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I understand Michael O’Leary “dog foods”. When he wants to travel, he buys a ticket using the RyanAir app on his phone and experiences it as a normal passenger. As a result, the app is bloody excellent.

It is profoundly obvious that the CEO of Volotea does not do this. Dear god, it’s terrible!



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.

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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.
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...Camera recommended by Sarah Thompson, who gives useful advice on photography, among other things.

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Do people understand how anxious trans people are these days?

Like, my personal advocacy has had to change from "please understand trans people like me" to "please stop helping Nazis who want to murder us, why do you keep doing that?"

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yep. I keep coming upon threads of super leftists who scream ‘Kamala doesn’t deserve my vote for not being perfectly progressive’ and my response is ‘fuck you she deserves it because she’s the one who doesn’t empower nazis who want to fucking kill me’. We can fight about UBI after black and trans and Hispanic and women can be less worried about being murdered for sport.
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Yes. We (my family) understand that standing with our trans siblings is the front line of how we push back against fascism. None of us is free unless all of us are free.

Not looking for a pat on the head. As always, solidarity forever.



I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah



Me: I think I’ll make a post to this Reddit community. What are their submission rules?

The community blurb: Please consult our rules wiki before posting.

Reddit mods need an intervention.



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 “these guys can do salad without toast.”

I expect coeliacs in France just … die?

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@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!


Thing is, Keith, literally nobody voted for you to do David Cameron cosplay for five years.

So maybe what you need to cut is not imaginary “red tape”, but “the crap”, and start doing your job?


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Funny-not-funny, isn't it, how the folks queuing up to assassinate Donald Trump all seem to be right-wingers stirred up by confrontational/apocalyptic rhetoric.

(I'm now upgrading my worst case outcome for November 4th to: Trump wins the election, then is assassinated by a neo-nazi. Which would be the PERFECT "Reichstag Fire" inciting incident for the incoming Vance dictatorship.)
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This was just a SovCit loon who doesn’t think laws apply to him (especially gun laws).
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I usually reread Interface (1994) each us election year, but it's a bit too on the nose this time.


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.

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my mother continues to think she was sooooo great, in part because of books making statements like that

egh




Now the total fucking loon has made a taxi without windows. Wonder if the vomit from the inevitable motion sickness is also cleaned automatically?

Headlines when this thing hits the streets: “Robovans are making people travel sick. How come nobody predicted this?”

I’m predicting it, here and now. techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/robo…

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fortunately they'll never be implemented, so we won't need to find out.
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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.

I'd have one as a prop.
Just not from Tesla.


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We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic.

If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year:
1. Let us know: tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT
2. Check out our 'My GP is refusing to prescribe' resource: transactual.org.uk/medical-tra…

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Transition #NHS #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen

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I hope anyone making a complaint about this gets a better response than I did years ago, which was the CCG/ICB told me that "the rules of NHS England and the GMC do not apply in North and North East Lincolnshire" 🙁


Cis gay “feminist allies” be like, “if trans women are women, why haven’t they made me a sandwich yet?”
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@Rusty Bertrand @Sarah Brown The scare quotes are there for a reason. The people being criticised here are neither feminist nor allies.
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@ajlanes
Ah. Got it. Its just everywhere now, the hate.

Every "generation" thinks they are so unique. Yet every 10 years we get new anti feminist slang and slurs.

Same as it ever was.


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@goatsarah That’s basically illegal in the UK. The security should all be done for ABH! And the company sued!


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?

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Us: Ok, Labour, to stop Reform doing an AfD or a Marine La Pen, all you need to do is not be Tories. So what did you do?

Labour: <inaudible>

Us: What

Labour: Be Tories …

Fucksake

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yes.. well

except that Reform / UKIP/ Brexit Party already did something much worse than the AfD.

They converted the Tories into Reform, and they had been in power for 14yrs, until recently.

So the UK challenge is really very different. Much more advanced on the shit arc.



UK Pol, transphobia, far right

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UK Pol, transphobia, far right
@Ash @Isabel I expect we have some of the same names in mind.


Long ago

Deep in a swamp far from Mexico

Lived an old psychopath, Dandolo!

Rich was he!

Stole from the Egyptian dynasty

Corpse of St Mark, Allegedly.

Ordered ships to be made

Diverted the fourth crusade, Dandolo!

Adding on to the total

Sacking Constantinople, Dandolo!

And when they ships got there

They’d come from St Mark’s Square

Byzantium beware!

You’re so fucked!

Long ago

Dealing the Romans a killer blow

Toppled the empire, did Dandolo!

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Hey guys, did you hear about that time J D Vance got stuck on an escalator for six hours when the power failed?

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how dare you, I was told that I was allowed to tell racist genocidal lies during this debate and that is all I prepared

this is preposterous

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This is a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success.


Latest spam email: Your next getaway, Milan!

I'm sorry, but I have recently been contemplating my sexiness quotient and I very much regret to inform you ...



Stansted is quiet. I guess everyone is done with their holibobs.


Oi, Bezos you absolute melon. It’s Thursday and I’m about to get on a plane. Where the fuck is Ep 7?
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hee! Tomorrow I'll be TGVing to Marseille.

And if it's Ryanair, don't let the penny pinching buggers gouge you too much!

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@ajlanes @Nikkileah I typically use Jet2 from Leeds. The last time I used Ryan Air it was horrible. I didn’t even fit between the seats. Its made for short arses. And I wouldn’t touch easyjet with a barge pole!
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Right. It’s dropped and, miracles of miracles, the 5g is working inside Stansted.


Goddam waterpik just made my gums bleed. Apparently it’s for my own good, or summat.


Apropos of having just dealt with an irritating personal problem of the feminine nature, I find myself thinking back to the start of The Last Of Us.

Guys, did you even think to TRY Fluconazole?



As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.

But I was led to believe that were I to “get on in life”, 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 I’m 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 “unsophisticated”.

It wasn’t; 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 didn’t, that acted as a barrier.

It’s 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 don’t feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.

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And the rest of us thinks that most English accents are cool. Funny world huh?

(Emphasis on most. There’s some bad ones out there.)

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Just been for a flu vaccination. Pharmacist also did a general health check. Apparently I am too healthy for a 50 year old with a cheese based diet.


Sauron be like, "dumbass elves, Imma gaslight the fuck out of them, for the lulz".



It appears that there may be an issue with Google Chrome not starting for some users of Mac OS Sequoia.

I have found a workaround. In the Finder, open the Applications folder, locate Chrome, drag it to the bin, then empty the bin.

Fixed

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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.

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Update: Tried texting one.

Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!

Thank god!

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blue means iMessage on iPhone. So it indicates the person is an apple user. Don't know how that means anything.
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@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!

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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.


Upgraded to iOS 18?

Check the calendar month view our. Try pinch zooming. Thank me later.



Rings of Power: is it just me thinking that the last words Pharazon will ever hear are, “I am no man”?
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I wondered that too, but apparently if they do that it'll be non-canonical
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@Ghost of Hope His nepo boy son is definitely one of them though.

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!Friendica Developers

Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s 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 doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?

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@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @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. 😕

What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)

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@xy.. @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan I’ve a bunch of those too. The Docker container for 2024.08 uses 8.1.29 and 512 megs.


Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Descendant forced to accept terms.

Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved violently.

Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.

Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Civil war resolved through decapitation.

Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.

Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles

Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)

Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.

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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".
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@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.
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@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 ‘look how stable we are as we loot the rest of the world’ and it was never internally criticised.
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@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.

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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.

We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.

We are not the same.