I’m not even talking about undergrads. I’m talking grad, post docs, and even the old professors. I’m talking prize winning mathematicians.

Tech in general. I’m a sysadmin in research computing. You know how many clients at prestigious universities are using AI for mathematics, biology, etc? All of them

yeah this is just more of “enclose private property and charge rents on it” imo

whatever makes you feel better about yourself

i stream music from my desktop at home. i use navidrome as the server (edit: behind a reverse proxy). it hooks up to lastfm account to grab metadata that is not already build into the files. sometimes the metadata in the files are wrong, so i have to fix with an app called picard.

symphonium is a paid client i use on my phone, but it has so much customization that a buck or two made it worth it for me.

i use soulseek to share media with my friends. sldl is a cli tool for it that makes it easy as one command album download.

not even sure what there is for me to be incorrect about, we’re talking about your own misunderstanding. you burnt multiple comments on a point i never even made. sorry youre so mad about that.

sorry you didnt get it

more like, im so smart, i can misrepresent the core ideals of political ideology, and then poke holes in my own misrepresentation.

Im also not dumb enough […]

appreciate the thorough explanation, but unfortunately it seems completely irrelevant to the actual words i said, or any meaning, intent, or purpose therein.

no, i dont think so. did i?

thanks for the input, but also, im not sure who you are or why you’re worried about seeming intellectually superior to the next person

thanks! yeah, im fortunate to have a good job that allows me to do the whole process of analog photography myself. I develop at home, too, to save some money. plus it allows me to have full control over everything.

but now, Im going back looking at my most recent roll, and im thinking to myself…these are kind of dull. even this scan i posted here… im not sure, something is off about it. so ive gone back and looked at the histogram and my graphs arent pushing all the way to the right. I originally had wanted to retain some contrast, but im thinking its just making my images a little duller. so ive just increased the dmax value on most of the roll, which essentially sets the white point… im thinking this looks a bit better … anyways, as you can see the tradeoff of doing things manually makes this a bit of a never ending process…

(i also updated my cherry blossom post, if you’re interested)

maybe you’ve got anarchist sensibilities.

South Boston actually

we’ve got similar styles! one of my early shots

thank you thank you.

and to be completely honest, i actually can’t see much of a difference between the two films. I’m not color blind, but either i have some issues recognizing colors, or i spend so much time color grading each shot that after a while i find it difficult to tell how it looks. like if you put two of my shots side by side, one 500T and one portra 400, i dont think I’d be able to tell you which is which lol

i use darktable’s negadoctor module to invert the negative, then do manual adjustments from there by eye. once im full into color fatigue territory and think it looks good, i export everything and upload to my immich server. then over the next few days i go back to admire them and find, huh, these have a pretty serious green/blue/red/whatever cast – should probably fix that.

so yeah my color work maybe could use some improvement, if only for consistency’s sake. but i think im getting better!

edit: actually, i can really tell the difference handling the negative. 500T is way thicker than portra. but otherwise its a crapshoot to my eyes

Ahh I gotcha. Reason I ask, I have a Pentax 50mm 1.4 that i sorta struggle to focus with wide open. Just gotta practice I guess!

Thank you much!

I really like your photos

is it ever difficult to focus that f1.2 lens?