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johnwsheldon

@johnwsheldon@dice.camp

Designer, Creative Sort, #ttRPG dabbler, agender

Occasional #photography and #illustration posts, too

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valthonis, to random
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I understand why currency bills have security features (to defeat counterfeiters.) What I don't get is why so many treasuries and national banks advertise their security features. It feels like they're just telling would-be counterfeiters what new hardware to buy to pull it off.

Am I missing something?

johnwsheldon,
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@valthonis it is a tough conundrum! They have to tell people about the appearance of the features so that people can conduct commerce with confidence that they aren't using counterfeit bills. If somebody at the register knows what a $100 bill is supposed to look like, and how to recognize the security features, they are less likely to fall for a counterfeit.

Of course this does tell the counterfeiters what they are up against, which keeps the arms race going.

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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I swear to god allistics should not be allowed to write surveys. Allistics probably think this is a totally reasonable question, which will provide useful numbers.

BUT, if my "expectation" of Xfinity customer service is "absolute crap", then a 3 means "absolute crap" and a 5 might mean "passable".

Why do allistics have so much trouble writing questions that actually get the data they want? I see this 🐄💩 ALL the time.

johnwsheldon,
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@masukomi This might be the exact data they want, and a way to get higher ratings to show their oblivious managers who don't understand survey design.

johnwsheldon, to illustration
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Been quite a while since I sat down to draw, so I drew this over a couple days to shake off the dust. Now I have an actual portrait to draw...

johnwsheldon,
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And now, an actual good scan instead of a phone picture.

johnwsheldon, to animals
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One snaggle tooth.

johnwsheldon, to animals
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My eldest (black, 17yo) and youngest (cream, 7yo) cats, snuggling together on their favorite pillow last night.

johnwsheldon, to 3DPrinting
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After several months of difficulty, and quite a few prototypes, I've got a working 3d printed lens board to mount my extremely antique Voigtlander Petzval to my slightly antique 4x5 view camera. You might notice that the brass flange overhangs the mounting area of the camera, so the lens board has to be modeled to provide extra standoff distance there.

johnwsheldon, to random
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I love that some modern scholarship suggests that many saber toothed cats had their teeth mostly or fully covered when their mouth was closed, meaning that they had big jowls like a Great Dane or a bulldog.

I just imagine them shaking their heads and flinging drool everywhere, and smile. Odon.

johnwsheldon, to art
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Welp, have to expedite some significant home repairs. Anybody want to purchase some original physical artworks? Get some photo prints? Commission an illustration or painting?

One tank ambushes another from behind an earthen embankment.
An warrior in plate mail steps on the crossbar of his lance, leaning on it where it pierces the head of a dragon that lies slain among the shadowed ruins.
A crowned and bejeweled skeleton lies at the bottom of a still body of water, still holding its sword in repose. Blossoming lilies float above it.

johnwsheldon, to photography
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Some details from my cleaning of a portrait lens from 1850.

The glass is in great shape, with only a few tiny bubbles and faint scratches, both of which are very normal for a lens of this age.

More interesting to me are the graphite inscription on the back of the flange which appears to read "Top", and a fingerprint etched into the shellac at the edge of the lens hood.

The rear element of the lens, showing a few fine scratches in the surface of the glass. They have no effect on the image quality.
The edge of the brass lens hood, with black adhesive residue in a patterned strip near the bottom. At the top edge, a fingerprint is apparent where oils and salts from the fingerprint have interfered with the shellac coating of the brass.
A view down the barrel of the lens, showing a few tiny bubbles trapped in the glass, and a minor separation of the front doublet at the bottom edge.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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A woman in Klostermansfeld is kept company by a kobold, who visits her every Sunday for a joint meal.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #kobold @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/concerning-part-30538661

johnwsheldon,
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@juergen_hubert a perfectly respectable way to spend a Sunday!

LeviKornelsen, to random
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So Wizards is out there claiming that their art director is completely incompetent?

Uh, I mean, they're claiming that nobody there spotted the AI stuff?

johnwsheldon,
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@LeviKornelsen @Yora just as clear is the clothing, in particular the strappy thing at the one shoulder, and how it seamlessly blends into other fabrics and has no clear beginning or end.

johnwsheldon,
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@Andonome @slyflourish I think one major factor is that on (all?) Fediverse platforms, people that follow you actually get all of your posts in their feed, which didn't happen on Twitter, even for folks that used the "chronological" timeline.

People never interact with posts they don't see.

Graham_LRR, to mtg

This is a very fun episode of EDSC. It’s also long but that’s part of the fun!

https://youtu.be/UuBiVWVTJYo

johnwsheldon,
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@Graham_LRR that early visit to the Seed Core was such a riot!

johnwsheldon, to random
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Kimchi is an any time food.

oliphant, to random

Musk looks down at old notebook he just found on the floor. It belonged to the compliance officer he'd fired along with the rest of the compliance staff.

Flipping it open, it contains notes, perhaps notes the compliance officer was bringing to his desk.

His eyes settle on one note in particular:

"Mr. Musk, we never added verification as a status symbol. We added verification because we didn't want to get sued."

Musk looks far away for a long moment staring at nothing. "Oh," he says quietly to himself. "I can see how that would make sense."

johnwsheldon,
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@oliphant he was the reason there wasn't a flame diverter trench on the launch pad, which is likely why debris got kicked up into the engine cluster and knocked several engines out. Imbalanced thrust caused the spin out and subsequent failure.

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