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darryl_ramm

@darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io

Nerd.

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mattblaze, to photography
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Power Switchboard, IRT Subway Substation 13, NYC, 2017.

Now used as the Mastodon preferences configuration interface.

More pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32303400033

#photography

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze Any idea what volts and amps is flowing thought those big knife switches?

tubetime, to random
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hey, quick reminder that i'm also on Bluesky. @tubetime.bsky.social. should i migrate over? i don't use twitter anymore, and mastodon doesn't have many non-techy folks.

darryl_ramm,
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@tubetime Wait we techy folks are not the audience you want? 😢

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Day room at an abandoned state hospital
More at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/taunton-state-hospital

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica Your photos of the Taunton State Hospital are some of my favorites. That curved hallway, and more are beautiful, but the place sure gives me the creeps.

molly0xfff, to ai
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AI is going just great
https://404media.co/users-cant-speak-to-viral-ai-girlfriend-carynai-because-ceo-is-in-jail/

darryl_ramm,
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@molly0xfff Thanks for the heads up, hope I can get my money back. 🙂

pluralistic, to random
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Tell me something I don't know

darryl_ramm,
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@pluralistic Tell me again that is a seagull? I thought the ghost of an electrocuted person who opened the box.

stshank, to random
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A new vowel-lite term to learn! CopprLink from PCI-SIG, which develops the PCI Express I/O standard. But there's also an optical version in the works. FibrLink?https://pcisig.com/sites/default/files/newsroom_attachments/PCI-SIG%20SC23%20Media%20Alert_Final.pdf

darryl_ramm,
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@stshank I wish writers and editors would rebel and refuse to use these stupid names. To think that y’all could have stopped it, so are partially responsible for the USB naming silliness 🙂

ian, to random
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ECMA is pronounced “eczema”

darryl_ramm,
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@ian you can get a script for that. 🤷‍♂️

pluralistic, to random
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Bless me, Father Lexus

darryl_ramm,
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@pluralistic
Jesus drives an Astrovan. Dude might want to be careful about upstaging management.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

Here’s how I 10x my sleep:

  • Nootropic mix of Valerian Root, Tart Cherry, Magnesium, and supercritical-extracted Coriander, taken with chamomile tea and overnight vitamins and 1liter of water
  • Latch-lock all external doors with a secondary reinforcement
  • Go upstairs and set alarm system to Away to activate interior motion sensors in addition to all windows and doors
  • Set AC to 68
  • In upstairs sleep room, check all blackout curtains and replace pillowcase
  • Lock interior door and set latch-lock reinforcement (with 3” stud anchor screws in latch and hinges)
  • Put in foam earplugs
  • Activate Amazon Alexa routine to turn on bedroom lights and play repeated sounds if any of my inward-facing exterior cameras gets a motion alarm
  • Set HEPA filter and ceiling fan to high
  • Start CPAP machine I got on Craigslist so I can breathe completely under covers
  • Get under oversized weighted blanket
  • Get 3hours of sleep because it’s 4AM and wake up a few hours later and feel like shit all day
darryl_ramm,
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@SwiftOnSecurity A couple of beers does it for me 🍻🤷‍♂️ Will sleep soundly on bed, bean bag, sofa, floor…

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random
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• enter password for password manager
• verify from email that it's me signing in from a "new location" (VPN)
• use security key
• use password from manager to sign into actual service
• complete image CAPTCHA
• receive text message with 2FA code
• unlock phone with fingerprint to get code
• access service

darryl_ramm,
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@molly0xfff Joke is on us if the password actually is "from manager"

pluralistic, to random
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Respect the winwin

darryl_ramm,
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@pluralistic The chicken in the sesame chicken would like to point out it did not win and was not respected. 🤷‍♂️

arstechnica, to random
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OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles

GPTs can play any custom-defined role—from math mentor to sticker designer.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/openai-introduces-custom-ai-assistants-called-gpts-that-play-different-roles/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

darryl_ramm,
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@arstechnica —from math mentor to sticker designer to dominatrix.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

*️⃣ Doubt

darryl_ramm,
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@SwiftOnSecurity Jeez, it takes a meeting of all the company founders to discuss this?

cabel, to random
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which photo of this ghostly empty bank do you prefer

image/jpeg

darryl_ramm,
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@cabel Right. More sense of depth/perspective without the foreground window.
"Feels" larger/longer and more foreboding.

dangoodin, to random

If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/no-okta-senior-management-not-an-errant-employee-caused-you-to-get-hacked/

darryl_ramm,
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@dangoodin @zackwhittaker

Time to rename Okta to Ofukta.

mattblaze, to random
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SBF performed a valuable public service by illustrating why you should shut the hell up, even if you think you can explain everything.

