oligneisti

@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza

#Librarian, #podcaster (#StoriesOfIceland), #folklorist and more. #Icelandic but writing in English.

I run my own instance of Mastodon for Iceland and Icelandic stuff.

If you want the Icelandic version of me you can find me https://kommentakerfid.is/@oligneisti

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

oligneisti, to photography

This is a great video by @TechConnectify about flashbulb technology in #photography. I was born in '79 so I just barely remember the flashcubes and being fascinated by them. I remember staring at them to understand the difference between a fresh and a spent flash.

In addition to the usual wonderful stuff we have a #SlowMo section to really see what is going on when the bulbs fire off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEm-2giH_zw

oligneisti, to random

There is a scene in #FightClub where the protagonists (so to speak) threaten to kill a clerk and then let him go. Their takeaway is that tomorrow will be the best day of that person's life.

This logic holds up as long as you don't know anything about how people work. In reality it is more likely that person will just be dealing with PTSD. I am not claiming the filmmakers didn't understand this but I am sure a lot of the movie's fans have no clue.

oligneisti, to linux

A few years ago I decided that instead of talking about the range of options available to regular users who wanted to try #Linux I would just tell them about #LinuxMint.

It is not that I am convinced Mint is the absolute best but rather that I discovered that the abundance of choice is disorienting and that if the person made the switch I would be more able to guide them through any problems if they were using the same #distro as me.

#LinuxDesktop

oligneisti, to random

I bought a #Fairphone5 late last year. I went through all sorts of reviews. My favourite was likely #LouisRossmann just going through all the documentation supplied by #Fairphone.

The review which really convinced me was some person going through everything and concluding that you could get a phone with better specs for a lower price. The fact that they couldn't wrap their head around the appeal of #repairability and parts made to last made me buy one.

#AndroidPhone
#RightToRepair

oligneisti, to Facebook

I just unfriended someone on #Facebook. No drama, just someone I knew a little a long time ago who kept posting uninteresting things. Facebook just keeps showing me this person's posts. I think the algorithm might be broken beyond repair.

It feels like a part of #Enshittification that algorithms that worked okay for some time have managed to evolve into something which makes no sense whatsoever.

oligneisti, to RSS

Instead of, or in addition to, saying "like and subscribe" #YouTubers should tell their viewers to check out their #rss feed which is updated every time they put out a new video. Maybe that rss feed is from a #WordPress site which has their embedded videos in each post and also uses WP's #ActivityPub plugin to integrate with the #Fediverse.

#Creators can liberate themselves from the algorithm but they need to be proactive. They need to build the world they want.

oligneisti, to Amazon

I do not meet eligibility requirements at #Amazon to write a review about a fake Icelandic book which explains how you cook with "brickwork-jars" (machine translation of "Mason jar") by a fake Icelandic author.

I assume I don't meet the requirements because sellers have complained about my reviews which pointed out that their products were fake and/or worthless. For instance I wrote reviews about badly-OCR'ed public domain ebooks.

So maybe reviews on Amazon er worthless now?

oligneisti, to internet

The #Internet has all these amazing ways to disseminate information that should be controlled by librarians but keep being taken over and rendered useless by marketing departments.

A #Librarian is trying to help you find what you are looking for. A marketing department wants you to find what they are selling.

oligneisti, to random

People who rail against #EBooks are just jealous because paper-books don't have dark-mood.

oligneisti, to goodomens

#GoodOmens - #NeilGaiman & #TerryPratchett

> Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.[*]

[* I do think this ratio might have shifted since the book was first published.]

#OlisQuoteFile
#Witches

oligneisti, to Iceland

There is nothing new about a #VolcanicEruption in the south-west of #Iceland, on Reykjanes (smoky peninsula). This map (from the Icelandic outlet #Heimildin) shows that there were centuries of repeated #eruptions from about the 8th to the 13th centuries CE.

You can see how the southern part of the capital-region intersects with eruptions from the 10th century. I live in #Reykjavík but it is beneath the box labelled Kópavogur.

