@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Actual family photo:
https://movq.de/v/bfd455ecfe/tux1.jpg
I have another one on my keychain and a small one in the car. And this little guy is probably hard to spot in the photo, because he’s just 1cm tall:
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nope, this is some random photo. 😅
made a photo gallery for my site! special thank you to this guy’s tutorial i could not have figured that out myself
My sweet deaf girl somehow felt me coming when I tried to take her photo… didn’t mean to scare her😭 Sorry, Ori, I love you ❤️ ⌘ Read more
How Edit Photos Dark Mode on iPhone & iPad
As an iPhone or iPad user you’re undoubtedly familiar with using Dark Mode and Light mode for the interface, and you might even have automatic dark/light mode enabled on your device. But some users may like to use light mode in some apps, and dark mode in other apps, like when editing in the Photos … Read More ⌘ Read more
En estos momentos, no sé si un dios le está pidiendo que libere su pueblo felino o está mirando una paloma
How Edit Photos Dark Mode on iPhone & iPad
As an iPhone or iPad user you’re undoubtedly familiar with using Dark Mode and Light mode for the interface, and you might even have automatic dark/light mode enabled on your device. But some users may like to use light mode in some apps, and dark mode in other apps, like when editing in the Photos … Read More ⌘ Read more
And on a similar note, cross-post from Mastodon:
What I love about HTML and HTTP is that it can degrade rather gracefully on old browsers.
My website isn’t spectacular but I don’t think it looks horrible, either. And it’s still usable just fine all the way down to WfW 3.11:
It’s not perfect, but it’s usable. And that makes me happy. Almost 30 years of compatibilty.
The biggest sacrifice is probably that I don’t enforce TLS and that HTTP 1.0 has no Host: header, so no vhosts (or rather, everything must come from the default vhost). (Yes, some old browsers send Host:, even though they predate HTTP 1.1. Netscape does, but not IBM WebExplorer, for example.)
(On the other hand, it might completely suck on modern mobile devices. Dunno, I barely use those. 🤪)
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com oh fuck yea snac would be a good use of that! makes me wanna do the same… GTS also has a new profile view for profiles that shows only images which makes it great as a photo posting place
I visited a good mate after a day in the office and went for a stroll in the evening. It still was really hot, phew, about 24°C. Must have been the aftermath of the fire in the morning! For sure! The firealarm went off during a meeting and we all had to leave the building. Anyway, I only managed to take one lizard photo, all the other ones we came across immediately vanished in the brush or cracks in the vineyard walls. The kestrels were way more cooperative:
How to Change Photos Thumbnail Sizes on iPhone & iPad
If you’ve ever wanted to browse your photo library a bit more efficiently, adjusting the thumbnail size in the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad can make a big difference. Whether you’re looking to see more images on the screen at once, or you prefer larger previews for easier viewing, changing the thumbnail size … Read More ⌘ Read more
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
Comments ⌘ Read more
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
… ⌘ Read more
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had wha … ⌘ Read more
Computers in school
IntroductionA version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-23
(Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
16(?) computers with co … ⌘ Read more
Cool, Hubble turns 35 today! https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-celebrates-hubbles-35th-year-in-orbit/ Happy birthday little space telescope and thanks for all the lovely photos! :-)
How to Stop iPhone Auto-Enhancing Photos from Camera
The latest iPhone models use a ton of auto-enhancing and software to adjust photos that you shoot with the camera, and much of that auto-editing happens immediately on-device after the camera snaps a photo, some of this is Deep Fusion, and some of it are numerous other features that Apple has incorporated into the iPhone … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Stop iPhone Auto-Enhancing Photos from Camera
The latest iPhone models use a ton of auto-enhancing and software to adjust photos that you shoot with the camera, and much of that auto-editing happens immediately on-device after the camera snaps a photo, some of this is Deep Fusion, and some of it are numerous other features that Apple has incorporated into the iPhone … Read More ⌘ Read more
That reminds me of a workmate telling me the other day that my photo albums are blocked by corporate “»’security’«” trashware, bwahahahaaahaaaaa:
Completely expected from AI bullshit.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh, and thanks for the bigger photo! I like how it lovely fill the twtxt in Yarnd. Woot!
Fantastic game! Find 5 dates by looking at 5 photos.
https://whichyr.com/
Stepan the cat from Ukraine became famous for his tired, chill look. His photos went viral—celebrities like Britney Spears shared them. He also helped raise money for animal shelters. Stepan is more than a meme — he’s a symbol of calm and kindness. ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, that’s beautiful!
I opened up all the photos in new tabs and went through them. For a second, I wondered that it was snowing at your place right now. :-D
That made me realize that so far we basically had nearly no April weather whatsoever. May might be full of it then, let’s see. :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bmallred@staystrong.run @ionores@twtxt.net Thank you! Yeah, the yellow meadows look truly awesome.
Watching “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” in German the evening before, this thing totally looked like a trap to us. So, we decided to sit on another, more rustic bench nearby. :-) Oh neat, it turns out, there is a much longer four part series of the documentary in English on YouTube. Highly recommended! This is part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
Judging by the surroundings, I think this is actually a forest altar or something of that nature. But it looks like they started with the chappel’s reinforcement steel and then they ran out of money before completing it or even placing the concrete forms. :-P
Yeah, 78 might be photo of the month. It’s one of my favorites.
Nice picts. For me, it’s the photo of a 🐝 foraging for dandelions that wins! 😀
A mate and I had an amazing but also exhausting hike to the highest of the Three Emperor Mountains yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Sunny 18°C, blue sky with barly a cloud and a little welcoming breeze, just beautiful.
Mt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. It’s also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both aren’t at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.
We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devil’s pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Haven’t come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, it’s yummy.
We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I won’t do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.
Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/
Lost my buddy of 14 years last week. Wanted to share my favorite photo of him. ⌘ Read more
I love this photo of my void 🖤 ⌘ Read more
Even though I really do like the shell, I always use Dolphin to mount my digicam SD card and copy the photos onto my computer. I finally added a context menu item in Dolphin to create a forest stroll directory with the current date in order to save some typing:
The following goes in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;
[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen…
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"
In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:
kbuildsycoca5
The referenced galmkdir script looks like that:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
exit 1
fi
dir="$(kdialog \
--geometry 350x50 \
--title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
--inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in „$current_dir“ anlegen:" \
"waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"
This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, I’d love to have it in the “Create New” menu instead of the “Actions” menu. But that doesn’t really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.
Let’s see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.
ProcessOne: Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03
With ejabberd 25.03, the Matrix gateway ( mod_matrix_gw) no … ⌘ Read more
What’s the photo you show people when you say “this is my cat”? ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net @ionores@twtxt.net Yep, it’s extremely seldom that a photo turns out looking better than reality. Very rarely does that happen. But basically never with sunsets. ;-) Maybe once a leap year I’m very surprised to wonder how that subject wasn’t better in person but actually on film.
@bender@twtxt.net Totally agree with you 100%. No photo could ever replace the experience of seeing it live on site!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org now, that’s what I am talking about! Having been witness of similar sunsets, I would wholeheartedly agree that a photo (no matter how good!) is a poor replacement for not being able to spectate it in person.
@bender@twtxt.net Just like you, I change the wallpaper on my PC more often! However, @prologic@twtxt.net’s “Lake View” photo is perfect for my laptop, where I spend quite a bit of time.
A mate and I met at the scout yard to prepare an upcoming workshop. Boy did we have an amazing sunset when we left. The photos don’t reflect it, it was a hell lot more beautiful in person: https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzle-2025-04-11/
@ionores@twtxt.net that ought to be some photo! I change mine at least once a month or so. It keeps me entertained.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I still have a photo taken by @prologic@twtxt.net as wallpaper on my laptop (Linux)! 😀
Hit by the arvo sun rays behind the window I was convinced that it is t-shirt weather. Deep blue sky, yeah, for sure! It turned out to be just 15°C and declining, though. So, I had to wear my jacket on today’s windy stroll. Pretty nice. Didn’t take many photos, but there you go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-10/
How to Disable Contact Photos in Mail on Mac
Apple has been busy mucking with the design and functionality of the Mail app, this time bringing Mail Sender Icons to the Mac Mail app. With this new introduction to clutter the Mail interface, you’ll see a Contact Photo or mail sender icon next to the mail sender name, subject, and preview of the mail … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Disable Contact Photos in Mail on Mac
Apple has been busy mucking with the design and functionality of the Mail app, this time bringing Mail Sender Icons to the Mac Mail app. With this new introduction to clutter the Mail interface, you’ll see a Contact Photo or mail sender icon next to the mail sender name, subject, and preview of the mail … Read More ⌘ Read more
Got a cat that looks absolutely ridiculous? I’m doodling the funniest one—let’s see those photos! ⌘ Read more
And we’re back to the regular landscape! Not only in subject but also photo orientation. No more silly portrait. I can’t recall it exactly, but I reckon that was one of ~20°C days. The evening sun was really crazy that day, made a great combination with the puddles: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-02/
DFRobot Previews RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4, Targeting Image and Video Applications
The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4 is an upcoming compact development board designed for real-time image processing, video streaming, and wireless communication. It targets HMI applications such as digital photo frames, security systems, home control panels, and smart doorbells. The board is built around the ESP32-P4R32 microcontroller, which features a dual-cor … ⌘ Read more
** leibovitz **
Folks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another camera application for the web. Leibovitz combines a lot that I learned making my other camera applications into one, hopefully less clunky package.
With leibovitz you can either take new photos, or upload any image file and apply filters to it. The UX to toggle between the two modes is … ⌘ Read more
Show us the silliest photo of your cat you’ve ever taken 🥹 ⌘ Read more
@david@collantes.us This pink tree I featured in a few shots is a magnolia tree. I haven’t noticed any particular smell, it just looks pretty. :-) That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)
The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame… aehm… yeah, the rain! It’s totally the rain’s fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so it’s a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/
Picture a squad of cats on a hunting mission down in the countryside—real photo, super rare, no AI meddling here. ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.
He’s been gone a dozen years now, but I always picture him sleeping on the front stoop in the afdternoon, where the sun set in the West and warmed his sleeping place for him every day. Took this photo a year before he passed, at the amazing age of 21. ⌘ Read more
Old cat photos, they all were someone’s baby once. May they all rest peacefully ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation’s open letter to Meta for true interop
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support … ⌘ Read more
I volunteer as photographer for my local shelter. Here is this weeks Cat photos! (3-17-25) ⌘ Read more
Some photos of my neighbor’s pregnant cat ❤️ ⌘ Read more
Took this cool photo of my cat Scar ⌘ Read more
‘iPhone 17 Air’ Dummy Model Features MagSafe and Action Button
Australian tech enthusiast Sonny Dickson today shared photos of dummy models for all four iPhone 17 models launching later this year.
Dummy models are often based on leaked designs and dimensions, and they allow accessory makers to prepare cases for upcoming iPhone models.
In line with prev … ⌘ Read more
A cat that has been visiting me for 5 years - got this photo during golden hour as she was distracted by a bird on the roof. ⌘ Read more
That’s cool, solar eclipse on the moon: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/album-72177720313239766/
@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:
This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.
I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.
By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D
I volunteer at my local animal shelter as the photographer, here is this weeks cat photos! ⌘ Read more
I watched two squirrels this morning for about half an hour: https://lyse.isobeef.org/eichhoernchen-2025-03-11/ They were super crazy fast. Also, they bit off plenty of twigs and carried them around, not sure where they put them. I’ve never seen them do that before. Once more I realized that I need a better zoom.
Which photos would you remove?
I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don’t know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn’t too well with moving targets.
86 more photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-hohenrechberg-2025-03-03/
my bengal posing for the photo ⌘ Read more
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org That’s cool, dedicated parking for snow. :-) There are also some rather large icicles. Thanks for sharing this photo! <3
Very sunny 16°C, heaps of people outside. As soon as we were a bit further into the forest, we had it completely for us. From the foot we thought that the view might be rather good, but up at the summit, it turned out to be very hazy. Oh well. Surprisingly, I found four skyrocket sticks in premium quality. More than after New Year! Also, we came across two deer. It was a very nice two hours walk. No photos, though, sorry.
Okay, I won’t park there. 
My favorite photo of my girl Penelope 😻 ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Still melting! 
