@nolan That kind of works – I’m trying to balance multiple instances myself – but it also feels like I’m managing more social networks, not different facets of one.
Category: Fediverse
I’ve been using the same headshot across multiple social sites for ages. Now that …
I’ve been using the same headshot across multiple social sites for ages. Now that I’m juggling multiple Mastodon accounts, it’s gotten confusing, so now I’m going for themed avatars.
It got even more confusing since I signed up with the same username across all of them!
@unwary No worries – I think my run-on sentences will outweigh any extra sentence fragments… …
@unwary No worries – I think my run-on sentences will outweigh any extra sentence fragments… 😃
@Nezchan The worst part of it is that they almost can’t do the small …
@Nezchan The worst part of it is that they almost can’t do the small stakes stories anymore because they won’t be seen as “important,” so everything has to be a world-ending threat — and then where do you go from there. Save the solar system? Galaxy? Universe? Oops, better reboot….
@unwary That got a lot bleaker than I was expecting… 😲But yeah, it really is …
@unwary That got a lot bleaker than I was expecting… 😲
But yeah, it really is about finding your own…I don’t want to say meaning, but goal works — for what the game’s appeal is to you. I get bored in creative mode and would rather explore a survival world, but my son is all about building things and experimenting in creative. Which works out great except when we try to do multiplayer…
Caught up on some Marvel/DC comics this week
Caught up on some Marvel/DC #comics this week:
#JessicaJones got a nice send-off. Need to find time to watch season 2 of the show, looking forward to the comic returning after break.
#TheFlash still feels like they’re shaking things up every few issues just to shake things up, but it’s beginning to look like they might be going somewhere with it.
Dropping Titans. It had potential, but the team depends on character dynamics, and they’ve run those into the ground.
Flashback to last summer: a red panda (sometimes called a fire fox)…
Flashback to last summer: a red panda (sometimes called a fire fox) at the San Diego Zoo. I made a point to look for them and the penguins on that trip. For reasons. 😉
#photography #photos #redpanda #firefox
Sadly I didn’t get to see them doing much. There were several in the enclosure, maybe three or four, but the rest were either hiding in the tree or sleeping. This one was just sort of perched up there, looking around.
@Einahpets Yeah, it’s an impressive exploration of the many consequences of the tech & …
@Einahpets Yeah, it’s an impressive exploration of the many consequences of the tech & how people would use it. Both the threeps and the Agora, which I find myself seeing as a counterpoint to the Oasis.
I’m going to have to get out to the Festival of Books one of these days – I keep meaning to, but haven’t quite managed yet!
If it works like the individual media galleries, i.e. clicking/tapping goes straight to …
@ambassador If it works like the individual media galleries, i.e. clicking/tapping goes straight to the original post, and it’s limited to images posted to this instance, yes. It would be a cool way to discover images that we’re deliberately sharing. There’s probably some fine tuning in terms of how to handle CWs and sensitive images.
@salmon_cannon Thank you on both counts!And yeah, I’ve been really impressed with the …
@salmon_cannon Thank you on both counts!
And yeah, I’ve been really impressed with the Pixel 2 camera. Not just the daylight photos, but it does surprisingly well with night shots too. And it’s fast enough that the burst & motion modes don’t seem to sacrifice much.
I keep meaning to look for an alternate camera app that will let me do long exposures.
I remember doing a bunch of experimenting when the camera was new…
@kemonine I remember doing a bunch of experimenting when the camera was new & settled on some best-for-most-cases settings. White balance is only available in some modes – it usually does a decent job on that, but I think it must have just detected the wrong type of light in this case.
Thanks for the tip on turning digital zoom off completely. I don’t use it very much, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to have available for when I do. Maybe it is?
I guess I should do a new round of experiments with this camera & see what I can convince it to do!
Yeah, I rarely have reason to use the digital zoom with that lens!
