I’ve tried multiple times to use JetBrain’s Fleet. I find myself exiting and just using one of their other products every time.
Nearly finished with Internet for the People and I have a strong desire to see if I can do anything with my master’s work. Many similar themes across the way I tried to shape my efforts in the software design program.
Considering the internet’s origins, is there a future or a path where it doesn’t enable the worst of capital an empire? The Fediverse, in some ways, feels like maybe but I wonder if that is due to its relative niche rather than technical specifications.
I have to make my first retreat from Linux. I lost too much of my Surface Pro functionality (camera, touchscreen pen) when I did the switch. This computer remains a Windows box.
But, God, the ads in Windows kill me.
Glad to have discovered WoeUSB being able to make USBs on my Linux box is a win.
Writing up documentation or debugging investigations are some of my favorite tasks as a software developer.
When you want to listen to the music in a place but none of the conversations. Really wish there was a way to connect my headphones to the speakers of various locales.
I’ve been using Zorin OS for a few weeks now on my desktop and my Surface. I will probably go back to Windows 10 on the Surface because I just lot a lot of the device functionality with the Linux kernel. The camera doesn’t look like it’ll be supported anytime soon, and I don’t have the energy to mess with getting the touch screen and pen working.
The desktop is fine. It’s unexciting and stable. I think that’s what I want out of computers now.
I’ve started to opt out of email only statements and notifications. Bulk mailing helps to fund the postal service. If, for example, my loan servicer has to pay some fraction of a dollar to the post office every time they send me something, then at least some of the money I’m obligated to give them is going towards a pro-social service.
I will note that corporations tend to be petty about this and will prevent you from finding anything in your online account if you do this. Total dark pattern nonsense.
I keep a daily notes blog in Confluence that can be viewed by anyone internal to the company. There’s some weird stuff I find using open-source tools and I wish I could use work time to publish the findings publicly.
This is not great.
There’s a leak somewhere in the CU systems' supply chain. Maybe it’s Zelle, or the small number of corresponding banks that CUs rely on for SWIFT transaction forwarding. Maybe it’s even those after-hours fraud/card-loss centers. But all across the USA, CU customers are getting calls with spoofed caller IDs from fraudsters who know their registered phone numbers and where they bank.
Doctorow makes the point that all of the fraud will be more plausible by AI. I don’t know how we do it, but we need end the idea that endlessly plumbing the depths of poor quality to maximize some CEOs short term profits is worth it.
It feels that a legal requirement for CEOs that factors in more than shareholder value is needed. Elizabeth Warren had the police proposal of companies over a certain size being required to become public benefit corporations.
I haven’t read deeply enough to know if that’s a start, but something needs to be done.
Multiple groupchats activate to tell me that there’s been an update from the people of Archives of Nethys confirming that they’re still doing data entry (I also get this update separate from the source).
I noticed the kerning on an SVG I was given to use is bad. I can’t abide this.
This will lead to me annoying my friends. If I can’t turn it off, I’ll become a full time Organic Maps user.
Maybe I need to become a WINE person. I’ve never done it. I’ve either booted up a Windows machine or gone without.
Gave Darktable my first serious whirl tonight. It’ll more than serve my purposes. So, far the biggest digital technology hurdle is a good Photoshop replacement. I know about the poorly named one. I’ve been using Krita lately. I would pay a one-time fee for something like Affinity, were they on Linux.
Using Entangle For Tethered Photography On Linux
I had the positive FOSS experience of thinking of a toolset I desired and finding something workable. Not perfect, but workable. There was scant documentation for Entangle for tethered shooting on Linux is virtually non-existent. These are some quick notes from my first time setup & usage. Hopefully, this helps anyone else who finds themself in the position I was tonight.
A note for reading. A word wrapped in {} indicates a variable. Any commands found below would not have the curly brackets, but instead be whatever that should represent, be that a number or an extension name.
Prerequisites
- A compatible camera
- A USB cable to connect from your camera to your device.
- Check for settings you may need to disable for a better experience. In my case, I discovered through reading documentation on the Canon tethering utility available for Windows and Mac that it’s recommended to disable the auto-screen off features. Powering the device down. Plugging in the cables from camera to PC, and then powering the device on.
Installing Entangle
I went to my operating system’s software center and installed. It is available via Flathub
source code available on gitlab
Using Entangle
Connecting Your Camera
- Select the hamburger menu in the top right of the application.
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Select the Connect… option
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If your device is compatible, connected, and on, it should be present in the menu. Select that camera and connect.
Shortcuts
I discovered the following shortcuts by reading through Gitlab.
s - Trigger the shutter, to shoot a picture
p - Toggle live view preview mode
esc - Cancel the current operation
m - Toggle aspect ratio image mask
h - Toggle linear / logarithmic histogram
a - Drive autofocus during preview
, or . - Drive manual focus during preview (fine control)
< or > - Drive manual focus during preview (coarse control)
Settings
By default there are only a handful of settings present in the Camera settings menu; however, you can enable more. There is a gear icon on the left-hand side above the image histogram. For example, if your lens supports it, you could enable auto focus mode.
Live View
Entangle supports a live view. In the top left of the application, there is an image icon. Selecting this will present a live view of the subject. You can adjust your live view settings by navigating to the hamburger menu and selecting Preferences. From there, navigate to the Image Viewer. Within this menu, you can select whether you want the focus point present during preview, work multiple exposures and, and adjust the aspect ratios.
Saving Files
Files are set up into sessions. If you go to the preferences and click Session it will bring up your file browser. The default path appears to be ~/Capture/Pictures
From within the setting, you update the format of a camera capture. It defaults to captureXXXXXX.{extension} ex caputre000012.cr2.
Complications & Limitations
The program froze out on me a few times. I quickly got to work again by opening my terminal and running a ps aux | grep entangle to find the process ID and then ran a kill pid {ID}
I found that I didn’t have all the control over my camera settings I desired through the computer, but I had enough to get results that worked for my purposes.
Wondering if it would benefit me to repurpose a lower powered computer from the graveyard and do my personal programming projects on that. Or at the very least keep one ready to use for testing. I’ve been trying to keep things lightweight, but actual hardware constraints might be beneficial to this process.
Several years ago now I wrote a post about how ads at gas pumps would lead to artificially slowed pumping to trap us with ads.
I haven’t timed ad free pumps vs non ad free but I’ve been at other stations that don’t allow me five whole minutes to fill up 12 gallons.
Flagging because there’s several Pixels among my friends and family. Really hoping I don’t have to guide them through ADB over the phone.
How much carbon is wasted on bad k8s deployments?
The Verge has a lot of AI positive sounding headlines. I wish they approached the AI buzz with at least a similar skepticism that Bitcoin was treated with.
I wonder if it would be better or worse if workspace messengers had the ability to set a message to send to someone after they remove a do not disturb flag.
Do I want a slow trickle of things I don’t have time to address coming in regardless of status or would I like all the non-immediate items to come all at once after I’ve freed up?
Favorite work game: is it my fault or Gitlab’s
Can’t wait for the siren song of quarterly profits to ruin the Raspberry Pi.