Leaf thing. Small details. Closeup of a fallen dessicated oak leaf. #leaf #oak #closeup #bokeh #oppofindx9pro #photo #scotland #Perthshire

Running an AI workstation locally is all great for privacy and stuff, but coping with nvidia's GPU drivers and whatever ubuntu do to the kernel is a whole n'other game of pain 😖💻🤬💻😤 #ubuntu #linux #fail #nvidia #ai

RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/116001572180615570 Good. About time someone said and did the right thing. #spain #immigration #politics #sense #decency

Could it be DNS? It was DNS. #sysadmin #BOFH #geek #cynicism

When the latest JDK, Scala and Apache Ignite (first of potentially many dependencies) versions don't work together, the entire project gets written in something else instead. Days were when java meant java and developers understood the simple concept of backwards-compatibility. Today, the Scala […]

Feeling all kinds of fuzzy and handsome just now :) #dog #germanshepherd #Perthshire #oppofindx9pro #photo

Fluffy moss closeups (2) :) #oppofindx9pro #photography #scotland #moss #fungi #closeup #strathearn #nature

Auricularia auricula-judae - the trees have flappers! ;) #tree #fungus #strathearn #closeup #photography #oppofindx9pro #scotland #naturephotography

Aurora bright enough to shine through the clouds, visible by eye even with street-lights directly in the field of view :) #aurora #scotland #Perthshire #auroraborealis #clouds #nightsky

Things seen on this afternoon's stroll - Johnny Mathie's path outside Auchterarder #strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #photos #oppofindx9pro

2026-01-16 03:25:52 M 6.0 - off Oregon coast Right on the Juan de Fuca & Pacific plate boundary. Beach-ball consistent with the orientation of the plate boundary faults as well. USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000rq0d/executive […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Foggy days - and nights - again :) #fog #strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #Weather #photography #oppoFindX5Pro

Tales from the wildlife cam, wherever it may be: introducing Squidge(TM), the squiggle :) #garden #wildlife #squirrel #redsquirrel #scotland #nature #photo

🎵And here I go again on my own Walking down the only road I've ever known 🎵 There goes Marble, back to Kia for fixing .. at last. #ev #ev6 #kia #car #fail

A moment above Loch Etive. Calm with the clouds and mountains around. Human influence all too obvious, from salmon fishing farms to an ugly scar of a quarry in the hillside. Sigh. Prints, cards etc: https://shiny.photo/gallery/inverawe #photography […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Now I've learned a little more about the `{}` operators and combining both `-j` and `-n` together, I'm seriously beginning to love GNU parallel(1). Several things that would be complicated `xargs` or `foreach()` or ` ... | while read foo; do; ... ;done` patterns are rapidly lending themselves to […]

Might be the end of the SNO, especially if the forecast is to be believed. But meanwhile, light! mist! cloud! light! Tree. Stuff :) #Perthshire #strathearn #winter #light #photo #scotland

Mahonia Always liked these plants - just spiky enough, funny purple fuzzy seed things. At the current phase of budding they look like a bit like oaty/barley seeds... #gardening #Perthshire #scotland #closep #photo

Wanders in Winter #strathearn #Perthshire #snow #winter #scotland #photo

Few things boil my blood so much as humans who refuse to take responsibility for their dogs in public. Dogs try to attack mine. Person incapable of holding them. No apology. Just "it's snowy!!" like that excuses it. If you're the one with the dogs in public, *you* take precautions when […]

I'm not big into poetry but winter brings out my two favourite quotes ever 🎵 and the dream of the child is the hope of the, hope of the man (Queen, A Winter's Tale) and "to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape" (Pratchett, _Hogfather_) […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Optimism Willow stem with well-developing buds, covered in frost. #strathearn #closeup #oppofindx9pro #scotland #Perthshire #photos #winter #cold #frost

Cold winter belt-of-Venus dusk. My favourite :) #strathearn #dusk #beltofvenus #twilight #winter #cold #Perthshire #scotland #photos

Oh yeah - I also got a halfway tolerable view of Split Rock in Clachtoll while I was there. Knew there was something else... :) #Clachtoll #Assynt #geology #rock #light #sunset #landscape #nature #seascape #phtoography #scotland #highlands

Last of the first day A few scenes captured around town this afternoon. #dusk #sunset #strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #sky #colour #silhouette #photography

Endings... of day and year Last couple of photos made on this year's Assynt trip. Loch Eileanach as dusk started and Fearden near Rhicarn by blue hour. #Assynt #photography #drone #scotland #landscape #nature #dusk #mood

