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"Love. With Azura, everything begins with love. A love that is fierce, possessive, even cruel—but always true, and impossibly deep."

--Vastarie

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The image depicts a statue of a seated figure with closed eyes, wearing a crown of roses. The figure is in a meditative pose, with hands resting in its lap. The statue is surrounded by various objects, including a crescent moon and a shield-like object, both placed on stone pedestals. The background features a dark, forest-like setting with glowing blue flowers, enhancing the mystical atmosphere. The statue is made of a dark material, possibly bronze, and is intricately detailed, with visible textures and folds in the drapery. The overall composition suggests a serene and otherworldly environment, with the statue as the central focus.

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I really liked the #UNIX network uiowa had before they sold out to #MIcrosoft. It contained a large and diverse ecosystem that owed nothing to an establishment remotely controlled by wankers including Bill Gates.
I've found myself replicating parts of it in Linux, with my own network services.
Now I'm re-discovering mail, and just set up up 2 IMAP/ESMPT servers.

I have thought about completely rebuilding the internet, it could have started differently, and I'm not alone with these thoughts





Rosto de Luigi Mangione, suspeito de matar CEO de plano de saúde, é usado para divulgar roupa na Shein
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/internet/406860-rosto-de-luigi-mangione-suspeito-de-matar-ceo-de-plano-de-saude-e-usado-para-divulgar-roupa-na-shein.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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recruiter: do you have 48 years of experience with Git?

Microsoft employee: yes github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M65…

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in reply to Eloy. 🔜 eth0

I love that Microsoft does this. Lots of computer companies from that era no longer exists and the source code of this stuff is likely lost forever. Microsoft must have somewhat decent archival procedures that they're able to do this.


cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont…
Well, if we're going to go through all this needless angst - it will help Ford hide chronic underfunding of education but will NOT direct more resources to the classroom or make anything better for students - then I suggest it's an ideal time to eliminate the Roman Catholic separate system. That won't save any money, but it will modernize an archaic feature of public education. 1/2


André Pitz: Gesehen: High and Low (1963) - Kapital ersetzt Moral andrepitz.de/2025/09/05/gesehe…

#Blog

#blog


Creator Of The Trans Flag Is Fleeing The US Due To LGBTQ Persecution

erininthemorning.com/p/creator…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA



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I got more mortgage assumption paperwork from the lender today. It not even vaguely close to the neighborhood of a done deal, but at least it’s not dead yet.


La smart home secondo Ikea: tutti i nuovi prodotti svelati da un colossale leak - Lega Nerd (Umberto Stentella) leganerd.com/2025/09/03/la-sma…



I'll be listing to this talk on "Privacy in the Age of AI" with @Mer__edith and I thought some of the good folks here might like to attend as well.

algorithmwatch.org/en/exclusiv…

#AI #privacy #security #technology #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism



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in reply to Ars Technica

Lol here my sorry butt has just been turning the small handheld device sideways into book mode (with external keyboard and mouse) all these years if I wanted portrait.
in reply to Ars Technica

About half the Mac users who ran PageMaker, FrameMaker, or Quark Express had Radius CRTs that swiveled into portrait mode, back in the late '80s and early '90s.


The Red Arrows

At the start of the year, in my annual birthday post, I outlined my shooting goals for 2025. There were only two: photograph some fireworks, and photograph a Red Arrows display. I had expected to put a small amount of effort into travelling to a display of the latter, but as luck would have it, they actually were scheduled for a display on the very last day of our holiday in Swanage this year.

Kit List
Canon EOS R6 Mk II
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

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It has been 14 years since I last photographed a Red Arrows display – and 16 years since I last saw them do a display in Swanage. In fact, this is the first aerobatic display I’ve photographed since the Bournemouth Air Festival in 2011 – part of the reason why I wanted to have another go at it, with better hardware and an extra decade of experience (albeit not of actual air displays).

My plan was simple – just use my telephoto lens, because nothing else was going to get close enough, and the telephoto would probably zoom out enough for any wider shots I wanted to capture, like their iconic arrival.
1/2000sec, f/4.5, ISO 100, 100mm
As you can see, it was a bit of a grey day. The weather was pretty changeable, which occasionally made for some interesting cloud in the background.

1/1250sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

Where there were nice patches of blue, the red fuselage of the planes contrasted nicely, as is (probably) the intention.

