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notlion··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
> People have been able to do anything they want to copies of things uploaded to the internet for ages.

People, yes. The possibility of one person using a copyrighted work that I uploaded to the internet is very different in scope to that of a corporation with billions of dollars in funding using the same work to generate a product that automates the creation of similar such works.

notlion··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
I was a Flickr member for many years. It was the only photo sharing website that emphasized the art of photography and also felt like a real community where I actually made connections with and discovered like minded photographers. The focus was on the photography and it didn't play games to keep me locked into the platform (cough Instagram)

Nowadays, I have a locally hosted Immich instance. It's great as personal photo archive, but is missing the social features.

To be honest, with the advent of GenAI, I'm now reluctant to share my photos publicly because I don't like the feeling that my work will be slurped up for AI model training..

notlion··on US Job Market Visualizer
Came here to mention this. I'm also Red/Green colorblind.
notlion··on Write more "useless" software
Comcast SecurityEdge blacklist strikes again?
notlion··on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
Seems reasonable! Comcast Business in San Francisco is $130/mo for only 600/35.
notlion··on Origami Simulator
I'm a big fan of the RES (Rotational Erection System) work that Yoshinobu Miyamoto has been making lately with Origami Simulator. He builds the crease forms parametrically in Cuttle (CAD tool I'm building), and then can copy/paste into Origami Simulator to see the folded form:

https://www.instagram.com/yoshinobu_miyamoto/

notlion··on The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down
30mph is often needed to keep up with cars in areas where the bike infrastructure is poor or nonexistent. If you can't maintain the speed of traffic, cars will try to pass creating a more dangerous situation for the ebike rider.
notlion··on California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
Ordering for pickup has gotten so much easier this year. Restaurants usually will hand me my food at the door, so I only need to spend a few seconds waiting, and the food is just in way better condition when I carry it home myself.
notlion··on Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might
Personal electric vehicles are completely symbiotic with public transit, that's why they're called "last mile" vehicles; because you take mass transit to within a mile or two, and then hop on your scooter, e-board, EUC to go the rest of the way.
notlion··on Mini Museum: Spinosaurus, Steve Jobs Turtleneck, SR-71, 14th Cent. Samurai Sword
So I guess we've finally reached Ferengi levels of consumerism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvARUC9k9Q
notlion··on Virtual Forest
Yup. The Ricoh Theta S captures spherical panoramas. The VR terminology is just overselling it. Neat idea though. It would be cool if there was a sonic component.
notlion··on Cubeteam: A collaborative 3D voxel editor in the browser
It should be more usable now. We don't do much in the way of culling yet, and the amount of data in the sandbox just then was far too much to render at once.
notlion··on Tessel: The end of web development as we know it
Hexacopter, hexarotor, or just simply multi-rotor.
notlion··on Node v0.10.0 (Stable)
brew upgrade node ;)
notlion··on Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps
I can't wait til these are available via the API :)
notlion··on Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High
I had no idea people actually use iMessage o_O
notlion··on Google Play
Gah.. The logo looks like something Microsoft would come up with.
notlion··on Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
Nice! I didn't know it was possible to theme the sidebar either. Soda Dark seems pretty good, thanks.
notlion··on Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
I love Sublime, but I'm not really a fan of the new theme. It tends to be lighter in areas where the previous version was dark, especially in the tab-bar when using a theme like SpaceCadet.

Anyone know if it's possible to change the default tab background color for themes that don't support it?

notlion··on Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble
this is so broken...
notlion··on $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple
I really resent the way that the dollar amount is cited rather than the historical, cultural, and spiritual value. It's totally awe inspiring nonetheless!
notlion··on Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp
..which incidentally is how one of the villains got his name: http://jakdaxter.neoseeker.com/wiki/Gol_Acheron :P
notlion··on Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp
Or more specifically, GOAL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
notlion··on Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?
yes...
notlion··on Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
This could be useful someday..
notlion··on DragonFly: Chinese Apple-esque Hardware
Has anyone noticed that most of these product shots are actually of MBPs? They didn't even bother to change the screenshot of Aperture or the box sitting next to it. The build quality looks much worse in the real shots: http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=product_detail&...