Nostr notes by Liam :fnord:

Do you like rock and roll played by dudes wearing makeup? Do you ...

2026-06-04T02:45:17Z

Do you like rock and roll played by dudes wearing makeup? Do you like trains? Get this in your earholes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eyh_XZIdeo&ra=m

It is the really special aspect of Australian capitalism that we ...

2026-05-18T22:51:31Z

It is the really special aspect of Australian capitalism that we think people won’t want to start or run businesses without special tax lurks. Got to give incentives to the special business boys and girls

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2026-05-18T04:22:41Z

https://www.design.org.au/dianews/budget-202627-free-access-to-australian-standards-confirmed

This is *incredibly* good news.

How did anyone go camping before USB powered LED lights. Like ...

2026-04-22T21:36:00Z

How did anyone go camping before USB powered LED lights. Like barbarians

This and the other two books in the trio are some of the most ...

2026-04-20T03:16:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…e5mr
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This and the other two books in the trio are some of the most non-neurotypical books ever written. Adams somehow talked a publisher into printing a lengthy dump of his special interest

Read theory ...

2026-04-20T03:14:41Z

Read theory

What the hell is it with everyone wearing a denim jacket and ...

2026-04-14T23:48:37Z

What the hell is it with everyone wearing a denim jacket and jeans

I am proud to announce that the High Court of Australia has ...

2026-04-09T04:32:12Z

I am proud to announce that the High Court of Australia has declined to hear my appeal against the findings of a defamation trial that I started, and I look forward to the many challenges of this new role

Places have cultural significance through the interactions humans ...

2026-04-09T03:08:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…dtf6
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Places have cultural significance through the interactions humans have had with them, and their accumulated history and associations. There’s no such thing as an inherent significance, as though it were stored in the bricks. It’s a human aspect. But when you see a cat on site, it’s a reminder that it’s not just people who interact with sites, and presumably cats have a limited understanding of what makes places important to them too. It’s interesting to consider, for lack of a better term, cat significance.

Not every site can have a cat aspect to it, obviously. But you ...

2026-04-09T03:04:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…4l7w
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Not every site can have a cat aspect to it, obviously. But you must take your opportunities when they present themselves to you, miaowing, demanding a scritch

I introduced a younger coworker today to Liam’s Rule of Site ...

2026-04-09T02:54:09Z

I introduced a younger coworker today to Liam’s Rule of Site Visits. If you see a cat, you must try to pat the cat.

I am proud to announce that I have been arrested at the airport ...

2026-04-07T02:32:44Z

I am proud to announce that I have been arrested at the airport for war crimes and look forward to the many challenges of this new role

I went to a basketball match yesterday which was on near the ...

2026-04-05T22:28:03Z

I went to a basketball match yesterday which was on near the Easter Show. Outside the station there were little knots of police just standing around carrying automatic rifles, which did not only make me feel less safe, obviously, it made me think how fundamentally a social breach it is to display such things

I just got asked a tram question and described people ...

2026-04-01T23:54:24Z

I just got asked a tram question and described people enthusiastic about light rail vs. enthusiasts of heavy rail as ‘Catholics and Protestants’ but can’t decide which is which

We tried to deliver the prime minister’s speech to your evening ...

2026-04-01T05:16:39Z

We tried to deliver the prime minister’s speech to your evening address but the attempt was unsuccessful. It has been taken to an Australia Post location near you

Every now and then someone does the pub chat topic ‘what’s ...

2026-03-19T21:25:33Z

Every now and then someone does the pub chat topic ‘what’s the artwork you admire with politics that aren’t yours’. For me it’s Billy Bragg’s Talking With The Taxman About Poetry, a profoundly conservative album

We tried to deliver the extra pint of human kindness but were ...

2026-03-18T09:38:10Z

We tried to deliver the extra pint of human kindness but were unsuccessful. Your pint has been sent to an Australia Post distribution centre near you.

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2026-03-17T21:25:54Z

The Kyle Sandilands and Mark Latham Podcast

Spiky boi ...

2026-03-15T07:53:48Z

Spiky boi

Tired: LLMs exist and now we must all deal with the consequences ...

2026-03-13T01:30:11Z

Tired: LLMs exist and now we must all deal with the consequences by integrating them into workflows

Wired: there is a value to human labour in computing and quality systems must be defended strongly, technology is too valuable to be left in the hands of oligarchy

Inspired: give me an IBM Selectric ball typewriter, and a box of index cards, and get the fuck out of my office

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2026-03-11T06:50:08Z

NACC is Temu ICAC

The energy I’m bringing to today is the very elderly man I just ...

