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You can still get a long exposure by accumulating many 1/5,000 exposure shots together. Just like a regular long exposure, this will still cancel out random noise and improve SNR, …

Flock is such a scummy company. One must just read a bit of the coverage from 404 Media [1] or Benn Jordan [2] and get a whiff of how this company is handling pretty legitimate cri…

This is interesting. Do you have any specific examples?

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Same same. I'd been a die hard mac user since System 6 in the early 90s, but last year I switched to Asahi Linux and my next hardware may or may not be from Apple.

Is there a reason to use Gonic instead of Navidrome? I've been using the latter for hosting my music collection for over a year now and really like it. Good riddance Spotify. [1] D…

Same. It looks like battery replacement from ifixit is not too difficult, so I plan to do that when the time comes. Incidentally, I just switched to Asahi Linux, but that was for s…

The new rules will be incorporated into tzdata, which is used for various operating systems, software libraries, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

Didn't work in my browser. I degoogled long ago. :shrug:

I’m with Freedom Mobile in Vancouver, currently using a rather old iPhone. My next phone will probably run GOS. I have issues with Freedom on my iPhone too. Poor signal, or else “g…

I did a detailed review of a few Canadian VPS providers last year. https://lukecyca.com/2025/canadian-vps-review.html Last year, I moved from DigitalOcean to FullHost (their Vancou…

Me too. I’ve been an Apple fan for 3 decades, and the Mac has always been my daily driver. Up until this past November when I installed Asahi and haven’t looked back. It’s been tou…

Also been hit with this using DHL. Doing trade with the USA is such a gamble now with so much uncertainty.

https://lukecyca.com

Suit yourself. I think a little whimsy is refreshing.

Finally! Here is a delightful article from NYT from last year on this topic. Truly fascinating and bewildering. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...

These ones, right? https://us.isseymiyake.com/products/hp56-jf362

An automated batch job started failing for us recently, and we found that it is because this source of randomness from NIST has been shut down "Due to a lapse in federal funding".

> it deviates a bit from what might be the most common setup, but it's undoubtedly me This is delightful. Personal projects are a great place to buck the technical monoculture and …