mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Well, the other thing is that except for the instant film, there's no instant gratification in this hobby. Even when one processes at home, the typical time form a photo to a print is measured in hours.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Film photography is my hobby and I think that there isn't anything that would prevent from exposing a displayed image on a piece of film, except for the cost.

Depending on film it might not be easy to tell exposing an image from a real picture.

The "hybrid" digital instax cameras work this way, it's just a digital camera that has a way to internally expose the picture on the instant film.

It's trivial to do analog prints from digital images too, just requires an inkjet printer and a special film to print out the "digital negative".

The only way in which it may succeed as a deterrent is that it actually costs some money (film and processing is not cheap) and requires actual work to do those extra steps.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I fucking hate them for ruining the em dash, I liked to use it from time to time

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of it is, but let's agree that using "prior" is just fucking pretentious

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think that 3D printing never picked up, because it's one of those things that empower the people, i.e. to repair stuff or build their own things, so the number of opportunities to grift seems to be smaller (although I'm probably underestimating it).

Most of the recently hyped technologies had goals that were exact opposites of empowering the masses.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Tell them to use yahoo for the second opinion

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Well, they can't fully outsource thinking to the autocomplete if they get asked whether some actions are okay.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That time when Zitron himself admits that the post is long 💀

[–] mlen@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The reader mode in Firefox shows completely different version of the article, weird. I never understood how that feature works, is there some node that contains the site supplied version of text for that mode?

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