Hey hey now, leave my bath salts alone.

An OM-3 or a Lumix GM5 are both absolutely portable, even more so than typical mirrorless bodies. Unfortunately, the OM-3 is a flagship camera, and the GM5 has turned into a collector’s item, so both are expensive.

Not really, no. Signal was released more or less exactly a year later than WhatsApp (May 2010 vs May 2009), which, if you look at the 17 years since then, doesn’t really matter that much.

However, broad adoption rates in messaging apps are typically achieved by e. g. funny emoji sets vs. encryption, and the early versions of Signal were pretty barebone.

1. You could start by typing cd and use tab completion to explore your target folder(s). This would require at least a rudimentary knowledge of what you’re looking for so you can prefix your search

2. If you really want to explore the contents and pick your target without knowing anything in advance, cd "$(find . -type d | fzf)" would give you a smart browser. You can of course replace ‘.’ with any base directory you like. Requires fzf.

3. In general, zoxide can help with navigation.

4. If you want to stay a purist, I’d go for simply recalling your last ls command from the history and replacing it with cd. An example has been given in the thread already.

No, but the actual study does. Birth outcome is defined as:

• weight at birth
• gestational age (i. e. how long the pregnancy lasted)
• if the birth weight was below 2500g
• if it was a preterm birth, i. e. the gestational age was less than 37 weeks

The study focuses on first - born children and corrects for multiplicity (e. g. twins), which are a lot more common under medically assisted reproduction.

The highly abbreviated conclusion is that under these circumstances, the previously observed poorer birth outcomes largely disappear.

Naturally, this result says nothing about the later developments of the affected children. Nothing positive, nothing negative. Nothing.

Here is a link to the preprint: https://epc2026.eaps.nl/uploads/260546

I see a lot of people using restic here. However, restic has no support for object locking. Depending on the backup source, an attack on the storage location itself is probable (e. g. via ransomware).

I think rustic is currently discussing implementing support for object locking, and Kopia has it already.

None of the solutions have had an official audit yet, and at least Kopia defaults to AES-GCM, where I’d really love for an auditor to tell me there are no issues with nonce reuse, but switching to ChaChaPoly-1305 is an option.

If that matters depends a lot on the individual, just something to keep in mind.

Ah, I love how incredibly stupid and careless the Buffy “remaster” was made. Let me talk about that in two pictures:

Hell, why not show parts of the set, including the crew. Color grading was completely skipped for some scenes, which derails the whole narrative, as they’re now seemingly taking place during day, for example. It’s amazing.

Unless you follow the advice of cooking the sauce for a couple of hours, after which all that will be left of the veggies will be basically fiber.

To be fair, when cooking a sauce (or stew, soup etc.), some of the nutrients will enter the sauce (vs. cooking water that will later be thrown away), but preserving nutrients / vitamins etc. while cooking still means reducing heat / cooking time.

Please don’t cook vegetables to oblivion and assume this will fulfill your kids nutritional needs. Not talking about you in particular, just making sure here.

I think eventually, you’re saying the same thing. If you want to shoot professionally, it makes sense to get equipment to save time and have a manner of control over reproducibility. That’s also why the local metal shop gets the $200 carbide endmills vs. grinding HSS blanks by hand. I did state that already.

I’ll still disagree with two things. You absolutely did say “art is expensive”, and stock photography will not produce a lot of art. It can be shot artfully, sure, but that’s more of a word choice and eventually rather equates to craftsmanship. I’m sure there is at least one stock photographer out there, producing art all the time. Same with any amazing shot that happens to get uploaded to a stock library not becoming any less meaningful. But that’s not common and simply not how the process works, claiming anything else would be disingenuous. I’m not out to disparage the craft or the skill of anyone involved, that’s a completely different topic.

Finally, I was actually absolutely thinking of the Contax 1. Now, don’t adjust for inflation. Why would you do that? This camera auctions for around $200, $250 today. Did something happen in the past 86 years that now makes it impossible to shoot the same, great pictures with that camera? I don’t think so. Yes, shooting has become a lot more convenient, a lot more consistent (some people would argue that’s a bad thing), but surely it’s not the tool then that enabled these photographs. That was my angle.

(Please let’s not get hung up on the particular camera model, availability of film etc., it’s an example to make a point)

It’s absolutely not. You can take perfectly fine, artsy photographs with a bunch of cheap gels and Chinese import lights.

You’ll be shocked to learn that people took fantastic pictures before an $8.6k M.ZUIKO lens came into existence.

Go ahead and tell me what a setup the likes of what Evans or Miller had at the time would cost today and stop putting art behind a paywall. Stock photography and repeatable product pictures are expensive, but that’s not art.

Professional photographers have expensive equipment because it makes certain shots commercially feasible, not because it’s impossible to create art without money.

Can we talk about what’s going on with that bedroom?

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the watermarking works. There is no hidden metadata, but most likely, the statistical properties of the generated text are being changed.

If you met someone on Halloween with a face mask, and they’d always use the word cromulent in every sentence, you’d probably assume it’s your buddy Mark, who is about the only guy in your circle of friends who does that.

The model will produce a text where individual words at certain positions, or various n-grams encode a kind of fingerprint that will be an indicator for the text being processed by Claude.

Like, when people have, like, a specific accent or talk in a certain way, you can totally, like, figure out where they’re from, for sure.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to sleep, and figuring out that Eurorack exists. 🥲

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Please use a pyproject.toml file for both project setup and dependency management. It actually is standardized now in PEPs.

uv is a great tool, now comes with a build tool as well. It has become a de-facto standard.

Re 1: So what? There is plenty of individuals who run their own “community”. Some use it as link aggregator, some seem to collect media they like, one person maintains a gigantic collection of nudes from people they find attractive. Can anyonemeaningfully interact with those? Should they be banned as well?

Re 2: So what? No community has any obligation to interact with you or value your content. If someone writes me a 56 page love letter and upon opening it, I realize within the first few lines that it’s my toxic ex who wrote it, that thing still goes straight to the trash. That’s my prerogative.

Re 6: How did you reach that conclusion? I can’t say I do.

If there are posts violating instance rules etc., report them.

I’m using Arch btw.

I knew someone would’ve made that joke

Get a cheap laser printer. The toner won’t dry out, and you can get a very reliable printer for cheap. The Xpress series from Samsung was cheap and very reliable. Unfortunately, Samsung does not manufacture printers any more and their printer business was bought by HP. I have no idea how new HP models compare to the old ones.

I’d probably look at Brother, a monochrome laser printer can be had for $120, and Brother generally has a good reputation. If you want to print in color, that’ll be more expensive of course. Honestly, I haven’t had a color printer in 11 years and I don’t miss it, but YMMV.

Well, apparently, the print head is pretty complicated to make, so this project uses refillable cartridges with an integrated head.

They can’t be refilled indefinitely, and if HP (manufacturer the project picked) changes the product, deprecates it and eventually stops selling it, the printer will no longer print.

Maybe it could support several cartridge types, but honestly, I don’t understand the target audience. You’ll still be bound to the regular printer ecosystem, and I’m not sure there is so much interesting stuff to modify / hack in the remaining system, which is mostly transport (of paper and the head). These parts also rarely failed for me in printers in the past, so I personally also don’t get the repair argument.

It’s still a good effort, if something comes out of it. If anyone is excited about this, I’d love to hear what you’re looking forward to in this printer.

Where could you even find healthy ingredients for under $10 that will last a few days?

It can’t be beans and rice again, all the time.