2026-03-02T20:17:59Z

The energy I’m bringing to today is the very elderly man I just saw shuffle across six lanes of Parramatta Road traffic, not at any kind of crossing, just straight out in front of everything, walking stick and shopping bag, fuckin come at me

This is a wild story, about a community battery project in ...

2026-02-27T20:14:36Z

This is a wild story, about a community battery project in Narrabri that got derailed because of ‘community concerns’. It had a DA and a construction certificate and *still* got cancelled.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-28/misinformation-kills-narrabri-community-battery-project/106120264

FWIW we first thought it was a person coming into the yard to ...

2026-02-22T21:36:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…dte5
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FWIW we first thought it was a person coming into the yard to move the little rocks around and put them on walls, which was creepy as shit, until we heard the cawing and saw the crow, when it became awesome

BIRD PEOPLE ON THE TOOTS There is a crow that for some reason ...

2026-02-22T20:56:29Z

BIRD PEOPLE ON THE TOOTS

There is a crow that for some reason really likes playing with coloured rocks in my front yard. It picks them up and puts them in different places. Short of feeding this bird, how can I encourage the crows to do cool stuff like this

Post your ominous signs ...

2026-02-16T21:24:23Z

Post your ominous signs

Remembering Jon Kudelka, his greatest one-line single panel ...

2026-02-09T02:02:57Z

Remembering Jon Kudelka, his greatest one-line single panel

I am proud to announce that I am a senior public servant and have ...

2026-01-25T10:37:58Z

I am proud to announce that I am a senior public servant and have been awarded Australian honours for the job I do, which also pays a great deal of money, and I look forward to the many challenges of this role

Asking for uh some interested people: how do streetside and ...

2025-12-21T23:39:50Z

Asking for uh some interested people: how do streetside and public charging stations for electric vehicles perform in flooding? Are there cutoffs or do the stations stay live in floodwater?

[boosts encouraged]

We have a detailed storm warning for SW Sydney. Eyes on ...

2025-12-11T21:39:19Z

We have a detailed storm warning for SW Sydney. Eyes on

This is so ugly I just might have to get one ...

2025-11-06T07:58:44Z

This is so ugly I just might have to get one

https://sydneyfc.com/news/sydney-fc-unveil-2025-26-third-kit-jacaranda/

'...on 2 September 2025, the Heritage Council of NSW resolved ...

2025-10-30T00:19:32Z

'...on 2 September 2025, the Heritage Council of NSW resolved to recommend listing the Heritage Hotel on the State Heritage Register (SHR) to the Minister for Heritage.'

I feel like I'm having a stroke

In an Achewood style car-pick test. The Australian Fediverse car ...

2025-10-16T07:51:13Z

In an Achewood style car-pick test. The Australian Fediverse car is:

Taylor Swift should simply follow in a line of American pop ...

2025-10-03T22:36:01Z

Taylor Swift should simply follow in a line of American pop artists who release thematically consistent work of a reliable quality, like Bob Dylan, and Madonna, and 2 Live Crew

One of the more WTF plans I’ve ever seen, a row of three ...

2025-09-05T01:35:19Z

One of the more WTF plans I’ve ever seen, a row of three outhouse bathrooms in a block of flats above a shop c.1924

https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/606368

I was just listening to Billy Bragg’s Milkman Of Human Kindness ...

2025-09-03T00:46:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…p6fh
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I was just listening to Billy Bragg’s Milkman Of Human Kindness this morning

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2025-08-31T06:33:03Z

🦛

At best it’s bullshit spun to desperate people by shameless ...

2025-08-26T22:00:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…n0q4
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At *best* it’s bullshit spun to desperate people by shameless grifters barely above water themselves. At worst, well, it’s murderous.

I like to shitpost about sovcit stuff because it’s genuinely ...

2025-08-26T21:59:02Z

I like to shitpost about sovcit stuff because it’s genuinely folk kooky, a conspiratoria for the people, and I appreciate it in that lens. But at the core it’s horrible stuff, and tends inevitably to violence

Fuck I think someone wants to use the phone. Better log out

2025-08-04T00:03:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…wwxa
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Fuck I think someone wants to use the phone. Better log out

60kb/s, but I’m old enough to remember when that was ball ...

