Natural particle system, frozen in time (1/1000s exposure time). (Close-up side view of the 160 meter tall Stuibenfall in the early morning light...) #waterfallwednesday #naturephotography #waterfall #light

Bridge(s) Over Troubled Water (2025) #waterfallwednesday #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #noircountry #canyon #waterfall #hiking

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉 This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post […]

Borderlands (2026) Geographically, geologically, biologically, politically... The sudden onset of the northern Alps and the German-Austrian border (Bavaria/Tirol, near Füssen/Reutte) running along the wooded ridge in mid-distance... #LandscapePhotography […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Speaking of petrichor... Can't wait for that beautiful scent & mood to fill the air again, but in the meantime (and in anticipation), I enjoy having Petrichor's Cloud Chamber EP on repeat again... Cloud Chamber (2017) […]

David Burdeny's "SALT: Fields" studies are _the_ photographic discovery of the month for me... Just wow & right up my street! SALT: Fields, Plottings and Extracts 2015-2016 https://www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/salt-fields-plottings-and-extracts-2015-2016 […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Last Light, Last Look Back... (Lachenspitze, April 2025) #landscapephotography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #noircountry #alps #mountains

In The Lechtal Alps (2024) Previously (same valley): https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115746473506294366 #mountainmonday #monochromemonday #landscapephotography #photography #blackandwhite #noircountry #alps #mountains #hiking

Call me simple, but "optimistic_dad" still is the funniest Linux Kernel config to me.

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future. I think it's also another great, if minimal, example […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Thank you, dear people of Hungary! 🇭🇺 🎉

Alpenhauptkamm (2025). Near the central ridge of the Alps. Canon R7, CPF, unedited RAW (only cropped). Sometimes it just feels so unreal how colorful some mountain landscapes can be (even without polarization filter)... #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Blue Hour 💙 (well, close enough... UV hour...) #altprocess #kallitype #darkroom #uvlight

Welcome home, #artemisii crew! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A

tl;dr Using https://thi.ng/column-store to accelerate tag intersection queries by a factor of 880x... Working on the static website generator/export plugin for my personal knowledge tool has been one of the main projects this past month. A key part of this setup is tagging, not just simple flat […]

RE: https://toot.community/@tmcfarlane/116375317168218887 I particularly like the passion and joy expressed by the employees. The bit where they show their cameras and some of their photographs is great.

Meander (2025). (Unlike people who're associating a strong negative connotation with that word, I've always seen active meandering it as a strength, a never ending search and adaptation of one's course in changing environments […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Thin Section Thursday! Julian schist: Mica schist in XPL from the Julian Schist at Julian, California USA. Contributed by Paolo Sanchez. You can contribute too! Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

Thin Section Thursday! Coronitic and symplectite texture in a cpx-ilm-grt amphibolite from Precambrian basement of Southern Brasilia Orogen, city of Campinas - SP - Brazil. Shown in plane and cross-polarized light. Contributed by Helena Paiva. #thinsectionthursday

Last Light, Last Look Back (Vol.2) Somewhat unexpectedly, even in the valley, we had the whole place pretty much to ourselves. Not quite the usual Easter weather, but the snow & ice always welcome and emphasizes the majestic scale/depth […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Last Light, Last Look Back... (Lachenspitze, April 2025) #landscapephotography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #noircountry #alps #mountains

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116357032470708831 Loads of chat and even discourse about so-called AI literacy, but I don't think most realise you need to teach things from quite a few angles and zoomed out. If people want to just know how the models work, that's not always possible […]

David Hogg's article on LLMs in Astrophysics, "Why do we do Astrophysics?" is the most thoughtful critique I've yet read on the topic, and relevant for computer scientists and software developers: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.10181

Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27 #reactiondiffusion #geology

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else. Instead it suggests that the US is […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793 The cynical take is that the current furore about #digitalsovereignty focuses on cloud and office software procurement by the public sector only because there exist some European providers that could gain market share. Mobile-linked […]

