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Some quality lichens shot on Harman Phoenix film :3

It was my first time trying out this film and I'm really happy with how some of the shots came out! It's definitely not the best tool for every job, but it's got a really cool aesthetic; I'm excited to pick up some more now that I have a better understanding of how it behaves

#lichensubscribe #photography #film #harmanphoenix

One of the better ways I found to solve programming problems is writing the high level code as if I have all the other parts already in place.

It is a bit like TDD or Tracer Bullet dev, but I don't write any runing code until I feel fine with the phantasy-code I have written (but then I can continue with tests and tracer bullet mocks)

wait, so they rearchitected the whole thing to not suck and rewrote it in rust to reduce overhead and instead of letting everyone benefit from this, they're designating it "Synapse Pro" and will continue to maintain *two* codebases now just to have a product they can sell?

all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?

what the fuck

someone has got to create a polyglot filesystem. a filesystem that can be read by two completely different filesystem drivers

One of my favourite hashtags here, highly recommend: #CarryShitOlympics. It's people carrying loads of stuff on their bikes. I hope to participate some day.

How can I get a skirt with a custom printed pattern?

Imagine I have an image, and I want that on a skirt. Is there any company where I can order that?

Raising 30 million dollars to host 20 thousand GoToSocial instances for 30 years

If these nerds weren't so hell-bent on becoming the God Emperors of My Twitter Alternative and instead actually considered people's social and safety needs and their technically ability while building decentralised social media platforms the whole thing becomes a non-issue very quickly

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The ad read 'Five days for £5!'. It didn't say what for. The website, Aeternitas Solutions, had no more info; just a purchase form.

Curiosity itched. Probably a scam but for a fiver, they'd risk it. They filled in the form, hit 'Buy'.

The confirmation was just as vague; 'Thank you for your purchase. Your order will be dispatched.'

They'd forgotten all about it by the next morning until, crossing out a day on the calendar, noticed the new five blank days shoved into the middle.

#MicroFiction

oh cool, Gnome has no automatic dark mode anymore because Mozilla (the advertisement and AI company) thought it was financially not worthwhile to keep their daytime and location API alive gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c

And since my Vestibular Neuronitis is playing up today, I'd like to remind everyone -- no matter how much a #TTRPG game, night out, trip or whatever means to you, if you're sick, stay in.

Getting on for 10 years ago, someone came out to a game session with a very bad cold. Not flu, but a bad cold.

They decided to come anyway and spent 5 hours coughing on me.

That cold, just a cold, permanently damaged my vestibular system, affected my hearing, and still affects me today.

Stay. The Fuck. Home

Bambu's latest firmware update apparently locks down printers to their own software.

And this is why I didn't buy a Bambu, and got a Sovol instead.

dream 

Tonight's dream: I was trying out some highly immersive VR thing that included touch and taste and all that. It was like a 10-20 minute walk through various landscapes and environments in really high detail, with glass-pane fences that really *felt* like glass panes.

For some reason there were pallets of free samples for various instant meals and foods/shakes dotted throughout the walking path (some of them quite nice!), and at the end was a large area with promotional booths and buildings.

The 'highlight' was an absolute shitpost of a promo booth, called 'Easyjet GoGo' and dressed up and advertised to imply that it was some kind of flight simulator experience, but when you queued for it and it was your turn, you would eventually discover that it was... a highly overengineered portable toilet building 😂

health, + 

This is my favourite graph right now

cool thing I noticed: when hetzner generates root passwords for servers, they never include "y" or "z", and also no "O" or "0"

health update, transplantation (9) 

It's now day 3 after the surgery. I can get out of bed and walk independently, albeit slowly. I've showered again, and can do that mostly independently too; just not bending over. I might walk around the hallways a bit later today.

Blood pressure is high and still a point of concern, blood sugar is a question mark (rising a little but still okay). Otherwise seemingly no side-effects from the immunosuppressive medication, and I also don't feel like I have a permanent cold anymore. Catheter is still a huge pain, as is the wound drain.

Overall very optimistic!

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proposal: a game that is just a creative management game engine and you can download mods that additively combine prisons, theme parks, hospitals, factories, restaurants, cities, beaver cities, etc.

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