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timbray

@timbray@cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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timbray, to photography
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Humming-butt. We are blessed in that our back porch is regularly visited by these cheeky little flying jewels. I have tried to photograph them for some years and failed. I have just finished improving the technology and it’s good enough now, but have still not captured one in flight or looking at me. Summer project!

timbray,
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@jawnsy Tamron 150-500 @ 284mm, f5.6, maybe 10m away. But actually they're not that shy, I’ve had ’em fly right up a couple inches in front of my face. Was trying today with the old 18-55mm “kit” lens from only maybe 8ft away, didn’t seem to bother them at all, but I couldn’t get a good angle for the light. I use the app to shoot from my phone so I don't have to reach fort the camera.

timbray,
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@daveshea @mattmay Excellent. Consensus on the net seems to be that you need 1/2000sec to freeze the wings.

timbray,
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@daveshea @mattmay Obviously the wing has to stop very briefly with each direction change, so there's always the chance to get lucky. That's what they tell me anyhow.

timbray, to random
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Gift link to heart-wrenching truth:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opinion/gaza-child-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU0.RrXn.X0e12ZaO3dt4&smid=url-share

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In March of 1997 WIRED Magazine published their cover story on how browsers might soon disappear as everyone would prefer stuff pushed to them instead of discovered via following links.

It was widely panned and browsers are still very much alive today but I have to say when I look at Instagram and TikTok, those are all-Push content apps and maybe WIRED got it a little bit correct?

timbray,
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@jwz @mathowie Remember that the most popular "push" app was a screensaver that floated news headlines and stock prices and so on across your screen when you weren't looking at it. I forget the name.

GottaLaff, to random
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Fun Fact: The USPS doesn't forward mail to Canada.

timbray,
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@GottaLaff Blaine is in your future.

timbray, to photography
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Set the controls for the heart of the flower. (What’s the little hook-shaped shadow?)

timbray, to photography
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I do appreciate the honesty of the people who, when posting spectacular pictures, disclosed that these were the output of their mobile’s night mode and didn’t actually look like what they actually saw.

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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

timbray,
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@mekkaokereke Dunno if you saw this… sobering: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/

timbray, to random
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#aurora visible but very faint at midnight in Vancouver

timbray, to random
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I was away from the screen and came back and saw the replay of McDavid whacking Hughes in the face, blood running down his cheek… no penalty? What did I miss?

dpk, to random
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Started to notice how bad German Wikipedia is at controlling bias compared to enwp. Examples:

  1. The article on BDS has a clear agenda to make the reader believe the movement is antisemitic, based on an idea that its primary historical roots are in anti-Jewish boycotts, rather than the South African anti-apartheid movement

  2. The article on ‘Junk Science’ describes the term mainly as an attack word used by tobacco, fossil fuel etc. lobbyists against the real science they want to attack

timbray,
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@dpk [occasional enWP editor here] I had no idea. Is this an oddity only of deWP or in use in other languages? It seems… bad.

timbray, to canucks
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have really managed to neutralize Hughes.

annaghughes, to random
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who up watching the Canucks

timbray,
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@annaghughes If you follow you'll find lots of amusing hockey chatter (Hockey Night On Mastodon)

timbray, to Calgary
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Shame, shame. U of C President Ed McCauley should resign immediately.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-calgary-palestinian-protest-police-removal-1.7199937?cmp=rss

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you see a crowd of 100 people:

  • In Atlanta? You can expect ~47 of them are Black. 👍🏿

  • In San Francisco? About 5 are Black. 😑

  • In Palo Alto? About 2 are Black. 😮

There are more students at Gunn High school in Palo Alto, than there are Black people living in Palo Alto.

timbray,
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@mekkaokereke East Palo Alto, on the other hand…

timbray,
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@mekkaokereke Oh wait, I hear that East PA is gentrifying, invaded by Bay Aryans. sigh Should have born in mind that I haven't been there since like 2013.

timbray, to random
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Of geek interest: UUIDs have been around for a long time and they work well and interoperate fine, but the specification space is a mess. So the IETF just shipped RFC9562; it has a fine consideration of the history and the trade-offs involved in all the different flavors of UUIDs, and is well-written and I think, as of now, the place to start looking if something UUID-flavored is puzzling you. Strong work! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html

timbray,
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@spmatich 1/ Trying to figure out when that would be a problem. In my experience, UUIDs are mostly database keys or just convenient representation of random quantities for shard selection. When I remember a database key that happens to be a UUID, I'm going to remember it as a string literal and use that for retrieval. When I generate one to select a shard who cares once the shard has been selected?

timbray,
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@spmatich 2/ You mention “building a resource ID string” - if's a UUID you do that once and then it's immutable, no? What’s the scenario?
/fin

timbray,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite First really practical no-nonsense networked filesystem IIRC, or at least the first one I got my hands on.

timbray,
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@super_structure It was 1996, what can I say? Anyhow, "urn:uuid:…" can make it work.

timbray, to random
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We have a “family mainframe complex” in the corner of the living room. Mac mini, 5T USB disk, USB DVD, CalDigit TB hub. Need some sort of a mini-rack to keep them all in place with a bit of wire organization. The Mini, at 19.70 cm (7.75 inches) width&depth, is the biggest piece. Ideas?

timbray,
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BTW, this works great. Anyone can come along and pull the TB wire out of the Mini and stick it in their computer and they’re connected to a huge 4K display, keyboard/mouse, high-quality USB audio connection to the big stereo, Ethernet straight into the telco router, etc etc. CalDigit is a little pricey but damn it's effective. Also has an SD card reader & many free USB ports.

timbray,
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@gwachob Better audio? Will go look… Hard to improve on USB out into a good pre-amp with a high-quality DAC.

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