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Okay, I'm new to this, but I've put Giclée prints of 3 of my photos up on a little shop. I chose three that I think would look good hanging on a wall, and one of them actually does hang in my parents' living room. I'm using The Print Space for this if you need to check the trustworthiness of the store.
Quite windy out there today.
I have a question: If, in theory, I were to offer physical prints of my work, which of the photos would you be most interested in buying?
Please remember to leave your feedback on the 5.0 design that’s live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online on https://community.joinmastodon.org or the team might not see it in time. There’s an upvote function next to topics (confusingly, not the reactions underneath) that lets you sort topics by most votes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117411420916699261
30% sold out as of now. Shipping should begin in early November!
It’s been a million years since i posted a picture of myself. Taken by @Ameboid.
The mascot was born around November 2016 when I asked my #Dota2 friend @dopatwo for an illustration to put on Mastodon's error page. It was meant to be a homage to Twitter's "fail whale". As you can see, the design of the mascot has changed considerably in ten years. It was cute then, but more realistic, less round. I much prefer the contemporary design, and the fact that it's not a single character.
It's interesting that my bio as seen in the demo said "Developer of Mastodon, a GNU social alternative". That was the level of my ambition at the time: GNU social had a niche, tiny as it may in the grand scheme of things, and it appealed to me, so I just wanted to make something that would be nicer to use. (My original intent was making a TweetDeck-like app for GNU social, but I quickly pivoted into writing my own backend because GNU social's API was a mess and I like things to be neat).
There is a little time capsule of the UI as it was on that exact day, as I recorded a demo video for the Product Hunt submission. You can see how some UI concepts have persisted to this day, even as the details and level of refinement changed. You can also see the original blue accent color... I took that color palette from a website where people posted various color palettes, I do not remember its name anymore.
The codebase has been about 6 months in the works at that point (the first git commit was dated March 16, 2016) and mastodon.social had been running for a while too, since it was my way of testing how the federation works with other fediverse servers (and software, like GNU social) at the time. The API was the very first thing I worked on, and some of those API methods are still literally unchanged today, but the UI had already gone through multiple iterations by October 5.
At that point I was 23, freshly graduated from university with a B.Sc. in Informatics, living with my parents, and freelancing on the side (I had a freelancing career in web design since high school and went to university just to get a degree). I was able to save a lot from my student loan as well, so I had the opportunity to experiment with this open-source side project.
Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117434963703286230
It's unsurprising when people still use the term "bots" interchangeably for anything between search engine crawlers, automated accounts like the ones that post the weather every hour, automated accounts that pretend to be real people, real people who are paid to pretend to be other people, and real people they disagree with.
Another discard from Tuscany.
📷️️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
A photo from our trip to Tuscany earlier this year that I have not posted so far because I don't consider it very good.
📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117411420916699261
25% sold out as of now.
「ハガバーガンーーーンバババガンー」完成！
高さ 27.2 cm
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#バーガータワー
There is no ethical use of "AI".
"AI" is a failed technology, in the sense that it's neither fit for purpose, nor a likely path to its stated end goal of "AGI", but a lot of people's profits currently depend on pretending it's not. I am curious to see how long the hype will last once the Nvidia ouroboros ends and money stops being pumped into marketing.
He’s green, but not giant.
This is peak.
Okay... Don't give me ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245Ryi8d4cg
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/117382963679112384
Can confirm, we took one of the covers off, and all of the lightbulbs are warm white underneath colored glass. They sell them under the Fern Lighting brand in the Garden Centres.
@TechConnectify Found these “traditional glow” lights in a UK store, and it looks like they’re warm white inside colored glass? They’re not one of the US brands you covered. Could it be a miracle?
Whenever I see Tidal's "Recommended new tracks"...
