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elengale

@elengale@mastodon.social

Film photography, tech, and double-space-after-a-period fan.

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skinnylatte, to random
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Develop film at home == develop film in the bathroom

elengale,
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@skinnylatte I end up drying using the pan rack in my kitchen. What I wouldn't give for more bathroom space and dust guards!

elengale,
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@skinnylatte Imagine having space for a full darkroom! 🫠

I like city living for the most part, but lack of space is just a fact of life and I don't know that I'll ever get a chance to try having a wet darkroom at home. Someday though I'd like to give silver prints a try again, though!

eff, to random
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Using your face or thumbprint to unlock your phone is convenient, but courts may grant less legal protection to biometrics. EFF’s Andrew Crocker spoke to @Gizmodo about passwords and the Fifth Amendment. https://gizmodo.com/stop-using-your-face-or-thumb-to-unlock-your-phone-1851438205

elengale,
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@eff @Gizmodo It is such a pain to go back to PIN-based unlocks-- but as noted, it's the only line of defense right now against surveillance and law enforcement overreach.

It's always a shame when we have to deliberately kneecap ourselves because society won't allow us to have nice things.

Here's hoping that one day, precedent will change on this matter.

elengale, to Leica
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A small streetside shop sells nighttime espresso.

#leicam6ttl #leicam6 #leica #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

elengale, to Leica
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A policeman closes up a small park for the evening.

#leicam6ttl #leicam6 #leica #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

elengale, to movies
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Two people sit on a bench next to a fearless squirrel.

Probably my second best film photo of my 'career.'

#minoltacle #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Experimenting with separate hashtags in the @pixelfed app

Before vs After

Wdyt?

Hashtag buttons
Inline hashtags
Hashtag buttons

elengale,
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@dansup @pixelfed Strongly prefer the separated hashtags where they're parsable (I've mixed thoughts on how to handle inline #hashtags as opposed to ones put at the end).

It just looks so much cleaner.

Gargron, to random
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Eagerly awaiting film scans from my NYC trip to arrive...

elengale,
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@Gargron Whereabouts were you shooting?

elengale,
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@Gargron It's a great-- and enormous-- island to shoot in and on! Hope you got some hits!

If you ever see someone wandering around with a TX-1/X-PAN, it might be me-- wave and say hello!

thelinuxEXP, to random
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All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

elengale,
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@thelinuxEXP An alternative would be if USPTO decided that generated content could not be copyrighted.

No company or VC form would touch the stuff ever again. It'd live on, but I'm a very diminished manner.

elengale, to movies
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Someone quietly sits by the Hudson, overlooking the far skyline.

#fujifilmtx1 #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

elengale, to movies
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A vibrant street shop showcases clothes of many colors.

#fujifilmtx1 #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm

verge, to random
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OpenAI’s ‘year of the enterprise’ includes new tools for increasing AI accuracy https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24121355/openai-customize-finetune-gpt4-enterprise

elengale,
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@verge Schrodinger's responsibility in action. They'll take credit for the more accurate results but insist they have no fault for any remaining inaccuracies, no matter how prevalent.

All the credit, none of the harm.

arstechnica, to random
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Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week

Discord's first real foray into ads seems minimally intrusive.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

elengale,
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@arstechnica I'm already paying- and happy to pay- to support a service I use extensively and daily.

That I'm also getting these- and that the opt-out button marked *didn't ask" doesn't actually opt you out, but still leaves you having to dig in settings- is very frustrating.

eff, to random
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Not only is this full dice-roll policing, it also threatens the rights, freedom, or even the life of whoever is unlucky enough to look a little bit like that artificial face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas

elengale,
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@eff It was the best of timelines. It was the worst of timelines.

What a dystopian world we live in.

arstechnica, to random
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AI firms working on “constitutions” to keep AI from spewing toxic content

Broken guardrails for AI systems lead to push for new safety measures .

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/10/ai-firms-working-on-constitutions-to-keep-ai-from-spewing-toxic-content/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

elengale,
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@arstechnica Doubtful that these will do anything, given that the fundamental model of learning and training these models creates a black box. Efforts to untangle and finesse out the causes for certain outputs have not been particularly convincing, so bad actors will almost certainly always be able to find ways around safeguards.

This is a cat that was let out of the bag too early, before society was ready for it, IMO.

georgetakei, to random

Fox tried it. Seattle wasn't having it.

https://www.comicsands.com/johnny-belisario-fox-seattle-residents-2665743692.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

elengale,
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@georgetakei It takes a combination of unusual bravery and stupidity to field a live interview feed on TV when you don't have the most basic idea of what answers you're going to get. Good going, Fox.

arstechnica, to random
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COVID anti-viral drug is actively helping SARS-CoV-2 mutate and evolve

Merck's small-molecule molnupiravir linked to mutated viruses that spread in people.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/covid-anti-viral-drug-is-actively-helping-sars-cov-2-mutate-and-evolve/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

elengale,
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@arstechnica Worse still will be the reaction of certain uninformed members of the public, who will wave this result around as a reason to distrust medications with other methods of action.

