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I still have my 1980s/90s Casios which work well and they’re not hard to find on the market. My newish HP35 is great for newer stuff. I have considered buying a new Casio but this postmodern capitalist strategy to make everything an OpEx utility is really making me thankful that most people aren’t allowed to own guns.

Love LaTeX but it gets harder to justify because of the faff in processing the files across multiple systems. Pdftex, xetex, xelatex, blah blah blah, adding fonts, packages galore...

Recently:

I've managed to "stablize" a Maven-based latex build by throwing it away and just using Github actions to generate the PDF. Hallelujah, it worked!

I've had to compile my CV on multiple machines for various reasons of expediency, and I've tried to use VSCode, but it takes an age to setup and I can't figure it out, so back to TexPad (now -> Texifier) I go, and fiddle with the settings until it compiles.

Somebody point me to a system that works across Macs and non-Macs please.

If Typst can somehow build that ecosystem of packages (personally, I use it for letters, reports, my CV, and a songbook for the ukulele with tab diagrams) then it'll truly be a killer.

There’s a Trabant Museum and nearby theme park in Berlin - I may be using these terms a tad loosely - and there’s one around the corner parked in front of an art gallery and it is occasionally resprayed and redesigned according to the whims of the gallery - and I suspect the paint is the only thing holding it together.

This car is basically a kid’s drawing meeting origami

Thanks!

The non-Ms are beautifully made and worth every penny (eg Q2, SL) but the Ms are beautifully made terrible technology - specifically the rangefinder: they’re delicate, need frequent servicing and can only focus down to 0.7m, so the advent of live view finally allows lenses that go closer than 0.7m to be focused. That said, I just bought a Canon 7D from 2009 and it too is beautifully made.

However, I think the digital signing is a good way to provide the photographer with proof that the picture in the paper/competition is the picture that they made with the camera and not their pal Midjourney.

Why they put it in such a sluggish contraption, I don’t know, but probably a good place to start compared to a Z9 and trying to tag pictures at 500 frames a second or whatever.

Which video?

Yeah, ETIAS has been discussed since Brexit in 2016, I worked for the UK Home Office just after that period and “tit-for-tat” is a lazy and naive response to the issues around human trafficking and other concerns we were trying to address in the UK. The response was obviously delayed by a lot of Brexit negotiation faff, but there’s long been worries about golden passports both within the EU and externally being used to wander in and out of the EU and Schengen.

I think this is because of the sketchy way in which passports for various tax havens, Caribbean countries, etc (not mutually exclusive) have been sold and bought and those passports allowed visa-free access to the EU. The corruption in those countries puts the EU borders at risk, hence these new rules.

Sauce: https://www.occrp.org/en/dominica-passports-of-the-caribbean...

The only way this news could be more awesome would be if the asteroid was shot with a mining laser and the fragments picked up by a fuel scoop.

Minerals: 0.00025 Tons

Ha that brought back some memories!

The ZX Spectrum simply refuses to go away, which is awesome.

Previous conversation also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521492

Lol, how about some unicorn pizza while you wait?

The precision to align the sensor doesn’t appear to be present. In any case, the camera body isn’t where the magic is, and old lenses can be fitted to new bodies in a crazy number of permutations these days. I only today picked up a Contax Zeiss 300 f4. It fits on my Canon now. I love my Contax but the cost of this sensor this would likely pay for a lot of film and processing. Let’s see when it launches.

I wish more social media companies would give up on the EU, it's so peaceful here. I've boxed myself into will-follow-back corner on Twitter so every time I open it I feel like one of the chimps at the beginning of 28 Days Later with the rage virus.

goes off to have a nice cup of tea and waits for all this to blow over

I see the point, but a) Canon make much more than cameras or photo-related, unlike say Nikon, and a bigger market means more players overall. There’s as many manufacturers making pro-level kit now as I recall from the 1980s, and somebody’s buying the stuff to drive the investment - I think.

I also hear you on the point about transitioning to newer tools, but would suggest that photography has always required significant personal investment in money and time, and one must sweat the assets as they say, to make them pay off. Some technologies seem more convenient, like digital, but can end up by funnelling all the effort onto fewer people, instead of throwing the film over the fence to other professionals who could do a much better and faster job of developing and printing.

Sometimes of course, the sweat and toil is all part of the product - as no doubt my mate who built his own camera made from the timber of the woods near his home would tell you - but in the modern world, most people just want to see the image as soon as they can…

IIRC this was the fork of the abandoned Truecrypt which had its code verified and basically certified to have no backdoors or major cock-ups, and then given a new (terrible) name before quietly fading into the background…

Truecrypt was really great, and I enjoyed their take on plausible deniability, but haven’t used it since maybe 2006.

Photography has gone through the roof in the last fifteen years due to camera phones, sure, but the overall market has increased too. I was at Photopia two days ago and I’ve not seen a better market for photography since the 1980s. Camera phones are simply the new point and shoot, taking their place at the bottom end or convenience end of the market, and many of those people enjoying using those cameras have a great route into photography.

1980, End of the Century, produced by Phil Spector, so un-punk rock it was safe to be given to children in Florida schools

Nice to see that Apple behaves just like many of my clients.

You can be as rich as Croesus and still as clueless as <insert economic pundit>

It sounds like Hai Karate

Perjorative labels aren't what they used to be, people are happy to be labelled most of the time, so yes, maybe it'll be cool to be a, erm, "wokerat"?

This is too woke for the UK government. Terraform is widely used in the Home Office, I don't think Suella Braverman will approve a switch...

(Reference for non-UK viewers: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/oct/18/suell...)

Stupid sub-headline, Fox Talbot's legacy IS all of modern photography - because he created the negative, which meant reproduction, and also was able to fix images into permanence.

Daguerreotypes are pretty artifacts in comparison. Fox Talbot was the Gutenberg of photography.

That’s quite cool, I might add that. I did set up E-Mail watching using an iCloud account and it’s working well too. Must go donate some money to the Paperless team!

Well, a lovely management system, basically. One can run and edit Docker Compose configurations in the browser, see everything that’s running, manage environment variables and see the logs. I mean, having written all that, I’m wondering why I don’t run it on my Mac instead of Docker Desktop.

A Synology NAS running Portainer (https://www.portainer.io/) running Paperless NGX (https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx)

This works better than I can possibly tell you.

I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at which point I drag and drop everything into Paperless.

I could, thinking about it, have the scanner email stuff to Paperless. Might investigate that today.

Paperless will OCR it and make it all searchable. This setup is amazing, I love living in the future.

It was criminal, wasn't it. The Impossible Project deserve kudos for reviving things but having to reinvent it from scratch has proven to be actually impossible.

As for One Instant film, sheesh, a labour of love. Mine are stashed away along with the last of my peel-apart, I should just use them all.

At this confluence of money-time-effort, I hope we would recognize a black hole when we encounter it on earth and find a better way, but it apparently requires EVEN MORE money to fix, thanks to the destruction.

I posted a link reply to another poster, and here's another back:

https://www.zluxtech.com/store/products/polaroid-600se-insta...

I have a Polaroid-branded Zink printer from around 2008 and a Polaroid-branded Zink printer from more recent years and the quality has always been rubbish. BUT, I still bought a Brother Zink-on-a-roll printer that I use to print out small pictures as stickers to stick into my journal as a photo diary.

Ultra-niche use, of course, but there you go, there's nothing as zero-config as this thing.

I have the Lomo back, but I use it on my Speed Graphic. Results vary.

This is a printed-to-order back for the 600SE that I was considering:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134203663096?amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0...