Schiff!
@FotoVorschlag

#ship #iceland #rust #fotoVorschlag #landscapephotography

In the 4 years I've been on Mastodon, I haven't seen many other filmmakers here. (I think I'm already following the maybe 3 that are actually here.) But if this post happens to reach any other filmmakers or screenwriters, I'd love to try and forge a film community on this platform. (I don't think there is an existing one? Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Film reviewers and movie fans are great too! 🎬

#filmmaker #screenwriter #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #movies #womeninfilm #filmcommunity

Do we have a video link for #fedicon day 2 already? #fossy

When I speak to my photographer friends about #Instagram and alternatives like the #fediverse, I usually have the same discussion as with someone in a toxic relationship:

yeah, the sex is good and the first 3 months were wonderful, but look at your nervous system now, my friend.

Some people decide to skip the big #wedding that costs thousands of euros and involves hundreds of guests in favor of a couple of days at a place they love for a special and very intimate elopement. Those people are truly wonderful.

From a recent #elopement in #Germany.

#WeddingPhotography

Thank you all for sharing my blog post about how the Fediverse changed my social media behaviour and all your lovely comments. ❤️

This alone showed me how much different the Fediverse is compared to big tech. And I also have numbers:

Interactions compared to account size:
Fedi: 34,89 %
IG: 0,14 %
(keeping that in mind for the next "reach" and "where the people are" discussion)

Bonus: followers gained
Fedi: 38
IG: -4

😄

Special shoutout to the one Fedi who subscribed to my newsletter ❤️

The Fediverse is overflowing with incredible artists, engineers, designers, photographers, and brilliant minds in academia. With the job market on fire globally, let's make a habit of hiring from within our own community, please 🎨📚

Need a designer for a project? A photographer? A researcher? Post your gigs here. Let's create a close-knit support system to help fellow people weather the storm.

If you are hiring: look here first. Post your short-term gigs, full-time roles, and freelance contracts. Give people here a chance.

If you are looking: share your work, follow the hashtags, and connect. Let's take care of each other.

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Academia #MastoArt #art #Photography #Freelance #SoftwareDevelopment #programming #photography

A new social me.
How the Fediverse has influenced the way I live my (online) social life now. Especially when you come from Instagram.

https://blog.sturmsucht.de/a-new-social-me/

#blog #fediverse #socialmedia

#3GoodThings

- Fiber has finally come! 🚄
- Family with a big #FCKAFD sticker on their bikes in the neighbourhood
- Finished taxes

Meta does not want you to know that you can improve the quality of these AI glasses by just microwaving them for one minute. Pass it on.

You heard it here first:

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/

My movie month July was dominated by #StudioGhibli first watches - and they were fantastic!

#LetterboxdFriday

This really cheers me up. Isn’t it amazing how resilient nature can be, and how much potential is there to stop interfering and let it take root again? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23503vm9xyo

One year ago, AWS deleted my 10-year account over a disputed $100 bill. That day I learned something uncomfortable: unless you are a customer capable of causing a PR disaster, your monthly bill doesn’t buy much leverage.

That same week I noticed something else.

Vendor lock-in isnt just a cloud problem. Its a hardware problem too.

Here in Tangier (Morocco), there are warehouses filled with computers that Europe has already written off. Machines with 2-8 GB of RAM and 64-256 GB SSDs, sold by the pallet for almost nothing after being discarded by companies upgrading their fleets.

The hardware wasnt broken. The software had simply moved on.

The OS kept nagging users to upgrade, only to tell them afterward that their computer was too old to run the upgrade.

That is software gaslighting hardware into becoming e-waste. LOL.

So I started buying them.

In the past months I have bought over 5,000 discarded computers, not to build a datacenter, but to understand them, resurrect them, and eventually donate many of them.

That project became ChaosBSD.

In just six months, ChaosBSD has landed 87 upstream commits (it is not a AI number, lol). Ironically, after I started buying old hardware, the prices of SSDs and RAM even DDR2 went through the roof. 😄

Drivers are unlike almost every other subsystem. Frameworks get rewritten. Filesystems get replaced. APIs evolve. But silicon doesn’t get updates. A driver is either correct, incomplete, or it never gets merged. Once it is upstream, it often stays there for decades. I updated drivers that were not touched for 24 years.

Losing my AWS account taught me not to trust a single cloud provider.

ChaosBSD was my answer to the same problem in hardware.

The project was never just about my machines. The drivers went upstream, so every FreeBSD user benefits from them.

If you have an Intel Apple computer, you can install FreeBSD 16 or DragonFlyBSD on it. The computer will feel snappier than it original OS.

Not clear who's behind it, but works for me

#PervGlasses #Meta

Just saw a chart of @molly0xfff showing up in #JohnOliver's latested videos about Trumps #crpyto scams:

https://youtu.be/G3oB-1qAj-Q

Just imagine if we'd invested over a trillion dollars in green energy rather than AI.

Firefox and Mozilla are writing for Der Stürmer again.

https://nitter.net/firefox/status/2079317211152564724

3 good things:

- Cool night and morning here
- Fiber will finally be connected next week
- My cute girlfriend

#3GoodThings