1/1250sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

Other times, when the planes got a little further away and visibility got a little worse, I resorted to some more interesting editing techniques to make the images pop a little.
1/1600sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
In comparison to that last time I photographed the Red Arrows perform, in Bournemouth all the way back in 2011, we were not positioned as close to the centre line of the display, and they were performing further out into the bay, away from the crowd. This meant that, even with the increased reach of my 500mm, I wasn’t getting as close as I did with my 300mm back then. I have therefore resorted to periodic cropping for the images in this post.
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As I normally would for displays like this, shot multiple frames as the planes flew by, and then picked the best ones for sharing.
1/1600sec, f/6.3, ISO 100, 400mm
As always though, I find I’m not the best judge of my own photographs, so there are a few alternatives in the gallery below.
1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 343mm
As I said above, quite a few of these shots have at least a little bit of cropping. There’s also a few instances where I’ve cropped from horizontal into vertical, something I’ve not felt compelled to do for many years (I’d like to think that’s because I have a better idea of what I’m doing these days). This next one was cropped into portrait because I felt it looked nicely more dramatic that way.

1/1000sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

I love the shots where the planes are facing forwards and you can easily see their front lights.
1/1600sec, f/5, ISO 100, 223mm
The low cloud cover wasn’t ideal, as the Red Arrows couldn’t do their full height display. The atmospheric conditions also meant a lot of the smoke hung in the air longer without dispersing. It did mean I could add a hint of gritty contrast to some of the shots though.
1/2000sec, f/5, ISO 100, 254mm
The light was pretty changeable too. Sometimes, like in the shot above, the planes looked more in shadow, but in the shot below they are catching the light a lot better.

1/800sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

That said, sometimes the lighting added to the drama.
1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 300mm
It’s also possible the atmospheric conditions affected the smoke trails coming out of the planes, not unlike how it impacts the exhaust coming from a steam train.
1/640sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
There are a few shots where I should possibly have cropped the images into something other than their original aspect ratio. Some of them, like the one below, have quite a bit of empty sky in them.
1/800sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
On some occasions I tried to solve that with a cropping into portrait.

1/800sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

Occasionally I was blessed with a lone plane to focus on.
1/640sec, f/6.3, ISO 100, 400mm
1/640sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm

Or smaller groups getting a bit closer to me.
1/640sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
I was positioned towards the middle of the beach, up a hill. The idea was that the display tends to look best – especially if you want photographs that are balanced – if you’re in the midline of the display. In hindsight, it might have been interesting to have watched from Peveril Point, off to the side of the display. Some of the manoeuvres might have looked a bit odd – although potentially from a unique angle – but in some of moves the planes appeared to fly pretty close to the hill on Peveril Point, which might have given some very interesting results.
1/800sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
This particular run was great, this plane trailed blue smoke the whole time, which added some extra colour to the grey sky.
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Although the plane trailing red also looked good from this angle.
1/1000sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
When it flew over the Point I edited the shot to enhance its contrast against the sky.
1/1000sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
One of the challenges, in moves like this next one, was finding a balance between getting close to the planes, and showing the manoeuvre being carried out.
1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 363mm
On a couple of occasions, I was able to get shots of planes with a formation of the other planes in the background, starting with this shot of a plane flying over Peveril Point.
1/800sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
Although I prefer this one, which I have edited to turn the plane into a silhouette.
1/1000sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 500mm
By this point it was starting to rain, to the point that I was sheltering my camera in my clothes and breaking it out only when some planes came by.
1/500sec, f/7.1, ISO 125, 500mm
It didn’t affect my shooting too much, but did make the sky a bit darker.
1/500sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 300mm
As the rain got heavier we started moving towards the end of the display.
1/500sec, f/5, ISO 100, 200mm
Indeed, we were soon greeted with the traditional display-ending fan out.
1/640sec, f/7.1, ISO 160, 500mm1/640sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 343mm1/800sec, f/5, ISO 100, 176mm
And with that, the display was over, and lots of people made a run from the rain.

I think there was an element of ring rust for this one. I haven’t shot an air show since 2011 either, and I haven’t really used much of my gear in that sort of environment yet. The location also possibly meant I didn’t get the degree of closeup I had been hoping for. So although I’m happy to consider this a goal checked off my list for 2025, inevitably I would like to have another crack at it. Luckily, my son enjoyed the display too, so hopefully that means we might be able to figure out another air show of some kind in the not-too-distant future.

I had been hoping to suffix this post with a couple of shots of the Red Arrows flying past my house on their way to Airbourne, the Eastbourne airshow, as they did a couple of years ago. Unfortunately the last couple of years they’ve not come anywhere near as close. I still make sure to check their flight plans every August just in case. Maybe next year.

As usual, there are a few extra shots and angles in the gallery below.




































