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by ireflect 2mo ago
You can still get a long exposure by accumulating many 1/5,000 exposure shots together. Just like a regular long exposure, this will still cancel out random noise and improve SNR, and also still has the tradeoff of motion blur. This ki
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by ireflect 2mo ago
Flock is such a scummy company. One must just read a bit of the coverage from 404 Media [1] or Benn Jordan [2] and get a whiff of how this company is handling pretty legitimate criticism about privacy and basic device security. [1] https:&
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by ireflect 2mo ago
This is interesting. Do you have any specific examples?
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The New York Times Got Caught Using AI Hallucinations in Its Reporting(thewalrus.ca)
9 points by ireflect 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ireflect 5mo ago
Same same. I'd been a die hard mac user since System 6 in the early 90s, but last year I switched to Asahi Linux and my next hardware may or may not be from Apple.
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With the Artemis II Mission, the Lunar Land Grab Begins(thewalrus.ca)
3 points by ireflect 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ireflect 6mo ago
Is there a reason to use Gonic instead of Navidrome? I've been using the latter for hosting my music collection for over a year now and really like it. Good riddance Spotify. [1] Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more choices.
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by ireflect 7mo ago
Same. It looks like battery replacement from ifixit is not too difficult, so I plan to do that when the time comes. Incidentally, I just switched to Asahi Linux, but that was for software quality and openness reasons, rather than anything t
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by ireflect 7mo ago
The new rules will be incorporated into tzdata, which is used for various operating systems, software libraries, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
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British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time(cbc.ca)
1177 points by ireflect 7mo ago|561 comments
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by ireflect 7mo ago
Didn't work in my browser. I degoogled long ago. :shrug:
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by ireflect 7mo ago
I’m with Freedom Mobile in Vancouver, currently using a rather old iPhone. My next phone will probably run GOS. I have issues with Freedom on my iPhone too. Poor signal, or else “good” signal but poor data backhaul. Are you pretty sure your
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How Big Tech Spearheads the US Threat to Canada(thetyee.ca)
3 points by ireflect 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ireflect 8mo ago
I did a detailed review of a few Canadian VPS providers last year. https://lukecyca.com/2025/canadian-vps-review.html Last year, I moved from DigitalOcean to FullHost (their Vancouver datacentre) for hosting a small Sa
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by ireflect 8mo ago
Me too. I’ve been an Apple fan for 3 decades, and the Mac has always been my daily driver. Up until this past November when I installed Asahi and haven’t looked back. It’s been tough work switching, but the writing’s been on the wall for a
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by ireflect 8mo ago
Also been hit with this using DHL. Doing trade with the USA is such a gamble now with so much uncertainty.
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by ireflect 8mo ago
https://lukecyca.com
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Listen to music like it's 2005(lukecyca.com)
6 points by ireflect 10mo ago|2 comments
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by ireflect 10mo ago
Suit yourself. I think a little whimsy is refreshing.
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by ireflect 10mo ago
Finally! Here is a delightful article from NYT from last year on this topic. Truly fascinating and bewildering. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...
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by ireflect 10mo ago
These ones, right? https://us.isseymiyake.com/products/hp56-jf362
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NIST Randomness Beacon Shut Down(csrc.nist.gov)
7 points by ireflect 10mo ago|1 comments
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by ireflect 10mo ago
An automated batch job started failing for us recently, and we found that it is because this source of randomness from NIST has been shut down "Due to a lapse in federal funding".
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by ireflect 11mo ago
> it deviates a bit from what might be the most common setup, but it's undoubtedly me This is delightful. Personal projects are a great place to buck the technical monoculture and try something unique. I really enjoyed reading this.
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by ireflect 11mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251026123659/https://www.vox.c...
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What Does a 'Sovereign Cloud' Mean?(techpolicy.press)
2 points by ireflect 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ireflect 11mo ago
This entire blog really resonates. I don't take it all literally, but it is funny and insightful and dark and poetic and accurate in many ways. More weird stuff like this please.
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by ireflect 1y ago
installer -pkg InstallMe.pkg Check out `man installer` for details.
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by ireflect 2y ago
Been self-hosting for over 15 years for both personal and professional email, including clients. Currently using docker-mailserver. The claims that deliverability is worse when self-hosting are greatly exaggerated. It's not perfect, bu
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by ireflect 2y ago
Over on lobste.rs somebody mentioned this one which looks great. https://freerangecloud.com/ There's also OVH which is French-owned (I think) but has some Canadian datacentres.

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