esther

@esther@strangeobject.space

:antifa: :Blobhaj_Witch: #queer #goth lady, lots of #tattoos, some custom body parts, #neuroSpicy, #photography, #art, #writing, #witch, former #tech worker, #psychology student, #antiFascism, #antiCapitalism

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esther, to random

May people who write alt text on their images have a particularly nice day 💜

cuffedCatling, to random German

Omg ich mache jetzt eine Ausbildung o_o voll krass

esther,

@cuffedCatling Und in 4 Wochen fang ich an zu studieren! Whaaaaa! :D

admin, to random

Thank you @Mattmaber for letting us use his film emoji!

:35mmcine1:​ :35mmcine3:​:35mmpride: ​:35mmpride2:​​:35mmtrans:​

esther,

@admin @Mattmaber @james Woohoo! Thanks! :35mmcine1:

holo_memory, to random
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still thinking about lee pace's face during that situation in the latest foundation episode. amazing actor 🤯

esther,

@holo_memory he’s so perfect in this role

esther, to random

Ok, I need to get all my todos for September done by Wednesday because then I'll disappear into Baldur's Gate 3 until uni starts, maybe interrupted by dates.

nopatience, to random
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Question about image storage for my fellow friends. I'm running a small instance with a few active users, but a fairly well connected and federated instance. Quite a bit of storage being consumed.

What's a good approach for image storage? I've got a NAS connected to the server using WireGuard. But the connection is not 100%. Is there like a way to use some caching, but with an S3 backend? Using like MinIO? Even if connection drops, stuff get cached and then pushed?

esther,

@nopatience We use an S3 compatible object storage and then reverse-proxy that through NGINX with some cacheing applied to save on outbound traffic cost. Works pretty well.

esther, to photography

I got one photo out of today's walk the I think is actually pretty good (the pigeon) and one that's maybe just bit funny and not bad (the coffee cup).

Shot on am E-M10mk3 with an adapted Canon FD 24mm/2.8 lens.

b/w photo of a disposable coffee cup with "espresso" printed ion it, sitting between some costruction scaffolding parts that for several layers of around the cup

james, to random

One year today since @rhi and I had our first date. I'm lucky 😊

esther,

@james @rhi yay! Congrats :)

esther, to random

I'll try something today: using my analog light meter on my digital camera while ignoring as much on-screen info as possible and exposing as if it were film.

esther,

Ok, so the problem with this setup is that this camera doesn’t have a dial for shutter speed with the numbers printed on it. You can only set the shutter speed while looking through the viewfinder or at the screen whole turning the dial that is mapped to shutter speed. But then you’re also getting a live view and at least some information about over/under-exposure which is exactly what I wanted to avoid with this exercise.

On a film camera I would meter the light, then make a decision about my exposure and then I’d have to trust that decision without any further information. Some digital cameras have secondary displays that only shoe the current settings. That would also work but mine does not have that.

esther,

@fungalinflectio hm, that would work but probably feel a bit silly 😅

lauraamalasunta, to random

Tasha Yar and Data's hookup falls so blatantly into the archetype of 'cis lesbian trying to convince herself she can be straight by getting with a trans lesbian egg trying to convince herself she can be a man'

esther,

@lauraamalasunta I almost spit my tea out due to this :D

NoraReed, to random
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it has been nearly 10 years since flappy bird

esther,

@NoraReed i wasn’t prepared to hear this

esther, to random

I'm actually planning specific uni lectures and seminars now. This studying feels more real by the day.

esther, to random

It’s almost funny how far the conspiracy theories about Fediverse admins are removed from reality.

Like, some people believe we’re making big money off of this for example and you know the “profit” is usually like a pizza once or twice a year.

Or the “secret meetings” where we supposedly pull all the strings. It’s just a discord channel with a mix of tech support, venting, and haphazard group therapy.

esther,

@james our world is complex enough that a conspiracy-theory mindset always finds something to latch on to and the Fediverse is no different.

esther,

@james @estelle4565 we can’t even afford subtext these days. Context is out of the question.

esther,

@SleepyCatten we ran a donation campaign earlier this year and covered our expenses and had enough leftover to get pizza and give some to a charity

Lara, to random
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Well fudge

esther,

@Lara nooooo

esther, to random

Cool, instead of just annoying me with ads for new features that I don’t need, SleepCycle is now removing old features thay I did use if I don’t sign up for their subscription pricing even though I bought the app. :/

esther, (edited )

Maybe I should just export my data and move on. Not sure if I would continue sleep tracking or leave it after almost 9 years of near continuous data.

Is there even a solution that isn’t tied to a subscription these days? I’d really like to know.

(Edit: I’m on iOS)

esther,

@skry that’s a really big upfront cost. I don’t think i could justify that, even if it would have some extra use cases

esther, to random

Today I finally understood how the coupled rangefinder mechanism works on Leica-style cameras and how the camera body "knows" the focus distance of the lens.

The lens' focusing mechanism moves a piece of the lens that extends from the back of the lens into the camera body and presses on a little round part called a cam and depending in how much the lens presses on it, the rangefinder optics can be adjusted to show the two images diverging or converging.

This video shows it pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBxAQl7Xl0

esther,

Oh, and if you want your mind fully blown, here's someone demonstrating a fully mechanical camera shutter assembly and explaining a little bit of it, although only surface level because this mechanism is ridiculously complicated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2CjxbFu_0

esther,

This is why mechanical cameras are so fascinating. I understand how this can be done with electronics, but doing this with only mechanical gears, that's magical.

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