TechDesk, to privacy
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Randal Quran Reid was arrested for crimes in Louisiana, a state he claims to have never visited. He's now suing over the misuse of facial recognition technology that led to him spending days in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

https://flip.it/Q4igsP

#FacialRecognition #Privacy

elengale,
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@TechDesk There need to be consequences for this type of identification failure, either in the contracts between police departments and vendors, for the officers responsible, or ideally, both.

The total immunity of vendors and officers from consequences when they're capable of ruining lives is absurd and unsustainable.

ProPublica, to news
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Parent Company's Latest Argument Against Free Tax Filing: It Will Harm Taxpayers

Articles published around the country repeat Intuit’s assertion — sometimes almost word for word — that the upcoming pilot program would hurt Black Americans.

A researcher whose work is cited by says the company is misstating her findings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-intuit-black-taxpayers-irs-free-file-marketing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

elengale,
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@ProPublica This is gross. Parroting information without vetting the source/source material is a big part of why we have so many problems with disinformation today.

Epistemology is important. We need to do better.

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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I was very delighted to discover there’s an active and thriving community on Mastodon a while back. There’s a whole cluster of hashtags where you can find lovely analog pictures, like , , and more.

elengale,
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@Gargron I remain somewhat torn on whether or not I should post photos here or on Pixelfed on a separate account. Fediverse can be a bit confusing at times.

TechDesk, to Law
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Internet user data has been used to enforce abortion law in the U.S. A recent Nebraska case involving Facebook messages between a mother and daughter has highlighted how prosecutors can use a person's digital footprint as evidence in court.

https://flip.it/yRtCl3

#OnlinePrivacy #Data #Law

elengale,
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@TechDesk The average citizen has no idea just how much detail can be extracted from metadata alone, much less from full, recorded logs of conversations that are readily available to prosecutors, essentially upon request.

Digital is convenient. But it's also very dangerous.

NewsDesk, to random
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Video of a large crowd. Footage of rioters driving a police car. A clip of a sniper on a rooftop. Social media posts claiming to show scenes from the Paris riots are spreading like wildfire, but many of them weren’t filmed during the current unrest, or even in France. Read more about where these videos came from and how they were debunked.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66081671

#Paris #Riots #Disinformation

elengale,
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@NewsDesk I truly believe that #disinformation is the challenge of our century. Climate change, economic inequity, structural racism-- none of these are solvable unless we can cleave through purposefully-engineered disinformation that aims to misinform and divide.

It's scary stuff. Even if you're committed to learning, there are many issues where it already feels as though we are 'post-truth', where everyone says every other source is biased and there's nowhere you can reliably start.

QasimRashid, to random
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🚨 IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Congress has introduced a new credit card bill that helps WalMart & Target rake in billions more. It will hurt low income people (& strip rewards) and hurt small businesses.

The bill’s sponsors claim it’ll cut credit card fees for corporations who will then pass those savings to consumers. Remember how that worked with the billionaire tax cuts?🤔 Join me. Take 5 seconds & email Congress to vote NO: https://bit.ly/3poXA3Q

elengale,
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@gorizzlyfarms @QasimRashid https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2022/08/how-the-credit-card-competition-act-of-2022-will-impact-communities-of-color/ Here you go!

The thrust of the argument is sound, IMO, if a bit roundabout (from someone else also in finance, or at least once upon a time). The bill's theory of action misses the fact that policies aimed at increasing competition can backfire if they cause card issues/banks to tighten up their bottom line by dropping users who are deemed high-risk. This disproportionately impacts POC, and particularly black lower-income customers.

ProPublica, to random
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HomeVestors Said It Had Kicked Out a Top Franchisee Who Broke the Law.
New Evidence Suggests It Didn’t.

The "We Buy Ugly Houses" company said it had cut ties with Cory Evans, the former co-owner of Patriot Holdings LLC, “a number of years” ago.

But texts, emails and interviews indicate he was still engaged in the business as recently as March.

#Homevestors #RealEstate #Homes #Houses #WeBuyUglyHouses

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-evidence-homevestors-did-not-cut-ties-with-franchisee-who-broke-law?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

elengale,
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@ProPublica Thanks for doing this level of in-depth reporting. Just wrapped up one of the component articles and am already horrified at just how brazenly bad these people are.

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