Daily reminder that Russia is a terrorist state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack

Ukraine said the video - showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely-controlled drone - amounted to a war crime.

bbc.co.uk

⚠️ Almost nobody seems to know this, but: The most sinister piece of software on your computer: The "Management Engine" running on a level so low, that it can do anything even if your computer is switched off. 🤯 Little is known on what it does, but hackers found it to be running #MinixOS.

The horrible neglect of #OpenCL drivers. 😱 This is RX7600 on Linux with amdgpu. #PhotonMapping #IndieGame Luckily, Vulkan works better, as does CUDA.

North America does not get this, but this is what peak utility is in any urban environment. (Admittedly, the engine is overkill in flat terrain.) #Urbanism #Cycling

Camera snob gets out-done by wife with iPhone. Hers (L), and mine (R). #analog #photography #shotonfilm Voigtländer Bessa ii coupled rangefinder with Rollei PAN 25. (expired 2015, underexposed)

Another benefit as a Canadian boycotting US produce and US travel: no Cyclosporiasis parasite. Elbows up. Do not travel into, or buy from US.

Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...

Kempes AND Iniesta? 1978 and 2010. Way to rub it in, fifa. 🟧 🇳🇱 🟧

Not bad for a $50 enlarger lens. Abracam v2 with OS-267 f/4.5 10in. #VintageLens #Photography.

https://youtu.be/hjgWaBOUAKU #ZXSpectrum #1BIT #MicroComputer

“Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.”

“Verify your age” I stored software on audio cassettes. But to successfully load it, I had to calibrate head azimuth.

Jacco Bikker 🎦@jbikker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Verify your age. Still remember what it means to "dial a number".

He could COSplay as Senator Palpetine.

Ooh, neat. I think this is the first time I run a dual dGPU setup. gputop will display the activity on both. (single app with GL graphics on the Intel and doing the GI simulation as Vulkan Compute Shader on Radeon.) Vulkan's sim results are sent to CPU, and then uploaded to GL on other GPU. 🤣

He's still much better at sports than he is at presidenting. #FIFA-Fiasco

Dr. Mar@boldnewme.bsky.social · 4w ago

America didn’t just lose a World Cup match. We lost credibility. A President personally intervened with FIFA over a disciplinary decision and created the appearance that political power could influence the rules of the game. The reputational cost was far greater than the sporting cost.

#amdgpu throttling gets in the way of profiling my compute shader. Luckily there is a control: power_dpm_force_performance_level auto: 38fps (55W) profile_standard: 46fps (72W) profile_peak: 55fps (110W) By default, my photon mapper runs at 50% wattage, 69% perf.

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

Mark Grantham (Canadian, b.1966) "Every Journey, Every Step," Acrylic on canvas 24 x 18 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

@nerd4cities.bsky.social correctly identified World Cup’s top venue. I bicycled (all 7km on designated cycle route) to the stadium, and parked in front of it with FREE VALET parking, zero wait. I did not even have to lock up. Best Stadium ingress of my life.

I thought I would switch out my browser and from now on just use @operabrowser.bsky.social . Sorry, but it tripped up right out of the gate. It plays my 1080p youtube video at 360p only, and refuses any other resolution. Why? Playing a youtube video is the minimal requirement for a browser.

Mounting a mystery lens that is just labeled "OS-267 f/4.5 10in." Its eBay seller described it as enlarger lens of unknown origin. #VintageLens #LargeFormat #Photography.

Community strategist Jono Bacon tells the story of Blender. Great watch, share it! #b3d youtu.be/cFXHlT77YRw

The Bizarre Way Blender Cheated Death

YouTube video by Jono Bacon

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🎼 Schade Deutschland, alles ist vorbei, alles is vorbei, alles ist vorbei. 🎶 (Having now sung this, Holland better wins this evening. 😬)

New lens day! Quite a rare specimen: Ilex Portrait 15 inches f:5. I under-exposed the self-portrait, so a noisy image. I still love it. #VintageLens #LargeFormat #Photography $52 in ca 1922 currency. I paid new price, adjusted for inflation.

I'm lucky to be the current caretaker of portrait lens made in 1850 (for sixth plate photos, but just covers 4x5 with some vignetting). I do want to use it more.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

Small joys of life: birds taking baths in our yard. GFX50R with Minskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod KO-140M 1:1,8 (heavily cropped.)

WIN! (Last time I voted for this, the threshold meant no change. Did they abolish turnout thresholds?) Vancouver needs to stop giving away car storage. City streets are for people, not cars.

“Iran's national soccer team honored schoolgirls killed in a strike on an elementary school before a friendly against Nigeria in Antalya, Türkiye, on March 27, 2026.“