 🇨🇦, missing 🇵🇹.

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icanzilb, to random
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Krasinski's new movie has no shooting whatsoever, lacks any car chases and there is zero hand combat. I don't understand how Hollywood allowed it to slip but I really liked watching it

arroz,
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@icanzilb If?

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Fresh massacre in Palestine, in the place the ICJ explicitly said to stop.

When you paid off every politician in the US, they just let you do it. You can do anything.

https://x.com/timesofgaza/status/1794819866186371567?s=46

arroz,
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@Migueldeicaza @schwa The videos aren’t pleasant to watch. It’s disgusting and revolting the western world keeps looking away and justifying this shit, and accepting that members of international organizations simply ignore the judicial decisions of said organizations without consequence.

arroz, to random
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This looks really cool. An e-paper like screen but running at 60fps and apparently no ghosting? Can’t wait to see this in person.
https://daylightcomputer.com/

vga256, to Canada
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someone in yellowknife is selling this 1977 Lake Buccaneer 😻

there was never a more beautiful amphibious casket

#canada #aircraft

arroz,
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@vga256 Out of curiosity… how much?

bigzaphod, to random
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You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

arroz,
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@bigzaphod You can do it using the old photographic method. I used it in my school electronic classes. Print or draw an overlay in black ink that absorbs UV, let it under UV light for the right time, then go through all the chemical baths, and finally manually drill the holes. Or… just order it from a PCB manufacturer. 😄

danielpunkass, to random
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I can't believe I never thought before to ask ChatGPT to explain arm64 assembly instructions to me.

arroz,
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@danielpunkass That is something it can probably get right, and a really great idea!

arroz, to random
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Idiot driving on the bike lane. Cyclist forced the driver to stop. Driver refused to turn around despite being next to a parkade entrance with plenty of space for manoeuvring, insulted cyclist, switched to the car lane (one way only) and proceeded driving wrong way til the intersection.

But RoAd SaFeTy Is A ShArEd ReSpOnSaBiLiTy. Sure. The reality is if something doesn’t have (solid and strong) physical barriers around it, someone will drive there.

brunoph, to random
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The show is starting!!! Please go back to your seats!

Aurora borealis in light green
Aurora borealis in light green

arroz,
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@brunoph Where are you? I can see them from Stanley park! 😁

brunoph, to random
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NOAA is calling this a G5 event now!!

arroz,
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@brunoph Seems to have dropped to G1? 😭

brunoph, to random
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Desperately trying to come up with plans to see the aurora tonight, with little success… 🥲

arroz,
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@brunoph I considered grabbing an Evo and driving up Sea To Sky and stopping in Squamish somewhere, but I guess there would be too much light pollution. Not to keen on driving that highway on a Friday night, though.

arroz,
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@brunoph Yeah, that might just work (and if it's reflected on the water, it's glorious). I'll see if I feel up to it tonight or not. It would probably work better on a place a few dozen meters above the water level, but I think most of Marine Drive view is blocked by trees.

I wonder if Burnaby Mountain would work… although it might be also messy on a friday night.

brunoph, to random
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Bought a TC-14EII 1.4x teleconverter for my telephoto lens, and Nikon lists the AF-S 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens as compatible but with "AF not possible", which made no sense since it's a very fast lens.

So I connected it to my Z6ii and… it worked fine! Fast AF too! Hmm… Maybe a recent firmware update fixed it?

So I tried on my 2006 F75 film camera and… it also worked!!

What the hell Nikon…

arroz,
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@brunoph My back would hurt carrying that thing and a tripod around but I really wish I could take some photos with it. It’s heron season, they’re all around Stanley park lakes and the seawall, and very photogenic! Haven’t seen the sunset beach eagle, though.

arroz, to random
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This is one of the worst takes I've seen recently. Not only because it fails to take into account all the cultural differences between US and Europe, but especially:

  1. DMA is NOT a restriction. On the contrary, it forces platform owners to not restrict what users and other companies can do on them, and;

1/2
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112355242811014208

arroz,
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  1. It's ironic to say this when the US has a history of shooting down any Chinese company that dares to be successful and play at the same level, or above, American companies. From Huawei to recently TikTok, the US must win, the good or bad way.