#aircraft #camera #cameras #Photography #RedArrows




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Ausländern darf man weder Arbeitserlaubnis, Bleiberecht noch Familiennachzug gewähren, sonst investieren sie sich in Deutschland, lernen die Sprache, schicken die Kinder auf die Schule und zahlen in die komplett leeren Rentenkassen ein.


dalla seconda guerra mondiale in poi si parla di "ministero della difesa" non ci sono più stati "ministeri della guerra", per ovvie ragioni...
...fino ad oggi a quanto pare.

Questa cosa è orribile e molto spaventosa.



Es ist erschreckend, wie viel KI-generierte Musik inzwischen auf Streaming-Plattformen landet, ohne gekennzeichnet zu sein. Besonders im Low-Fi Bereich, lässt sich der Stil so leicht kopieren, dass man schnell getäuscht wird. Mir ist das gestern mit der Gruppe "home alone." passiert, die bereits 65 Alben mit über 700 KI-Titeln veröffentlicht hat.

Hier braucht es dringend eine klare Kennzeichnung.



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✡️🇷🇴 New location feature: Synagogue G, Romania

Synagogue G was built around the turn of the 20th century, serving as the principal Orthodox synagogue for the town’s Jewish population.

In 1944, the Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz. Few survived. By the 1970s, regular services had ceased.

Full write-up and photographs now live:
👉 obsidianurbexphotography.com/r…

#Romania #AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #Heritage



Jo, geil. Heute fische ich einen Flyer aus dem Briefkasten, mit dem eine hannoversche Immobilientussi ein Seminar bewirbt, in dem Oma beigebracht werden soll, wie der pöse Staat nicht ihr klein Häuschen versaufen kann. -Gegen eine „Schenkung“ von €95,-
Rechtsberatung: Arne Freiherr von Hinkelbein, Diplom Jurist. Googelt mal nach dem Vogel…
Ich habe das mal der lokalen Presse gesteckt. Bin gespannt…
#Reichsbürger, #Nazikuschler, #Betrüger


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Herbert Marcuse: "Liberation from the Affluent Society" (1967 lecture in London)

marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spu…

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@jones

Il nemico c'è, ma in questa società bisogna far finta che sia più cazzuto del vero per convogliare l'aggressività della società ricca in modi socialmente utili (che però non vengono descritti e, presumo, utili solo alla società ricca).

in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

i padroni e i loro scagnozzi politici (tutti i politici istituzionali) si sono resi davvero molto più difficili da toccare rispetto a quei tempi, i dipendenti in sempre più casi vengono messi l'uno contro l'altro per minuscoli miglioramenti salariali... la vedo nerissima lì.


Global sumud flotilla: numerosi i preparativi a catania in attesa della partenza
@anarchia
A Catania, in Sicilia, dopo la grande manifestazione di mercoledì, fervono i preparativi per la Global Sumud Flotilla, la flotta di barche che nei prossimi giorni (si pensa domenica 7, ma la data potrebbe essere posticipata) dovrebbe partire per unirsi...

Vedi rivoluzioneanarchica.it/global…

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Tra coloro che hanno scelto di unirsi alla Global Sumud Flotilla che salperà domenica dalla Sicilia verso Gaza ci saranno anche quattro parlamentari ed eurodeputati italiani: Arturo Scotto (Pd), l’eurodeputata Benedetta Scuderi (Avs), l’europarlamentare Annalisa Corrado (Pd), e il senatore Marco Croatti (M5s)....votiamoli perdio e non ci asteniamo

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Why settle for one AI model when you can leverage them all? 🤔🤖

Multidoc is a Go utility that sends the same prompt to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini (and optionally Lambda.Chat) *simultaneously*. Then, it synthesizes their strengths into one cohesive result. Ideal for meta-prompting experiments or comprehensive comparisons.

#AI #Programming #GoLang

🔗 Project link on #GitHub 👉 github.com/xssdoctor/multidoc

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He creado un canal en Rumble con las partes del tutorial #Oracle y el lenguaje #PLSQL:

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Suscríbete a mi canal.

#bbdd #Programacion #SQL #SiguemeYTeSigo #Followback

Nota: imagen generada con IA generativa.


in reply to Totts

I mean - I don't think there's a path to the sort of reduction in GHG emissions we need without dramatically reducing the amount of civilian aviation that goes on, so it absolutely makes sense for an airport to sponsor a bunch of climate change deniers.


Kein Doitscher unter den Toten. Gehen Sie weiter, es gibt hier nichts zu sehen ...
in reply to Korallenherz

Wie unendlich wichtig das immer in den Nachrichten zu sein scheint. 😔


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