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tmcfarlane

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IT worker (Unix, k8s, Go), but here for art (cartoon, poltiical cartoons, animation, photography).

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tmcfarlane, to BelieveInFilm
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Sorry for all the nerdy waffle, here's an actual photograph of a pigeon!

finestructure, to random
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Folks who squash their merges, I’m curious why you are making that trade-off. I’m guessing the pro argument is a cleaner merge graph?

The big argument against it for me is that you lose granularity for git bisect. I've often been able to narrow down breakage (sometimes long past the merge) due to individual commits in the merge. If I'd merged in a giant blob all I'd have had to go by is that giant blob. (1/2)

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure I strongly dislike squashed merge commits. It never made sense to me. I'd rather have a well curated history.

eclectech, to photography
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Went for a walk to the land where the octopi grow

tmcfarlane,
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@eclectech I went to an aquarium once that had a lifecycle for jellyfish, and honestly, it's only slightly less bonkers than "grows on plants in forests".
I was completely dumb founded, to the point where my wife more or less had to stop me stopping random strangers and getting them to read the display.

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@eclectech yeah, they grow that little tree of jellyfish and then all the little'ins float off into the void.
(when I say my wife "more or less" had to stop me, I mean, yeah, she stopped me, but people needed to know!)

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@eclectech Also mentioned was that fact that some can actually turn back into a polyp. So "jellyfish grow on trees", and "some jellyfish are immortal", was all in like one display. I do love an aquarium.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/immortal-jellyfish

tmcfarlane, to random
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Food poisoning, yay! (very probably oysters, I'm just glad it held off 'till we got home)

tmcfarlane, to BelieveInFilm
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I take too many photos of dogs.


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finestructure, to random
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Decided to watch football instead of playing Badminton tonight and it’s been an excellent call. Two great games again!

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure @gastonrampersad I don't sport myself, but my understanding is, your not sporting right.

tf, to random
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LOL, looks like gmail has started rejecting emails from outlook.com with useless 500 errors. This is truly poetic, because Microsoft has done the same to small mail server operators for very long time, with no recourse for resolving it. I had eventually given up running my own mail servers after many years because of that.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/outlookcom_blocked_by_gmail/

tmcfarlane,
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@tf there is a (arguably dubious), technique used on some mail systems called "grey listing". You error on the first delivery, forcing a redelivery, under the (IMO dubious), assumption that miscreant agents would bother holding state for a retry.
It has a huge problem in that many systems in that it is usually based on suorce IP, and can assume retries must come from the same IP (very not always), and means you end up managing big IP white lists.

tmcfarlane,
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@tf so it could be that Google have a new source IP range for mail servers and microsoft haven't picked up on it yet.
(this was all the latest "clever idea" circa. 2002, and it could be that people realised it was dumb in the last 20 years)

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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I love seeing old film photos of mine. Reminds me of past lives.

From one of the first rolls I ever shot as a teenager: Cambodia in one of the Angkor temples (around 2004)

Something about the colors and ‘look’ of the film photo makes it more visceral to me, like I can remember that memory better

tmcfarlane,
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@skinnylatte any idea what film it was?

tmcfarlane,
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@skinnylatte I wondered if it was slide (provis maybe), those are lovely colours

mjg59, to random
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Being a middle aged homeowner means getting unreasonably excited about finally replacing all those 4000K recessed bulbs with something a touch warmer

tmcfarlane,
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@mjg59 but also bits of your 200 year old house falling off ( fortunately no one was hurt, dog's bed was directly underneath)

finestructure, to random
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I’m puzzled by the response of folks abandoning their Mastodon accounts in favour of Threads following the beta announcement of federation. When the prospect is to eventually have the freedom to use either with the same reach, why would you choose the •Facebook• product?

tmcfarlane,
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@leoncowle @finestructure the analogue photography community on here is great (and Threads joining might even improve that further), honestly though everything else is either dull or unpleasant (not individuals, but just the overall vibe of tech or politics for instance).
I'm 100% loving my film buddies though, it's what keeps me on here.

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure there are solid techn8cal reasons to be on large "instances". It seem AP federation isn't perfect, I've heard of issues around missing replies. I find notifications very buggy when using the Web interface on my instance. I did look at Threads (many artist and photographers I like on there), the app looked like garbage, and I don't want an algorithmic feed anymore.

tmcfarlane, to ai
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Amusing, apparently Midjourney feel that arbitrary scraping of their images and text is not covered by fair use?

openculture, to random
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“Hello Vincent”: A Generative AI Project Brings Vincent Van Gogh to Life at the Musée D’Orsay

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/hello-vincent.html

tmcfarlane,
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@openculture no, it does not do that

tmcfarlane, to random
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There are days when debugging shell scripts in github actions makes you want to work out how many weeks I can retire for before my life saving are gone and I have to walk into the ocean.
Here's a picture of a taxi, just incase anyone wants to pay me £4M pounds for a print of it.

tmcfarlane, to BelieveInFilm
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I've nor posted one of Daisy's impersonations lately, please enjoy!

finestructure, to running
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I really need to start tracking the kilometres I put on my running shoes. Had some knee troubles after recent runs and now with new shoes they’re gone.

I noticed HealthFit has a field to track shoes and you can set a default 👍

I guess I’ll know when the time comes and it’ll vary by vendor and model but how many kilometres do you keep your shoes for fellow runners?

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure about 6 months after I started running I got an ache in my hip. Went away when I got new shoes after a friend suggested that could be the problem. The ones I replaced them with are still going strong, but I know if I get any aches/pains, I'll switch them out ASAP.
I think stratva can track this, but it never occurred to me that that might be why

openculture, to random
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How an Unscheduled, Last Minute Performance of “Fast Car” Shot Tracy Chapman to Stardom in 1988

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-an-unscheduled-last-minute-performance-of-fast-car-shot-tracy-chapman-to-stardom-in-1988.html

tmcfarlane,
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@openculture the '90s wre objectively better because we had Tracey Chapman being famous for playing Tracey Chapman records!

tmcfarlane, to random
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My dad built a career at the top of the automotive engineering industry, built on childhood curiosity, experimentation, and an apprenticeship in telecoms engineering with the GPO. No degree required.
We lost him 2 weeks ago after an 8 year struggle with alzheimers.
Eamonn McFarlane 1955-2024

elkarrde, to BelieveInFilm
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I've seen an Instagram reel where a film photographer bragged about moving back to the 21st century, where "taking photos is free", with a digital Hasselblad camera.
Am I just too poor to understand how does buying a $8000 camera makes you take photos for free? 🤔

(I get the idea, you don't need to buy film, but for eight grand you get quite a lot of film, even today)

tmcfarlane,
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@elkarrde aren't digital folk all about sensor size? I'll stick with my 6x6 thanks!

finestructure, to random German
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Hey, anyone want to send us a Vision Pro screenshot of the @SwiftPackageIndex website? But no simulator shenanigans, only the Real Deal™ 😆

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure @SwiftPackageIndex all this fuss about those crazy ski goggles is completely baffling me!

tmcfarlane,
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@finestructure Does it work with gestures? I read a great post once by a chap (Andy Wingo I think), who had worked for a company that tried to create a real life version of the Minority Report interface. Turns out, it doesn't work. Tech wise it's all fine. But it turns out waving your arms about is a lot more exhausting than people realised. Tom Cruise was left dripping with sweat after a few hours of filming those scenes.

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