Most posts on my instance’s local feed right now are from new accounts and 99% of them are photography and art. I saw one guy doing a typical poser selfie and just blocked him. It’s looking good.
I encourage people to report any spam that does get posted though. Need to keep Pixelfed nice.
Lots of great artists are on Mastodon instances, like mastodon.art. Including their image posts means you can see some really good paintings.
1 Critical thinking
2 Healthy relationships
2 Cookery
3 Exercise
4 Arts & Engineering
5 The usual subjects
4839 AI (or whatever the industry du jour is.)
It means we’re winning.
Yeah I agree. I understood them being deliberately vague during the campaign to reduce their attack surface but I thought they would come out swinging with loads of progressive bills after they won. I find the whole situation depressing tbh. Politicians have over-specialised in fighting elections to the point that they have don’t have it in them to govern.
Depressing. This is how deeply invested the markets are in our continued failure. They are like those lazy chefs on kitchen nightmares, sitting around out the back and taking their wages home while the business crumbles.
I’m sure it will be microsoft. They have the NHS in their pocket already and extract hundreds of millions from it.
Own goal.
I’m unable to help with this but am curious: how are you finding the ultra 7 on Fedora in general? And have you been able to make use of NPU?
I can’t remember it’s name but I stumbled across a good instance with lots of musicians doing live performances in their studios/rooms. If anyone knows where to find it again please reply here!
Give the encrypted file to one person, the key to another and do not keep either yourself. They exchange them if you die.
These companies just go whichever way the wind blows. Which is exactly what you would expect.
I genuinely think the only way to have a massive shake-up is if the UK needs a bailout and certain conditions are forced upon us.
I totally agree.
no party will accept being unelectable for 20+ years in order to improve things in the future
Also totally agree. Not to mention that if it’s either Labour or the Tories they will spend their time in office dismantling everything their predecessor set up.
IMO the WFA backlash was mostly a media thing though. I haven’t heard anyone in real life complain about it. I think Labour did a bad job of defending the rise in employer’s NI too. I haven’t heard any of them mention the fact that people on minimum wage (which will be going up soon) are obviously protected, the fact that employers have other options besides cutting wages to absorb the cost of it (like paying out less dividends) or that small businesses are exempt. I think Labour are down in the polls because they are basically getting spit roasted on one end by capital interests and the media because they are Labour and on the other end by the people for not being bold enough to meaningfully change anything.
Nobody will want to hire them!
Yes, 100%. Labour don’t have either the courage or the comittment to the long term to defy the financial industry and build a new economy. More and more people simply have no productive role in the current economy because the UK economy has become too focussed on capital and they don’t have any. All governments that try to maintain the current economy are flogging a dead horse. It’s done. I disagreed with the the Liz Truss budget, but it proved that government is completely beholden the financial industry and that no meaningful change can happen without the current UK economy being crashed. I think that the UK economy now has to crash and be reconstructed in a better form, which is what happened after the the great depression and second world war. Either that or we just carry on like we are and continue to slowly fade away into being a poor country.
I wonder how many sick days these people will be taking from their new jobs.
RFF was the best thing I’d discovered on the internet for as long as I can remember. I was gutted to hear about it stopping.
Bandwagon is in development, which is/will be a federated music platform which can integrate with internet radio. You can check out the first instance at bandwagon.fm
In the meantime I’ve been really enjoying the music on Mother Earth Radio, particularly their instrumental channel.
I think calling Tommy Robinson a ‘political figure’ is a bit generous.
As others have said, using a flat bed scanner will save some work. If you need to photograph it though:
Use paper with grid lines as background (not sure the name, used to use it in maths at school). This will give you not just an index for scale but also for ‘squareness’.
Position camera perpendicular to subject
Use a telephoto or zoom lens from a distance rather than wide angle from close up to minimise lens distortion.
Import image into GIMP or photoshop and use rulers, guides and transform tools to scale the image correctly and make it perfectly square.
Matching the colour perfectly is more complicated and I won’t go into that here.
Let me know if you need any more tips. I photograph a lot of artwork and documents.
I have no problem with that - on Pixelfed I can choose what to see. I agree though it would be a cool bonus to have a fourth option to see all Pixelfed posts.