szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

What is that?

I have a photo that has a flying bird captured just barely in the bottom left corner. The bird is very small when compared to the size of the photo. Also, the photo is extremely noisy.

I wanted to do something with the flying bird and wondered what is wrong with its head. So, I opened it with Lightroom and did some things but left the noise and exported it to my computer. Then I opened it with Topaz DeNoise AI and dealt with the noise. I find Topaz AI does a better job maintaining detail.

Anyway, it dawned on me that nothing was wrong with the bird's head, as it was flying away, not toward the camera. What I was seeing was feet. 😅

I'm surprised and a bit proud that I can recognize a tufted titmouse from behind.

Cheers ☺

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #TuftedTitmouse

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to becomes aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.

Night skies are getting 9.6% brighter every year as light pollution erases #stars for everyone.

The situation is dire for astronomers, astrophotographers, and everyone else who is interested in looking up and taking a look at the tranguility of the ocean of stars.

The stars in the sky taught us #mathematics and #physics, but now we are collectively forgetting its beauty.

#astronomy #astrophotography https://theconversation.com/night-skies-are-getting-9-6-brighter-every-year-as-light-pollution-erases-stars-for-everyone-199383

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works, huh?

America’s legal system today

I want to practice law:
—You need a 4 year Bachelors, take the LSAT, then a 3 year JD, then pass the BAR, buy malpractice insurance, & total cost is ~$300K

I want to enforce the law:
—Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun

I want to write the law:
—No qualifications needed and a billionaire can buy you a seat

@anildash This is a big problem for trans people. I just abandoned some sites that wouldn't let me change my name and/or email.

@anildash My mentor and I had two significant technical disagreements where I ended up being right; one involved a product we were building where I argued hard against (and lost) using email addresses as the unique ID on the back end. It’s an architectural trap. The security line is a straight-up lie.

It is genuinely *unbelievable* how many sites don't let you change the email address on your account. I've been in a (multi-year) effort to move to a new standard personal email address, and there are sites, including sites where I've spent hundreds of dollars, where there is simply no way to update an email address, even if I talk to their support staff. And then they lie and say it's "for security reasons"! Just astounding. People lose/change addresses all the time!

@gratefuldread While I applaud anything that moves marijuana into the mainstream of acceptable products there is always a reason for the shift. States that have medical marijuana also require annual license fees (no other prescriptions require a license/ID card), and 6 month visits to the prescribing Dr. Then there are the dispensaries that are taxed up the wazzoo. It's just another ponzi scheme for states to gain more tax revenue. Full legalization is the way to go.

A to ci niespodzianka
Wskaźniki prywatności w #google #playstore są nic niewarte
https://foundation.mozilla.org/pl/privacynotincluded/articles/mozilla-study-data-privacy-labels-for-most-top-apps-in-google-play-store-are-false-or-misleading/?utm_source=mofo&utm_campaign=23-PNI-GPS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=en&utm_content=banner

Part of the reason the NYT thinks they did nothing is wrong is that they were very polite in their articles. To a certain kind of center-right liberal elite, politeness is all that matters. They think it’s okay to advocate for genocide if you say it in a nice way.

The Vinyl Institute has poured millions of dollars into convincing the public, with the help of Democratic and Republican lobbyists alike, that PVC is safe and sustainable. https://theintercept.com/2023/02/18/east-palestine-plastic-industry-lobbying/

Oh my god! Shift Happens is now 400% funded and No. 2 most-funded non-fiction book in Kickstarter history! This is wild!? https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=48&sort=most_funded&seed=2793152&page=1

A teeny Mangora acalypha (cricket bat spider) spotted in the foliage in Hampstead Heath a couple of weeks ago #Spiders #MacroPhotography #Wildlife #Invertebrates

Someone wrote in asking for technical support, asking for a very specific installer for a specific piece of software, apparently no longer available for download from our site.

Here's the weird part: Neither this software nor an installer for it have ever existed. (Was this software someone else wrote, that we're just hearing about for the first time?)

After several back and forth messages asking for detail and where they heard about this software, it turns out that it all came from ChatGPT.

In case you considered thoughts and prayers to be the least they could care. In case you thought they couldnt be more bored with this shootings at school thing.

Vanderbilt University Caught Using ChatGPT To Console Students After MSU Shooting

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vanderbilt-university-uses-chatgpt-email-after-msu-shooting_n_63f620abe4b0a209e82ad9e6