techphotoguy

techphotoguy, 11 months ago to portland

Any Portlanders caught complaining about the drizzle in June will be offered up to the fire gods when it's 110 in a month. #pdxtst

techphotoguy, 10 months ago to random

It's only July, and yet 2023 has been five years long.

techphotoguy, 9 months ago to climate

Every stereotype you knew about weather is wrong, thanks to #climatechange.

• Me, near Portland Oregon, where we just broke the all-time August heat record.

#pdxtst

techphotoguy, 7 months ago to ai

At last night's #CreatorTech meetup hosted by @ChrisPirillo, we talked about where #AI intersects with writers, photographers, and garbage collectors (not the programming kind). Kate Walling shared her take as an experienced marketer and good times were had by all.

techphotoguy, 7 months ago to random

/me uses on my best Tim Cook impersonation voice.

"Good morning!”

techphotoguy, 11 months ago to random

Related to what I just boosted, if you're still on Twitter, you're supporting a fascist.

viticci, 3 months ago to random

The iOS 17.4 beta made most of my shortcuts unusable. (Every shortcut that used the ‘Get My Shortcuts’ action stopped working.)

So I had to DFU my iPhone, go back to 17.3, and in the process I:

• Forgot to back up my WhatsApp and lost years of conversations;
• Lost all my Shortcuts automations since they don’t sync with iCloud.

🫠🫠🫠

techphotoguy, 3 months ago to beer

When a #beer festival is a safer space than many #tech events: https://fortgeorgebrewery.com/values/anti-harassment-policy-code-of-conduct-festival-of-dark-arts/

nyquildotorg, 14 days ago to random

I keep seeing people talk about all the time ChatGPT is saving them, by not requiring them to learn everything about whatever they're using ChatGPT to write about. 🤦

Verso, 1 day ago to random

I have a #StreamDeck question: I have a mini with a hardwired USB-A cable. I have varying levels of success getting it to work properly with my USB-C only MacBook Pro.

Have you tried this with a dock or an adapter that makes it work for you? If so please name names!

That said, I am also not averse to completing The Circle of StreamDeck Life, and selling the one I have to finance the one I want (: so if you're in the market for a classic, HMU (:

nyquildotorg, 15 days ago to random

Which orientation on the new iPads has the Apple "right-side up"?

People have been telling me for years that the primary orientation of the iPad is landscape, but that Apple on the back has always suggested to me that that's just not true.

adron, 15 days ago to random

Gonna eat at Microsoft today.

nyquildotorg, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

Long ago I had this idea for a dumb bit, where I'd start YouTube channel doing 10-minute GIMP tutorials to teach people what I'd learned after using GIMP for a couple decades.

The short version is it'd be one of those screen cast type videos, and every episode the entire 10 minutes would be filled with bullshit like dependency resolution problems preventing GIMP from launching, recompiling the Linux kernel because my graphic tablet stopped working again, and then recompiling the kernel again because the graphics tablet now works, but I can no longer capture sound in my recordings.

nyquildotorg, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

A local Mediterranean restaurant offers some of the best fried potatoes I've ever eaten.

There are two options: medium cut potato rounds and large cut potato rounds, and the size describes the diameter of the slices of potato that are then fried.

The larger ones often end up in a super state where half of one is thin and crispy like an American "chip" (a UK crisp) while the other is thick and fluffy like an American fry (UK chip).

They are amazing.

mathowie, 29 days ago to random

❓Did Instagram change their color temperature and exposure handling lately? Any previously edited photo uploaded to Instagram looks totally blasted out after posting. Photos that look ok in drafts get big color shifts and exposure changes after.

It’s been this way for a couple weeks. It’s annoying that a photo app can’t do WYSIWYG editing reliably.

Is it just me? Makes me never want to post to Instagram again.

chris, 7 days ago to random

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nyquildotorg, 3 months ago to random

Just remembered the time in a "town hall" meeting at arguably one of the worst companies in the world, when they were trying to justify cutting some costs, effectively making everyone's jobs harder.

I said "cutting costs is good, how about we get rid of the two offices and 'executive apartment' you're paying for in Portland but not using?"

There were crickets, and someone said "wait, we still have those two offices?"

It doesn't make management like you, but taking "townhall" meetings at face value is a good example to set for your coworkers.

nyquildotorg, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Ok, Cory Doctorow is pissing me off now, lol.

"Break down the steps of training a model and it quickly becomes apparent why it's technically wrong to call this a copyright infringement. First, the act of making transient copies of works – even billions of works – is unequivocally fair use. Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale."

We need some kind of term for arguing via false equivalence.

chris, 3 months ago to random

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nyquildotorg, 6 days ago to random

It was so hot and humid that by 11am the Gold Bond Medicated Powder in my pants had turned into Gold Bond Medicated Chowder

nyquildotorg, 8 days ago to random

Of course the Metallica track this lady used to scare off a cougar was from the black album...

It's pretty rad that James Hetfield reached out to her, though. I bet he suggested buying 72 Seasons for her future cougar scaring needs.

chris, 16 days ago to random

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matthewcassinelli, 8 days ago to random

computers r cool