Link: That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Category: Fediverse
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/high-tech-farmers-are-using-led-lights-in-ways-that-seem-to-border-on-science-fiction/2018/11/06/d965021a-e15b-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_graphic.html
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, …
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, with an added “creep-o-meter” for just how creepy readers rate them.
This is cool: “A.I. turns 57 million crop fields into stunning abstract art”
This is cool:
A.I. turns 57 million crop fields into stunning abstract art
On Wandering.shop (without image)
Watched Prisoner of Azkaban and Incredibles 2 this weekend….
Watched Prisoner of Azkaban and Incredibles 2 this weekend.
I know PoA is maligned by a lot of people because they changed things, but IMO it’s one of the best *adaptations* from book to movie in the series. The later ones start feeling like checklists to me.
As for Incredibles 2, this was the first time any of us had seen it. Us parents liked it, but the kiddo was freaked out by the screen-hypnosis villain & wouldn’t watch the rest of the movie.
#movie monday
Winter sun + time change + wildfire smoke + slightly yellow-tinted sunglasses makes it feel …
Winter sun + time change + wildfire smoke + slightly yellow-tinted sunglasses makes it feel a lot later in the day than 1:00.
Smoke from two wildfires in and near Los Angeles this morning.
Smoke from two wildfires in and near Los Angeles this morning. The gigantic Woolsey fire causing evacuations in Ventura County, and a smaller fire in Griffith Park. In at least one photo you can see a layer smoke from the smaller fire drifting past the rising plume of the bigger one.
spiders, creepy (re-post since I realized I probably should’ve CWed it)
Link: The Hair Sprouting From This Building Is Actually Thousands of Tiny Legs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-daddy-longlegs-cluster-together
For some reason I’m reminded of this German workplace safety video I once found …
For some reason I’m reminded of this German workplace safety video I once found on YouTube called something like “Forklift Driver Klaus” about a driver who broke all the safety rules, and all the injuries and damage that he caused. It was so over-the-top as to be funny, but it made an impression, which I imagine was the goal.
Flickr has a blog post on how they plan to keep the commons with their …
Flickr has a blog post on how they plan to keep the commons with their new limits on free accounts.
Short version:
1. Flickr Commons partnership with NASA, Smithsonian, etc are staying.
2. All Creative Commons licensed photos uploaded & licensed before Nov. 1 are staying, even on free accounts with more than 1000 photos. (Further uploads will be limited until they either buy a Pro account or drop below 1000)
3. Non-profits can apply for free, unlimited accounts.
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/07/the-commons-the-past-is-100-part-of-our-future/
Two years ago today, I tried to beat the stress by driving around the coast …
Two years ago today, I tried to beat the stress by driving around the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and found myself at Point Vicente. I posted this video the following Tuesday morning, captioned, “Because we can all use 18 seconds of calm today.”
It seems like a good time to post it again.
#calm #ocean #pointvicente
uspol/campaign mailings oddity (followup)
…and here we are, the day before the election, and we’ve been getting around 4 or 5 flyers daily for the past week and a half. (Yeah, just a few days after I remarked about the lack of cardboard campaign ads.)
Mostly for the one state office I mentioned, but now several of the ballot propositions and, interestingly enough, the state secretary of education.
“You keep dismissing these notifications. Do you want to stop showing them?”
“You keep dismissing these notifications. Do you want to stop showing them?”
At least it asks.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications on sight because I don’t need them, and it would be extremely useful to stop them from interrupting me.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications because I do need them, but I don’t need to follow up (at least not on the phone), and the notification is all I need.
Photographers who shoot film: Where do you buy film? Where do you get it developed?…
Photographers who shoot film: Where do you buy film? Where do you get it developed?
My son found my old manual SLR camera and I was showing him how everything worked…. without film.
Another amazing sunset!
This has been an incredible week for them.
Both on Photog.Social
Twilight on PixelFed.Social
Orange clouds on PixelFed.Social
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to …
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?
I’m still getting used to having reading glasses, but it’s starting to be automatic that …
I’m still getting used to having reading glasses, but it’s starting to be automatic that when I sit down at my computer, I pick them up.
I picked up my sunglasses by accident.
This LCD monitor is polarized horizontally.
That’s a little extreme for “Dark Mode!” 😎
Well, that’s kind of meta.
Fiery sunset. One of those moments when you can’t stop and pull over to take …
Fiery #sunset. One of those moments when you can’t stop and pull over to take a photo, but you can pause at a red light.
The next day:
I saw photos of this same sunset from at least 3 other people in the LA/OC area that I know or follow – but because we were all in different places relative to the landscape and clouds, and took the photos at different times, they all ended up looking different.
Pink clouds and blue sky, coastal cliffs, trees, buildings, orange clouds…a real mix.
Took the laptop home. It’s still going. And because the time estimate keeps swinging back …
Took the laptop home. It’s still going. And because the time estimate keeps swinging back and forth, the only way I can tell it’s actually working is sticking a Post-It on the screen to see if the progress bar has moved in the past hour.
Would it kill someone at Apple to show a percentage? Or break the bar into segments?