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"Old people aren't tech savvy" (h/t @joel ) argues that old people are, but tech is letting them down. Good read.

My perspective at 56: I notice that my neophilia is disappearing. I've got enough experience with various tech generations that I can look at a new thing and see how this has been tried before, and how earlier attempts were better in some ways (often more reliable). My experience alone makes me less interested in engaging with the shiny new thing.

https://thomasrigby.com/posts/old-people-arent-tech-savvy/

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/117042637754515151

Also:

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No, I am not changing my project’s license from AGPLv3-or-later to MIT. I am very sorry that “impacts” your ability to use my package in your “product.” No, I don’t care about my “reach.” Feel free to take back that star.
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The whole thing is brilliant, and you should hire them. Oh, and the guillemots will definitely convince people I'm eligible for EU funding.

Typhoon #13 ("dolphin") is approaching tonight. No going outside tomorrow.

Fortunately we are well prepared with food and snacks, and I got a new game for my Steam Deck. And yes, we have water, gas canisters and batteries as well, in case power goes out.

#Typhoon #Okinawa

So, a #Mastodon question: I just noticed for the first time that there's a half-moon character at the bottom of a recent comment I made. And some other posts have an earth symbol. Any idea what that means? That I posted at night?

Edit: "moon" is quiet public. "earth" is public". "lock" is followers only, and "@" is private mention. Most make sense. Except the moon :)

RE: https://layer8.space/@f1veg0ldenrAyz/116943491601599016

So, so very much this! Yes, Arch is cool. Yes, Steam OS is built on Arch.Yes, Arch has the best documentation out there.

But telling a beginner to use Arch is like telling someone moving out of their parent's house to learn to cook by catch, kill, dress and cook a wild pheasant, and expecting them to have a nice experience.

Let people start with something like plain, non-weird Ubuntu. They can pick their own distro once they have the experience to know what to look for.

Anyone have a recomnendation for a "htop"-like tool that can show CPU activity in a compact way, for CPUs with lots of cores?

htop is nice and all, but with 128 cores most of the display is taken by the core activity.

#linux #hpc #top

Does anybody know how much a modern HPC CPU - an AMD Turin or similar - weighs? It's surprisingly hard to find that information.

I'm guessing 150-200 grams perhaps but it'd be nice to get a better number.

#HPC #idlecuriosity

It's a networking event.

#hokkaido #utoro

TIL that Mashu lake in #Hokkaido is technically not a lake. There are no rivers flowing in or out of the basin; this, in japanese, makes it a 水溜り - a puddle.

The takeaway is that words and definitions are a map or a model of reality, not reality itself.

But also that you shouldn't let that stop you from having fun with words every chance you get.

E: the discussion page on Wikipedia for reference: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88:%E6%91%A9%E5%91%A8%E6%B9%96

The Japanese media cycle needs to consider the effects on people of their wall-to-wall coverage of the news of the moment.

We're on our third day here in #hokkaido and my wife is terribly disappointed that we have yet to see a single bear.

I don't think we're in Okinawa any longer...

#photo #hokkaido

Unsurprisingly, it does birds *really* well. And shooting birds is really fun! I even got a bird guide, just so I can figure out what species they are. I'm surprised just how much I enjoy doing this. Will I end up a bird watcher? It's possible!

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#photography #birding #birds

I got the lens because we're going to Shiretoko national park in Hokkaido this summer, and many animals won't let you get close enough for a wide lens. But now that I have it, what else could a lens like this be useful for?

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#photography #lizard

🧵 So I got a new toy: a #Pentax 300mm/f4 lens and a 1.4x extender. That's 420mm in 35mm terms; and 600mm with the extender. That's as long a lens as you'd ever want to use handheld, and way longer than anything I've used before.

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#photography #camera

Not bad for my third language (technically. In practice it's my second).

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/

H/T @gullevek

The moon this evening. The rain season seems to be over.

#Photography

This resonates so hard with me:

"He suspects that older gamers are likely to take big breaks between play sessions, and part of the issue is that games generally aren't good at reorienting players when they come back after a break. "

I don't know how many great games I've dropped because I can't get back in after two weeks or a month of inactivity.

H/T @rockpapershotgun

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nobodys-making-games-for-the-retired-people-the-growing-yet-underserved-market-for-grey-gamers

#gaming #olderpeople

So I've been using Shotwell as my photo organizer for many years. But it's old, creaky and only barely supported.

What should I use instead? What do you use? I need:

* Photo management (sorting, ranking, deleting)

* Handles 10k+ images fine

* edit with external editor (gimp)

* RAW support

* Runs locally on Linux

* Ideally, import from camera

* Ideally, export to Flickr

* Ideally, a way to export from shotwell/import to the new organizer

Any ideas?

#fedihelp #photography #linux

RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116639289808242573

Yes, C++ is full of footguns and UB. But seriously, isn't this just straight up a compiler bug?