Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.
Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in โthese guys can do salad without toast.โ
@zoe things were better for a bit when GF was a trendy diet, but it's veganism's turn now! Which would be nice for me (a vegetarian) except it's all "fake meat" type vegan food, and as a LIFELONG vegetarian, that's a bit gross from my perspective ๐ my wife and I are in a dark time for easy food!
@ajlanes @zoe Cinderford (near the forest of dean) has a GF chip shop! 40 mins drive from home but we make occasional pilgrimages, or stop there if we are in the area anyway!
@melivia In my experience that's just how people with neuro-typically personality dysorder cope. If they need to call them self supper heroes to actually treat their child as human, I am happy to support them.
Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla's Robovan on Thursday night during the company's We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be an electric,
Looking at the interior photos, it appears to have one way glass?
I'm liking the Art Deco aesthetic. I'm liking this /much more/ than the damn Cybertruck. It's immensely impractical, and I'm not sure it'll ship in this form, but I think this is actually pretty cool.
Using an USB aquarium aerator pump, duct tape and some sodium hydroxide solution, I have reversed climate change in this jar to 1980 levels. Now I just need money to build one the size of Madagascar. Where the angel investors at?
Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I don’t find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
It’s easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that it’s too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other
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Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I donโt find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
Itโs easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that itโs too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other way are pretty much never the ones in the firing line themselves.
I donโt pretend I have the power to stop this. I spent a long time trying in my own little corner of the world and got nowhere.
But I donโt have to watch them tell themselves comforting stories about why doing nothing is the only course of action they could have taken, because it makes me want to heave.
This tipped me over the edge to finally order the @molly0xfff shirt: store.mollywhite.net/products/โฆ which I've had open in a tab for weeks, awaiting just the right excuse.
@ajlanes @Nikkileah I typically use Jet2 from Leeds. The last time I used Ryan Air it was horrible. I didnโt even fit between the seats. Its made for short arses. And I wouldnโt touch easyjet with a barge pole!
As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.
But I was led to believe that were I to โget on in lifeโ, I would need to speak Standard Southern British English.
As I believed this, I willingly embraced it and now I mostly do speak SSBE.
But Iโm somewhat bitter about needing to, even if I did willingly embrace it at the time because, as I was taught, I thought my own dialect was โunsophisticatedโ.
It wasnโt; it was just different, but in the 70s and 80s even local celebrities who made it big on the national stage were encouraged to drift linguistically towards London, and if they didnโt, that acted as a barrier.
Itโs less the case now, but with the benefit of hindsight I do feel a bit resentful about it.
As times have changed, and as I donโt feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.
Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?
Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.
@GreenSkyOverMe means they're both using the Messages app on an apple device (iphone, ipad, mac). secondarily, that they can confidently send other media eg: photos, videos to each other; it doesn't depend on phone networks to work (once each end knows the other is on iMessage, it just goes over internet) and is secure (end-to-end encrypted)
Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).
And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!
@Rachel Lawson I get where you're coming from, as I isolate my wifi IoT stuff on a VLAN, and Thread doesn't play nicely with that unless you put the border router on a VLAN too (which, given the nature of border routers, is unlikely to work out well).
But I profoundly fucking hate 802.11 as a home automation standard. It's profoundly unsuited to it and I am backing away from it anywhere I can, and unlike Zigbee, Thread actually seems to work properly in an environment with multiple manufacturers' gear.
I'll probably skip it. I want to pass the 2K to my parents and get a 4K for myself, but I would need to swap the remotes otherwise my father is going to throw that thing out the window, and I don't blame him.
Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP canโt handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and itโs causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.
If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesnโt. Iโm sure I canโt be the only one seeing this?
@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 ๐ฐ You need to use the underlying package manager of the image to install the relevant dependencies, and then restart either Apache2 or phpfpm to take the changes into account.
On Debian-like: apt install imagemagick php-imacgick
@Hypolite Petovan @Steffen K9 🐰 Rather irritatingly, despite the docker image apparently being based on Debian Bullseye and Bullseye supporting php-imagick, there's no installation candidate available.
@Hypolite Petovan @Steffen K9 ๐ฐ Rather irritatingly, despite the docker image apparently being based on Debian Bullseye and Bullseye supporting php-imagick, there's no installation candidate available.
root@347d4a56513c:/var/www/html# apt update
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease [116 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease [27.2 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease [44.1 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages [7955 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 Packages [286 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates/main arm64 Packages [16.3 kB]
Fetched 8444 kB in 1s (6423 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
19 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
root@347d4a56513c:/var/www/html# apt install php-imagick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package php-imagick is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 ๐ฐ @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :
Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)
I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. ๐
What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)
Until the last year or so, I had believed something more or less along the lines of "England has been uniquely stable over the past 1000 years. Other countries have had bloody revolutions (France, Russia) or pulled themselves together out of fragmented parts (Germany, Italy) but England has missed out on all that, the elites here have always known how and when to soften and to give up a little power in order to avoid those excesses".