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze The prosecution made a very good decision to stay out of crypto silliness and keep this focused on simple to understand and prosecute charges of (mostly) fraud. SBF's own words and testimony was icing on a delicious cake.

mattblaze, to photography
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Ruins of Santa Fe Railroad Carfloat Slip, Point Richmond, CA, 2011.

Until 1984, railroad freight traveled between the East Bay and San Francisco on barges (called "carfloats"). Then there was a fire, and that was that.

All the pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5484488587

#photography

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze "I placed the shadows in Zone 0/1" 😉

(curious if you use a version of the Zone system? If just thinking about it in Zones helps? etc.).

cabel, to random
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hey can someone at crest please tighten up the kerning on that A/V pair in CAVITY? thanks in advance

darryl_ramm, (edited )
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@cabel

Points for using Avenir.

Lots of points lost on the kerning (The character spacing is boosted something like 130% here and with that Adobe Illustrator badly gooches the AV kerning even in optical mode. Illustrator should do better. But OK it's bleeding obvious it needs hand adjustment. Ditto for the spacing around the O C and O in PROTECTION.)

Minor points take away for modifying Avenir with a border stroke.

Better but not perfect...

stshank, to math
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Google search can do some calculus and geometry problems, now. https://blog.google/products/search/more-help-with-math-and-science-problems-in-search/

darryl_ramm,
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@stshank Wolfram Alpha lite... until Google gets bored and shuts it down...

darryl_ramm,
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@stshank Yes, but Google search itself has become such a crappy experience with shopping results and other bloat getting in the way. It has become enshitified (thank you Cory Doctorow). I suspect one day somebody in Google might wake up and realize what a mess that has become and actually gut large parts of it.

mattblaze, to photography
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Yes, I know about hashtags. I use them. albeit sparingly, as I think is appropriate, without making my posts . For example, I tag my photos with "". What I won't do is label my "boring" posts, because I like to think that every one of them has the potential to be boring to someone.

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze What Mastodon needs is pre-read video clips where posters can do an interpretive dance describing their post, indented audience, possible folks offended etc. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

danderson, to random
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Balance arm is now disassembled. Technically the lever-looking bit comes apart further, but it's a pain in the ass to put back together and I don't need it more apart than this.

The objective here is those two tiny purple dots. Those are the ruby pivot (top) and endcap (bottom), which need cleaning and re-lubricating.

Good thing I decided to do this too, that endcap is filthy with 40yo dried oil.

darryl_ramm,
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@danderson @NireBryce Philips or other cross headed screws also require a deeper head than you can get away with in a thin slotted head.

mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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More nerditry.

I shoot mostly for black&white. I have two sensors for my camera, a regular color sensor and an "achromatic" black&white only version. I use them both, even though I am almost always shooting to produce a B&W result.

The advantage of the color sensor is convenience. You can essentially add any color contrast control filters you want after the fact in post processing as part of the conversion to B&W. But there are limitations...

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze Like the Moonrise title nod 🙂

mattblaze, to photography
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Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 2020.

From roughly the perspective shown on the $5 bill.

Made with the Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 Digaron lens and the Achromatic sensor.

Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50402933763

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze Speaking of nightime visits to the Lincoln Memorial...

The best part of President Nixon's surprise early morning visit to the Lincoln Memorial and discussion there with protestors shown in Oliver Stone's movie "Nixon" was he actually did that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_visit_to_the_Lincoln_Memorial

danderson, to random
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Lol, discovered another "tool" that I should probably get for working on non shock-protected jewels in watches: a piece of 44 AWG copper wire.

First of all, I didn't know wire gauges went as low as 44awg! That's 0.05mm diameter, aka 50 microns, aka 2 thou. That's ridiculous.

The purpose is to stick said wire into the minuscule capped jewel settings, to act as a capillary conduit for oil to pull itself between the setting and endstone.

darryl_ramm,
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@danderson Electic guitar pickups often use 42 or 43 AWG wire, some but not many use 44 AWG.

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