I used to figure if I needed to zoom past what the optics can do, I’d just crop it smaller. In most cases it’s still better than screen resolution anyway. But I’ve found that digital zoom has one advantage over cropping after the fact: the camera bases any automatic settings like exposure on the actual image you intend to take, not the wider view.
But yeah, might as well turn it off the rest of the time.
How Los Angeles Could Source its Water Locally
Interesting article on ways Los Angeles can source more of its water locally in the future.
Stormwater capture is a big one. In the early 20th century, the area built a flood control system to deal with the massive deluges that hit every decade or so, but during off years (and especially during drought years) it only serves to flush water out to sea that we’d be better off using to replenish reservoirs or ground water.
How Los Angeles Could Source its Water Locally
A new report challenges the city to think bigger about its plans to source more water locally.
note: combine with third 1000-year-storm when importing.
@bridgebury I need to pick that up again, too! It’s fascinating, but hard to …
@bridgebury I need to pick that up again, too! It’s fascinating, but hard to get through. I left off somewhere in the middle of the war, after his falling out with Washington. I guess I didn’t get very far into it, now that I think about it.
Spotted on Birdsite: Rey cosplayers recreate snapping scene
Spotted on Birdsite: Rey cosplayers recreate snapping scene
All the Reys snapping 😍 #WonderCon #ReysForDays
— Keri Bean (@PlanetaryKeri) March 25, 2018
@Einahpets Thanks! I’m not familiar with the series, but it looks interesting. I’m …
@Einahpets Thanks! I’m not familiar with the series, but it looks interesting. I’m trying to power through Les Mis (to the extent that I have time to power through books these days — though I do plan on breaking when Scalzi’s Head On comes out next month), but maybe after I’m done with it I’ll check them out.
Pixel 2 vs. PowerShot SX710HS
Pixel 2 vs. PowerShot SX710HS.
I’m only a hobbyist photographer. I don’t have a really nice camera, just a point & shoot that I picked mainly for its optical zoom. And I’m still astonished that I can often get better pictures out of the tiny lens on my phone.
This is from #WonderCon over the weekend, my wife’s #cosplay as Whitney Frost from Agent Carter. The phone picture is so much sharper, and the Pixel 2 finally gets the color balance better too.
Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157694829944955
This is pretty cool: Firefox has a new extension that isolates your Facebook session…
This is pretty cool: Firefox has a new extension that isolates your Facebook session from the rest of your browsing. That way Facebook isn’t able to track you as you visit every website that happens to have a Like button or embedded FB comments.
Facebook still knows what you do *on* FB, but this cuts down on their ability to track you elsewhere.
via @NETIZEN
introductions time!
#introductions time! I’m an LA-area programmer, #scifi / #comics / #fantasy fan & hobbyist photographer. I’ve been @kelsonv for a while, but I keep meaning to look for a more specific instance for fandom-related discussions. It looks like this might be it?
Watching #iZombie, #TheFlash & #TheMagicians, way behind on a bunch of other shows. Favorite comics ATM are #Saga & #AstroCity.
In the middle of re-reading all of #LesMiserables, currently on the chapters introducing Marius.
It’s weird how it hides the instance name…my other accounts are on mastodon.social (my main one) and photog.social (my photography). Maybe I should’ve picked different usernames as well just for clarity?
I’ve been meaning to do something similar, but aside from the photography…
@kemonine I’ve been meaning to do something similar, but aside from the photography, i’m still not sure how I want to divide it up. Probably one for the technical side of things, maybe one for pop culture/fandom, and another for the rest. But I need to decide first. Then I need to figure out where’s best suited for each…
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, not just in terms of people abusing the network, but in terms of how much I use it, who I follow, what topics are discussed…
@kemonine I’ve been thinking about this a lot, not just in terms of people abusing the network, but in terms of how much I use it, who I follow, what topics are discussed… It’s still possible for a bunch of people to act in good faith without being toxic, but end up putting you in a worse mood. You have to curate your experience. And I think segmenting across instances helps with that, but I’m still figuring out that balance.