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Primary hangout of @knapjack, because the Fediverse isn't just one thing.

I snap photos on film, flip bits for a living and live in the subarctic. Be kind, rewind.

knapjack bonked 29 Mar 2024 05:44 +0000
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High Wind Watch issued March 28 at 1:35PM AKDT until March 31 at 7:00AM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AK
* WHAT...Southeast winds 40 to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph possible. For the Anchorage Bowl, southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph possible.
* WHERE...Anchorage Hillside and western Turnagain Arm.
* WHEN...From Saturday morning through Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...High winds could move loose debris, damage property, and cause power outages. Travel could be diffi... #akwx

knapjack bonked 28 Mar 2024 11:50 +0000
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“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.

The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.

The world is rudderless.”
― Alan Moore

#quotes

knapjack honked 28 Mar 2024 04:09 +0000

I'm an Android user and a big fan of BeyondPod to manage podcasts: only keep one, keep the latest, delete it as soon as it's been played, download only on wifi while I'm sleeping. It's not rocket science.

BeyondPod is no longer supported or installable and Google Podcasts is ending next month so I've been giving YouTube Music a chance. I think it can only do two of the things above. Come on, Google, I can do (and have done) this in bash.

Looking for a new podcast app if anyone knows of a good one. Podbean, maybe?

knapjack bonked 28 Mar 2024 02:51 +0000
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Here's what to know about dengue, as Puerto Rico declares a public health emergency

Most people with dengue will show no signs of infection or experience only mild symptoms, but in rare cases infections can become severe and potentially fatal. #press

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241210938/dengue-puerto-rico-public-health-emergency-facts-disease?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

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knapjack bonked 27 Mar 2024 13:32 +0000
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The “Cooking With #DuckDB" e-book is progressing pretty well. 18 "cookbook-style" chapters that cover common use-cases with plenty of examples.

Spent some extra time on "Read Parquet File(s) From The Web" to peel back the covers on how DuckDB does remote Parquet ops so fast.

Now has a cover img & repo links: https://duckdb.hrbrmstr.app/


- Mise En Place: Installing DuckDB

- Read A CSV File From The Filesystem

- Read Many CSV Files From The Filesystem

-Read A CSV File From The Web

-Customize CSV Read Behavion

- Read A CSV From Standard Input (stdin)

-Output CSV From DuckDB

-Use DuckDB To Convert CSV To Other Formats

- Read JSON Files From The Filesystem

- Read Many JSON Files From The
Filesystem

-Read JSON File From The Web

- Customize JSON Read Behavion

- Read JSON Content From Standard Input (stdin)

-Use DuckDB To Convert JSON To Other Formats

- Read A Parquet File From The Filesystem

- Read Many Parquet Files From The Filesystem

- Read Parquet File(s) From The Web

- Read Remote Files From AWS/Object Storage

- Quickly Summarize Tables

knapjack bonked 26 Mar 2024 11:44 +0000
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Trump has embraced Jan. 6. The extremist message may alienate — or resonate

He praises defendants who are charged with rioting that day. His campaign's launch site has connections to extremist violence. Experts worry he's tapping into anger that motivated domestic terrorism. #press

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/26/1240301462/trump-jan-6-extremist-rhetoric?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

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knapjack bonked 26 Mar 2024 11:43 +0000
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Catwalks - Woodside

Another version of this photo, a white cat looks both ways then calmly walks across the track at Woodside Tram Stop

I almost forgot to capture photography of the cat because I was initially concerned for the feline until I realised it was a pro track crosser

#photography #cats

Woodside

knapjack bonked 26 Mar 2024 04:50 +0000
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If I shoot color on 35mm, I’m usually shooting Fuji 400 or Kodak 500T. The motion picture processing is a bit of a pain (I used to do it myself but don’t love it). Usually people say use a warming filter to make it look less blue, but sometimes that works.

3 photos from Singapore on 500T. If you’re ever in Singapore get your film developed at whampoa colour centre. It’s very affordable. Get film there too. Cash or local mobile wallet payment only

#BelieveInFilm #TootSea #Singapore

A photo of women working in a kitchen making dumplings in Chinatown in Singapore A photo of a city scene in Singapore with tall buildings and older buildings side by side A photo of an older person cycling on the road in Singapore next to a bus stop

knapjack honked 26 Mar 2024 03:59 +0000

I usually pack a camera around like Linus's blanket, but I was hustling this morning and forgot one. So, at lunch, I bought a couple of rolls of film to balance out the universe, even though the universe doesn't work that way.

knapjack bonked 26 Mar 2024 03:55 +0000
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The Big Issue (a homeless magazine and social enterprise) has had a ransomware incident running for about a week, appears they haven’t disclosed it.

Pretty messed up target as homeless people sell the magazine, which makes next to no money in profit.

#threatintel

knapjack bonked 26 Mar 2024 03:36 +0000
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Maybe my mind is slipping but I'm pretty sure way back in the day there were "Cast" buttons all over apps like Plex and even inside video players in Firefox on my phone, and I could just click the button to play the video on my Chromecast.

Those disappeared at some point and now the only options are to play from a small number of applications like Netflix, or to just cast the whole damn screen which is a terrible "solution"

I assume Google realized allowing people to cast too easily was eating into some profit somewhere, and thus made it shittier.

knapjack bonked 25 Mar 2024 05:20 +0000
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@ionchy lmao bet

Okay for hard SF I would recommend: literally anything by Ursula K Le Guin literally anything by Greg Egan

Ursula K Le Guin is one of the best authors I've ever read and she does an amazing job not being edgelord. The Dispossessed is 11/10, and I really liked The Lathe of Heaven and The Word for World is Forest.

Greg Egan is good if you want even harder sci fi. Poke around on gregegan.net to get an idea about what I mean, I gave up Dichronauts because I couldn't understand the physics. If you liked the specific anxieties they talked about in Blindsight (90% of the reason I liked that book) I'd recommend Permutation City. I also _really_ liked Quarantine, and I thought Schild's Ladder had some super cool world building.

knapjack bonked 25 Mar 2024 02:48 +0000
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Every financial advice article: If you deprive yourself of all joys in life, then you can save up enough money to maintain your joyless lifestyle until you die.

knapjack bonked 25 Mar 2024 02:47 +0000
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Dentists be like, “why do your teeth suck so bad,” and never “I’m glad to see you made it in. Me and my ridiculously attractive office staff are glad you’re doing something positive for your luxury bones.”

knapjack bonked 24 Mar 2024 21:25 +0000
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NOAA is reporting that the 23 March CME arrived today at around 14:11 UTC. A severe (G4!) geomagnetic storming has been observed and is expected to continue through the remainder of the 24 March-UTC day and into the first half of 25 March.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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Notice from NOAA about G4 storm
Graph of past geomagnetic activity and table of forecast values