Iris does a lot of things really nicely, and the headline remains its unification of diverse photos catalogs, but 'show in finder' is nearly worth the price of admission all by itself.
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Trans rights Data science, rstats, sometimes video games, hobby shiny apps, photos Once a sociologist, FLG -> SEA More Als, less AIs alans.omg.lol
Dropped off my ballots and biked around, found another example of Seafair class war: the extra ritzy part of Mt Baker is closed to non locals, *patrolled by SPD in a golf cart* so the rest of us can't even park on their streets. Same people angry about "gentrification" on LWB bicycle weekends lol.
I'm very late to this realization, but the ease with which Tailscale makes reaching my home music server from the parking lot of the grocery store is kind of astonishing.
Oh dear, my vacation just started and I'm already tinkering with running Navidrome on my Synology send help and client recs.
I despise this airshow so much. Four beautiful summer days are wasted to drugging my terrified dog and being assaulted by jet noise for hours at a time.
I continue to be captivated by this album, and the album art continues to be pretty unsettling.
Between Iris and now Aphera, it's sure an interesting time to be doing photography with a Mac, right now. Iris is unifying my catalogs over time for the first time in fifteen years (), and Aphera has me shooting some raw photos for the first time since ditching my Lightroom subscription.
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I’m impressed by Iris, an elegant and clever Mac app that does a bunch of delightful things. I have an array of photos sources: Two Photos libraries from different eras of Mac and pre-Mac computers; more than a decade of flat file storage that make up my Lightroom libraries; and a big file tree of imported mobile phone photos from prior to when I began syncing everything through iCloud Photos.
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Someone posted about The Spoil by Maile Chapman, but I don't remember. @ethanschoonover.com, was it you? Anyway, I read it on some travel this week, and this book kind of did a number on me.
Look I'll watch Nolan's The Odyssey, but what I really want is Gerwig's Cerce.
First cup of home coffee after being on the road for the week sure hits good. (Delaware, I'm looking at you, that's not cappuccino)
I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Doing some cable accounting in the network cubbyhole, I found that the previous homeowner here had run a cat5 cable with an ethernet plug at one end to a phone jack at the far end. Where? In my office! One RJ45 jack later, I have wired network at my desk.
Three-four chapters in, The Spoil by Maile Chapman has this remarkably specific depiction of being a kid in a specific time and place, and of what it feels like to be overpoweringly scared of something unknown as a kid. It's extremely spooky and very good.
Crazy to think the bad AQI day we're having today in NYC was just "normal" for summer in the 80s-90s. (Note that 2001-5 overlap across the two plots). Data via www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-...
The FRIENDSHIP ENDED meme but it's going from [blank] FIELD to Jimothy the Raccoon.
Alternative photo apps haven't really stuck for me, but I am really appreciating a lot of what No Fusion does, so far.
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Alternative photo apps haven’t really stuck for me, but I am really appreciating a lot of what No Fusion does, so far. The interface feels pretty good, allowing for fairly natural feeling adjustments, and it has a nice set of film-like modes. It also claims to have a unique processing pipeline that improves detail and color. Does it? I don’t know; I’m not making direct comparisons, yet, but I do like what I’m getting from it.
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Watching the new Dune trailer I realized that I don't really care, at all, what happens in that movie. But I would obsessively and repeatedly study a David Macaulay-style volume of drawings explaining what exactly, the fuck is going on in those giant spaceships.
Pretty sure I don't need this 2014 TeX distribution preference pane anymore.
If the US team wins tomorrow, it's a win tainted by corruption; but if they lose, they don't have the mythmaking "what if" story to tell about it. Seems like a bad position to be in, actually.
I'm pretty delighted by Iris, a new MacOS photos app that unifies catalogs from multiple sources and runs private ML to do all kinds of useful things:
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I’m impressed by Iris, an elegant and clever Mac app that does a bunch of delightful things. I have an array of photos sources: Two Photos libraries from different eras of Mac and pre-Mac computers; more than a decade of flat file storage that make up my Lightroom libraries; and a big file tree of imported mobile phone photos from prior to when I began syncing everything through iCloud Photos.
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Bet there's comparable number of people at the waterfront tonight to watch a soccer game as have visited the national county fail so far this week.
Sounders FC@soundersfc.com · last mo.Mexico v. Ecuador kicking off here at Pier 62! 🇲🇽
This trade show vibe is exactly what people want in their state fairs, right? Everybody looks forward to the … checks notes … SAP pavilion every year.
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last mo.SpaceX is the main attraction in the American Innovation Hall. Again, the Air and Space Museum is TWO BLOCKS AWAY. The Smithsonian on a normal Tuesday is 50x better than this.
waiting until the last decision on the last day to reveal a big consequential outcome like it’s Best Picture instead of existential for real people is bullshit
I had to take the dog out, what is happening at Seattle's Field?