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Life appears to have given me lemons. Now I need to work out what the hell to do with them.


This had better not be prescience, Amazon! What do you know that I don’t?


From the archives of 04/01/2007. Check out the antediluvian smartphone!


Been meaning to climb up on the hill overlooking the Arade bridge at sunset for some time. Needed the right tide and light and a round tuit.

Got all of them. Two of these are from the Fuji XE4, one is from the iPhone 16 pro


Trans? Leaving the UK?

Useful to know which countries are on Rowling’s radar and which ones she doesn’t think about.


Orion’s Belt and sword, iPhone 16 pro, handheld, from the middle of a city.


Apple Intelligence just dropped and, on the one hand, generative AI is a blight upon humanity.

But on the other …


Powering out of the upper atmosphere on the nukes


Behold, the biggest boy! Single stage to anywhere, hydrofoil, amphibious. 8 Turborockets, 4 Turbo ramjets, 2 Turbofans, 5 Nuclear thermal vacuum engines. #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram


We now head over to our “No shit, Sherlock!” desk for some breaking news…


Hit the road, Jack! And don’t you come back no more no more no more no more!


Update - the image it keeps trying to fetch and mangling the URL is the site icon:


!Friendica Support Hey guys

Just upgraded to 2024.09-rc and I'm getting a lot of these in my log


Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.

It’s starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.


Bridge carrying the N125 road over the Rio Arade near Portimão, Algarve. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, 10 second exposure. Seeing it like this always puts me in mind of the massive atmosphere processor in Aliens.


So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.

Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.

The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.

No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.

A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.


New theory: the orcas are trying to get high. This shit is neurotoxic. Got quite a headache from spending 2 hours painting the hull with it.


Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?

How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?


Just cleaning the orca chew toy


I’m always a bit apprehensive about doing this, but it’s also kinda cool


Anyway, while I’m in France, in a marina, stuck for the next week, have a photo. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw.


And here’s the iPhone image


Here’s the full image (from the Fuji), by the way. It’s gonna be butchered by making it a low quality JPEG for sharing here, but this is the image.


@Snowgaze ❄️:cravo: Agreed

But even downsampling both to 12 megapixels, the camera image still has more detail:


Curious about just how good the quad bayer "48 megapixel" pro raw camera in the iPhone 16 Pro is, I put it head to head against my 26 megapixel Fuji XE4 with a 16mm lens (stopped down to f/5.6) to closely match field of view. I photographed the same scene on both. Here are 100% crops from both, scaled to the same size.

Notably, the phone, despite having more pixels, simply does not capture the amount of fine detail that the Fuji captures with only half as many pixels.

As good as camera phones have got, you simply cannot compete against large photosensors fed by a nice expensive quality piece of glass.


Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.


Neurodivergent people can read and listen to podcasts too, you know. This sort of thing makes us profoundly angry.

My father was not a “super hero”. He was my first bully.


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?


Praia de Faro, iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, processed in Lightroom on phone.


So this happened earlier.


@Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Ok, so I think I need to do this: linux.how2shout.com/how-to-ins…

Which I did, and restarted everything, but it's still bollocksed

So I'm kinda out of ideas beyond manually blocking the offending user each time this happens


@Michael Vogel There are exceptions visible in the logs, so
something is noticing (sorry for phone screenshot, I’m away from home at the moment)


Apple: “And our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”

Mobile gaming:


I’m assuming the answer is, “the power would go off”