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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 Mav
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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
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Thanks!
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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 o
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Which video?
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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
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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 thos
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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
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Ha that brought back some memories!
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The ZX Spectrum simply refuses to go away, which is awesome.
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Previous conversation also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521492
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Lol, how about some unicorn pizza while you wait?
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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
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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 w
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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
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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 real
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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 p
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1980, End of the Century, produced by Phil Spector, so un-punk rock it was safe to be given to children in Florida schools
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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>
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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"?
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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 WorkF
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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
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I posted a link reply to another poster, and here's another back: https://www.zluxtech.com/store/products/polaroid-600se-insta...
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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 p
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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...
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I don't think manual focus SLRs (If that's what you mean) are going anywhere now, there's widespread popularity for film photography and the "better" cameras (mechanical or reliable) are fetching silly money. And pl

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