I'll give some info on reading the map in a reply.

#Grindavík

oligneisti, to random

#GooglePodcasts is being phased out. #AntennaPod is the 'droid app your looking for.

oligneisti, to random

I was reading an old article about a well known #Icelandic family. Which included an a amazing line that skates around the issue at hand.

The description of one member of the family included a line about how his wife had died young, leaving behind young children.

The article omits the fact that she was murdered by this man, her husband.

oligneisti, to Facebook

The #enshittification of #Facebook keeps going as people on my friendlist, hungry for news of the current #VolcanicEruption, are instead served a two week old photo I took of a tiramisu I made.

oligneisti, to random

This cites and critiques a paper which finds that autistic people just care too much about doing whats good.

> Here, we show that ASD individuals are more inflexible when following a moral rule even though an immoral action can benefit themselves, and suffer an undue concern about their ill-gotten gains and the moral cost.
> – Hu et al. 2020

via. @sentient_water

https://neuroclastic.com/autistic-people-care-too-much-research-says/

oligneisti, to fediverse

I am slowly realising that #PeerTube is so much cooler than I thought. Actually amazing. For those who make videos and rely on donors and/or selling their own ads it seems almost perfect.

Like so much in this corner the world, #Fediverse, #Linux, etc., the real problem is just convincing people to use all this great stuff.

oligneisti, to Facebook

#Facebook has actually been getting worse.

A week ago I posted a photo of the red glow from the then current #VolcanicEruption in #Grindavík #Iceland over there.

Last night Facebook's algorithm decided that what my friend needed to see was that week-old photo. My friend from Grindavík.

Though the eruption that started a week ago has died down, there is still activity below the surface. So my friend had quite a shock while scrolling down Facebook.

oligneisti, to languagelearning

Many Icelanders tend to think that is the only which has its own version of . They also think of these names as translations. They usually aren't.

For instance is Kænugarður. The name comes from the Viking Age when some Norse (often Swedes) went east while the more famous ones went west.

Another example is the . The Icelandic Árósar retains the original meaning of "the river mouth" while the modern Danish name is a bit like "river house".
🧵

oligneisti, to random

I listen to Last Christmas by #WHAM! every December on purpose because I love the song.

oligneisti, to Wikipedia

About a month ago I wrote something on the talk page for the #Wikipedia article on "Hero's journey". A few days ago it was removed by "ClueBot III".

oligneisti, to RSS

Can you tell me which #RSS app you use and what the appeal of it is. You can also just tell me features the currently available apps lack.

oligneisti, to mastodon

Here is a thing I would like for my and general experience.

In my feed and notifications I would like something to differentiate between people I follow and people I don't. Some checkmark or just a line under people's name. Something similar could be done to indicate if someone follows you. Is this perhaps done in a subtle way I just don't notice?

I am bad at remembering if I follow people or not. I also don't check my followers regularly.

oligneisti, to twitter

I just remembered something and understood what it actually meant. About a year ago, some ex-#Twitter staffer condescendingly explained to #Mastodon in general that people don't like accessing stuff in chronological order.

I think this person was confusing "spending more time using #SocialMedia" with liking what they were doing.

I like Mastodon more than Twitter but I spend less time using it.

oligneisti, to Iceland

The hidden folk at . I retell two related and speculate about what they say about contemporary society.

I recorded the episode and mentioned the then current state of the pending in . While I was doing so, an eruption started. I added a note on this before I uploaded it to Patreon. Now that I am releasing it for everyone, the eruption seems to be over.

https://storiesoficeland.com/home-alone/

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oligneisti, to random

#Icelandic has a few letters not found in English. My name is Óli Gneisti but it is usually rendered Oli in English. We also have the letter "ð" which tends to written as "d".

But #BBCNews has decided to go a different route, one that I don't remember seeing used during this century.

Aðalheiður = Aoalheiour

Sandgerði = Sandgeroi

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67756413

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