Posts by neilcar@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #APTHhrBh16MS8gt0TI by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2022-11-10T20:07:54Z
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@feld @tk @maddiefuzz 50mm is something I would, typically, use for environmental portraits...which is very different from portraiture. The way to think of this is that, at least in terms of what Madeline is illustrating with that great illustration of the impact of focal length, is that your distance to the subject is an important piece of how somebody appears in the picture. The closer you get to the person, the larger the ratio between the distance from the camera to the tip of their nose and the distance from the camera to their eyes; in other words, the closer the camera is to the person, the more exaggerated their nose will appear. The farther away you are, the smaller their nose will appear. If you're standing, say, 10' away from the subject(s), it doesn't matter if you're shooting an environmental/group portrait with a 50mm lens or a 135mm lens to get a tighter portrait, their facial features are going to have about the same ratio.Because selfies are normally shot very close, they emphasis facial features in a way that's not flattering.
(DIR) Post #APV3J3l882z2qbfB5M by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2022-11-11T16:08:32Z
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(DIR) Post #AUoffqnToWf2hRiogS by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2023-04-19T13:12:46Z
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Just a reminder -- you may have good reasons for continuing to use Twitter but this is who you're supporting when you add yourself to the daily active user count.If you must twit, do whatever you can to block ads and, if you happen to see an interesting ad, never, ever click on it. Go to the advertiser's website independently. Deprive Twitter of that click-through revenue."Twitter sparked backlash this week after some users noticed it had quietly removed language in its hateful conduct policy that explicitly protected transgender people from online harassment...Twitter responded to a request for comment with the Pile of Poo emoji, an automated message it now sends as a reply to all media requests."https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/twitter-changes-hateful-conduct-policy-rcna80338#Twitter #Twit #advertising #ElonMusk #đź’©
(DIR) Post #AW6wJfR6yZqLm5nNq4 by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2023-05-28T10:31:39Z
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@khoji @fvilers Photography isn't just one thing or one way. I could just as easily say "photography needs tilt/shift lenses. Without them, you can never get parallel lines to actually be parallel."Primarily, I'm a street photographer. I don't find that I need infinite variations in tone-mapping to get what I'm after and I say that as somebody who has both spent an infinite number of hours converting digital color images to monochrome and who owns Leica monochrome cameras.
(DIR) Post #AW7HMuD0bfmVUsaIYy by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2023-05-28T14:27:32Z
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@khoji @fvilers For me, it's a matter of simplifying my workflow. My output is always going to be B&W and a workflow that simplifies that is a joy.
(DIR) Post #AaNY0jShuqWjytxqK0 by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2023-10-03T01:48:01Z
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"Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution."I suppose it's predictable but I feel like everything I've used on the Internet has just publicly turned to dirt in the last 18 months. https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
(DIR) Post #AsW0iMDhhc6DSGntC4 by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2025-03-28T13:54:34Z
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@foone I suspect it's an artifact of an ancillary problem -- Microsoft VPs get paid for making up new brands then consolidating anything they can under them. Thus, you end up with product names that rapidly lose all sense of meaning.When I was still in CSS at Microsoft, my team owned things that eventually got consolidated under the "Forefront" brand. But, there were so many of them that people would say something like "Oh, we have a problem with Microsoft Forefront" and it would lead to an interrogation about whether they were talking about desktop anti-malware, a network reverse proxy, an identity tool, or something that had recently been branded Forefront but we hadn't heard about it yet.A friend who is still at Microsoft told me they stopped counting at 30 products with "Defender" somewhere in the name. I'm surprised you didn't have to go through microsoftdefender.com so that Defender for Visual Studio Identity Verification Pro could check that you're human...
(DIR) Post #AswtCX8AQIFs385DO4 by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2025-04-10T13:07:31Z
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@foone I C:\ what you did there.