2025-08-04T00:00:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…x2t2
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60kb/s, but I’m old enough to remember when that was ball tearingly fast

Step 1. Teacher instructs everyone to download a >1GB file ...

2025-08-03T23:57:26Z

Step 1. Teacher instructs everyone to download a >1GB file from Teams
Step 2. Everyone in the class does
Step 3. Why are all the downloads on the network PCs so slow

In my TAFE class we are having the concept of a file system ...

2025-07-30T23:31:03Z

In my TAFE class we are having the concept of a file system explained to us, i.e. files inside folders, because apparently this structure isn’t common knowledge amongst young people

Every piece of computer hardware made for 'gaming' is as ...

2025-07-10T08:27:37Z

Every piece of computer hardware made for 'gaming' is as ugly as sin. Gruesome flashing lights. It's an aesthetic as ugly as the ideology

I have only the foulest language for this PDF reader that pops up ...

2025-07-09T02:00:14Z

I have only the foulest language for this PDF reader that pops up an AI assistant whenever I go to fill in a field in a form. It’s unedifying enough that I’m filling in a fucking PDF form full of lines pretending that it’s paper to give planning information to a consent authority *that will go through a portal*. I know what my own name is

I wish the ABC’s live blog wouldn’t do thing like this ...

2025-06-25T12:14:16Z

I wish the ABC’s live blog wouldn’t do thing like this

it’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_SV

2025-06-16T05:36:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…w7ns
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it’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_SV

yes I got the answer!

2025-06-16T05:08:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…r03u
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yes I got the answer!

Any guesses? ...

2025-06-16T02:23:04Z

Any guesses?

It is 2025 and I am filling out forms with my signature.png in ...

2025-06-04T00:36:38Z

It is 2025 and I am filling out forms with my signature.png in PDF, for someone else to sign with a signature.png in PDF, to be entered into a finance system

for me it’s that Bashful seems to be throwing a gang sign that ...

2025-05-29T07:39:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…0fgg
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for me it’s that Bashful seems to be throwing a gang sign that does it

I got you bro ...

2025-05-29T07:20:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…excv
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I got you bro

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2025-05-29T07:06:17Z

I’m going to Aldi do you want anything

This is going to go on a bunch of slideshows under ‘why you ...

2025-05-25T09:03:04Z

This is going to go on a bunch of slideshows under ‘why you don’t drive through floodwater’

This cat is a troll. It loves to sit in the path and as people ...

2025-05-18T23:32:20Z

This cat is a troll. It loves to sit in the path and as people walking their dogs go by it just sits there as they go apeshit. 11/10 mischief cat

I have emerged into today in an absolutely foul mood for Reasons ...

2025-05-13T22:55:25Z

I have emerged into today in an absolutely foul mood for Reasons and internet people you need to send me pictures of your cats and dogs. I need internet cats

One of the things about AI boosterism and by extension the whole ...

2025-05-01T02:30:18Z

One of the things about AI boosterism and by extension the whole Silicon Valley mindset is that it elevates ‘building things’ as the only worthy human act. It isn’t. You and I and the whole of humanity spend most of our time using and _maintaining_ things. Whether it’s doing the laundry or cooking dinner or sewing a button back on. Or using a template to revise a report. Or being the workers who make the accountable decisions to keep things going. This is what human working life is.

by outstanding coincidence I happened to have to refer to this ...

2025-04-28T06:00:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…qc73
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by outstanding coincidence I happened to have to refer to this today for work:

https://heritagensw.intersearch.com.au/heritagenswjspui/handle/1/933#

TLDR; yes, it’s complicated but also important

Adobe Acrobat wants me to 'review contracts with AI ...

2025-04-22T01:06:50Z

Adobe Acrobat wants me to 'review contracts with AI assistant' and friends, let this not be legal advice anyone ever takes

RETVRN https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/669009 ...

2025-04-15T00:13:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…4zqk
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RETVRN

https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/669009

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2025-04-14T23:17:51Z

Hydrofoils. We need to go back to this.

A feature of Australian building stock is that there are specific ...

2025-04-07T03:51:41Z

A feature of Australian building stock is that there are specific types which are still prevalent partly because they were being built widely immediately before a financial crash—and so were not replaced. Victorian 1880s office buildings in Melbourne. Federation houses of before WWI, and then bungalows and shopping rows of the 1920s. Look around now at what will be remnant of this crash in 50-100 years’ time.

