My subjects keep trying to eat my camera

I can, but it would still be effective for public announcements because Mastodon does not typically require a login to view on the web, and it provides am RSS feed. Walled garden platforms that won’t show posts to anonymous web visitors are not acceptable for public announcements.

Zero. It seems like software is increasingly expecting to be deployed in a container though, so that probably won’t last forever.

This seems like a perfect use case for extensions. You want a UI feature that the developers seem to have decided is too niche to include in the app.

I’ve been using Maddy for about a year. It’s easy to set up and has been trouble free.

You can’t middle-click them because they aren’t links. That is to say, they are not a elements but div elements with an added click event handler that navigates to another page. There’s a case to be made for doing things like that on a website that’s trying to behave like a native application, but Ebay fundamentally behaves like a website and building its navigation this way is bad design.

It seems to me software designed to facilitate discussion shouldn’t have a downvote buttton. There should be a UI for marking comments as inappropriate, but it should require a second step saying why. Perhaps one of the reasons should even be “I disagree”, but that option should have no effect.

It’s not impossible to abuse of course, but it nudges people in the right direction. Those UI nudges can be pretty effective.

Only certain mirrorless lenses ate compatible with teleconverters, and that one isn’t. Teleconverters are also surprisingly expensive. RF mount is also expensive because Canon banned third party lenses entirely until recently and continues to heavily restrict them.

I think the the least amount of BS from a major camera company is probably Panasonic:

• Panasonic uses two lens mounts (micro four thirds and L-mount), both of which are shared with other body and lens manufacturers
• Old bodies get firmware updates
• Features are rarely artificially restricted for market segmentation
• Third parties have written apps to talk to Panasonic cameras

The biggest downside to the brand is that until very recently, Panasonic bodies had only contrast-detection autofocus, which can pulse if used in video and doesn’t track moving subjects very well.

There was a recent related discussion on Hacker News and the top comment discusses why this sort of solution is not likely to be the best fit for smaller organizations. In short, doing it well requires time and effort from someone technically sophisticated, who must do more than the bare minimum for good results, as you just learned.

Even then, it’s likely to be less reliable than solutions hosted by big corporations and when there’s a problem, it’s your problem. I don’t want to discourage you, but understand what you’re committing to and make sure you have adequate buy-in in your organization.

computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong

tech CEOs: let’s add it to every product

Borrowed from here

Telegram isn’t open source, so I don’t think you’re going to find forks of it.

I stand corrected. Telegram’s client is open source (GPL) and what OP is asking for is reasonable.

That’s a valid point, though it looks like Popfile’s installation instructions call for manually installing libraries, presumably current ones. I think it processes only text, not PDFs or images, which are traditional sources of vulnerabilities. I’m fairly certain it doesn’t attempt to execute Javascript. It is, itself written in Perl, which is memory-safe.

It’s worth considering security because there’s so much malware out there trying to spread indiscriminately, but Popfile is less vulnerable than an Android app (which bundles its dependencies) or anything written in C (which is subject to all kinds of memory management bugs).

Abandoned doesn’t necessarily imply no longer useful. Sometimes, though rarely in the modern world software is finished.

I may give it a try. It does actually have the features I’m asking for.

Pancake lenses (shorter than they are wide) for E-mount that cover a full frame sensor include:

• Sony 24/2.8G
• Sony 40/2.5G
• Sony 50/2.5G
• Samyang 35/2.8
• Samyang 24/2.8

It’s hard to use any kind of auto exposure for something like that. Only spot highlight metering has much chance, but most photographers would use manual.

There are manual options for phones, but most phones don’t have a long enough telephoto lens option to get good eclipse photos.

It was a prominence, not a flare. A flare escapes the sun’s magnetic field while a prominence does not.

Viewing the eclipse during totality is safe without eye protection.

It just looked like a little pink dot on the edge without magnification.

I’ve been using one of the Javascript variants of this for a while. While that is a little heavier weight for the client than this completely static solution, it’s ultimately just a few kilobytes and minimal processing that’s fast even on old devices.