Replies to sasha

nydel sasha

@jla it's definitely the year wherein non-person accounts arose in an attempt to turn !gnusocial into another marketably-hip vehicle by which to advance the fourth estate above the meeple-ridden third & in process create the expressedly-unconstitutional - & respectively second and first - estates of nobility and royalty: the mysterious "verified" // the lords of waterdeep // the meowmeowbeenz fives // the sweet and elite #friendshipIsMagic #canterlotGardenParty !fediverse

dwmatiz gnusocial , sasha

@jla !gnusocial got me more into free software and made me realise that not all bronies are bad. Mastodon's only problem is the person making it.

karl sasha , mono , takeshitakenji

@takekiwiakenji @mono @jla I love the micro 4/3rds format. The sensor isn't much smaller than APS (18x13.5mm vs 24x18mm), so it's still great in low-light. But since it's closer to a square format than APS, the lenses can be made *much* smaller and lighter for the same aperture.

My daily carry (literally) is a Canon T3i with the new-design 24/2.8 pancake and 50/1.8 focus-by-wire lenses, but I'm giving serious thought to selling the whole Canon kit and going with something micro 4/3rds.

kzimmermann sasha , bob

@jla @bob it should be the opposite: everything GNU/Linux with a few exceptional cases. Unfortunately #MS has too much influence on Colleges

therubackup sasha , postblue

@postblue, that looks neat :)

kzimmermann sasha , xrevan86

@jla @xrevan86 inb4 thread turns into discussion of esoteric OSes.

mcscx sasha

@jla good to see that not everybody uses Gnome, KDE, XFCE and LXDE these days :) Do you still use #Windowmaker today or is it an old system?

gunvolt sasha

@jla m e h to me

vinzv sasha

@jla I mostly use a Hario V60 dripper but also have an Aeropress for the quick'n easy small portions.

ghostdancer coffee , sasha

@jla i have a home espresso machine but thinking about going aeropress, but for now my !coffee black as my heart and strong as the hulk :-)

maiyannah sasha

@jla Vivaldi

takeshitakenji sasha , mono , takeshitakenji

@mono @jla I often pair my Micro Four Thirds camera with a pancake lens when taking photos like 'normal' people do with a phone.  When I'm in a dimly-lit space, with the aperture set to f/1.8 or so, I can get a shutter speed of 60 with a reasonable ISO setting, so the photos generally look pretty sharp.

While the wide aperture does severely limit the depth of focus, that's usually not a significant problem in those cases.  I can always set up my mini tripod when on the go to allow for a slower shutter speed and a narrower aperture without blur.

takeshitakenji sasha , mono

@jla @mono Well, when you have a tiny sensor like on a phone you have to make serious compromises to get anything.

1) If you turn the ISO sensitivity way up, you get a ton of graininess.
2) If you turn the 'shutter' speed way down, you get a ton of blurriness.
3) If you do neither, your photo is very dark.

How these companies are trying to pack a ton more 'megapixels' into these tiny sensors only worsens the problem.  In fact, the best thing they can do with all these 'megapixels' is downsample until the noise and blur are unnoticeable, which some phones do in software.

andstatus sasha , thefaico

@jla As Wikipedia tells us https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
We will think about handling this...

Ruben van Os sasha

It was a joke on the "teaching kids to install Gentoo" thing. I don't know if anything changed, I'm still pretty new.

Ruben van Os sasha

@jla Late-reply: The Oval album you linked to was... interesting. Good enough to keep in my collection, at least. Thanks for sharing!

Ruben van Os sasha

I'm slightly disappointed about this not being Creative Commons due to being sponsored by cultural organisations, but hey, free music, cool.

Erkan Yılmaz sasha

I must admit I'm not familiar with those, just watched what came in TV back then. I think was on RTL II http://ur1.ca/cyrej

tekk sasha

@jla kiva! kiitos :)