#AmazingNature

#AmazingWorld
#Canada
#YohoNationalPark
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@p_im_b I used to be like that — any time I get interested in anything, I start collecting and couldn’t stop. I was obsessive about it. I had book collections, comics, movies, newspaper clippings etc. That was when I had lived in the same country for 24 years or so 😛

Then I started moving around and my aim was to always have not more than what would fit into two suitcases. That didn’t quite work out many times but I still try to do that … These days I only collect stuff digitally so that I can have it all on one hard disk. So I still collect books, comics, movies, and mucis but they are all on one hard drive and I feel less burdened somehow 🙂

Night time at Scotland’s Dunnottar Castle with the Milky Way. Photo by Connor McLaren.
#Scotland
#UnderTheMilkyWay

@mastodon.au was having problems so I'm here and it's time for a new #introduction. I was a software developer in a previous life. I spent most of my time with C, C++ and Java. I'm retired now but I really miss it and would be willing to volunteer a few hours a week. I spend my free time with my family, my dog, and #gardening these days. My favorite word is cavorting. I renounced my #US citizenship a few years ago and live in Australia full time but still follow #uspolitics (#politics).

Are you a Sr. iOS Developer? Do you like working on exciting new things that have a huge impact to the company?

My team at Thumbtack is looking for a Sr. iOS Developer to help us revolutionize homeownership by guiding you through proactive maintenance, unexpected issues, and ambitious renovations!

Reach out if you’d like to learn more!

🧵 of images from random #oldtweets

There's still time to apply for the MA in Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

For best consideration, apply by March 1st at: https://www.calstate.edu/apply

I'm happy to answer questions about the program: https://www.csusm.edu/ltwr/facstaff/fac_profiles.html

Please boost, it would be much appreciated!

#GradSchool #Academia #AcademicMastadon #AcademicChatter #MA #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #CnF #Literature #elit #eliterature

The Electronic Literature Organization is looking for new Fellows! Come collaborate with us #elo #elit #eliterature

https://eliterature.org/2023/02/elo-fellowship-call-for-applications/

“Gender trolling” of women, esp political opponents and journalists, is becoming an increasingly common feature of rightwing movements. It is a deliberate strategy to silence women and “keep them in their place”.

The design of digital platforms is responsible for the hellscape experienced by women online. Harmful narratives are boosted & amplified via algorithms that make such content sticky & viral, through systems built to maximize attention & widespread distribution.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/17/gender-trolling-women-rights-money-digital-platforms-social-media-hate-politics

@ajyoung I’m sorry for that result. I started out dissatisfied with how generative stuff worked on the Mac after all of Apple’s boasts about how great the newer Macs were for Machine Learning and it slowly grew better over the last 3 - 4 months (after Apple Silicon had been out for two whole years mind you …) as PyTorch added more support and then finally CoreML support from Apple seemed to make things bearable.

But there’s still so much that’s worse on the Apple side of the fence. Plus, support for anything other than what Apple considers important seems to come at a very slow pace. So not sure if it’ll ever get any better unless Apple decides to enter the generative ML space using it for a business model somehow ….

@NoctisEqui I used to do this back in the day when books were scarce. Then I got so many books (because I travelled out of Sri Lanka where book choices were limited, especially for Science Fiction and Fantasy) that I always had a to-be read pile. So the thrill of reading something new and always being surprised took over.

I probably should go back to all the old DiscWorld books since I don’t think I’ve ever read any of them more than once. But then again, I remember most of them and all of them have some memory (outside the book) attached to them …

Is it too late for ‘Thick Trunk Thursday’?

I took a walk today, made .3 of a mile at a slow creep and found this wonderful tree by the dog park so of course I had to photograph it.

It is a truly magnificent tree!

This pastoral idyl was snapped with no filter by my rubbish cheap phone in the middle of Knightsbridge, London. To me that feels like a miracle. But then spring is always a miracle.

#spring #daffodils #cadoganSquare

Dusk over Lake Superior

I got a little carried away with the alt tag/image description. That's the meat of the post. There are like a million characters to use there. Mastodon should allow x4 the characters in toots. That'd be cool. Call it a Super Toot or a Massive Toot. Everyone gets one a day. Anyway, I digress.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #winter #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

Apologies for the non-art posting as I'm job hunting. Unsure if this will work since I mostly see tech-job postings, but shooting my shot. Boosts appreciated #getfedihired #fedijobs #jobsearch

Philippine-based person looking for work in landscape architecture, urban planning, transport planning, or anything where my skills are applicable in related jobs. Would consider work in climate change also.

Skills in technical writing, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, Lumion, GIS, illustration

@wadethemaker The costs will probablly depend (at least to some extent) on which flavour of Fedi-software you run. Apparently, Mastodon is a bit of a beast and will need a bit more RAM (and possibly CPU) power.

I ran several different Fedi-flavours (but not Mastodon) because of the above. Based on personal experience, what I can tell you is that GoToSocial will run fine on the lowest end DigitalOcean VPS which I think costs $5 or $10 a month?

However (at least at the time I tried) GotoSocial was missing a few features that I wanted and so I switched to Akkoma, which has all the features I wanted (and a few more besides). It probably needs about 2GB of RAM to be comfortable. I found a server with Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/) which gave me a 4GB RAM VPS for under/around $10 a month. I’ve been hosted there for a couple of months now and happy with things — both their server and Akkoma.

Today the flower of Orange Hawkweed.
As the name suggests it is actually a weed.
But it has beautiful flowers!

See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/orange-hawkweed-close-up-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Art #Flower #Nature #PhotographyIsArt #Photography #Natuur #NaturePhotography #Naturelovers #NatureBeauty #Wildflowers #Wildflower #FediGiftShop #mastoart

Hello! I'm Jeff, a software architect near L.A.

From 1994-96 I ran a dialup #bbs with >1,000 users sharing 8 lines (oof). By the end it provided MINIX shell accounts + Internet email via FIDO. I've been online ever since.

I've been building Cerb.ai (formerly Cerberus Helpdesk) in #php + #mysql full-time for nearly 21 years. 1000s of teams use it for high-volume shared webmail + workflow automation.

I'm also interested in #aws #docker #machinelearning #german #boardgames

#introduction

Yesterday's Pratchett novel title was: "The Shepherd's Crown"

And that's the last of the #DiscWorld titles 😞 Sure there are a few others left like "Nation", "Dodger", and the "Bromeliad" stuff (not to mention "Johnny") but those don't really count as much here. I was reluctant to do this one since it feels (almost) like reading the last DiscWorld novel (and I haven't read anything much since then ...)

But time moves on and I guess we must too?

#AIArt #StableDiffusion #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI
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