The east side of Glen Shieldaig by Loch Dughaill yesterday morning.
What bothers me nowadays:
- #Ads now are always meant to be targeted, based on as much and as private data possible. #Marketeers 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 #Captcha, 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.
#privacy #security
New blog post:
I can't tell reality and satire apart anymore
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/i-can-t-tell-reality-and-satire-apart-anymore/
Souvenir shot at the Col de l'Iseran
#motorcycle #advrider #Honda #africatwin #crf1000l #makelifearide #enduro #bikelife #coldeliseran #alps #france
Alright, I need to sit down and nut out the datastream out of a Microtech and read that with a Fueltech… sigh.
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
Don't go to the #map on my #photography 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.
No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.
Announcing BSSG 0.31.0: Smart Related Posts, Enhanced Themes, and Improved User Experience
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).
#birds #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography
The sadness of knowing a server is down at home and being unable to reach it.
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
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
Reading this article by Stefano with keen interest