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by thekid314 3y ago
Just wait until you get this ear-worm into your ear. I'm probably 25 of the 27 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3x7KhsZOY
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by thekid314 3y ago
Hey! I know who this is! It has been too long. Call me up if you come to NYC!
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by thekid314 3y ago
Yeah, the targeted photography is my next step. I live in Brooklyn, and my pigeon raising friend lives in Jersey, so if we release the bird from the right place in Brooklyn we should be able to get some interesting photos of Manhattan.
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Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography(daviddegner.com)
71 points by thekid314 3y ago|17 comments
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by thekid314 3y ago
Consumer tech has improved so we can attach cameras to pigeons again once again.
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by thekid314 3y ago
I'm curious to see what it does when it sees a captcha.
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by thekid314 3y ago
Egypt's previous de-desertification project "Toshka" kinda of worked. It wasn't the massive job creator that it was sold as because most of the farming was very large scale and mechanized. But it was able to produce la
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by thekid314 4y ago
I think people first moved away from SMS because it cost extra to send them, while messaging apps were virtually free. Then messaging apps beat SMS on features, you can send photos, videos, files, read receipts, works across platforms, etc
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by thekid314 4y ago
Yeah, I work on the campus regularly, and the TIM ticket system is often inconsistent, so I shadow people through doors.
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by thekid314 4y ago
This is sometimes true. Like in Tunisia where they give a free SIM in baggage claim. But I crossed a lot of land borders through west africa where it would be a day or two of traveling before I could find an official store that had a phys
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by thekid314 4y ago
Letting the camera take control will result in good photos. But great photos are more likely when you take technical control and put thought behind each photo.
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by thekid314 4y ago
That is brilliant
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by thekid314 5y ago
I want WebP to work, but when I use it on my website the colors are different than the original JPEG files. This is a problem because I'm a photographer and those subtle differences can make a photo feel flat and dead. When the color
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by thekid314 5y ago
This used to be one of Google Fi's selling points, that you could use it anywhere even for extended periods of time. Now they have shortened their arbitrary limit so it's catching a lot of people by surprise.
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by thekid314 5y ago
Ha, this is true, a slow connection is more of a hassle than no connection.
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by thekid314 5y ago
Yeah, I applied once and was never given an answer, just come back next week. But I'm a journalist so that's understandable.
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by thekid314 5y ago
It goes much deeper than that. For a while now Israel has been using NSO as an incentive for foreign relations with authoritarian regimes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/pegasus-projec...
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by thekid314 5y ago
This sounds like a hobby project. Except Sudan has had its internet cut for 2 weeks. A widely used mesh network app would really change the balance of power between the people and the military coup.
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by thekid314 5y ago
I've been on a buying spree this last month, picking up Minolta rokkor lenses for video use. They are some cheap and well made. Leica even borrowed their design for their 24mm.
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by thekid314 5y ago
I'll have to look into them. I've been using https://www.octoink.co.uk for my photo printing and they have been great. The sad thing is that there aren't any good review sites.
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by thekid314 5y ago
Yeah, as a fellow Boston renter, facebook and craigslist are the way to go. Still no human required, no fees, good response rate.
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by thekid314 5y ago
Could they also prevent it from being made by competitors and then refuse to distribute it in those countries? If not denying it to those countries at least delaying it in bureaucracy?
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by thekid314 5y ago
I kind of played with this idea when the military was deployed in Boston. Now that their uniform and paint signatures are designed to camouflage them from infrared signatures in the forests they stick out like a sore thumb in the city. ht
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by thekid314 5y ago
Here's some portraits of fancy pigeons I made back in the day: https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/fancy-pigeons/
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by thekid314 5y ago
Halide might consider writing up these tricks in a blog post. I'm sure a lot of your users would benefit from it while we wait for Apple.
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by thekid314 5y ago
I love Halide but never remembered to open it. Luckily iOS 14 shortcuts made it possible to trigger open Halide whenever the Camera app is opened. It now acts like the default camera app. Specific instructions: https://www.davi
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by thekid314 5y ago
Oooof, that is a pretty one sided wikipedia page there.
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by thekid314 6y ago
Yeah, 1Blocker running on Safari and NextDNS connection in the background means I never see ads these days.
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by thekid314 6y ago
When working for NGOs the put you in really weird situations that don't allow you close to people and make lots of money for their security arms. I backpacked for a month through Liberia. It is a really interesting country. From Monr
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by thekid314 6y ago
I'm named David and work around the whole region for the past 10 years. Nicest people I know. Really.

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