Tootfinder

as an urban pedestrian, LED highlights are totally awful. if i see them coming towards me, i just assume it's a cybertr**k & the driver is likewise awful (& am so blinded i can't tell otherwise). https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115858218762869656

Even as Israel publicly calls for an Iranian popular uprising,
Senior Israeli officials have told U.S. diplomats that Iranian protesters will “get slaughtered” if they take to the streets against their government,
according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.

The cable, circulated by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Friday, relayed an Israeli assessment that Iran’s regime is “not cracking”
and is willing to “fight to the end” despite the Feb. 2…

Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they’ll be ‘slaughtered’
Israeli officials told U.S. counterparts they hope for an uprising even though it would lead to a massacre, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Post.

Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/0444252/two-more-offshore-wind-projects-in-the-us-allowed-to-continue-construction

"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell
Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points of the curve have quite noticeable impact on the rest. I've also been experimenting with reducing emulsion from 8 8 1 drops to 7 7 1 drops, but that makes that 1 drop of contrast agent ~13% stronger (too st…

Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they'll be 'slaughtered' (John Hudson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/17/israel-iran-cable-revolt-slaughtered/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p58#a260317p58

Selected a #hiking route for tomorrow.
Just reminded myself to check the avalanche status... Selected another route...
Maybe overcautios - but my route would go over a larger alpine meadow. Even though I'd go via a south flank that is mentioned with less risk - when I'm going alone, I prefer zero risk.

What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/0718211/what-happened-after-security-researchers-found-60-flock-cameras-livestreaming-to-the-internet

Tony Hoare,
the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm,
developed Hoare logic,
and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming,
has died at age 92.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/453208

Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/089219/dozens-of-us-colleges-close-as-falling-birth-rate-pushes-them-off-enrollment-cliff

As US Officials Showed Off a Self-Driving Robo-Bus - It Got Hit By a Tesla Driver - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/0228239/as-us-officials-showed-off-a-self-driving-robo-bus---it-got-hit-by-a-tesla-driver