Let's go into the waaaayyyyy-back machine!
Le sigh, I'm getting old. 😫

I've experimented a lot with Photoshop in the past. This one here is a HDR picture, taken with my Nikon DSLR, composed out of 11 photos taken with different exposures. I did not used any HDR filter but took a series of identical photos with different exposures and layered them together. A pain in the ass-process. Additionally I created several texture layers with my own scanned textures, changed the hue of the photo and edited a lot of small details. One picture - edited like this - took a lot of time to finish. I've never used Photoshop actions because I wanted all of my photos to be unique in the editing.
I took these pictures here ( because technically, what you see are 11 photos) around 2007 or 2008. Long before AI generated images were a thing. I no longer like the heavy-edited look of photos and hardly take digital pictures anymore. Just a personal preference for my own photos and no judgement! 😉
Back then, editing photos took time. A lot of trial and error. I learned a lot from it. About composition, light, colours, textures ... and patience. 😄

Using AI to generate images takes this unique learning experience away from you. You might get better at writing prompts. But you're definitely not getting better at the creative process of image creation. Only the AI will. This way, you are limiting the development if your own artistic skills.

#mytwocents #blastfromthepast #photoshop #hdr #editing #dslr #nikon #photography #beelitz #urbex #lostplaces #noai

(pls boost 🙏)

i’m looking for a fedi web frontend that will work on internet explorer 11 and look okay on a phone screen

snac’s webui works really well, but mastodon api support is sadly a must

(pls boost 🥺)

do you know a fedi client for windows phone? 8.1 is preferred, 10 is okay

so far i tried fedicen (90% of the features are missing) and i tried universalfedi (it doesn’t really work)

I created a font based on the character set of the Yugoslavian Galaksija computer! You can get it for free here:

https://lurnoise.itch.io/maglica

The Heart Nebula (Sh2-190) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia about 7500 ly away. It includes the open cluster IC 1805 in the center of the heart, as well as numerous dark nebulae. As the name suggests, the nebula looks like a heart when viewed from the side (east up, north right). The framing is a bit whacky, but I like how the center came out (see crop).

Exposure: 4h 10m 30s
#astrophotography #photography #space #stars #nebula #Siril #RCAstro #GIMP #GMIC #digiKam

You look like you are in need of a trash panda!

#raccoon #trashpanda

An enjoyable read, wonderfully written. And besides, it's a hopeful book. Not optimistic: hopeful. Not like "everything will be fine", but "things can improve IF we take some actions together". Thank you @pluralistic

what a beautiful day in da neighbourhood

random thought:

• you should have forums for your hobby / subculture / open source thing / etc., that are not discord, and that are openly accessible in HTML online. you should try to make those appear on google and be like the place to discuss the thing, if that's at all doable.

• many online subcultures used to have a politeness norm of "don't ask questions without first googling it". this rule is obsolete. googling it doesn't work anymore. stackexchange is dead. it is very difficult already to find reliable information. you need to make it as easy and inviting as possible for curious people and newcomers to get used to asking human beings about the thing. this means tolerating common questions rather than replying to them like "read the FAQ/TFM/search the forum" etc.

• in fact, actively establish spaces specifically meant for people who are too intimidated to ask questions. in a reddit-type forum, do "weekly quick q&a thread—all questions welcome" kinda thing (it's less intimidating to post a brief comment than making a question post). do "weekly casual chat thread" and "beginner's corner" and "off-topic fridays" and stuff like that, too.

• and on the converse, actively discourage people from posting chatbot answers, through both forum rules and fostering forum culture. don't be aggressive about it but also don't be lenient.

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

Another shot of my favorite cheese grater building for #TextureTuesday.

Everyone's talking about switching to florpBSD or redtreeOS or forkyforkerLinux and whatever else such nonsense when the actual solution to literally all of our problems is just to stop using computers altogether. Look, it was clearly a failed experiment, it's time to cut our losses and walk away.

An HTTPS certificate authority has been compromised. If you want to ensure #NetBSD is not vulnerable, you can run the following commands as root:
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/Comodo_AAA_Services_root.pem
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.pem

You can review the untrusted ones with:

# certctl untrusted

Read more: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

You can test whether your system is vulnerable by loading the linked pages there.

(Updates coming.)

Dear Operating Systems. It's okay if some of the software that runs on your OS is built with slop. Just don't build the base OS with slop. It's currently impossible to avoid the AI slop while staying current on software. It is what it is.

To everyone who has supported Palestine since the beginning of this genocide, I pray that God protects your children. ❤️🇵🇸

Today, I still need to provide food and medicine for my family of six. Please help us. 🙏💔
https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7

when i was checking out the repo for nicolium, it made me sad to see an agents.md file.... that was until i read the contents of it