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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Yeah. And when retouching old photos, I think it's best ot use Gimp to remove some small degree of defects so the human mind can understand the photo without distraction. Beyond that it's better to leave most all imperfections. It's an art- knowing when to stop so as to leave the photo truly authentic, evoking only the original image.

@BroDrillard@nicecrew.digital British never considered the French more than earthworms since the Bastille fell! I was shocked when the channel tunnel went in. Never tho't it would happen coz France is considered such a troublemaker. I guess Lafeyette was a stand-up sorta guy but other than him I think the US has a similar level of disinterest in France centuries after the fact. They're simply not highly valued as a country.

@jb@nicecrew.digital @BrazilianContrarian@poa.st I rode a straight-pipe Aermacchi 250 once downtown-- was told later that you could hear it for miles. The pipe was a new "muffler" for the bike that looked like the original 1960s mufflers but had no packing whatsoever. It had screws in it so you could take it apart etc. I knew it was loud went to a motorcycle shop + had to convince the guy I had a muffler I could manually glasspack myself... since the ones you can take apart got regulated out of existance [sort of] decades ago. Much better after I glasspacked it!

@gintoxicating@transister.social Best to go over to his house and cook for him, whoever he is. If you can't cook at last bring ze coup de noodles.

@bagder@mastodon.social When you run it on my Mac, it crashes immediately. The UI version just hangs there saying it's loading! #funtimes

@Terry@poa.st Since the initial prezidential contest have always thought Trump was another Truman. For better or for worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJy9V9krLdc&list=RDpJy9V9krLdc&start_radio=1

@randahl@mastodon.social There is no easy path, no matter who is in charge, over the next 20 years. The world is simply getting bigger again.

@jeremiah@shitposter.world .

@Terry@poa.st HR is a gay term. Personnel.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Woodpeckers often choose the wooden trim pieces on a house. Which is good I suppose- better than choosing the rest of the structure! And I guess that's what trim pieces are really for, maybe.

@joabaldwin@mastodon.social .

@ayke@hachyderm.io Has bluetooth for programming patterns, yes?

@graf@poa.st We occasionally borrow one from the ly-bary coz it has bilt-in ghree Inn3rn3t.

@SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange Your CSS... what do you mean? All CSS looks like that. Don't take it personally- it's all a hack made by extremely amateur software engineering types.

@fschaap@mastodon.social Yes sure... I was being self-serving, wanting selfishly to see a newspaper headline like... "Gramma beats big ballz at the command-line!"

@fschaap@mastodon.social teach her ffmpeg, imagemagick, gifsicle and GIMP and maybe she'll be happy? Also yum aptget curl wget nc etc so she can hack hehe.

@fionafokus@mystical.garden In the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s there was only one real standard in the PC industry. Silicon Valley engineers are highly intelligent, but the CEOs, CTOs and industry at large are collectively stupid.

@graf@poa.st Endorsed.

@icm@mastodon.sdf.org Some of those Sparcstation 20s run NeXTStep very well. Solaris 2.6 isn't worth the trouble.

@ungeskriptet@chaos.social Can it find ethernet if you have an adapter?

@katt@ak.kazuma.family My understanding is that here in California fatal accidents cause stop sign installations. So I'm thinking if nobody dies at that intersection the sign may be replaced [when it wears out] with the same text on a new sign someday! If someone dies there they may reassess + install a new sign w/ new hours.

@WhiteJihadJaws@poa.st That flag is pretty cool.

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social Yez Earth is such a slcaker.

@deprecated_ii@poa.st Watch out for the morlocks.

@VD15@pl.valkyrie.world The Internet is broken. Use it less. I just switched to 'bing' coz google is having her challenge day again.

@adam@psyopshop.com That's damned good work.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social You're talking about Motorola/China not Motorola/US right?

@maaikees@sw-development-is.social Elder software componentry in action:

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Fortunately for all of us, toothpaste should do.

@JoePrich@nicecrew.digital Seems you're focusing in on the best opportunity available to you, whatever that is. (Hope you knock'em dead!) What's your second most favorite area/idea, if I may ask?

@Verfassungsschmutz@nicecrew.digital Have them spring for the Ashera/leopard cat. They are like $20k each!

@jb@nicecrew.digital Whites+hispanics are the guys who learn / know how to get things done. Everyone else is kinda screwed. My kids are taking construction classes will probably hit the machine shop for two semesters before going to university. Silver lining about the 2020-2030 national economic disaster is that the young'uns are getting a chance to learn. A little like after WW2. It's a horrible decade - the worst since the 1920s I think. But at the same time there is a foundation+motivation to learn for the future, when the "hands-on boomers" are all gone.

@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world Not saying much in either case.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz @lazy@fedi.at Yes indeed- so why not move Yes and so 'curl' and 'ffmpeg' both need interactive prompting control! (am being sarcastic but yes the equivalent of this will happen) #agenticcurl

@JoePrich@nicecrew.digital It's really hard to know where to spend time that's worthwhile. There is not much of the Internet left standing imho. Was on tweeter today and asked Grok an obvious question. Was interested in scaling up my presence there. But I found tweeter still duz not have a product for me.

@kroner@nicecrew.digital Even Nielsen is Indian now. https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/TheNielsenCompany/technology-jobs

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social @rysiek@mstdn.social They can't sell to US military though that is MotorolaUS's job. MOT/China will assumably be shut down in the US sooner or later [maybe sooner] so will not be buying their product. 0x2bad I do like the US company (Motorola Solutions)

@petergleick@fediscience.org En Amerique we're kinda all spread out.

@CSB@poa.st Why don't you run a local model until you really need to do something? Am amused by the state of "demi-support" of all these AI tools on Windows. Everything half-works + yet the nVidia GPUs 'we need' are there. Hopefully yore rite and Oomple will pull ahead around August.

@hundhamm@muenchen.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The WWW model is silly. I don't need 25ms access except during occasional calls, which can be handled terrestrially. Further, I have storage and RAM. Realtime terrestrial broadcast was fine but if you're doing digital data from space "it might as well come from the moon," while cheeky, doesn't seem to be a problem. In other words, it's ok if it takes seconds for my netflix video to start. Maybe even minutes if my expectations / cost were set that way.

@nihilistnomya@aus.social Didn't he return to some Maori island once to find out that the "nice people" he had worked with before had a war and to a large extent killed each other, with the leader exiled to a lesser island? #YESSSSS The whirled is tuff. You should hear what the natives tried to do to Cortez and his men before he [cause+effect] became more aggressive! Sad things have to turn out this way. But don't worry... y'all y'all will be part of "incrementally failing asia" soon and I'm sure will dearly love that.

@VD15@pl.valkyrie.world Nice 1940s Fantasia colors.

@dwarf@borg.social Ijust did something like this at the office and got slapped!

@collectifission@greennuclear.online Last time I was on a Canadian train was awhile back but once over the US border and transferred to their trains the cars were clean and the HORRIBLE STINK OF PEE magically disappeared!! +1 for Canada -1 for the stinky US of A