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An approximate history of my amateur phone photography:
1. Really poor photos. Unsavory interest in (low resolution) panoramas.
2. Photos get a little better. Sometimes they're HDRs (I suspect the camera app was set to "auto").
3. A new phone. Higher resolution and a gyroscope.
4. Switching to LineageOS, and therefore to #OpenCamera. HDR enabled unconditionally.
5. HDR does not always come great (compared to the stock Motorola app that doesn't work anymore). I enable saving component photos, so I could try getting a better quality combination using the PC. I never manage that.
6. I start experimenting with exposure correction (combined with HDR). Sometimes I do multiple photos with different "Eves" to choose the best one.
7. A new phone. Finally, given even the gyroscope was failing already.
8. I learn that Pixels have "HDR " that gets activated when you do standard mode photos. For a while I do both standard and HDR photos; also I compare the middle component image with the standard mode image. [https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/help.html#faq]
9. Before I reach any final conclusions, I read "What is HDR, anyway?" I disable HDR entirely, instead I save standard mode (i.e. HDR ) raw images (which presumably aren't affected by HDR ) [https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/]. Not that I ever managed to get anything good out of raws.
10. I discover that I can switch the lens. Today I've made my first photos, switching lens to get optical zoom 💪.

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 7:
Lauren Beukes ("rhymes with mucus" as she likes to say)
SciFi novellist, filmmaker, journalist and LGBTQ-ally from S.Africa.
I loved Zoo City, Moxyland and The Shining Girls and I need to catch up on her newer ones. It was fun to meet her at the Edinburgh Int'l Book Festival a few years ago.

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

love when a trans woman's completely culturally disconnected from cis women due to muh anxiety or whatever, yet inevitably pushed with the same tides due to being a woman in the same circumstances, so she winds up repeating mainstream instagram feminist platitudes as if they were fresh, but with the word "trans" tacked on for no reason. "if you're a trans woman you need to learn how to trust your gut feeling on things"

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
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This is rather nice. #sound
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Tony Regan #FTRS372
Sunshine, bassline and, erm, batty whine. Yes, its Famz Tree's favourite weekend of the year, when all the best bits of our community cram together in London W10, filling our body and soul with chicken, rum and the loudest, sweetest, life affirming music that we all live for. The fact that, in doing so, we manage to wind up the assorted Mail journos, Tory councillors, online rage baiters and pricks like Farage only adds to the fun. Big up all those who made it down there. Here's to years more t…

I feel stupid for asking this… but is there still no good way to checkout and later pull a pull request branch from another repo?
We've got `gh pr checkout NUMBER` but the only way I've found to fetch updates is to delete the local branch and start over.
I really don't want to play adlib with manually adding remotes etc – is this still the best we can do in 2025??
EDIT: it’s solved! 🎉

Tomáš Janoušek (@liskin@genserver.social)
@hynek @carlton Drop fetch.all=true and that fixes it.You may need to learn to use git remote update instead of git fetch though.And I’d consider filing this as a bug upstream, because as you said ...

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Starting up Bring Her Back. Anybody seen it, opinions? Guess I'll see. Will probably get to finish most of it before wifey's done with her exam 😂
#horror

Bring Her Back (2025)
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are introduced to their new sibling by their foster mother, only to learn that she has a terrifying secret.