Europe sustains their regulations on principles. US bases their actions on maintaining their hegemony and position of power, at any cost.

vga256, to random
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🥴

arroz,
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@vga256 I wonder what happened there. It requires a lot of force to bend those panels!

danielpunkass, to random
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Given the widespread reports of Apple ID problems, corroborated by articles in reputable publications, often by victims of the very problem, it's absurd that Apple's status page reflects no problems. There should be systemic change to prevent this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

arroz,
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@danielpunkass A week ago we had to create a new Apple ID. It took days, multiple tries and support chats, and it’s still broken. Reload this page 3 times and it starts returning 503: https://appleid.apple.com/account Affects all requests so it’s impossible to fill the form and follow all the steps. Clearly a mechanism to avoid bots creating IDs poorly configured. Support person told me they would escalate this to engineer. It’s still broken after more than a week. 🤷‍♂️ Don’t they know this doesn’t work?!

arroz, to random
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I swear I'll die before understanding the logic behind some links showing a preview while others don’t in social networks. These are two youtube links. Why the heck is one showing a preview but not the other? This kinda ruins my post. @ivory any insight? I'm guessing you had to figure this out.

icanzilb, to random
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So um, I tried something that I didn't do in a long time - went to see a movie in a cinema. Here are all the trailers I had to watch for half an hour before the show:

  1. Two black cops karate a whole lot of people while cars constantly explode in the back.
  2. Ryan Gossling karates dozens of bad guys while a female screen partner falls in live with him. Cars explode continuously.
  3. Rabid apes karate half naked humans. And to my surprise- a lot of explosions in the background...
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arroz,
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@icanzilb I tried to go to a mainstream cinema in North America exactly once. It was substantially more expensive than renting in iTunes, and I had to endure 20 minutes of advertising. Not trailers. Ads. After paying much more than I would pay to rent and watch at home without ads.

I still like specialized cinemas like VIFF but the mainstream cinema experience is dead to me.

vga256, to random
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😭 for nearly a year i've had nothing but problems uploading videos to my instance. about 25% of the time it would work after a dozen retries. other times it would fail completely.

i knew it had something to do with ffmpeg, but upgrading ffmpeg to the latest version made no difference.

painful lessons learned:

  • /live/app/models/media_attachment.rb (line 101) - 'loglevel' => 'fatal' can be changed to 'verbose' to reveal more output from the sidekiq log

  • while it is true you have the latest version of ffmpeg installed, no one promised that mastodon would see it

  • i had a ten-year-old ffmpeg 2.x install lurking in /opt/local that mastodon was using, and completely ignoring my more recent version, all thanks to an errant PATH in my ancient bash_profile 😩

arroz,
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@vga256 Can you send your post to the .social admins? 😄 Their problem is probably the load but what you wrote accurately describes my experience posting videos.

arroz, to random
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It's now April 25 in Portugal. People are out in the streets celebrating the 50 years of the revolution that brought us democracy and freedom from a fascist regime. Unfortunately, tainted by 50 fascist, populist elected MPs just a few months ago. But they will not prevail. Viva o 25 de Abril!

https://sicnoticias.pt/especiais/50-anos-do-25-de-abril/2024-04-24-video-momento-unico-grandola-vila-morena-cantada-no-largo-do-carmo-1f815010

arroz,
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@villares Thanks! I forgot. 😖

icanzilb, to random
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Hey folks, imagine I'm going through my most frustrating day in the last year. What would you say to me?

arroz,
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@icanzilb If it's the fault of a specific person or bunch of people, this always makes me feel better and is very good advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkz6qKCYjDM

arroz, to random
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‘“Os orientais são lentos”, apontou [Marcelo], acrescentando que Montenegro, apesar de não ser oriental, também é lento.’

Alguém retire este tipo da presidência o quanto antes. Ou é decotes ou é racismo. Que vergonha. 🤦‍♂️

https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2024-04-24-marcelo-diz-que-montenegro-tem-comportamentos-rurais-e-que-costa-era-lento-por-ser-oriental-8d490565

jamesthomson, to random
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Saving this somewhere safe for June!

arroz,
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@jamesthomson But does it have bananas in the about box?

csilverman, to random
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Curious to see how people interpret this pattern. Is the switch on or off?

(I would have done a poll, but apparently you can't have an image and a poll in the same post.)

arroz,
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@csilverman Assuming an UI in light mode, on.

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