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  Fun with alpha-channels:

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  Crow

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  I was wondering why that unbranded padlock was so mushy when picking... (but rakes open in ~500 ms) Yes, that's a plastic bible. The plug is fake too: it's badly cast zinc that's been brass plated. The key & driver pins are brass, but rather misshapen.

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  Looks good to me

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  Hooded crows on a pile of gravel:

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  Beetle:

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  Jackdaw (fl=150mm, f/6.3, 6.5 ms)

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  I don't currently have anything better than a 150mm f/6.3 handheld lens, but here's an attempt™:

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  US government goes after a non-commercial web host offering free services to select people with opinions. I'm (technically) a non-commercial web hoster that offers free services to select people with opinions... :neocat_0_0: ... and so is your local mastodon instance admin...

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  The usual story about a lightbulb conspiracy isn't quite right: http://maurycyz.com/misc/tungsten/

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  So, I just got hatemail that appears to have been generated by an LLM. ... someone should go tell the orange site that they've lost their job to AI. Also, did anyone else on here get something from an proton.me email address that: [0] is clearly responding to a single published page, [1] echos fragments of the original page, [2] and has every point formatted as a question? If yes, I'd love to hear about it to get an idea of how common this is. (and to know if this is a on...

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  I know phone cameras take some liberties with image processing, but this is just ridiculous. I honestly don't even know what happened here: it's not just slopscalling because even large things like the SATA label are messed up. Almost looks like the output of stable diffusion "img2img"... perhaps someone told a chatbox to put the photo on a white background?

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  RE: https://oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/116989115577194362

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  By the way, if you are behind cloudflare, this is what your website looks like to anyone who is [1.] using an slow computer [2.] is on a older mobile device [3.] using a slow internet connection [4.] have their browser set up for privacy or/and security. You don't see these users on your analytics, but they exist.

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  I think my IRC client is judging me for my sleep schedule:

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  The sun at ~21:00 UTC. Taken using a shitty solar "telescope" made by stacking non-overlapping filters until the light intensity was reasonable, and attaching that over a 150mm focal length camera lens.

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  Random bird:

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  Wildfire smoke + accidental sunspot: (Spur of the moment shot with cannon R100, a=23, fl=150, f/5.3)

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  Abusing progressive JPEG to make animations. (Got nerd snipped by https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116922305016859176)

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  Hmm...

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  NGC 7497 and IFN in pegasus. (25 minutes, 230 mm, fl=1500, f/6.3)

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  Animated jpeg test: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/msg.jpg

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  In light of recent events, I wrote a thing about making flexible "ice packs" that freeze at 18 °C. That's low enough to cool down, but high enough to be frozen in a basement (no electricity required!) The materials are cheap, non-toxic, non-corrosive, and store ~100 J/g (30% of ice, but can still provide an hour or so of cooling)

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  Regarding the recent windows affair, you should probobly not use TPM based disc encryption (like default bitlocker) Password based disc encryption works like this: the computer boots up, prompts you for a password, and uses that to decrypt your data. If someone steals the computer, it's mathematically impossible for them to see any of that data. However, if the computers breaks, you can plug the drive into another computer and decrypt it using your password. TPM based encryption uses a ch...

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  I dunno, but this seems very slightly excessive? (I guess I'll have to set up a block list on my email server)

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  Text drawing with my AVR video transmitter:

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  https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/4/1/1284