I am proud to announce that I have put on a high-vis vest and a ...

2025-04-03T06:19:08Z

I am proud to announce that I have put on a high-vis vest and a plastic hardhat for the purposes of being photographed in a political ad, and I look forward to the many challenges of this role

It is Monday morning which means it’s time to remember: ...

2025-03-09T21:08:02Z

It is Monday morning which means it’s time to remember: dentistry should be on Medicare and bulk billed

I bloguẽd: Chilli https://orangejuiceandryvita.com/212/chilli

2025-02-26T04:43:21Z

I bloguẽd: Chilli

https://orangejuiceandryvita.com/212/chilli

#PacificWeatherTooting

2025-02-19T23:08:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…vqy7
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#PacificWeatherTooting

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2025-02-19T20:37:00Z

Everybody’s blogging and it feels good

Exporting Whirlpool and Australian Dashcams to the globe can be ...

2025-01-15T01:10:02Z

Exporting Whirlpool and Australian Dashcams to the globe can be the centre of a future Australian soft power initiative. Alongside Bluey. Think about it.

Think of American teenagers driving, getting cut off, and telling other people to get fucked ya fucken nong

Inside everyone around the world, looking around at models of ...

2025-01-14T21:37:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…vm22
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Inside everyone around the world, looking around at models of organising a society, there is a quartet of improbably smooth and beautiful Korean young men, skilled at harmonising, and hair care

Honestly I suspect you could measure a society’s soft power ...

2025-01-14T21:29:52Z

Honestly I suspect you could measure a society’s soft power internationally by how desirable other people perceive it is to be a teenager there. Australia absolutely whipped in the 80s and 90s purely based on Neighbours and Home And Away. At the moment one of the greatest civilisations on the planet must be South Korea of glorious K-pop

got to install a bcmwl-kernel-source whatever the fuck that is. ...

2025-01-14T09:41:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…w74u
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got to install a bcmwl-kernel-source whatever the fuck that is. But honestly. when an OS tells you what the experience is going to be like, believe it

Fuck this. I’ll try again in 2028 probably

2025-01-14T09:35:13Z

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Fuck this. I’ll try again in 2028 probably

[Harvey Keitel as Mr White intensifies] #linux ...

2025-01-14T09:29:38Z

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[Harvey Keitel as Mr White intensifies] #linux

Because the internet is broken now, the advice I’m getting for ...

2025-01-14T09:25:15Z

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Because the internet is broken now, the advice I’m getting for ‘connect to wifi Linux mint 22’ seems mostly to be that I should update the kernel. Maybe that’s AI slop or maybe it’s just the state of fucking Linux. Fuck everything #linux

If I need to access a fucking command line to connect to wifi ...

2025-01-14T09:17:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…mzaa
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If I need to access a fucking command line to connect to wifi straight out of the box. I’m kicking the first nerd I see tomorrow. #linux

Every few years I feel I need to teach myself this lesson again, ...

2025-01-14T08:59:38Z

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Every few years I feel I need to teach myself this lesson again, because I never learn. I don’t mean the skills. I mean the consequences #linux #MoreChoke #LifeCoices

Current status, installing Linux mint on an elderly mac laptop ...

2025-01-14T08:53:08Z

Current status, installing Linux mint on an elderly mac laptop #MoreChoke #ButDontFloodIt

On second thought. Dracula as a predator on humans and a hunting ...

2025-01-09T09:42:29Z

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On second thought. Dracula as a predator on humans and a hunting fish in the waters of despair and desire, of wanting to be elsewhere but being where one is, would be at Maccas Lithgow

you’ve been there at night on a weekday then. You know

2025-01-09T06:16:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…9qnq
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you’ve been there at night on a weekday then. You know

Count Orlok ordering a Filet o Fish and chips and just standing ...

2025-01-09T06:14:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…3euu
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Count Orlok ordering a Filet o Fish and chips and just standing at the back of the Canberra-bound maccas to wait for them, menacingly

Every vampire story should be set in a profoundly liminal space, ...

2025-01-09T06:13:05Z

Every vampire story should be set in a profoundly liminal space, where nobody is ever entirely comfortable, where the prevailing feeling is unease, where nothing is natural, where everybody brings their own reality and nobody shares it.

So I am setting my vampire story at the Suttons Forest Roadhouse on the Hume Highway

Okay the answer of course is that developers recognise they’re ...

