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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-21 at 13:01

Does the #pixelfed android app have a global feed? I see a 'discover' tab that promotes accounts and individual posts, but no actual feed

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-21 at 02:37

After much swearing and gnashing of teeth, I have calibrated my monitor and set the colour profile on each of my editing programs and system wide.

From this point forward any weirdness in the colour of my photos is entirely due to my artistic vision, and no longer subject to the vagaries of mismatched colour profiles.

[#]DigitalPhotography #DigitalArt

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-20 at 15:03

Apparently, weighing yourself every two weeks is not enough, in and of itself, to make the number on the scale go down.

[#]NewYearsResolutions

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-20 at 02:36

I was planning some experiments with strobes and light modifiers, but the bright window presented a simpler approach.

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-20 at 02:30

Playing with some tulips in front of a window on a bright cloudy day

[#]photography #botany #bloomscrolling

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-19 at 17:53

[#]Photography Q: does anyone know what these snaky little gooseneck lights are called? This is from Gregory Heisper's portrait of Tim Burton, where they're used primarily as props. But I think they'd be really useful for directing light in macro photography.

Heisler called them fiberoptic wands, but when O search for that I get something with dozens of coloured filaments, not a single directed beam as here.

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-19 at 16:18

If I can follow #pixelfed accounts from #Mastodon, and I can follow Mastodon accounts from pixelfed, how is my pixelfed account not just having another Mastodon account?

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-14 at 03:19

As it turns out, this was an interaction with flymake-mode. ESS turns on flymake-mode, but I never set it up and don't use it. Turn it off via:

(setq ess-use-flymake nil)

[#]emacs

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-13 at 16:34

A very niche post on using #emacs and #orgmode to manage #slurm job submission scripts:

https://plantarum.ca/2025/01/10/slurm-yasnippet/

[#]bioinformatics

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-08 at 14:12

Award-winning documentary on the union effort at Amazon can't find a distributor:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-why-a-canadian-directors-documentary-on-amazons-labour-unrest-is/

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-03 at 22:10

Using #emacs to handle the boilerplate for #slurm submission scripts.

Blogpost in progress, spent the last few minutes of my week playing with gifs:

[#]bioinformatics #hpc

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-02 at 22:17

Interesting listening to the retired civil servants complaining that they don't get the same dental benefits that current civil servants do.

Wonder if they've met the retired civil servants who were so vocal about how current civil servants shouldn't get a raise to keep up with inflation. The way they do with their indexed pensions.

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-02 at 15:29

MSOutlook appears to open in 5 minutes. But it's not actually responsive for another 7.

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-02 at 15:16

I work on a laptop running Ubuntu #Linux. I can access almost everything I need from the work network, mostly using the Chrome browser. However, for a few things, mostly Adobe's proprietary extensions to PDF forms, I need Windows. I have a virtual machine on my Linux computer for this purpose.

Starting it up takes minutes, and opening Acrobat to fill in a single form regularly takes 15 minutes or more start to finish.

I've also got a desktop running windows in the lab down the hall. Once or twice a year I'll think, "this is dumb, I can just walk a few steps and use my Windows computer for this". So I do. And it takes just as long to go through all the boot/log-in/setup steps as my virtual machine.

It's a wonder we get anything done with #gc IT systems.

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-02 at 02:02

I must have missed this, apparently #Amazon is in the #healthcare business now?

wtf

https://health.amazon.com/onemedical

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2025-01-01 at 18:30

[#]SusanSontag #OnPhotography

[#]Photography #books

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2024-12-31 at 19:43

My office is almost clean for the first time in many years!

Question for the hive mind: leave my laptop station in the corner, or move it to the long, flat arm of the desk?

[#]ergonomics #workstation

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2024-12-30 at 18:21

My last read for 2024, "A Quality Of Light" by #RichardWagamese. A poignant reflection on friendship and loyalty between boys on parallel spiritual journeys towards adulthood. A deeply insightful meditation on how we might work towards #reconciliation, weaving together perspectives from white and Indigenous, radical and conciliatory perspectives.

The ebook is currently $6, a great deal for a great read.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/184584/a-quality-of-light-by-richard-wagamese/9780385674782

[#]books

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2024-12-23 at 18:29

While I'm delighted you're offering me 90% off for an annual subscription, I think you might want to reconsider whether an app to read PDFs on my phone is really worth $150 per year.

[#]Xodo #SubscriptionFatigue

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Written by Tyler Smith on 2024-12-19 at 16:57

Question for #emacs users. A little margin column has appeared on the left side of #rstats buffers. Anyone know where this comes from (package or setting)?

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