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Asa @3fz.org · 12h

rooting for you 🫡

Asa @3fz.org · 15h

I like to give no context and just ask for descriptive alt text, feels less colored by my own bias in a way… then try again with more detail if something was wrong

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Asa @3fz.org · 1d

Had to leave when the tide came in

Asa @3fz.org · 1d

I’m out here at one of my favorite storm chasing spots on the south shore of the great salt lake and the wind is so strong you can barely stand up

A moody coastal scene showing a wide expanse of wet tidal flats under heavy gray storm clouds. The beach stretches into the distance with shallow pools of water reflecting the overcast sky. Dark rocks and debris are scattered across the sandy surface. A mountain or island formation is barely visible through the mist on the horizon. The atmosphere is somber and atmospheric, with muted tones of gray, brown, and blue throughout.

Asa @3fz.org · 1d

Another unforgettable moment was seeing the aurora from this location in May ‘24

Aurora borealis displaying vibrant purple and magenta curtains across the night sky, transitioning to green and yellow hues near the horizon. The northern lights illuminate a coastal landscape with a tidal flat or beach in the foreground, where shallow water reflects the colorful display. Dark mountain silhouettes appear on the horizon beneath the aurora, with distant town lights visible along the shoreline. Stars dot the deep purple sky above the luminous atmospheric phenomenon.

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Asa @3fz.org · 1d

I’m out here at one of my favorite storm chasing spots on the south shore of the great salt lake and the wind is so strong you can barely stand up

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Asa @3fz.org · 1d

With the exception of the most annoying Bluesky users, most people whose curiosity piqued quickly got the value of AI. My dad was a smartphone holdout until 2019, but an early adopter of ChatGPT and Gemini. It's a very user-friendly extension of the technologies adopted over the last 3 decades.

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Asa @3fz.org · 2d

The window management is clumsy and awkward, always requiring an excessive amount of taps and swipes with strange actions that you have to memorize to accomplish a worse version of what you can do on a laptop, while coexisting with the normal iOS-style windowing. Not a fan.

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Asa @3fz.org · 2d

Apple clearly wants iPad OS to become the touchscreen Mac with window management features. They're putting the cart before the horse here: the files app is still a weirdly abstracted and sandboxed thing that doesn't show you progress bars when you copy files, or let you properly eject a USB drive.

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Asa @3fz.org · 2d

It's due to Chromium's implementation of the Wayland color management protocol, all downstream browsers are affected. There's a workaround with a flag to disable the feature. github.com/brave/brave-...

Asa @3fz.org · 2d

Yeah, but I will say there's basically no benefit to the $200 tier over the $100 tier anymore since the release of 4.5 Sonnet, until they release 4.5 Opus anyway.

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Asa @3fz.org · 2d

The hard part of developing a music app is when you're vibing w/ the music but need to interrupt it to restart the application several times

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Asa @3fz.org · 3d

See this perspective for any point on the map with Mercator Extreme: mrgris.com/projects/mer...

Mercator: Extreme

An interactive playground to explore the extreme distortions of the Mercator projection. Set any point on Earth as the new North Pole. Warp the map in real-time. See the world in a whole new way.

mrgris.com

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Asa @3fz.org · 3d

My local shoegaze band: nosunband.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

In the Interim, by No Sun

8 track album

nosunband.bandcamp.com

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Asa @3fz.org · 3d

Word is graduate school applications and competitiveness are up, with many bachelor's degree holders looking for a way to ride out the ice-cold job market.

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Asa @3fz.org · 4d

ugh—after an update my Chrome is displaying washed-out black levels. Changing my monitor to HDR fixes it (but looks terrible, it's an LCD without local dimming), disabling hardware acceleration fixes it (but I need this), changing color profiles (system or in chrome) doesn't help.

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Asa @3fz.org · 5d

What's your dream job in the AI ecosystem of the future?

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Asa @3fz.org · 5d

Of course. Fedora is the best of the three important distros.

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Asa @3fz.org · 5d

Being a CS undergrad at the time was interesting. November 30 2022, with two weeks left in the semester, I remember everyone simultaneously realizing that GPT-3.5 could finish the bulk of their final projects in a matter of minutes. AI was the only topic discussed for the rest of the year.

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Asa @3fz.org · 5d

The ship sailed in 1993, atproto is a small but valuable part of it.

Asa @3fz.org · 5d

What I'm hearing is that the meta for getting hired right now is to have someone you've worked with before refer or recruit you to their current company. This is absolutely brutal for anyone young enough not to have an established professional network from the zirp era.

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Asa @3fz.org · 6d

If you look closely you can see the location of this shot bsky.app/profile/3fz....

Asa @3fz.org · 18d

I’m always secretly excited when I get a weird camera glitch naturally, but here’s a normal one too

Aerial shot from above the north face of Millcreek Canyon, facing south towards Mount Olympus

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Asa @3fz.org · 6d

I love these liminal spaces when the direct sunlight hits ▛

A bright, modern institutional hallway with gray tile flooring and white walls. Dramatic diagonal shadows from large windows inset in the wall to the left side stretch across the floor, creating a striking pattern of light and dark. The corridor extends toward a glass window at the far end, with an outdoor area and street visible in the distance behind a chain link fence. The window is divided into quadrants, with the lower right being blacked out and the other three glass. Perpendicular corridors line the right wall, and a blue recycling bin sits against the left wall. Wall-mounted sconces above the windows on the left subtly illuminate the ceiling. Decorative blue and red striping runs along the upper right wall. The space has a clean, minimalist design with an exit sign visible above the top-right of the window at the back of the hallway.

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Asa @3fz.org · 6d

Another one is night-sky photos that show stars. Along with the above, these are far more difficult to convincingly fake than, say, a person's face.

Asa @3fz.org · 6d

In the Sora era, straightforward photo/video reality-fingerprints are roads, signs, buildings, skylines, and mountain ridges. Every geographic feature and almost every city is mapped in 3D. This, however, requires an outdoor shot with some visible background detail and a fairly wide perspective.

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Asa @3fz.org · 6d

Great illustration!

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