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Oh, that’s neat! Interesting how “obviously” isn’t all that obvious at all, even to the contrary. I reckon I have to read up on that subject on the weekend. :-)
I like how Ian’s and your photo complement each other, winter and summer join forces for something special. :-)
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Sorry, I realized that shortly after posting. Here’s another attempt to post the images:

Some satisfying icicle-breaking in our backyard: photos.falsifian.org/video/sM7G3vfS6yuc/VID_20250217_203250.mp4
I couldn’t resist taking home a prize:
It’s been snowy here in #Toronto.
(I tried formatting the images in markdown for the benefit of yarn and any other clients that understand it.)
I volunteer as the photographer at my local shelter, here are this weeks cat photos! ⌘ Read more
This is Butter and her 1st photo shoot ⌘ Read more
How to Improve Photos Layout on iPhone with iOS 18
The Photos app on iPhone received a significant layout redesign in iOS 18 that has left many iPhone users annoyed or frustrated as the new Photos design is not necessarily intuitive or easy to use for everyone. Things have been moved around, albums or features they were using might be missing or harder to access, … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Find Screenshots in Photos App for iOS 18
Ongoing complaints about the Photos app redesign in iOS 18 persist, with users who are frustrated with how difficult it can be to locate certain images or photos that once were easy for them to find. For example, if you take a lot of screenshots on your iPhone you might want quick and easy access … Read More ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de The light pollution map reports red for my town. That’s fairly accurate, I’d say. The view from home is not all that great. Yeah, I can see Ursa Major and a bunch of other stars. Maybe even some satellites. But there’s definitely a sky glow at the horizon.
When I leave town, I can see a bit more. However, it doesn’t compare to the alps or even some rural parts in Australia. The latter was by far the craziest I’ve ever seen in my life. Looked like a space telescope photo in person. Soooooooooooooo many stars and the band of the milky way was easily visible to the naked eye. Up until then, I didn’t even know this was remotely possible down on earth. Absolutely stunning. :-)
WhatsApp Critical Privacy Bug Fixed in Latest iOS Update
WhatsApp has released version 25.2.3 for iOS devices to patch a significant privacy vulnerability that affected its “View Once” feature. The bug allowed users to access photos and videos that were meant to disappear after a single viewing.
The security flaw, which only impacted iPhone users, allowed anyone to view supposedly ephemeral content by navi … ⌘ Read more
Apple Previews New Store With Combined Genius Bar and Pickup Spot
Apple today shared photos of its upcoming store at MixC Hefei in China, revealing a new design element that could expand to other locations in the future.
 @movq How do you manage to get those skulines on your photos? 🤔
@movq @www.uninformativ.de How do you manage to get those skulines on your photos? 🤔 ⌘ Read more
6 iPhone Camera Tips to Enhance Your Photography Skills
Apple’s latest iPhones include several headline camera features that are worth using, such as Portrait Mode and Photographic Styles. But if all you want to use is the standard photo mode, there are still several tools and settings that can improve the composition of your pictures and help you capture the perfect shot using more traditional techniques.
 in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/collectives.gmi
It’s been slightly edited and a few photos added.
Posted on the blog on 2024-12-15 02:33 +0100. Later updated with how
Area 41 ended.]
I dreamt about Dial House last night. I’ve never been there, but it
was like I belonged, like I was meant to be th … ⌘ Read more
Living together: Reflections on collective living
[A version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-30 (Setting
Orange, the 4 day of Confusion in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/collectives.gmi
It’s been slightly edited and a few photos added.]
I dreamt about Dial House last night. I’ve never been there, but it
was like I belonged, like I was meant to be there.
Last I heard anything about Dial House they were trying to gather
enough money … ⌘ Read more
(#frsjqtq) @bender@bender oh, I’m pretty sure they’re in my photo archive on my phone. I just picked the best looking rats nest 🤣 yo show!
@bender oh, I’m pretty sure they’re in my photo archive on my phone. I just picked the best looking rats nest 🤣 yo show! ⌘ Read more
(#frsjqtq) @bender@bender are you being sarcastically for reals? I can’t tell from the photo I just took. 🤣
@bender are you being sarcastically for reals? I can’t tell from the photo I just took. 🤣 ⌘ Read more
