@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

webcubus

@webcubus@astrodon.social

Astrophotographer, scuba diver, hockey fan, software engineer

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

webcubus, to Canon
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

I spotted this painted turtle at the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary a couple years ago. There were tons of frogs and turtles so it was a fun day for photography.

https://briangweber.com/featured/painted-turtle-in-the-sunshine-brian-weber.html

webcubus, (edited ) to macrophotography
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

I spend way more time photographing sea slugs, but this time I took the camera to the garden to find some land slugs. I really like the shine off the slimy coating. Not sure this one will be a big seller, but prints are available 😄

https://briangweber.com/featured/slug-munching-in-the-garden-brian-weber.html

scalzi, to random
@scalzi@mastodon.social avatar

Iceland is photogenic.

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@tankgrrl @flargh definitely an elf house. They are big into the elves. If you visit the Blue Lagoon, definitely go to the "story time" to hear the tale of how the elves interfered with construction plans!

douglasfur, to random
@douglasfur@snaggletooth.life avatar

how long to microwave asphalt

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@douglasfur I don't think there's a concrete recommendation for that

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@douglasfur that's going to go tarribly

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

There's this unproven assumption that "we just need to train it more" is the solution to generative AI lying and being generally mid.

What really happens is that with more data, it will approach absolute midness.

If they (as they plan) try to feed to generated-by-AI text to "learn" it will even regress (actually a good Bible quote for this, "as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly").

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs That's Fido 3:16 if I'm not mistaken

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs That assumption could be correct if you train it with good and reliable sources. Can't wait to read Yahoo Answers generated by an engine trained on Yahoo Answers!

webcubus, to scuba
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

It's World Turtle Day, so here's my favorite turtle picture I've taken to date! It's always fun to see a turtle on a dive, especially when they are chill or even curious about us. This individual in Bonaire was not bothered as I snapped some pictures against the backdrop of the beautiful blue water.

https://briangweber.com/featured/sea-turtle-brian-weber.html

GossiTheDog, to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@GossiTheDog wtf?! This new spyware feature is also going to just casually eat 50 GB of disk space in addition to stealing all of your data.

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

My kitchen range just adjusted its clock and is now two hours wrong.

But sure, AI will work great when they add it to appliances.

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs what are we as a species if our refrigerators aren't sharing alt-right memes on our accounts? Do we really want to live in that world?

webcubus, to scuba
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Clownfish of the day: OK, one more clownfish to share. This time we have tomato clownfish in the beautiful reefs of Apo Island. Wide angle photography is not my specialty, but I really like this reef scene with the clownfish moving through the huge anemone arcing across the surface, giant clam in the foreground, and soft corals in the background.

https://briangweber.com/featured/tomato-clownfish-giant-clam-and-lush-soft-corals-brian-weber.html

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Who are the people who constantly need AI to make summaries of emails and then go and generate a thousand-word email because a single sentence “isn’t professional”

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs Molly White had a great article addressing this - if we all use AI to do tasks, we should probably question whether those tasks even need doing. I basically just ignore emails that are too long. Ain't nobody got time for that crap. "This email could have been a much shorter email"

webcubus, to macrophotography
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Picture of the day: You all seemed to enjoy the Ocellaris clownfish, so I figured I would share another anemonefish! This beauty is a Clark's Anemonefish, differentiated by the neon blue highlights.

https://briangweber.com/featured/clarks-anemonefish-brian-weber.html

webcubus, to astrophotography
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Sun and moon combo: I finally got some OK skies overnight last night and few enough clouds to shoot through during the day today to get another moon/sun combo. These images were captured a little over 9 hours apart.

Astrobin:

image/jpeg

webcubus, to Orange
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Picture of the day: An ocellaris clownfish dancing among the tentacles of its anemone host. These fish were everywhere in Dumaguete, Philippines but they are in constant motion, so they are not easy to capture.

https://briangweber.com/featured/ocellaris-clownfish-brian-weber.html

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@snowgaze Right?! I didn't take any video of them, but I should have. I'd love to share just how wiggly they are!

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@snowgaze I've been confronted by other damselfish species. The Ocellaris in my fish tank is constantly trying to nip me, so I wear wetsuit gloves when I'm scraping.

iangriffin, to NewZealand
@iangriffin@mastodon.nz avatar

No 2.5 hour road trip to witness an aurora last night. I slummed it in my back garden!

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@iangriffin So nice! I'm hoping I get another shot at it soon - we had a very pink/red experience, but I'd love to mix in some green.

webcubus, to scuba
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

My dry suit recently sprung a small leak in the wrist seal. I decided to do my own wrist seal replacement, so I wrote up a blog post about it. This isn't a full tutorial of how to do it - I'll leave that to the pros. This is more meant as a tips and tricks/overview of the process to help others decide if they want to do it themselves.

I've put 2 cold water dives on the new seal and it works great!

https://blog.briangweber.com/2024-05-09-diy-dry-suit-seals/

richard, to Astronomy
@richard@disabled.social avatar

Astronomers discover new Earth-sized world orbiting an ultra-cool star

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-astronomers-earth-sized-world-orbiting.html

"Next steps for the project could include follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, which would deliver important insights into the planet's surface mineralogy, and the potential for an atmosphere."

#JWST #Astronomy #Astrodon

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@richard I assume "ultra-cool" refers to the temperature, but it sounds pretty neat too 😄

webcubus, to scuba
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Picture of the day: Following up on yesterday's picture of the Jellyfish Nebula, I have a picture of a Lion's Mane Jellyfish. This species can get very large, but this one was small.

https://briangweber.com/featured/lions-mane-jellyfish-brian-weber.html

#jellyfish #underwaterPhotography #scubaDiving #NewEngland #coldWater #olympus #tg

webcubus, to space
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

Picture of the day: This wild-looking supernova remnant is nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula. Supernovas produce some of the strangest objects in the night sky.

https://briangweber.com/featured/jellyfish-nebula-brian-weber.html

jda, to random
@jda@social.sdf.org avatar

I can't even tell you how bad the record is in 6v5

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@jda you can, but I would prefer if you didn't. That was a brutal finish 🥵

Phreba, to nba
@Phreba@shakedown.social avatar

The has serious officiating issues. Too many reviews, indecisive calls, bad calls and just too many calls. No flow.

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@spelled_with_a_k @Phreba I would have lost my damn mind if that gentle brush on Bobrovsky was deemed interference

webcubus,
@webcubus@astrodon.social avatar

@spelled_with_a_k @Phreba they've set the threshold to "goalie gets yeeted into the stands from the crease by significant contact" and there's no going back now.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • thenastyranch
  • everett
  • tacticalgear
  • rosin
  • Durango
  • DreamBathrooms
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • megavids
  • ethstaker
  • ngwrru68w68
  • cisconetworking
  • modclub
  • tester
  • osvaldo12
  • cubers
  • GTA5RPClips
  • normalnudes
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •