Drosera is the genus of the sundew plants, and also their name in French and Italian. From the Greek δρόσος, drósos, dew. In Latin books about herbs, the plant was called Ros solis, Dew of the Sun.

Photo taken last summer solstice, for those who now miss sunlight.

#macro #photography #nature #gardening #alttext #alttxt

With the Sun peaking from the far away point of the South Pole and sprinkling some rays on the mountains of the North, let me take to a breathtaking nature view! 🧡

4.5" x 8" oil on board

This was the view on a beautiful morning along the waterfront. It was so peaceful and the pink and purple clouds reflected in the water really caught my eye.

#TheCottageCreative #PugetSound #oilpainting #landscape #landscapePainting #art #artistsonmastodon #artists #ArtMatters #Morning

A late #mosstodon for #PhotoMonday.

#FotoMontag #photography #fotografie

Rainforest vibes from Ontario. These LBMs could be Mycena sp., but we didn't attempt a more rigorous identification.

#MushroomMonday #mushtodon #mosstodon #sporespondence

Great Egrets fighting for fishing rights. Great Egrets have very strict rules about fishing too close to each other, as that might scare the fish away.

This was another surreal evening after the sun went down. Loved the way the light reflected off the clouds and created the beautiful, glassy reflections on the bay waters. Calling this Blue Persuasion. See more HERE: https://hhphotography.pixels.com/featured/blue-persuasion-hh-photography-of-florida.html

#clouds #cloudscape #seascape #photography #bluehour #blue #sunset #fediverse #mastophotography #art #artists #ArtMatters #AYearForArt

sunrise on SF bay #seaducking #sunrise

The white narcissus is the good luck flower for one's career and ambitions. #2023AYearForArt #AYearForArt #nacissus #Gardening #Flowers #GoodLuck
#Art #Artist #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters
#mastoart#FreeShipping #GiftIdeas#FediArt #FediGiftShop https://www.pictorem.com/541378/White%20Daffodils%20%20Bunch%20on%20White.html

Port Orchard City Hall, from the marina.

Port Orchard is a small town (Pop. 12k) located on the Kitsap Peninsula WSW across the Puget Sound from Seattle.

#PortOrchard #PugetSound #WashingtonState

I was walking along the beach when I noticed a group of rock pigeons just chilling near the water's edge as the waves were coming in.

They were not startled by my presence as I slowly walked over near them. This one allowed me to get a nice portrait style shot. This was my first real good look at one these pigeons and while some people think they are a nuisance I really love the vibrant colors they have.

https://pixels.com/featured/rock-pigeon-portrait-chad-meyer.html

#AYearForArt #pigeon #birding #birdwatching #naturephotography

Waterfalls are always intriguing and I just rediscovered this old image I took back in 2011 of Elakala Falls in Blackwater State Park in West Virginia. You can see it here: https://www.pictorem.com/685824/Elakala%20Falls%20in%20West%20Virginia.html #AYearForArt #AlmostHeaven #WestVirginia #waterfalls

This #CuratorPrompts #CuratorPrompts133 photo reference was too good to pass up. Thanks almighty maston.art curator! #watercolor #InkDrawing #TraditionalArt #MastoArt

I was going to keep this account free of #MachineLearning stuff, but I keep finding that I find Mastodon's 500 character limit a bit ... umm ... limiting 😛

I already posted this over on the other account as two separate posts but I feel that it would work better as a single post. So here goes ...

I know this certainly is not representative of all scenarios, but the time of coding AI’s isn’t here just yet would be my guess based on a single interaction I had today with a coding "AI" 😛 (I put "AI" in quotes intentionally, there is no "intelligence" involved here ...)

I asked a new coding helper (that I learnt about and installed today) to write me some code to convert from WordPress to another system and it gives me something which say, “Use these two classes which do the grunt work and you’re set” (See screenshot for exact interaction).

So I ask it to give me the code for one of those grunt classes … It spins for a while and fails. So yeah, not quite there in terms of replacing coders yet, maybe?

Of course, I should add the disclaimer that if you did search for the file mentioned in the code (wordpress-importer.php) you will find it in a GitHub repo. It is certainly possible that that code would work if you knew to find the file/library, add it to your project, and get it to all work correctly.

But at the moment, it looks as if what you really get when you use these systems is "glimpses of code" that the system has seen before more so than an intelligent and cohesive answer ...

Of course, as somebody said, "it's hard to make a foolproof system since fools are so ingenious" ... but still, if you call it an "AI", it should be able to do a bit more than give you a partial answer, right?

#MachineLearning #AI #Coding
Question: Write a wordpress pos…

@snott Good luck with that and if I can help in any way, lemme know since I'm going through the same processes 🙂

@snott Given that I have four sites for the wife and three for me and one of those has posts going back to the late 90's, copy and paste isn't an option I want to tackle 😛

I found several importers for Grav that kind of work but they need some work to make them work right. So I'm hoping to put a static version of the sites by exporting from WP directly on for the time being and then work on the Grav importing to get one of the existing solutions working right. If not, then I guess I'd have to write my own importer ... Don't want to, but hey 😛

At least, that's the plan, but who knows?

@snott Same reasoning generally, as you, for going with Grav 🙂 I considered Hugo but it probably would be harder for my wife to get into. Grav is much more easier to work with and it seems to be very fast and light. At least locally, the Grav site responded much faster than WordPress did. So hoping for good things if I can get it working the same way on the VPS.

@snott I was actually considering Hugo this time around since I wanted to make the server side be less heavy 🙂 From having started blogging way back in the day with a static site generator I wrote myself, I've come full circle and want to do static site generation again so that I don't have to overhead of MySQL (and WordPress) on the server 😛

For nginx, I think I had to add the following line to the config file and that was it:

$uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string

Of course, at the moment, I'm running Grav locally on MAMP. Haven't actually installed on the server yet. But I generally find that the server is easier since local MAMP tends to be really finicky on an M1 Mac ...

I had one WordPress site (that I was going to transfer) working correctly locally and tried to get the second one working and bam! It suddenly stops working ... I just gave up last night ... Have to try again today since I have this week off and want to try and get the new server set up with all static sites (for the moment) and Akkoma on the same server and be done 🙂

@snott Did you get Grav installed?

I just installed it a couple of days ago myself and it seems like a much lighter alternative to WordPress. I do need to actually start using it but struggling with transferring several WordPress sites over first so that I can actually concentrate on setting them up as Grav afterwards ...

Trim Sun Orchid - Thelymitra peniculata - Namadgi NP, ACT. Only one blue-flowering plant out at 1000m+ altitude in late December with a slightly unusual apex + leaf. But with several other small, pink sun orchids out with more standard T. peniculata traits I'm assuming they are all variations of the same species.

#Orchids #Summer #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #OzPlants #Canberra #InTheField