PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They remain what they actually are, your memories, under your control.
Hmm, I wonder what it will take for it to become capable of backing up photos from anywhere in the world not just home network. Then I could use it as a replacement for Google Photos entirely when on a trip or going to my hometown.
sunny 16 was such a liberating concept. once you understood how to read the light, it felt so freeing, just had to trust your gut and the flexibility of film
I've had it closing on me while I work a couple of times. A few years back, a recurring issue I had, that was back when I used OS X, if I started watching a movie in VLC, it would break audio in Renoise, and forced me to reboot Renoise.
I only ever used Renoise as a tracker, personally, same as Sunvox. I love Renoise btw, I wrote all the chiptune stuff I ever released in it.
@neauoire i'm guessing what happened is that VLC made the OS change the sample rate (instead of adapting to the existing one) and renoise didn't adapt to the sample rate that changed under its feet.
@Richard I have a saying: like toilet paper it is possible to be both strong and gentle. What I like about The Crappy Childhood Fairy is that she is both strong and gentle. She doesn't sugar-coat evil, but she teaches how to not let it overwhelm us. This is how she writes about her background:
"I know about childhood trauma because I lived it. I grew up in a rough family that was deeply affected by addiction, and all the problems that tend to go with that - poverty, violence, neglect and shame."
I've been politely described as "direct". I wasn't always that way. Now I am. I decided it's not my job to bend over backwards to make people feel good about themselves at great expense to myself.
@Richard You are right. I find it's still of value to my own soul (so to speak) to be direct from a place of kindness, truth, and strength. I don't want to be an abusive jerk like my parents were.
cream is one of those fonts that either people LOVE it, or absolutely despise it. I personally find it really nice, the capitals sucks, but otherwise, it's quite pretty.
@neauoire i find it quite charming as well. there's a delicateness to it almost like a handwritten look, with a small blend of medieval.
But seeing this really shows why the macintosh team's head exploded when they saw it and why they completely pivoted to. erm... rip it off and be first to market....
Songbirds communicate with different species during nocturnal flights sharing vital info about navigation and stopover habitats. Save their fascinating world!
@kirtai ank24, I've been using it for about a year, it's kinder to my eyes I think. It's also easier to extend(drawing latin extended, cyrillic, etc..) int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/…
Font: DOS/V re. ANK24, from the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
I miss Linux support for Proton Drive, and have asked them for it on LinkedIn.
For cloud backup on Linux I ended up using Jottacloud, which has a CLI tool (beta version). However it's not perfect, but if files are not synced automatically I start the sync job manually.
The only problem I have with de-googling is the Play Store. It's the only place I can get banking apps and governmental app safely. If these were available from alternative source, I could throw Google away easily.
Raspberry Pi is a great way to get started with self-hosting your cloud on a budget. 💸
How-To Geek writer Tim Brookes shares how you can replace stacking subscriptions like iCloud, Spotify, or audiobooks with self-hosted apps you fully control.
I’d love to believe it’s so easy as many people make it sound like, but every time I approach the subject I feel a sense of overwhelm that kinda paralises me before even getting started.
big nope from me - get something good - there is way more value out there - hp refurbs trounce pi in every metric especially value - even when you consider electricity - don't fall for the pi spiel, it is a false narrative
32 People Died in ICE Custody in 2025, as #Minneapolis Killings Spark Outrage
“Of those who died in #ICE custody last year include Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death in #Texas has been ruled a homicide.
Also Wael Tarabishi, who died of a rare genetic disease thirty days after his father, Wael’s primary caregiver, was detained by ICE after a routine check-in at an immigration facility in Dallas.”
The Sulawesi Babirusa also known as the North Sulawesi Babirusa are wild pigs are found on Sulawesi Island along with nearby islands Lembeh, Buton, and Muna in #Indonesia. They have a mottled grey-…
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
@neauoire I know DuckDuckGo uses bing results, so that's mostly where I'm affected in this. But yeah, I haven't heard of anyone using raw bing in a while either
I need to get a proper YT proxy front-end going (I might install my own Invidious, but we'll see) I am slowly switching EU-based services where possible, but it's not a requirement.
I will be giving a talk about building and scaling the European Cloud with @nextcloud and @mariadb_org at MariaDB Day next Sunday at 17:20h in Brussels. If you want to attend, there is still time to register, it's free ;)
I will be giving a talk about building and scaling the European Cloud with @nextcloud and @mariadb_org at MariaDB Day next Sunday at 17:20h in Brussels. If you want to attend, there is still time to register, it's free ;)
Google is adding Gemini-powered "Suggested times" to Google Calendar, automatically scanning attendees' calendars to surface the best meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts.
If you could pick one non-U.S. tech, product, or service to switch to, what would you recommend, and why? Open-source and self-hosting options welcome!
European governments are looking to move away from U.S. tech and reclaim their digital sovereignty at a time of unpredictability and volatility in the United States.
