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"Going thirty-eight Dan, chill the fuck out, mow your damn lawn and sit the hell down"

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Back after giving myself a month away from Fedi.

I'll attempt to curate my experience much more, starting with this account and instance.
I want comfy things in my life - I don't need to be adding stress and angst from my online interactions. We can do better. We should do better. Including myself.

My interests cover #tech, #photography, #biking, #motorsport, #fountainpen, and other things I will no doubt need to add here when I remember.
I touch computers in my spare time and self host things. Oh yeah so #selfhosting I guess.
In my other spare time I renovate my house and do #DIY stuff.

Oh and I (used to?) play music. #Guitar I still have and sometimes play, #Saxophone I used to have a couple of decades ago, I had 6 months of Drum lessons, and played Bass for our school band in Rockquest in the late 90's.
I have never done anything that cool since.

Oh I live in New Zealand, Aotearoa.

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Profile pic by @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-bird-fenestar-abstract-avatar-generators
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The east side of Glen Shieldaig by Loch Dughaill yesterday morning.

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The cat-sitter sent this the other day.

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What bothers me nowadays:
- now are always meant to be targeted, based on as much and as private data possible. and companies make us believe it’s either targeted ads or they can’t survive and offer their services. They ignore that there is another way. And they want us to believe there is none.
- That it appears to me that all companies now want to earn money with ads and/or collecting and selling data. Sometimes I would like them to focus on the product and not on how they can collect data. If my toaster only works with ads on the display or with a cloud account, I think it tells a story. If your oven only works with a , I think it’s too far and too late. And don’t forget: The cost for ads has an impact on the price of the product.

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Back in the kitchen this weekend. Trying to earn a crust.
#Photography
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Alright, I need to sit down and nut out the datastream out of a Microtech and read that with a Fueltech… sigh.

#motorsport

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Just watched a youtube video all about ang’s corner and now I am jealous. Dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62NJbICVWkQ #indieweb #website

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Don't go to the on my website:
https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/map/

Don't click the “play” button at the bottom of the controls in the top right corner.

You've been warned!

You risk being mesmerized for hours, have a nice week-end... 😅

Even more if you also click the “fullscreen” button… 🤪

Disclaimer: it loads a loooooot of map tiles, you need a pretty good connection for it to run smoothly, and no fear of data plan consumption.

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No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.

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It’s Matariki in Aotearoa (New Zealand) today - a public holiday to celebrate the rising of the Pleiades/Seven Sisters star cluster that coincides with the winter solstice and its significance to Māori. One of the traditional ways to celebrate is by sharing kai moana (seafood). This kōtare (sacred kingfisher) ain’t sharing though! Mānawatia a Matariki (happy Matariki).

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The sadness of knowing a server is down at home and being unable to reach it.

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I'm very happy to announce that Practical ZFS is now hosting the "official unofficial" (or is it unofficial official?) support forum for zVault, the community-operated, still-FreeBSD-based fork of the now-discontinued TrueNAS Core!

https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/issues/12#issuecomment-2989735387

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Playing with darktable again so I don’t have to dual-boot. It is not terrible, but has some niggles still; namely slow loading between images, and highlight reconstruction for blown-out areas sucks. It may be that my camera isn’t profiled correctly and so the default black and white-points are incorrect, but it is a frustration to work through and rectify. I did use darktable from 2019 to 2022, so know my way around it.

Anyway, here are the images: https://www.swansinflight.nz/taranaki/20250619_matariki_fol/

#darktable #photography #night #FestivalOfLights #Matariki #NZ

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I'm much more of a morning person than evening, so heading to Treasure Island in the #SanFrancisco Bay last night was a major feat. Very much prefer to be out before people are up, on the road and in the scene.

But my instinct was right. A late afternoon low haze we've had for the last few days while the sun was setting and a telephoto made for some nice photos.

All three were taken about the same time looking WNW past Alcatraz to Marin County during the golden hour. I did not change or subdue the color, but did use a filter.

#photography #landscapephotography
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