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Flickr Hot Take

When Yahoo realized they’d missed the smartphone shift, they tried to make Flickr something it wasn’t suited for (Instagram! Look, filters!) & couldn’t sustain (cloud storage for ALL your photos, just like FB!) Maybe chasing FB kept them alive for a while, but it put them in a bind down the road.

It sucks that SmugMug is deleting pics, but taking it back to basics might make it more viable long-term.

Maybe they can become a 1st-rate Flickr instead of a 3rd-rate Instagram or FB.

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Expanded on my blog:

https://hyperborea.org/journal/2019/02/flickr-purge/

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My rule of thumb for notifications:- Will I need to act on it?- How …

My rule of thumb for notifications:
– Will I need to act on it?
– How time-sensitive is it?
– How important?
– Is it actually for me, or is it an ad for the app service?

I turn off what I don’t need, turn off sound on the less urgent ones, and customize sounds for the most important ones.

So I hear when a text or IM comes in, but not email or social media. When I pick up my phone I see emails, mentions & replies, but not favorites or boosts, etc.

It helps me a lot with alert overload. YMMV.

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I suggest that a deep orange moon right before Christmas be called a #PumpkinPieMoon.

I was coming home shortly after sunset, got to the top of a hill and saw this deep orange moon, flattened near the horizon. By the time I found a place to stop, it had risen high enough that it was mostly round.

Composite of a background shot (the moon was waay too bright!) and a close-up of the #moon. I apparently moved a little bit, so the wire passing in front of it doesn’t line up exactly. #photography

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Obviously I should’ve said “zoom” and not “close-up” of the moon… 🤦‍♂️

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Not sure if I’m more appalled by the idea of smiling plastic poop that poops smiling candy poop, or amused by the shelf placement

Not sure if I’m more appalled by the idea of smiling plastic poop that poops smiling candy poop, or amused by the shelf placement.

#tacky #💩 #wtf #go #emoji #EmojiGoneWrong

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Facebook comments:

Jim Vibber: Upside-down, “PooP” looks like “dood”. Maybe that’s why they call it “doodie.”
Nov 26, 2018, 6:26 PM
Brion Vibber: How awfully recursive. . .
Nov 26, 2018, 7:08 PM
Lisa Lee: “U Can’t Touch This”
Nov 28, 2018, 10:29 AM

Also comments on Mastodon – try to use brid.gy first!

@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.

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Another amazing sunset! This has been an incredible week for them

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Interesting vocab mixup with the 7YO last night: He agreed to stop a game at …

Interesting vocab mixup with the 7YO last night: He agreed to stop a game at “the first save point” and get ready for bed. When he didn’t, he said he hadn’t gotten to a “safe point” yet.

It turned out he didn’t understand what a save point was, because all the games he’s played up until now either don’t save progress at all, or save continuously.

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You know what I miss about CDs and other physical music media? Liner notes.Art, …

You know what I miss about CDs and other physical music media?

Liner notes.

Art, lyrics, sometimes stories…

…and credits. Who is that familiar-sounding background singer? Who wrote the song? Is it a cover? This one really reminds me of a certain composer, lyricist, or arranger’s style – can I confirm that?

The performer and title are easy to get, even if it’s not in your own library.

But the rest? If the song is notable enough for Wikipedia, great. Otherwise, who knows?

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In Final Crisis, the Anti-Life Equation is able to compel the surrender of free will. …

In Final Crisis, the Anti-Life Equation is able to compel the surrender of free will. Those who have submitted spout slogans about how it justifies anything, how it’s so much easier than the struggles of life and love.

It’s insidious, because in some ways it *is* easier to offload tough decisions to a schedule, a policy, a leader, etc. The brain likes taking shortcuts around cognitive load. But people want to be *able* to make choices when they want to.

#amreading #comics #psychology

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Another interesting thing about Final Crisis is how much damage Darkseid does just by existing. …

Another interesting thing about Final Crisis is how much damage Darkseid does just by existing. He doesn’t do any traditional super villain things in the entire story. No battles, no plotting. He just sits on his throne, yaking advantage of a battle he already won, imposing his will on an entire planet. He spends most of the story sitting on an underground bunker, but his presence presses down on the whole world.

#amreading #comics

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Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done …

Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done some Ruby, but he’s impatient, so last night I we started Java with a simple program that repeats a println X times.

He wanted to pass it the integer limit.

After a few minutes, I suggested we watch a movie & check back later.

After dinner, he decided to stop it & we timed some shorter runs.

I think he has a better understanding of scale now!

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I was looking for sandals and found these. They’re flip flops with a built in…

I was looking for sandals and found these. They’re flip flops with a built in bottle opener, I suppose to make them more…cool? Gadget-y? But it’s on the sole of the shoe.

Someone really didn’t think this design through.

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@mattamatic I honestly have no idea whether you’re kidding about the flask version!

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@dantebrevity OK, if they’ve never been worn, sure – I just can’t get past the fact that I’d be putting something that I walk on onto something I’d be drinking.

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