@goatsarah Listening through The Rest Is History podcast has disabused me of this idiotic idea. We've had just as many usurpers, revolutions and civil wars as anywhere else, it's just that the English have had better marketing.
@bencurthoys @goatsarah Fair. I think most of that view derives from Britain being the odd one out while everyone else was doing 1848/midcentury civil wars. We wrote that up as โlook how stable we are as we loot the rest of the worldโ and it was never internally criticised.
@Ben Curthoys lol, yeah. The Anarchy, 1st barons war, 2nd barons war, Wars of the Roses, Mary marches on London, 1st civil war, 2nd civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising. Probably missed some.
My watch just informed me that today is my personal record for single day calorie burn. I can believe it. I am having difficulty moving now. strava.app.link/ak7QiUQwTMb
@Alexandra Lanes @gz You โฆ you โฆ shut up with your remarks about how Iโm definitely not going to be trudging along Curbar edge in September 2025 wondering why the fuck I did this to myself.
BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.
In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they wonโt demand any further concessions, โyou know, for a bit anywayโ.
A transphobe spokesworm was later overheard muttering something about what a shame it would be if something happened to that nice Poland youโve got there.
Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of โstopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your catsโ being neck and neck to be US president.
These billionaires are funding malign influence campaigns that support Putin, Xi, and #PrinceBonesaw
Including coups, political violence & riots.
Including stochastic terrorism
Including voter suppression, election interference, & a judiciary to overturn elections
Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz Timothy Mellon Kelly Loeffler Robert & Rebekah Mercer Jeff Sprecher Robert Bigelow Josรฉ "Pepe" Fanjul Tilman Fertitta Jeffery Hildebrand Andrew Beal Jimmy John Liautaud Bernard Marcus Bill Ackman
@Npars01 I take issue only with the word "permanently". I reckon the instant they got the Treasonous Orange Fuckgibbon 'elected', they'd declare him mentally incompetent and put their own patsy in place using the bits of your constitution that's useful to them.
@Npars01 With Citizens United justice John Roberts & his accomplices paved the way for political prostitution, corruption & money laundering of new shocking dimensions in political businesses, tailormade for purchasable figures like Trump.
@Npars01 Those oligarchs are *some people*, not ***the people***.
They know very well, that for big money Trump's anytime for sale, whatever their wishes may be, disregarding right & wrong.
Those few people shouldn't be able to override the will of the people & the Constitution's implications, regulations & intended order, holding that the sovereign of all governmental power is the people, not a couple of super-rich egomaniacal wannabe-aristocrats longing to be free from the "burden" of commonly accepted laws, rules, norms & values (not valuables).
My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...
Now smartphones are mature products weโre into the annual โthis is an incremental upgrade over last year. Iโm so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one thatโs almost the same for another 2 thousand quidโ cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just โฆ not?
Iโm upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
@christineburns i was thinking of getting a new iphone this year, as it would be replacing an iphone 11 (five years old). I still might, but unless i decide i'm going to really try to make use of that camera... it's just a nice-to-have, not compelling.
possibly thinking of a watch 10, as that would be upgrading from... no watch at all. but then i remember i've never even liked wearing watches. you forget that while the keynote's playingโฆ ๐
@Colman I totally agree! No harm in investing to get the best tool to work for you long-term. The reference to two-year cycles was from the original post: people who buy the ยฃ2k phone and then complain that they "need" to buy a new one after two years
My iPhone 12 from a relative going strong and works just fine. I could get a new one but I donโt care that much. Looking to get the battery replaced (Apple will do this for you and keep / reseal it) which wonโt cost too much and will keep it going for many years to come. Iโll probably upgrade in a few years when itโs actually slowing down
are you actually going to spend ยฃ2000 on a new phone? I'm a bit chary of upgrading my 2 year old ยฃ400 Android phone as camera wise the newer versions have gone from 3 to 2 lenses and probably added even more AI trickery to the imaging. They have also added a more powerful processor which simply means the battery would be dead more quickly: this one is fast enough for my needs and currently runs for up to 5 days. And it has both phone socket and SD drawer. And phones have now become phablets - they no longer fit it anyone's pockets or handbags so people end up hanging them round their necks. As it is my previous, now 7 year old, phone, which I keep in a drawer, does still work but the OS no longer gets updates and it wont 'see' 5G towers.
@christineburns itโs incremental but to me thatโs a good thing. Phones are good now, weโre making small improvements (like over the past year or four theyโve gradually gotten way more shatter resistant), they last long. You upgrade every 3-5 years and you get the sum of all the incremental changes. Much better than the days of FOMO when you skipped a year.
i've previously upgraded because the battery became too weak to hold a charge; although getting five years daily usage out of a somewhat fragile device is pretty decent in my books.
I did concider upgrading before hardware failure forced my hand in order to obtain a better camera until I remembered I have a compac camera that's still better than phone cameras which I have since bought a new battery for and use instead.
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