It wouldn't be a holiday to Assynt without some serious rockery. Here we have the Moine Thrust exposure by Loch Glencoul and Loch Eileanach surrounded by wonderful Scourian gneiss and amphibolite dykes. #Assynt #geology #moinethrust #gneiss #landscape #nature #drone #photography #scotland #geopark

Tuesday's trip around Assynt involved the Wailing Widows waterfall (Eas Chranaidh)... I've been here several times but never managed the droneybird perspective on it before :) #waterfall #Assynt #nature #landscape #scotland #highlands #photography

It was a day for exploring dramatic rockery (mostly Stoer sandstone formation) in brilliant light. #drone #Assynt #landscape #photography #scotland #highlands #geology #Clachtoll #splitrock

The Highlands were just showing off this evening with glowing dusk light and rising fog/inversion layers :) #strathconon #scotland #landscape #twilight #nature #drone #photography

Haven't been down to the well-known Frandy Tree for ages. Had to be done. :) #Android #landscapephotography #photography #Perthshire #glendevon #frandytree #oppo_find_x9 #twilight #scotland

Christmas day is one of very few times I'm likely to try and darken the doors of a church in person. Checking, this evening, my nearest instance has no mention of services on Christmas day on its website - just "details of any special services will be shown on the Newsletter", a great way to […]

Feets up on sofa Enya on hifi Book in paw This is… reading, is it? 😀 #chill #Relaxing #supremechill

This evening's geekery: 1) upgraded the second(ary) colo-server - both debian/stable and debian/testing changed distro names during the dist-upgrade 2) set up TSIG-based auto-updating DNS in powerdns/pdns - I am my own dyndns server at last :] 3) replaced my wireguard configs on macbook and […]

More of that funky nocturnal fog and light stuff :) #fog #strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #night #suburbia #photography

2025-12-13 16:31:05 M1.8 Sound of Jura 26km down, quite deep #earthquake #scotland #argyll #seismology #geology #citizenscience #raspberrypi #rasbperryshake

RE: https://flipboard.com/@skyatnightmag/skyatnightmagazine.com-mfqi93hqz/-/a-KXhWQYbNQd-P3Ynztiw2Gw%3Aa%3A3136858971-%2F0 Saw a couple last night whilst hunting the aurora :)

Had to be done :) Nice bit of aurora display around 2250hr this evening #strathearn #photography #nature #landscape #aurora #auroraborealis #nightsky #milkyway #Perthshire

Misty Caledonian Forest moods :) Also featuring the Foam of Confusion(TM) - where I once saw the foam skimming a layer of ice on the river surface, surprisingly and deceptively slow given the unrest of the waterfalls around the corner... #GlenAffric #fog […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Some rockery - deformed/folded micaceous psammite and amphibolite and hornblende schist (age indeterminate). #geology #rock #geologyrocks #glenaffric #highlands #scotland #nature #naturephotography

2025-12-09 12:15:34 M2.0 Ardtornish, Morvern Nice to see both the P- and S-waves coming by :) #geology #seismology #earthquake #scotland #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-08 14:15:10 M7.6, Hokkaido, Japan as detected in Perthshire, Scotland #earthquake #japan #seismology #geology #scotland #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-06 20:41:49 M7.0 Hubbard Glacier, Yukon Canada/Alaska border , as detected in Perthshire, Scotland #earthquake #glacier #canada #seismology #geology #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-05 12:13:51 M2.4 Kilchrenan/Annat, Argyll Nice clear signal with a little sigh :) #geology #scotland #argyll #earthquake #seismology #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #citizenscience #nature

2025-12-03 23:23:32 M3.4, Carnforth, Lancs #earthquake #nature #geology #seismology #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #citizenscience

Wooie. Geek accomplishment day today. 1) first time of using wireshark VPN - now have photos uploading to my syncthing directory automatically whilst out & about 2) worked out and remembered(!) how to incorporate grep(1) within sed(1) - something I normally use awk(1) for but this is more […]

Cracking dusk / blue-hour light down at the harbour in St Monan's this evening :) #fife #scotland #photography #oppofindx9pro #dusk #coast

M45: The Pleiades Electrifying serenity. Gotta love it. Not bad for a mere 48mins' exposure a couple of nights ago. 🔭 SW 8" Quattro, Neodymium filter, 48*60s, PixInsight & Affinity Prints etc […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The late dog-walker #Perthshire #dusk #twilight #silhouette #colour #photography

"An Oasis" Properly known as vdB 48, I don't know if it has any pseudonyms but I loved the mixture of reflective, dust and Ha. vdB is one of my top-3 favourite catalogues. Some day I'll try this again with a more intentional composition and maybe not forget […] [Original post on mastodon.online]