robotmay

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by robotmay 6d ago
Ooh do drop me any odd things you're looking for - I never know what's going to turn up, and I do keep a lookout for anything people ask me about. I have debated trying some sort of online stock listing but I think that might just
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by robotmay 6d ago
Haha there's certain camera models that are very prone to that. Some of the Pentacon M42 lenses are worth a look if you want an unholy amount of blades - I have a 135mm f/2.8 sat around that has like 15 blades or something daft. C
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by robotmay 6d ago
Ooh yeah I love those weird shapes nearly wide open. I found a lens that had a torx bit shaped aperture the other day, I'll have to fish that out and see what it looks like in an image. Lots of compact cameras have a diamond/squar
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by robotmay 6d ago
This is usually due to the blade shape and quantity I believe. The aperture is most likely to be less circular on the widest apertures after fully open unless you have quite a lot of aperture blades, as the curve to make a rounder aperture
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by robotmay 6d ago
Ooh that's fun bokeh, it's like the doughnut bokeh from a mirror lens. Combined with the various computational tweaks made to the images that's a pretty bizarre effect, looks like micro motion blur at a distance and properly
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by robotmay 6d ago
Yep I'm also in favour of legally requiring the default feed on any "social" app to be a chronological feed from people you follow. It's both better for society longer-term and a better experience for the users, just not
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by robotmay 10d ago
Japanese manga is kinda interesting in that regard too - they're noticeably more diminutive than Western publications of the same manga, usually, and often on quite nice quality paper. They're usually paperbacks with dust jackets
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by robotmay 11d ago
I couldn't even stand 4.6 by the end. 4.5 was very usable, 4.6 started alright and somehow got more annoying. 4.7 made me quit my subscription and ditch their services entirely - it's an honourary member of my quite short "Co
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by robotmay 11d ago
It's very good at Elixir in my experience too. And it just does what I ask and doesn't wind me up like Opus. I don't think I've had to insult it more than once per day.
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by robotmay 11d ago
Unrelated, but this week I've been on a memory binge with the Wayback Machine, trying to find old content of mine from the early 2000s. Took me a while but I've finally put together a good bit of info about myself at the time that
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by robotmay 11d ago
Bit too early for me unfortunately, I was 6/7 then! I was still having a lot of fun up until about 2005, before I went off to university. The past week I've been trawling the Internet Archive to try and find things I vaguely remem
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by robotmay 11d ago
I'm with you on the YouTube side - I stopped making my own videos earlier this year when I burnt out, and now I'm finding myself increasingly irritated just by the thumbnails when I visit the site. I'm definitely viewing less
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by robotmay 11d ago
Honestly the golden era ended around 2010, once the normies showed up en-mass for social media. The late 90s and early 2000s were so much fun on the internet, and I'll always be sad that today's nerdy teenagers won't get to e
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by robotmay 13d ago
Haha I did debate going much worse with the junk images but wanted to err on the side of caution in case I subject possible clients to something like goatse.
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by robotmay 13d ago
I did something like this a few weeks ago on my photography site: https://robertmay.photography/journal/meta-has-tried-to-scra... Meta not only hasn't noticed, but is currently sending about 11 requests per second
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by robotmay 16d ago
The photo they've chosen for the article even supports this. It's like he's leaning on a bar twirling his moustache whilst giving you the side-eye.
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by robotmay 17d ago
Just on the off-chance anyone should see this: if you were one of the brothers involved in running the Blinkys "R" Us forum back in the early 2000s - I still think of it regularly. I can't even remember what my username was t
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by robotmay 17d ago
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
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by robotmay 18d ago
Yeah I've been really surprised by how inept they are. Lots of others have fallen for the trap but extract themselves fairly quickly and probably blacklist my site. Archive.org got stuck for a while, which was unfortunate, so I had to
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Meta has tried to scrape this site 1 million times in 2 weeks(robertmay.photography)
14 points by robotmay 19d ago|2 comments
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by robotmay 24d ago
I've swapped over to it in the past two weeks, it's been really good. It does what I ask and doesn't think it knows better than me, which so far has made it the most pleasing experience I've had when slop-coding. My only
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I've been doing "real" photography(robertmay.photography)
2 points by robotmay 26d ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 26d ago
Yeah Meta's bots are well and truly stuck in the blackhole on this site at the moment. I have no idea what they're supposed to be doing, but in case they are using them for AI work I've just added a token multipler based on s
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by robotmay 26d ago
In an odd sequence of events, I've sorta got a weird tiny following in China due to having a vintage camera stall in an antiques market here in Wales that gets shared on Xiaohongshu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X
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by robotmay 26d ago
If I get some time to un-LLM-ify it then sure! I build all my sites in Phoenix these days anyway so I'll likely want to port it to my other sites at some point too. I do want to add some more gibberish generation to mine. Once a visito
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by robotmay 26d ago
Currently not really an issue on this site but connections aren't an issue on Elixir usually anyway, unless you get up to about 1 million on one machine IIRC.
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by robotmay 26d ago
It's mostly about luring them into URLs they're explicitly told in robots.txt that they shouldn't index. I do some identification via reverse DNS of known crawlers I actually want like Googlebot, though they respect robots.tx
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by robotmay 26d ago
Yep this is how I'm doing it. It's marked as my super exciting client archive full of high-res RAW photos that all bots are told not to index in robots.txt, only for some weird reason the link never gets rendered to the page :>
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by robotmay 27d ago
I've added a few screenshots above! Elixir's really fun to do this in because the BEAM will let you have hundreds of thousands of processes sat around doing nothing quite happily, so slow IO and such is something it's weirdly
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by robotmay 27d ago
Thankfully this is my photography website so what they're mostly after is images, which they have to request. I'm also intercepting all my legit images once the bot is flagged, which will no doubt have unintended consequences but

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