mattfahrner.bsky.social
Enterprise Architect, avid photographer,🇨🇭 lover. Opinions expressed are my own and do not represent any other party.
mattfahrner @ http://x.com & http://bsky.social
All photos published are my own unless otherwise indicated.
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Guilty as charged unfortunately.
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:-)
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Don't candy coat it Neil! 😁
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"the overlooked things" is a great phrase for the kind of photos I look for when there seems no obvious subject nor grand vista to avail oneself. It's amazing what you can find around you, whether macro, or just interesting, if you attune your eye.
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Gonna be a bunch of rich people who own all the AI and the rest of us will be desperate to find whatever meager low wage employment we can find.
They have zero plan for this. Maybe it will be all find on the other end, but the transition is going to be painful.
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That would definitely be handy.
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Thanks - Lance!
It's Zermat, Switzerland many moons ago.
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About 30 min away from Santa Fe.
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This.
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Well, that's controversial! No wonder that one got away on you! 😜
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It's also beyond me why they hit Canada. Our jobs didn't run off to Canada.
Also, if you're trying to repatriate jobs, which I'm not against in principle, why wouldn't you start with small tariffs and slowly ramp up? I mean if you're going to do it, at least do it sanely.
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Containers - cool!
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That said, to each his own - all the OSes are fully workable if you take the time. As you imply, you should just choose what makes you happy.
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When people are involved, any subject is controversial (these days at least).
For me it's Linux for any service or production application and MacOS for my desktop (MacOS mostly because it's a nice GUI with what basically looks like Linux at the CLI level).
Regardless, I'm definitely team Linux.
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Nice capture. (putting this comment back - accidentally deleted)
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Thanks!!!
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Bonus "own the libs" too.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers was awesome!
If anyone doesn't think so, well...
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I rarely have time to read/watch recommendations, so I empathize.
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Albeit, watch it with subtitles on! 😜
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Good to know as I really want to read it and it sounds like it may be more difficult than I thought.
BTW "Der Untergang" ("Downfall") is an amazing movie on the last days of Hitler, also showing some of the same "banality", based on the memoirs of his secretary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzK...
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"Zone of Interest" which can be found for streaming is an excellent movie on just that subject, and pretty much shows the "banality" as exactly as you describe.
"Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Arendt also treads similar territory, but more centered on how the psychology.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vf...
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Which I guess is to say, there is a certain feeling of being a "power trip" for many right now. They don't think it is just sensible, they are absolutely loving being able to shove it down "their enemy's" throats. A literal glee to it.
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Arendt's book is on my booklist as well for the same reasons.
I do have a hard time just seeing it as "banal" though. Yes, for some it is just sensible, and therefor banal, however for others there seems be almost a certain glee in inflicting cruelty, whether owning the libs or deporting kids.
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Nope, I always need at least a little air flow to feel at home in one of those tin cans.
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Jesus, Mary, mother of God. I guess my Speed Graphic is going to stay in its case. 10 sheets!
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Very cool.
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Frightening times.
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Viva Flickr!
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Yeah, they really feel like increasingly unhealthy tools, both on a personal level and a societal level. And yes, as per you and the article, that seems a feature not a bug.
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Seems to work very well as designed.
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Very kind of you - thanks!
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Thx!
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Thanks!
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Thank you!
That said - truth is it was fire season in British Columbia and the smoke created crazy light.
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The honest truth is I always eyeballed it, turning the focus knob back and forth and watching for it to reach the sweet spot.
That was back when I had better eyes though.
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Thank you!
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Wow - serious!
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Anyway, sounds like you were lucky to have to have that station available on your antenna!
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Reminds me of radio then too. My dad was a DJ at a couple of local radio stations. All the music was chosen based on the preferences of the DJ. That meant there was a unique spin to every broadcast that reflected the DJs proclivities.
Then they changed it to programmed by pure charts only.
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Seems like you just moved in. Sorry for the extra stress I'm sure it's causing you.
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Currently have 166k photos in Lightroom, of those probably 166 actually good.