Package tracking is the new “Are we there yet?”
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Yeah, Soylent baffles me. The name only makes sense to people who know…
@ajroach42 @hummingrain Yeah, Soylent baffles me. The name only makes sense to people who know the reference, and if you know the reference…well…it doesn’t make a food product sound appealing!
It’s like…Sauron ran a Palantir botnet…
@hummingrain IIRC the palantir weren’t intrinsically evil either, it was just that Sauron was on the network and was really good at manipulating people by figuring out how to exploit their psychology.
@hummingrain It’s like…Sauron ran a Palantir botnet that spewed out propaganda to convince Saruman and Denethor that his victory was absolutely certain, and Saruman decided to join the winning team while Denethor lost all hope.
Gotta love recommendation engines that see you finally made that big purchase…and immediately start …
Gotta love recommendation engines that see you finally made that big purchase…and immediately start plugging the next model up.
Are you trying to *create* buyer’s remorse?
Is that actually an effective strategy?
@youcantoo I’ve been wanting to try out my new camera on the moon (it arrived …
@youcantoo I’ve been wanting to try out my new camera on the moon (it arrived a couple of days *after* the eclipse), but I just can’t bring myself to stay up past midnight for it.
At least with random photos of the moon, it’s only a matter of waiting a week or two.
Here’s a shot of a coral tree flower, from my first photo-walk with it.
Thanks to everyone who gave advice on mirrorless/DSLR cameras! I decided to go with the Sony a6000.
Here’s a shot of a coral tree flower, from my first photo-walk with it, at a local botanical garden. (It’s winter, but here that means we actually got rain recently.)
#photography #flower #CoralTree
LEGO macro
Hampsterdance Debate
“The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world’s first memes” by Leah Collins
Some of the behind-the-scenes details are truly bizarre. There was a song on the radio? And it hit #1 on the Canadian charts?
–@nolan@toot.cafe
I was in college at the time. There was a debate over whether or not the song actually came from Robin Hood. None of us had access to it on VHS, and it’s not as if we could look up the clips anywhere.
@FiXato Yeah, it’s gotten kind of ridiculous. Oh, I’m sure they have metrics saying that …
@FiXato Yeah, it’s gotten kind of ridiculous. Oh, I’m sure they have metrics saying that people typically scroll through X posts per session and they want to make sure you see at least Y ads…but the ads are starting to reduce the appeal of the site.
I’m willing to accept a certain number of ads for a free service or to offset the cost…but eventually it gets to a point where it’s just not worth it.
@FiXato That said, I imagine it really depends on how each person uses it.If …
@FiXato That said, I imagine it really depends on how each person uses it.
If you’re following mostly friends, it’s not going to have topics. It’s only the fact that I’m following so many scenic photographers that it had something to la onto in the first place.
@FiXato Wow, that’s random.I get the impression that Instagram had the chance to be …
@FiXato Wow, that’s random.
I get the impression that Instagram had the chance to be like a magazine, with ads that at least align with the content, but the more Facebook tries to monetize it, the more jarring and blatant the ads are, and the more they’re based on what FB *thinks* it knows about you than trying to fit with your actual interests as based on what’s posted by the people you’re following.
@FiXato I actually haven’t been seeing those. Maybe it’s doing some targeting after all…just …
@FiXato I actually haven’t been seeing those. Maybe it’s doing some targeting after all…just not anything effective!
It’s weird: when Instagram first started running ads in the form of promoted photos, it …
It’s weird: when Instagram first started running ads in the form of promoted photos, it was actually better at targeting. I’d scroll through pages of landscapes, cityscapes and nature photos from people I follow, and the travel ads fit right in. I almost hit like of quite a few of them because the pictures were good.
Now? Big box stores and fast food. Crackers and cold medicine. Movie posters. Logos and slogans. It’s like they’re not even trying.
And quote this post
Waning moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday….
Waning #moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday.
I like taking photos of the moon when it’s between phases (rather than full) because you get to see the most texture in it at those times.
Some recent sun halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks
Some recent sun #halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks: An upper tangent arc (my first!), the top edges of a circumscribed and 22° circular halo, and most of a 22° circular halo (with bonus contrail shadow on the cloud layer!)
All shot on my Pixel 2 with levels adjusted.
These are all formed by reflection and refraction of light in ice crystals. (A great reference: https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/common.htm )
Also, all seen from Los Angeles, which isn’t freezing…at ground level.
Observation: differing social media reach of my lunar eclipse photos
– One conversation each and a handful of likes on Flickr, Tumblr and my blog.
– A double handful of boosts on Mastodon (Photog.Social).
– Roughly the same number of likes/favorites on Instagram, Mastodon & PixelFed, with Pixelfed slightly ahead.
– 10x as many views on Flickr as on my blog. (I don’t have stats on other sites)
– No reaction at all on Twitter.
It’s bad enough mailing lists will put textual information in remote embedded images instead of …
It’s bad enough mailing lists will put textual information in remote embedded images instead of the actual text. But 4MB to find out what hours a coffee place is closing early?
FFS.
I don’t mind formatting or images. But email has to be readable offline and on slow connections.
@FiXato Ugh…yeah email’s a pain because there’s always a backlog. With notices it’s easy …
@FiXato Ugh…yeah email’s a pain because there’s always a backlog. With notices it’s easy to just wipe everything and start from zero, but with email there’s always the possibility that something important is in there that you shouldn’t just delete without checking first.
I caught a glimpse of the trail from today’s Delta 4 launch out of Vandenberg …
I caught a glimpse of the trail from today’s Delta 4 launch out of Vandenberg while driving, and made a beeline for the coast for a better look. I did manage to catch a clear view of the trail, though winds had already started blowing it out of shape, and stayed briefly to look at the boats on the ocean and the scenery.
#Photography #ocean #RocketTrail #cliff
LOL. 🙄
LOL. 🙄
“Facebook’s newest ploy to bring back teen users is a meme app called LOL”