2025-01-07T01:30:28Z

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Okay the answer of course is that developers recognise they’re building for households of non-romantically-cohabiting adults sharing for economy. That much makes sense and it’s even good that the market is responding to conditions. But that doesn’t explain why you need a Versailles Hall of Toilet Bowls

My partner found an ad for a flat that was three bedrooms, four ...

2025-01-07T01:17:47Z

My partner found an ad for a flat that was three bedrooms, four toilets. Who shits that much? Who is the market for this?

My grandparents both had all of their adult teeth removed in ...

2025-01-02T07:15:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…9z7u
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My grandparents both had all of their adult teeth removed in their twenties, in favour of false teeth, because they quite reasonably/rightly figured it saved time later, and they had the money for what was a status procedure. That was in the 20thC! That was a *modern* technique! #teeth

Quite simply I don’t think any romantics of previous historical ...

2025-01-02T07:12:50Z

Quite simply I don’t think any romantics of previous historical eras understand what it must have been like to live in an era before modern dentistry. I cannot imagine it. #teeth

Bit lighter in the wallet, some sanding of a chipped tooth down, ...

2025-01-02T05:11:35Z

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Bit lighter in the wallet, some sanding of a chipped tooth down, hooray for dentists #teeth

Anyway my general view is that teeth issues affect almost ...

2025-01-01T23:29:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…q2vd
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Anyway my general view is that teeth issues affect almost everything about your life instantly and powerfully, and all dental care should be free or at least bulk billed to Medicare #teeth

We have a winner. In Chatswood admittedly but we have a dentist ...

2025-01-01T23:26:53Z

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We have a winner. In Chatswood admittedly but we have a dentist #teeth

Let’s see if I can find a dentist today on this so-called not ...

2025-01-01T22:21:33Z

Let’s see if I can find a dentist today on this so-called not public holiday #teeth

Oh I forgot tomorrow we’re doing Orders of Australia for public ...

2024-12-31T03:07:56Z

Oh I forgot tomorrow we’re doing Orders of Australia for public servants who have managed to avoid being sacked

🤚 treating ChatGPT like a search engine 👉 ‘Lie Bot, what ...

2024-12-29T22:57:08Z

🤚 treating ChatGPT like a search engine

👉 ‘Lie Bot, what is the saddest thing?’

North Americans: what is a typical basketball-going snack or meal ...

2024-12-29T07:36:30Z

North Americans: what is a typical basketball-going snack or meal there

yeah, I don't know what was going on there but I think ...

2024-12-27T00:50:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…tgeg
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yeah, I don't know what was going on there but I think offences against the Road Rules were the least of the sins

Any discussion of towing reminds me of the sick freaks I ran into ...

2024-12-27T00:48:40Z

Any discussion of towing reminds me of the sick freaks I ran into in South Australia who were towing a caravan and a RAV4 in a b-double arrangement behind one of those American steroid utes. Freudian stuff.

‘Linux has improved and it’s easy now!’ Charlie Brown will ...

2024-12-15T23:52:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…6nlk
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‘Linux has improved and it’s easy now!’

Charlie Brown will kick the football, this time I’m sure

‘Having time to edit RAW files’ belongs in the same order of ...

2024-12-15T23:31:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…w4ak
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‘Having time to edit RAW files’ belongs in the same order of human activity as ‘can be bothered to know how make the sound work on a linux desktop’

Friends, if I wanted to inefficiently adjust my pictures out of a ...

2024-12-15T23:19:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…304w
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Friends, if I wanted to inefficiently adjust my pictures out of a sense of perverse need for control, I’d develop and scan my own black and white film*

* yes

Always shoot in JPEG, nobody in the world has time in their life ...

2024-12-15T22:36:22Z

Always shoot in JPEG, nobody in the world has time in their life to edit RAW image files

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2024-12-12T01:12:14Z

I’ve got some Volunteer Organisation Feelings

The observation that Bluesky is just another corporate site with ...

2024-12-11T22:49:20Z

The observation that Bluesky is just another corporate site with all of the future failures inherent to that is broadly right. But a thing that frustrates me about the pro-fediverse counterargument is the seeming expectation that basic infrastructure should be free. There’s always a cost, it’s someone moderating or doing updates, or it’s a higher level of expected technical aptitude (the ‘just use linux’ beloved of foss types).

Quality infrastructure is costly, there’s no way around that, whether it’s train networks, sewers, pensions, or social media.