nina's little fedi corner

a few test pics from the hackerspace while i was experimenting with the eos m3

sgimage 35mm f/1.2 lens

i got my hands on a "new" camera

(it's still 11 years old)

it's a little chunkier but also detachable viewfinder (which looks giga goofy on the camera)

and a bunch of other niceties...

my new impulse lens buy was sent

https://www.lksamyang.com/en/product/product-view.php?seq=355

apparently samyang made a 300mm mirror lens for the ef-m mount that's super tiny

that sounds goofy as well as adorable so i had to have one

preparing the plasma 6.8 packaging ahead of release because i'm just itching to press the "yeet xorg away from main repo" button

lol qt is quietly admitting their move towards relying on chromium for webview (qtwebengine) was terrible by making it a separately released project with its own versioning for 6.12 and not having a release ready for 6.12

one thing that kind of universally annoys me about a lot of new software is how much it relies on environment variables to do things

especially a lot of software from webdev/devops adjacent things heavily relies on env vars for configuration even though doing so creates a broken mess where env vars propagate in ways you have no chance of keeping track of

it seems various rust stuff is adopting the same brainworms too, e.g. someone raised a pull request for using dynamic shell completions in jj, so i took a look and...

jj will just force switch to shell completions generation mode whenever the environment variable called COMPLETE is set at all and ignores any arguments or anything else

this will totally never lead to weird stuff

(on another note, i also really dislike the trend of generating shell completions using the built binary)

i still kind of wonder what exactly people have in mind when they complain about chimera/musl compatibility issues, because i rarely see anything really concrete being brought up

one concrete thing people frequently mention is nvidia drivers, but well... consider blaming the proprietary vendor (it's not musl's compatibility that's bad, it's nvidia's) and not the project that can really do little about it

the other thing is proprietary applications, which really is the same story but hurts far less because you can usually just containerize them so in practice you can have almost everything working anyway

the other stuff i've only seen vague claims about, usually coupled with "but the repos are so tiny" (which uh, yeah they are not debian sized but there's like, every major desktop, most major foss programs, and lots of smaller things in there, what else do you want? are you gonna wait until your more niche packages magically appear in there? because that's not gonna happen without someone actually doing it)

in general if it's foss it can be made to work natively nearly always, but we're not building a product here, people are expected to do their part

at some point gmaps (at least on ios) added this incredibly annoying thing of automatically entering navigation mode when you have a route searched and seemingly there is no way to disable that

why do they keep making that thing worse instead of adding stuff that would actually be useful (such as a checkbox to easily bypass paris when going through france)

the world is homophobic so i'm on regional trains to czechia once again today

a lot of people these days seem to be really fuckin bad at following text

like "ignores the very first sentence of 6 words and claims they read it" bad

the year is 2055

chimera linux repositories have grown to contain every software project in common use

random person on the internet concludes "yeah it's cool but you need to use flatpak for everything"

when your girlfriend accidentally leaves her headphones unmuted on the bed exposing her colleagues to being gay for 20 minutes and then makes cute embarrassed noises about it

scrandle brings the real shit today

it gets worse the longer you look at it

nura: nondescript, product-like

postmarket os: clear, imposing, promising a better future without capitalism

>update a package written in rust to a newer minor version
>it randomly breaks on one of the archs due to a random dependency 2 levels down the tree adding an irrelevant dependency that is not portable

"no way to prevent this" say users of the only language where this regularly happens

AI-"enhanced" photography is no fun and actually neither are expensive cameras and lenses

all my jank is produced by my hands and a bunch of glass and occasionally mirrors and an entire pile of random imperfections due to using an old beaten up camera and lenses/accessories from aliexpress

artisanal jankiness is where the real aesthetic is at

and here's today's full moon

not that much different but more orange and different rotation

same gear (eos m + jintu 500mm catadioptric f/6.3), slightly different exposure, iso 200

and here are lofi versions of the same #quellc0d3 #quellcode3 from today

canon eos m, plastic €8 oreo shaped lens 35mm f/8

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a few pics from day 1 of #quellc0d3 #quellcode3

canon eos m, sgimage 35mm f/1.2

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>be libvips
>product of academic research in imaging
>think that srgb gamma is 2.4