I'm so old, i remember rain. 🌧
.........

England in July: 6.5 mm of rain, about 10% of the long‑term July average.

Half the previous record (in 1911).

3rd driest month ever recorded.

Southern England: 1.9mm. Driest month ever recorded

Something I apparently did in 2019: The Stanford Bunny original CT scan, thresholding the levels to reveal the bunny.
#Processing

I just picked up a physical photo in a picture frame, saw something small in the photo, and reached out to do a reverse-pinch-to-zoom.

My fingers practically touched the glass before i thought "you prannet" 😅

staplers were first common in 1915-ish? - so the i imagine at least some of the nails are over 110 years old. Older than, ironically, Poland.

English villages - where the telegraph poles have more history than <something with a long history>

I try sometimes to model things on computers, then Nature goes and algo-shames me. 😅
A gunnera leaf in Boscastle, Cornwall.

TIL not only is there a rattus rattus (rat) and a troglodytes troglodytes (wren), but also a sprattus sprattus (sprat).
Taxonomists are so so boring 😋

#Steam Gaming on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) is seamless these days. Horizon Forbidden West running flawlessly.

#nevergoingback
:windows: ❌
:linux: ✅

local wildlife

Casually throwing out "handles 45% slopes" in the headline text of this ad, knowing full-well that people will scan read this as 45 degrees (when in reality it was designed with the rather arbitrary 24 degree angle capability to allow them to say this) #darkpatterns

#Linux #noob findings #4925...
I recently discovered "pigz" (parallelised "gzip"), so now tarballs can be made (and unmade) a *lot* faster

I may even start looking at "cron" later (shock horror)

The perfect ML dataset does not exis-

lol then #copilot flat out lies about each image 😂

then just add random noise to add back the high frequencies lol...

The ghost of ivy left on a door #photography

Radio Station Logos - the last bastion of MSWord logo design from the 90's 😜

Blender's in-house PaintTools doodle. Am I right in thinking you can't get the strokes to cast shadows??
#b3d

All software installers to play a sample of Bon Jovi singing "Whoa-oh, we're halfway there!", every time install progress gets over 50%

Morgan Freeman narration: "From the moment the LLMs arrived, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest sttrawpberrryp that God in his wisdom put upon this earth."

#ai

ok (deep breath), going to try and cobble together a Blender>Godot>wireless VR to Quest 2 pipeline....wish me luck! 😬