More experimenting with Night Sight in the Pixel 2.
#photography #nightsight #night
Category: Fediverse
Trump is literally the big city hotshot who thinks he could do your job better than you despite no relevant experience and only the shallowest idea of what it involves.
Trump is literally the big city hotshot who thinks he could do your job better than you despite no relevant experience and only the shallowest idea of what it involves. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-fires-woolsey-hill-camp-trump-claims-bad-forest-management-1541863722-htmlstory.html
Hole in the sky.
Wi-Fi features I would like to see on Android
Wi-Fi features I would like to see on Android:
1. Always connect to my chosen VPN as soon as I’ve connected to any Wi-Fi network that’s not on a trusted list.
2. Auto-update apps when connected to *specific* Wi-Fi networks (not just any).
@kellerfuchs@vulpine.club points out that updaters should be using TLS and signatures.
Good point – updating over (for example) coffee shop wifi *feels* like it should be more dangerous than it actually *is* with proper encryption.
@sohkamyung WOW!My Pixel 2 already takes better low-light photos than I would have expected, …
@sohkamyung WOW!
My Pixel 2 already takes better low-light photos than I would have expected, and this looks incredible!
It’s not clear from the article, but it looks like the updated Camera app is rolling out to the older Pixel phones starting today. It hasn’t shown up in the Play store yet on my phone, though – I guess I’ll have to keep checking.
@andrhia Yeah. I get them too, and it’s just annoying that I have to stop …
@andrhia Yeah. I get them too, and it’s just annoying that I have to stop everything even though I’m not otherwise physically blocked at the time.
The amazing scene where Eponine stares down…
The latest episode of the Les Miserables Reading Companion podcast covers the amazing scene where Eponine single-handedly stares down 6 hardened criminals and wins.
As always, their analysis turns up some really interesting connections with other parts of the book – like the fact that Eponine channels both Javert and Thenardier, the two main antagonists, but uses their traits to act heroically.
https://readlesmis.libsyn.com/ep40-iv8i-v-the-dangers-girls-face
That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
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
C is for coffee, that’s good enough for me…(You probably know the rest.)
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.