Pastel Fog Rise (Watching the sunrise and a dramatic fog rise on an early summer morning near Zugspitze, 2024. The summit is partially visible through the clouds...) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #naturephotography #cloudappreciation #fog #forest #alps #mountains

I find a form of active de-computing is one of the best ways to cope with the current exceeding world pain exhaustion & LLM brain drain around, i.e. doing more things offline, with your hands/body, being more present in your world, getting into crafts/materials, creating/fixing/mending things […]

James Shinra is a rare talent, his music effortlessly blending (sub)genres/styles, full of unexpected developments/quirks/glitches, incredible sound design & production and generally and one of my fave artists on the Analogical Force label roster... Almost every track of his 2025 album […]

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116341643066810900 Also worth reminding (in addition to below tips): The only way a post can propagate on the fediverse is via social means, i.e. via boosting it... Likes are more or less a nod to the author that the message was appreciated, but […]

One safe purchase in my cart so far is https://loveoverentropy.bandcamp.com/album/to-sit-quietly-where-everything-is-moving-fast (probably discovered via @toxi, thanks!)

Short 35 second video summary of a kallitype test print development from last night, showing the many different color changes a print undergoes before one can actually fully check the final result. With a trained eye, you can already make a determination […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Smooth Operator, like you've probably never heard it before... 😍 A hard-to-describe strange beauty & fitting 2026 rework... Licht(en)Stein — Smooth Operator [BootLeg] https://soundcloud.com/licht-en-stein/smooth-op #music4coding

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116334729524665446 New paper about local temperature impact of AI data centers: The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between […]

Can't stop thinking about the world building exercise/setup in Stephenson's Anathem where the "avout" (aka intelligentsia) were forced to live in gated monastic communities isolated to varying degrees (and by rank[1]) from secular society. This setup was decided on for a number of self-serving […]

@toxi @Codeberg Awesome! I moved all my stuff to @Codeberg a few months ago. It felt good.

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github

#ReleaseThursday A historic moment in the https://thi.ng/umbrella microverse! I just re-published all 214 projects, the first release referencing their new home at @Codeberg#releasethursdaywith updated links in all packages, examples, readmes and other documentation... 🎉 (Also added a prominent note […]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930 Most epic and insightful thread of the day. @jonny on an absolute roll! Fantastically entertaining Claude code walkthrough with numerous interesting tangents... Thank you for your service! 🙌

RE: https://social.lol/@db/116328217237958924 "[...]don’t resign yourself to the deskilling of our craft. You should keep blogging! Take pride in your ability and unique voice. But please don’t desecrate yourself with slop."

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system "Anthropic's Claude Code lacks the persistent kernel access of a rootkit. But an analysis of its code shows that the agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most […]

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM. Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting […]

People out here Versioning Their Prompts now IT'S ALL NON-DETERMINISTIC FFS

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116326491595104812 Alas, in a Jackpot scenario they're amplifying each other...

PSA: Part of the ongoing #thingumbrella maintenance and migration to #codeberg, I've written a script to batch delete 20600+ tags from the Git repo[1], basically any release tags older than 2023-01-01. There're still ~4600 tags remaining, covering all releases since that date […]

It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off... https://github.com/algoapril/algoapril-2022 From the readme: Learning about & applying algorithms […]

Started creating browser-based calculators for quickly computing a bunch of recurring things in darkroom processing, so far: Scale amount by area: Given reference dimensions and amount, compute scaled amount needed for new target dimensions. Example: Compute […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

One from the archives for #textmodetuesday. The post might be 3 years old, but I'm still using these snippets almost daily to visualize and debug data whilst I'm working in the Node REPL... https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110942967462856117 #thingumbrella #dataviz #repl #terminal

BotKit is a TypeScript framework I've been building for creating ActivityPub bots that run as their own independent servers—no platform account needed, no Mastodon or Misskey instance to log into. You write a bot, give it a username, and it federates directly with the rest of the fediverse. It's […]