I am frequently watching @DestinationLinux Linux on YouTube and the hosts, currently @dasgeek and @Jill_linuxgirl are good (online) friends of mine.
And now they started to use Nextcloud, for collaborative exchange of ideas for show content, managing expenses, ... and more. And Jill is jotting down personal note and ideas with Nextcloud's smartphone app ...
unfortunate, but not catastrophic, and not their first time (so it's not a new nor necessarily endorsed by their new CEO). I hate genAI as much as you all do but I still think they (GOG) are worthy to fight for and get them corrected on the matter. I hope they end up learning from this.
I mean... why? It's just a simple drawing, pay some money to an artist from your staff and that's the end of the story. Why these companies are always getting caught on using AI where any human can do better. How much time they "saved" with this AI picture? A couple of hours? Was it worth it?
Last November I was approached by Dublin City University (DCU) to be one of five artists in residence creating work for a project called SEED.
The brief is to create an artwork that presents complex environmental data without prioritising the sense of vision in the artwork. As a **visual** artist, this is obviously a challenge.
Even more challenging – it is at the artists' discretion what data to use. Sometimes having no limitation on a project can just make it more daunting.
I've used smell, touch and sound in works before, so it's not new ground for me, but I don't think I've ever prioritised these other senses. Visual is my method. So I relish the challenge.
The first problem, however, has been to find data that tells enough of a story. I figure if I can find the data set, then the method should come to me.
In December, I was reading the popular science book 'The High Seas' by Olive Heffernan and came across a reference to the 'Continuous Plankton Recorder'.
This strange device looks like a metal duck and swims in the ocean, dragged behind large and small fishing vessels. It catches (and squashes) tiny plankton onto a silk screen, and these are later counted to show the populations in different waters.
The CPR is interesting for a few reasons. It was the first device to pick up plastic floating in the ocean in 1965, and in the late 1960s it began to record microplastics in the ocean. There is now a 65-year plus record of microplastic increase as a result of these devices, with a 95-year record of plankton recording.
I decided this was my dataset (with agreement from the team at DCU).
I'm not sure why I'm recording this here. I guess sometimes my process is a bit of a mystery to colleagues and friends, so I thought I'd write it up a little. I'm at the stage now where I'm trying to figure out how to present that data in a non-visual form.
My earliest thoughts have been about water. Water as a sensing device, as something you touch, and as a visual medium too (not prioritising visual doesn't mean not using it).
My other thought has been about tension, particularly how stress in one area creates tension in another.
Finally, about plankton, who are crucial to food webs across the ocean. Where their numbers reduce, so do fish, whale, mollusc and other species'. They are keystone in ocean environments.
I've done some experiments using a linear actuator to tension a cello string across a glass fish enclosure that I used in a past project. It sounds and feels good, and I think this will work for the 'output' of the work.
For how the audience might provide input, I was struggling until last Monday when I met Dr Trish Morgan, who is running the project. I wanted human interference to be the trigger. She suggested another box with water that people could move, touch, change. I like this.
So if the work can somehow show the story behind the data, that one stress in one place creates tension in another, I think I could have a nice artwork.
I also changed my mind on the cello string. Fishing wire makes a lot more sense as a medium. And automating the whole thing with some DIY electronics should be possible, although actuators are maybe overkill for the job.
Lots of testing still needed, but the project ends in April so I'll update here as it develops.
@raye yeah the result isn't unlike that. It's beautiful but also pretty upsetting as it kills the plankton that get stuck in the silk, so the process is violent. I want that also to be present in my artwork, a comment on that violence, but I haven't figured that out yet.
It reminds me a bit of a moment in Jacques Cousteau's 'The Silent World' where the crew of the ship drop dynamite into a bay, and then count the numbers of creatures that float to the top to show what 'lives' (lived?) there.
Today I had a conversation with the senior numerical ecologist at the CPR survey and this whole process is fascinating.
Each plankton recorder is boxed up and sent to some port in the world, where it is attached to a ship that has a regular route. The plankton is collected, then boxed up and sent back to Plymouth where a team of 12 analysts observe and tag the individual plankton by hand. Thousands at a time, recorded by hand!
The survey team interpret the data based on their knowledge of plankton behaviours, such as how phytoplankton act at this time of year, at this buoyancy, at this ocean temperature, etc. It takes extraordinarily complex knowledge to understand what to expect and what to look for, and I am out of my depth(!)
I love these complex projects, but I often feel overwhelmed by how amazing human beings are. The labour, expertise and competence is mind-boggling.
I, at least, am most grateful that you are sharing this. The dataset is brilliant! And, ahem, speaking as a permanently confused synesthetic, it is pleasant and inspiring to see how you pick up possible affordances and heft them.
@yetiinabox thanks for saying so! I'm not very good for posting on social media, because I often don't know what to say or how to say it, so I lurk and stay quiet. I'm glad if anyone finds this interesting.
And yes, this data is astounding. What a gift that it has been recorded for this long, to give an accurate picture over a near 100-year history.
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