2026-01-16 11:59:53
Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (se…
Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (se…
Rare Colours Red II 🟥🟥
稀有的色彩红 II 🟥🟥
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Cinestill 800T (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Today in the drizzle I stopped by the Living Library, a beautiful native plant garden near SF's Balboa Park at the San Jose/Seneca intersection. Highly recommend a visit to see some #ceanothus in bloom and California poppies and island mallows beginning to, and much more.
New Computer Science Building in the Snow with a Crane Working Between Phillips and Gates
#photo #photography #cornell
Good mooorning, everyone! 🌞
#wallpaper
«New security flaw found in Microsoft Notepad courtesy of its latest “innovative” additions»
Exactly in such places there should be no code errors. Markdown in text editor really shouldn't be the problem. But now Microsoft is showing us how AI coding (not) works and how error-prone it is.
P.S. I use Vim for the markdown, text & code files.
📝
watched the overwhelmingly sweet john candy documentary & learned from looking up a photo in the end credits that he recorded duets with bill monroe for the "planes, trains, & automobiles" soundtrack. https://www.mandolincafe.net/home/…
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-ships-i
„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
https://
How does Fedi feel about extending Markdown admonitions with taglines?
```
> ![TIP For fun]
>
> Join the Fediverse!
```
WDYT?
https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/3031
„Ja, ich habe das Lizenzabkommen gelesen" — die größte Lüge im Netz. Aber KI macht Schluss damit. Text rein, Risiken raus. Bei Apple Podcasts Connect lautet das Ergebnis: Du bleibst Rechteinhaber — aber du haftest für Apple, auch wenn du nur verdächtig wirkst. @…
Auf jeden Fall mal ein sinnvolles Einsatzgebiet für LLMs ...
Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I hate OpenAI but I had to use Whisper to help someone make accessible content. I hate that I had to use Whisper to do it because it comes from OpenAI.
But I don't know of any other way to get a text transcription from a media file that is free/open. (Besides doing it manually.)
I tell myself because it's for education and accessibility it's okay, but I still don't like it.
#AI
good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …
Oh well, our upcoming client doesn't provide cc files for each shot. Instead, we need to extract the grading values from an EDL file. Fortunately I've already written a script to do that a few years ago for another show.
The time to write a script might be more than what it takes to do the task manually (here it would be copying values from a text file to an xml file). But it pays off if you have to repeat the task. Even if that is 7 years later.
I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video.
"ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no &…
🗓️ Online-Stammtisch am Mittwoch, 18.02.26
mit dem Thema
teilsam – gemeinschaftsgetragener Samenbau trifft Solawi
Es ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich, am jeweiligen Abend ist der digitale Raum geöffnet.
👉 https://www.solidarische-landwirtschaft.or
Here's another short story that reflects on our extollation of technology...
The Flying Machine – Ray Bradbury
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/flying-machine/
Me trying to write a post using speech to text while one of my bonus daughters is monologuing in the next room and it keeps shoving what she’s saying into my post.
😂
copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 800 nodes and 6429 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/116398343499190996
title text of latest Existential Comics: "Remember, it is ALWAYS morally correct to bully utilitarians, so long as you derive joy from it."
The technology of mechanical reproduction did not end the age of art.
Likewise, the technology of text synthesis will not end of age of human thinking.
https://woborders.blog/2026/04/14/ai-is-the-mechanical-reproduction-of…
TiPP - Comic-Noir: "Der Schnee war schmutzig" von Jean-Luc Fromental und Bernard Yslaire.
Graphic-Novel-Adaption von Simenons Krimi. - Grossartig illustriert! Erschienen im Carlsen Verlag #Hamburg
Warum Effizienz ideologisch ist.
(Geschenklink, via @…)
https://
Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/microsof…
I don’t want to get into fan fiction of franchises because my brain is already muddy enough, but one thing I can’t keep myself from reading is the fan fiction text chains between #HeatedRivalry characters.
1/2
RE: #PhanpySocialDev (local dev)
Too good not to steal for #AltText. https://mstdn.social/@faraiwe/116403123250586648
Auf dem Podium der Bewegungskonferenz Cables of Resistance beklagt @…, dass sogar Linke »KI«-Tools wie Chatbots und Bildgeneratoren benutzen.
Dabei ist ihr einziger Daseinszweck, Lohnabhängige zu entrechten. Wer sie regelmäßig nutzt, verliert die Fähigkeit zum kritischen Denken. Diese Technologie ist inhärent fa…
i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames
FjŸrt machen gute Musik ;
Manchmal dicke Metalbretter und im selben Song dramatische Übergänge zu Synthieflächen und seufzende Balade mit Texten, an denen du fühlst mit Staunen, in den Metal Phasen wird deutsche Text in das Geflecht der mehreren Gitarrensäuren geschrieen.
Du verstehst erst keine Wörter, und auf einmal doch, wenn er was von "es sind Harte Zeiten" zum besten gibt.
"Man muß ein Gefühl für Hätte haben"
Meinte der
Decades into enriching webpages with semantic meaning, taxonomies, JSON-LD, etc... and 2026 is "why not plain text tho"
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/
game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Ein starker Text von Christian Wulff:
"Wir müssen sagen, dass Vielfalt ein Vorteil ist, dass die Wahrung der Menschenwürde eines jeden ein großer Gewinn ist.
Dass Europa ein lebenswerter Kontinent genau deshalb ist, weil wir das bisher hier gewährleisten – und uns damit auch von Amerika absetzen."
Unbedingte Leseempfehlung:
Changed the hosting on my site and also changed the registrar for the domain, and it seems it is loading alright.
(It is just a simple text-only page right now. Someday I may make it look cooler and/or be bigger.)
https://www.davidaugust.com/
Whew! Finish another phase and committed before #Claude crashed.
Do you think that the folks that work at #Anthropic are logging in to Codex now to fix Claude Code?
Cross To The Other Side V ❎
去向另一边 V ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Randomly found 2 typos on @… Deploy today.
Something about the fonts used that makes them look more annoying somehow.
For context, "Deno Deploy is Generally Available" https://deno.com/blog/…
Spent the evening playing around with Text-to-speech stuff. Not so much fun on a CPU (instead of a GPU).
Don't ask for a use case - it was a "because I want it"-case
Maybe I should have better written one or two blog posts :-D
Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91506292/canva-new-magic-l…
Cross To The Other Side IV ❎
去向另一边 IV ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Now Delta is helping tear families apart and placing people in concentration camps, and getting paid handsomely to do it. Delta is sadistic and probably criminal. Fly with them today!
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/delta
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
https://economi…
Rare Colours Blues III🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 III🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Cross To The Other Side ❎
去向另一边 ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/youtube-rolls-out-an-ai-playlist-gene…
Rare Colours Blues II🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 II🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/10/newo-lands-25m-bring…
Some Places with Snow III ❄️
一些有雪的地方 III ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876480/meta-facebook-animate-profile-picture-…
Rare Colours Blues 🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Different Corners VIII ▶️
不同的角落 VIII ▶️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Some Places with Snow ❄️
一些有雪的地方 ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Some Places with Snow II ❄️
一些有雪的地方 II ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Some Snow ❄️
一些雪 ❄️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Different Corners VII ▶️
不同的角落 VII ▶️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Seconds Apart ⌛️
一秒钟 ⌛️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Puddle 🪣
塘 🪣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
City Vibes 🎀
城市律动 🎀
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Produced Plantation 🌳
制造植被 🌳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography