so we are out of support. humans. just like those cars that you cannot get official parts for. nobody will give you a liver, suitable and produced for you.
well, there are some early experiments, to get stem cells from your skin, then print a liver from it. but that’s a research stage. until we have the industry, we have unsupported organisms and have to use whatever we have carefully. #human #biology #support
my dell latitude e6410 is amazing. first of all, it has very convenient keyboard. it is a pleasure to use its keyboard. i don’t like the keyboard on my dell latitude 7400.i don’t enjoy island type keyboards, made popular by apple, as i understand. not convenient to type.
secondly, e6410 can see and connect to hotspots no other device is able to connect. the hotspots located far away. i don’t know why is this, if it has a longer antennae, or something else. but that’s also enjoyable.
it is not slim, doesn’t look cool, probably, but i like the way it looks. it has an old cpu - nehalem, but may be that’s an advantage, it has no known critical vulnerabilities, and patches don’t impact its performance.
#dell #keyboard #e6410 #latitude #wifi #antennae #cpu #nehalem #usability
some carriers provide internet plans only for tablets.
i tried such a sim card in several devices - it did not connect. checked the apn on the tablet where it works. same.
as i understand the carrier only sees the imei, is there a way to find out if the device is a tablet or phone via imei number?
#imei #mobile #internet #carrier #provider #isp #telecom #network
so, we were getting spam on our prosody xmpp. it never happened before, and i wonder where the spammers get our jids from. may it be they were able to scan diaspora pages and get the jid’s from there?
still, so i tried to configure mod_firewall and it wasn’t that easy, i just blocked everything. (: then i used the block-spam.pfw script from the mod_firewall, and tried to send me a message from other server’s users that is not in my roster. did not help.
so eventually mod_block_strangers helped me, and i believe i won’t get spam anytime soon.
#jabber #diaspora #prosody #xmpp #spam #antispam #internet
so, we were getting spam on our prosody xmpp. it never happened before, and i wonder where the spammers get our jids from. may it be they were able to scan diaspora pages and get the jid’s from there?
still, so i tried to configure mod_firewall and it wasn’t that easy, i just blocked everything. (: then i used the block-spam.pfw script from the mod_firewall, and tried to send me a message from other server’s users that is not in my roster. did not help.
so eventually mod_block_strangers helped me, and i believe i won’t get spam anytime soon.
#jabber #diaspora #prosody #xmpp #spam #antispam #internet
#green #energy with #solar_power and #pine64 #pinebook #pbp
#still_life with #sunflower
#stilllife #still-life #photo
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:52
#առօրեայ
#doge is looking at me from the #pebble classic screen.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:22
#ժամացոյց #դոջ #դոգէ #շուն
#sergey_kolesov is a #painter whom i discovered at #artstation, and follow for several years. recently he published a #poster of ashot who makes #kebab - as i guess from the name - #armenian #immigrant. #art
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 02.09.2020, 17:32:39
#սերգէյ_կոլեսով ֊ի #աշօտ ֊ը։
#նկար #աշոտ #քյաբաբ #քեաբաբ #արուեստ
i hope #gnustep will get more developer involvement because it has #swift now.
Joke in Russia right now: the #covid19 vaccine Sputnik V has been tested on two people with a 50% success rate. Putins daughter and Alexei Nawalny.
today microprocessors are cheaper than cables.
source: project oberon, chapter about the computer
enjoy the fragment of my #set in #vanadzor, a couple of days ago:
#techno #electronic_music #music #electronic
encountered this in #vanadzor. those vertical lines are part of old soviet design, this was probably a line of shops, all of them did belong to the gov, and all of them had this strip with vertical lines, and denotations.
this shot is made with xperia xa2 running sailfish but i have film shots, as well as i have corresponding shots of other recently published pictures, i will get the chemistry and develop and probably share those in a couple of months.
i usually share on my blog and flickr, and not here. links are in the profile.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:14:42
#վանաձոր #գրախանութ #գրքեր
#sergey_kolesov is a painter whom i discovered at artstation, and follow for several years. recently he published a poster of ashot who makes kebab - as i guess from the name - armenian immigrant. #art
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 02.09.2020, 17:32:39
#սերգէյ_կոլեսով ֊ի #աշօտ ֊ը։
#նկար #աշոտ #քյաբաբ #քեաբաբ #արուեստ
#stilllife with #sunflower
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:52
#առօրեայ
#doge is looking at me from the #pebble classic screen.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:22
#ժամացոյց #դոջ #դոգէ #շուն
i have showed these tiles back a couple of years ago. this time the tiles have been spotted at the remote village farm. i asked where they did get the tiles, and they answered that someone brought those from an old factory.
other places i spotted those - nissan service in yerevan - i guess they did not change anything, just use the old industrial building, and tapastan cafeteria on sarian street in yerevan.
btw, tapastan[տապաստան] is a wordplay - they refer to tapas, so it is a land of tapas (stan is an old persian suffix for a place or country) and, tapastan (but not with p[պ], but p’[փ], like in paris) means desert.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 18:04:44
արդէն գրել էի այս սալիկների մասին։
ահա, հարցրի ո՞րտեղից՝ ասին ծանօթ ա բերել ինչ֊որ գործարանից։
#յատակ #դիզայն #սալիկ
#tiles #tile #industrial #indusrial-design #industrial_design #design #interior #interior-design #interior_design #history #yerevan
Scratches in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
https://aphelis.net/scratches-kubrick-2001-space-odyssey/
#kubrick #2001 #odyssey #gif
this is a very good blog post՝ back to basics about strings in C and Pascal. i suggest you to read it, and now i’ll tell you something else:
in Oberon, Wirth decided to give up on Pascal strings, and use zero terminated strings.
however, there is no need to run by the whole array to find out the length of the string. we don’t even need to have a separate field that holds the length՝ compiler knows the length of the static string.
thus it can do compile time tests. for example we have the following Oberon source՝
MODULE tst;
IMPORT Out;
VAR i: SHORTINT;
str: ARRAY 1024 OF CHAR;
BEGIN
FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
Out.Int(i, 0); Out.Ln
END;
END tst.
lets try to compile it՝
[2020-09-02 16:00:20] $ voc -m tst.Mod
tst.Mod Compiling tst.
9: FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
^
pos 102 err 113 incompatible assignment
Module compilation failed.
[2020-09-02 16:00:21] $
voc compiles Oberon source to C, which is very good to illustrate what happens. if we have՝
str: ARRAY 16 OF CHAR;
then the output C code will be՝
static CHAR tst_str[16];
nothing more։ no field for the length.
still, this՝
FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
will translate to՝
tst_i = 0;
while (tst_i <= 16) {
as i said we know the length at compile time. doesn’t matter if you generate C or assembly, you already know the number, you can put the number to the output assembly code as well.
when we write a function which receives strings, we should not knowt the length of the received string, we just use ARRAY OF CHAR as an argument՝
MODULE tst2;
PROCEDURE addStrs(VAR a, b: ARRAY OF CHAR);
BEGIN
(* do smth useful here *)
END addStrs;
PROCEDURE test*;
VAR
s0: ARRAY 32 OF CHAR;
s1: ARRAY 64 OF CHAR;
BEGIN
addStrs(s0, s1);
END test;
END tst2.
therefore C code will be՝
static void tst2_addStrs (CHAR *a, ADDRESS a__len, CHAR *b, ADDRESS b__len)
{
/* here we think we can do smth useful */
}
void tst2_test (void)
{
CHAR s0[32];
CHAR s1[64];
tst2_addStrs((void*)s0, 32, (void*)s1, 64);
}
as we see՝ the function also gets the length of strings. and if we do LEN(a) we get the length without any calculations.
now let’s see how dynamic strings work՝
MODULE tst3;
PROCEDURE addStrs(VAR a, b: ARRAY OF CHAR);
BEGIN
(* do smth useful here *)
END addStrs;
PROCEDURE test*(i: INTEGER);
VAR
s: ARRAY 32 OF CHAR;
ps: POINTER TO ARRAY OF CHAR;
BEGIN
NEW(ps, i);
addStrs(s, ps^);
END test;
END tst3.
now we hase a static string՝ s and we allocate a dynamic string with its pointer ps.
lets assume we don’t know the size of ps^ string (^ means dereference) and we will receive the length of the allocated string as a function argument. it is not known at compile time.
first function remains unchanged, second function gets translated like this՝
static void tst3_addStrs (CHAR *a, ADDRESS a__len, CHAR *b, ADDRESS b__len)
{
/* do smth useful here */
}
void tst3_test (INT16 i)
{
CHAR s[32];
struct {
ADDRESS len[1];
CHAR data[1];
} *ps = NIL;
ps = __NEWARR(NIL, 1, 1, 1, 1, ((ADDRESS)(i)));
tst3_addStrs((void*)s, 32, (void*)ps->data, ps->len[0]);
}
the _NEWARR is a bit more complicated function, which is a part of the runtime.
but we can understand what it does՝ it allocates a space in the heap, and the pointer ps we get now points to the struct, which has a data field and len field.
this is a runtime information, and in this case we have to keep a separate field for the length of the string.
that’s it.
#oberon #c #pascal #wirth #programming #programming-languages #programming_languages #design #implementation #vishap #voc #compiler #compilation #strings #string #heap #stack #storage #storage-management #storage_management #length
you should look closer to see all FOUR moons of Jupiter.
@{ Khurram Wadee ; mkwadee@diasp.eu} 02.09.2020, 11:03:15
#Jupiter and the #Moons
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200902.html
#APOD
these are old industrial tiles, now i have encountered on a remote village farm. i asked where they got those tiles, and they said - someone brought from the old factory.
tiles like that i also saw in nissan service centre in yerevan - they rent an old factory, first i saw the tiles at the “tapastan” cafeteria on sarian street. i’ll publish a photo from there too.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 18:04:44
արդէն գրել էի այս սալիկների մասին։
ահա, հարցրի ո՞րտեղից՝ ասին ծանօթ ա բերել ինչ֊որ գործարանից։
#յատակ #դիզայն #սալիկ
#tiles #tile #industrial-design #industrial_design #design #yerevan
first they have had dismantled the asbestos roof, now only the walls remained. and we can see how the walls were painted.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 17:39:30
էս տունը քանդել են ու ներկած պատն երեւում ա։ի դէպ քանդելիս հնդիկներ էին աշխատում՝ մեր փայ միգրանտները։
#շէնք #պատ #դիզայն
#building #wall #design
If you put users’ home directories on NFS-mounted drives (one abstraction), and your users create .forward files to forward all their email somewhere else (another abstraction), and the NFS server goes down while new email is arriving, the messages will not be forwarded because the .forward file will not be found. The leak in the abstraction actually caused a few messages to be dropped on the floor.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
#abstraction #leak
For example, the recent standardisation of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) pitted advocates for dissidents and protestors against network operators who use DNS for centralised network management, and child safety advocates who promote DNS-based filtering solutions. If the IETF were to only decide upon technical merit, how would it balance these interests?
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2020/08/28/for_the_users
#ietf #internet #dns
this answer to @{Dennis Schubert; denschub@pod.geraspora.de} post seems reasonable.
it is indeed seems possible to map some subset of activitypub to the current diaspora functionality.
moreover that ruby libraries for ap already exists, there needs to be work done on integration, which is not easy, of course, but i think necessary - because otherwise diaspora stays isolated from the rest of federated world.
i think we have to try to create a social demand for this. if there is a demand, these functionality is more likely to be implemented - whether by diaspora team or by the fork.
well, the main problem is, that we have lack of developers, which is because diaspora is not that popular, and it is already a miracle that we have diaspora, and we have the existing team.
#activitypub #diaspora #activity_pub #ap #decentralization #federation #internet
and indeed, sounds like #Hamasyan (:
https://immortalonion.com/about/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WigtpRE3oc0
#immortalonion #immortal_onion #jazz #music
so sometimes, though rarely, i need to reload #windowmaker. today something happened, i opened a ‘run’ menu, tried to type in it, and it hung in foreground of all windows. i could move the mouse over the firefox window behind, i could scroll it up and down, and i guess i could close the tab, because on mouse over event wos working. however i could not change to other windows, move to other workspace. dockapps were working.
so i changed to tty with alt+f2, made ps aux | grep wmaker and got two wmaker processes, i needed the second: wmaker --for-real=, got it’s pid. Now issued kill -s SIGUSR1 that pid.
that reloads wmaker. every window stays at its workspacke. you don’t notice any change.
#wmaker #reload #linux #unix #ipc #processes
An #AI Just Embarrassed the US #Air_Force in a Virtual #Dogfight
developed the film shot 35 years ago by his father: https://www.lomography.com/magazine/169603-expired-film-developing-ancient-black-and-white-film
#development #film #expired
the construction industry is currently facing two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair deteriorating buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for many construction projects, it has a large carbon footprint, resulting in high waste and energy expenditure. Today, researchers report progress toward a sustainable building material made from local soil, using a 3-D printer to create a load-bearing structure.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/21/0210253
#concrete #building #architecture #sustainability #soil #construction
the construction industry is currently facing two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair deteriorating buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for many construction projects, it has a large carbon footprint, resulting in high waste and energy expenditure. Today, researchers report progress toward a sustainable building material made from local soil, using a 3-D printer to create a load-bearing structure
In your speech you said Xi forced through the amendment of China’s constitution to abolish term limits in 2018, giving him the ability to stay in power indefinitely. Why was that such a turning point?
He forced the third plenum of the national congress to swallow it like dog shit. He first completed it and then forced everyone to accept it. This is obviously going backwards politically. Even with these two major issues, no one came forward to oppose it.
When no one can oppose him, that means that his power is unchecked. Under the Chinese system, starting with Mao, no one can restrict or limit the power of the highest leader. That is why you had disasters like the Cultural Revolution.
Because of the power he holds, he can punish whoever he wants so no one dares to give him different opinions and no one dares to report the real situation to him. Since people don’t tell him the truth or hide it from him, he doesn’t necessarily know the truth. So it is inevitable that he will make wrong decisions.
It is a vicious cycle. After a wrong decision is made, the result is not good. But those below are too afraid to tell him and wrong decisions continue to be made until the situation is out of control. In this vicious cycle, there is no way to stop the country from sliding toward disaster.
Third, the disciplinary code for party members [adopted in 2016] contains a measure that says you cannot distort the policies of the party. As long as you express a different opinion, you are in violation of party discipline, and he can use that to deal with you. Before, you could still speak out and you would be subjected to enormous pressure, but they couldn’t prevent you from speaking.
China is bound to go through political transformation, toward democracy, political freedom, rule of law and constitutionalism. This is the inevitable trend of modern human political civilisation. China will enter this stage sooner or later.
Because the CCP has been in power since 1949, they have made many mistakes and even crimes. Between 1959 to 1961, nearly 40 million people starved to death. The anti-rightist movement of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution hurt almost all Chinese elites and intellectuals. Also the Tiananmen protests in 1989 when the CCP used its army to shoot the people. No matter what, this is unacceptable to Chinese people. It is the People’s Liberation Army, right? It is the people’s country
#china #ccp #politics #democracy
#fp-100c #polaroid #photography #photo #peel_apart_film #technologies
omg so beautiful walls, such a beautiful process. this is my dream. i just enjoy this so much!
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/kamp-c-3d-prints-two-story-house-08-17-2020/
#3d_printer #house #architecture #building
that’s why i would invest in #pinephone, and #pine64 devices:
Portage 3.0.0 released, with up to 50-60% faster dependency resolution (and dropping Python 2.7 support)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/huczqb/portage_300_released_with_up_to_5060_faster/
#gentoo #portage #python #emerge
schroedinger’s cat spotted!
#caturday
Instead of a flat string, Erlang — oops, did I say Erlang? I meant Elixir — creates a nested list containing four leaf elements that add up to the string we expect: “Hello “, “&”, “amp;”, and " Goodbye”. At first glance this may seem like a pointless complication, but let’s see what the computer thinks about the situation.
If you look at the man page for writev, you’ll see it’s a “gathered write”, which means it writes data from multiple memory locations in a single system call. I wrote a little DTrace script to unpack the writev call we saw earlier, and peek at what that Elixir code is actually doing with this system call.
https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html
#erlang #elixir #dtrace #write #writev #syscall #string #strings #programming
RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web
#rss #decentralization #web #open_web #openweb #development #internet
In order to allow concatenation of strings to be efficient in both time and space, it must be possible for the result to share much of the data structure with its arguments. This implies that fully manual storage management (e.g. based on explicit malloc/free) is impractical. (It can be argued that this is true even with conventional string representations. Manual storage management typically results in much needless string copying.) Though an explicitly reference counted implementation can be built, we will assume automatic garbage collection.
https://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/jeh/courses/QUARTERS/FP/Labs/CedarRope/rope-paper.pdf
#paper #string #strings #rope #gc #storage
Every time a new assignment or parameter passing is made, the reference count of the String has to be increased, this is an atomic lock, and is related to memory management, so it’s there whether you’re using simple reference-counting or copy-on-write.
Under a GC, no atomic lock is required, a simple reference (pointer) has to be copied. This is very efficient, locally, but the memory management costs are just deferred to a later garbage collection phase. Since immutable strings don’t have reference to other objects, the GC for them can theoretically happen in parallel without any drawbacks (assuming the GC supports it).
So under a GC, an immutable String type makes a whole lot of sense, as implementing a copy-on-write one requires a lot of effort, and a mutable one is problematic multi-threading wise.
https://www.delphitools.info/2013/05/13/immutable-strings-in-delphi/
#pascal #string #strings #immutable_string #delphi #gc #programming
Inappropriate deallocation of dynamic storage is a well-known source of catastrophic program failures. In the context of nonextensible applications, such as statically linked programs, this problem can (in theory) be mastered by a careful programmer; for extensible programs, it cannot! There is always the possibility that a module may be added to a program later on; such an extension can introduce additional references to objects of which the implementor of the core modules is unaware. Therefore, Oberon neither requires nor allows explicit deallocation of dynamic storage.
#oberon #gc #programming #programming_languages
The language, however, makes veryfew assumptions about the environment. If not available from a given operating system, dynamic module loading, command invocation, and automaticgarbage collection can be introduced by a small run-time system. In principle, it is possible to forego dynamic loading and to create traditional, staticallylinked applications, but this is anachronistic for the challenges of today’s software systems. Automatic garbage collection is indispensable for reliable,extensible software systems and is probably the biggest culture clash between Oberon and other compiled languages such as Pascal, C, or C++.
#oberon #gc #programming #programming_languages
#caturday #cat
The point is: the colder the better. However, there are some practicality issues as well. Frozen papers last longer than refrigerated papers, but they need to be thawed before use, and well packaged to avoid moisture. That’s too cumbersome and not without danger for general and frequent use. A good compromise is refrigerator storage well above freezing. I have used papers as old as 10 years that way without ill effect other than a small loss in speed and contrast, which is easily compensated for.
#photography
We have been informed that we’re not allowed to ship devices with the encryption capabilities of the PineTab, PinePhone and Pinebook Pro into the Russian Federation. Shipping these devices could (and has multiple times in the past) lead to confiscation of the devices at the border by customs and even to being outright banned or barred from entering the country.
https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/
those are good devices, try to get your hands on!
#russia #pine64 #pinebook #pbp #pinephone #pinetab
https://www.archdaily.com/943939/suburban-sprawl-increases-the-risk-of-future-pandemics
#sprawl #pandemics #future #city #design
Gerard Exupery is a very interesting photographer who just started to publish his photos. Also he has a very interesting blog.
@{ gerard exupery (unofficial) ; gerardexupery@spyurk.am} 30.07.2020, 20:22:01
The Waitress, the Tarantula, the Body in the Bathtub and Why I Had To Buy My Girlfriend a New Pentax
posted by pod_feeder_v2
did you think that you need a usb condom?
https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-USB-Condom/ #usb #condom
i have a feeling that there is a widespread delusion at azerbaijani side, that armenians gonna run and leave once they attack, and only the mystery forces are keeping them from taking “back” “their land” and exile armenians, and then exile them more, and then take “back” their “irevan” as they call the capital of armenia.
and they are searching for this answer, they are desperate to hear that we are panicking. and we are not. nobody is in panic at the border. no panic here. they say: “then we’ll attack your nuclear plant”. no panic. now they were caught calling different phone numbers with having the cover of “sociological research” asking the same question “are you frightened?”. nooo. we’re not. comon.
i don’t want to talk about the balance of power etc, that also holds back a full scale war. because i don’t enjoy living in one of the most militarized places in the world. i mean that could be different!
i just want to say that is so surprising they have this image of the other side. this is the small piece of land this people live. they will not vanish. they have no way to vanish. even if they want - we don’t have the necessary i/o bandwith to vanish. and why would they? we are not vanishing. accept it. not afraid.
Soldiers of Tavush units refuse to discharge https://mediamax.am/en/news/armypolice/38662/
well, i was thinking - is it indeed that much touching, thrilling as it sounds? may it be that this is a misinformation? or the ministry of defence would like to keep them longer, and had to cover the deal with “their own will”? no - the ministry of defence already refused to satisfy this. and i think it really happened, they asked to delay demobilization, because we have rather transparent society, and nobody would fake that, by knowing the truth will be known anyway.
so this is indeed impressive. these guys spent two years endangering their lives, and now their military service is over, and they miss their families, and obviously would like to return home. but here we see they have this feeling of responsibility, that they’d like to stay a bit more. they already know a lot about military and about the space, and they feel they cannot leave in this situation.
what does it tell me? it tells that the military isn’t very corrupted, it is not bad. that the soldiers don’t behave like prisoners, and probably are not regarded as prisoners. they behave and regarded as people who have and acknowledge the function in defence system. also, they can trust each other, and it means, they can stay for each other.
this is good and impressive.
the problem with #fediverse and #diaspora is that when you get a new instance/pod, then the new user of that instance, if they did not have other fediverse presence before, don’t see anyone, and have limited means to discover/find other people: your new instance is not aware of them.
solution often used: create a bot and follow a lot of people from different instances, so that new users have some content. but may be the user would follow someone else, than the bot followed
today again. probably they understand that full scale war is too ‘expensive’ by casualities, so they just keep tension on borders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_foe27sxfw
this cat loves adores the birthday gift he got.
https://i.imgur.com/4EAKF6u.mp4
#caturday #birthday #cat
#Azerbaijan’s Hint At Missile Strike On Armenian Nuclear Plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGA_V1LdPI
so imagine, people have #demand for #war. these are rallies in Baku, capital of #Azerbaijan, with the demand to start a war, to get control over #Artsakh. They shout “Karabakh” as you can hear, also something, our media translated as “death to Armenians” which is very likely and usual, if even their president declared Armenians of the world their enemies.
enjoy. people can desire war.
Armenian officials claimed that Azerbaijani drones launched an attack on the Tuvush province town of Berd, targeting civilian infrastructure. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said that one of Azerbaijani drones was downed.
Stepanyan also charged that the Azerbaijani military used civilians as shields, placing artillery close to the village of Dondar Gushchu in the Tovuz district about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border.
“The Azerbaijani side has surrounded its own population with artillery batteries, making them a target, and then complained that the Armenian forces fired in that direction,” she said on Facebook where she posted images of the Azerbaijani artillery around the village.
not the first time.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/14/world/europe/ap-eu-armenia-azerbaijan.html
and it’s not Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), as someone was claiming here, assuring me that the semi war situation is only there, while I live here and I was telling him it’s everywhere.
Now it’s not that semi.
#nokia indeed bought #bell-labs, omg, so cool. i hope they’ll come up with something interesting.
if i subscribe to someone on mastodon from other instance, and the unsubrcribe, and i am the only follower to them on my instance, does that mean that my instance will forget following that account? or it’ll bring their posts to the global timeline anyway?
#mastodon #federation
#photolightmeter ported to #maemo-leste running on #motorola #droid4
i made a new avatar inspired of this images. (:
when someone with ‘fedorafan’ nick enters #funtoo irc chat.
armenian word for space is տիեզերք [tiezerk’], which literally means ‘big edge’: ‘ti’ - big, and ‘ezerk’’ - edge.
other dictionary states that first time the usage of the word was noticed in 6th century manuscript.
i wonder how people did know (or guess?) so much time ago, that the space is not infinite.
#armenian #dictionary #word #space
It’s not just endlessly reinventing the wheel, it’s often dropping the new wheels onto the piles of old wheels underneath. I’ve noticed similar things on Linux where looking for how to set something up in ALSA, I find many forum posts telling someone to just install PulseAudio (I’m yet to find anything that I need to do that PulseAudio can do and ALSA can’t)! The answer to how to solve one simple problem should not be to install an additional layer of complexity over the top of whatever you were using.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/29/1625233
#complexity #alsa #pulseaudio #linux #design
#quarantine #covid-19 #covid19 #street
i spent a year in space and i have tips on isolation to share https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/scott-kelly-coronavirus-isolation.html #isolation #space #tips
#armenian #revolution cap
italian mayors ask to stay home: https://youtu.be/9RZskmcAgbc?t=897 #italy #covid19 #covid-19
#dukhov #duxov #revolution
my colleague @{Գուրգեն; rasjonell@spyurk.am} will build a web site for you. (:
https://www.fiverr.com/rasjonell/make-you-a-reliable-secure-website #ad #web #site #website #development #job #developer
this is sort of alien invasion, except that it’s not that alien. we are at war. but not country with country — but something wild with all humans. and that is why it is like alien invasion. but this something originated on earth, and lives on earth, it is a dangerous, arguably not alive creature, of very small size, and we cannot shoot very small animals with our arms, otherwise we’d murder it as we did with other arguably dangerous creatures long ago.
it is interesting that in order to fight alien invasion the most effective way is staying home and watching movies. (:
#aliens #alien_invasion #invasion #humans #war #covid19 #covid-19 #infection #humanity
who needs a sound server of there is already dmix in alsa? except you need to stream audio over network (pulseaudio) or need low latency mixing (JACK)
from the #pinebook irc room.
couldnt agree more.
#alsa #dmix #pulseaudio #jack #linux #audio
the handwriting says: to use buttons.
people put toothpicks in the social realistic elevator to press the buttons, and a cup to throw them after using.
photo by martin khachatrian.
#covid-19 #covid19 #covid #coronavirus #pandemic #solution #elevator #yerevan
#oberon for #ARM (32bit) running on #aarch64 #pinebook.
feel https://www.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/fjjk5p/why_is_azerbaijan_not_more_well_known_in_world/ #armenia #azerbaidjan #talk
says
to be precise I’ve only ever seen extlinux.conf read by bootloaders that are not extlinux
#extlinux #linux #talk
note the version number՝ 1.9.0.8.1.1 because texas instruments because proprietary
https://github.com/maemo-leste/pvr-omap4/blob/master/debian/changelog#L1
#development #maemo #maemo-leste #droid4 #maserati #omap #powervr #pvr #version #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnErJnkWQM
#maemo-leste on #motorola #droid4 (#maserati)
#maemo
guardian featured one of the photos from yerevan: https://gu.com/p/depev/stw#img-19
all the photos are here: https://www.yerevan.am/am/news/erewani-k-aghak-apetarane-akhtahanowm-e-k-aghak-ayin-transporte/ #photo #covid-19 #yerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ve_i0uXNg
Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex,swivel tribune. #yerevan #architecture #design
need to go to find those lakes. photo from here #lake #heart
in the following posts you’ll see our videos from the last trip to Lori, you’ll see #coaf - children of armenia building designed by Paul Kaloustian, 12th century Kobayr monastery which looked much cooler when they did not start the restoration work, and Odzun church and village. #walk #armenia #kobayr #odzun #friends
protonvpn opensourced their clients https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
why xz compression is not good to keep files, see what wget developer writes about it: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
see also ycombinator thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425
#compression #xz #bz2 #wget #developer #opinion #technology #utility #unix
how do you ensure privacy in this day and age https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/3025-how-do-you-ensure-privacy-in-this-day-and-age/
#privacy #funtoo #thread #age
maemo-leste has now extras repositories https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-repositories-and-community-packages.html
some things already ported from maemo fremantle http://maedevu.maemo.org/extras/pool/main/
also, maemo-leste is now available for pinephone.
#maemo #maemo-leste #pinephone
https://xn--69aa8bzb.xn–y9a3aq/system/media_attachments/files/000/803/771/original/2ffe005552f8080b.mp4
#loop
https://xn--69aa8bzb.xn–y9a3aq/system/media_attachments/files/000/803/771/original/2ffe005552f8080b.mp4
#loop
david revoy managed to print the book successfully https://www.davidrevoy.com/article757/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-3 #book #software #comics
this is kodak vision 2 50D film. shot as iso 50. note muted reds of this film. mamiya zm #yerevan #backyard #sundukian #street
Modula and Modula-2 went nowhere not because they’re particularly high level languages (they’re not much higher than C!) but because they didn’t have a quasi-free operating system spreading like a virus to bolster their popularity. At the time Unix was almost unique in being a semi-capable operating system written in a portable language that wasn’t wrapped up in billions of proprietary licensing arrangements (because AT&T didn’t notice there was a potential market for it until after the cat had escaped the bag).
#modula #modula-2 #modula2 #c #programming-languages #programming_languages #unix
mamiya rb67; 50mm lens; fujichrome 400 (slide)
#yerevan #aygedzor
instant #photography: developing the film same day after shooting it.
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Kodak Tri-X 400 (pushed to 1600)
#Kond #Yerevan
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Fujichrome 400 (slide film)
#Kond #Yerevan
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Fujichrome 400 (slide film)
#Kond #Yerevan
brown is a social construct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU #brown #colour
mtp is extremely slow. i am used to #sailfish, and i use #sshfs with it, and i get surprised every time how “custom” “corporate” solutions like #mtp suck in that #android and #enterprise world. if i do tests, the speed difference might be more than 100 times.
so if you know #gmic (https://gmic.eu) it can work with luts (colour lookup tables). and gmic comes with a set of tables by itself.
so it is easy to apply luts to images by using these default luts. i don’t know yet how those luts originated, did anyone test, for instance, films, shooting colour checkers under reference light, but i wanted to see how the luts look. all of them. so i made a small script which callse gmic with all presets.
gmic -input $i map_clut $l -output ${j}_${l}.jpg
and now i can compare those.
as $l represents lut name, the names of files have lut in them.
i did not choose any particularly good image in terms of colours or scene, just something what i found in my phone that day.
so you can find my tests at http://norayr.am/gmic_test/0/ and http://norayr.am/gmic_test/1/ #lut #graphics #photo
my friend @{antranigv; antranigv@spyurk.am} have been written a series of posts on mastodon on his communication with isp support.
Every time I call my ISP support, I wish this was a real thing. https://xkcd.com/806/
— Can you please change the cable? — SIr, I did my homework before calling. — Okay but can yo… — Yes! I changed the cable, I even connected to my own router and I was able to get an address using DHCP, so not the cable nor the “adapter” are an issue.
— What DNS resolver are you using? — I run a local DNS resolver. — Can you please set the one provided with our document? — But… the issue is… I don’t get ARP responses from the gateway…
— Okay, can you please disable and enable back the adapter? — Pardon? — Click on the adapter’s icon… — I’m running Unix. — Can you please type “ifconfig eth0 down” ? — Oh no this is a BSD Unix, yes I restarted the network. /me thinking, those guys never met enp13s42 yet
Then he was asking me if I had a windows machine in my house. I said no, he said if I had a Linux machine with Network Manager, I said no.
At the end I sent him the tcpdump output (not the pcap file, just the text output), so he opened a ticket “gateway not responding”.
this is the most favourite film of mine՝ https://www.casualphotophile.com/2017/08/28/fujifilm-provia-100f-slide-film-profile/
it is just breathtaking when i see the pictures with small diascope or projected. scans are never as impressive.
this is an amazing building, designed by paul kaloustian, i know him. it belongs to coaf - children of armenia, they have buses, which bring kids from the vicinity to classes - drawing, music, theatre, dances, yoga, programming, various natural languages. they also have a hotel, in that building, so staying in it helps the project. it is not expensive, but the location and design are amazing. the centre built with modernistic aesthetics in mind. in hotel you can see naked concrete walls. i like that very much. stayed there a couple of days ago, hostpitability was extra ordinary even by armenian norms.
#coaf #debet #sheep #smart #armenia #lori
added calculations of FOV, replaced most of the ugly like code. also now program loads sensors database from csv file, which i got by copy pasting from wiki article.
#photography #optics #program
when i have no strength to concentrate to write something which requires more computational power than i have, i get satisfaction by gluing together such small programs like this:
https://github.com/norayr/focalLengthCalculator
#photography #optics #program
#architecture #sevan #armenia
dont know exactly who is the author of the photos
so if you put a phone on a #screen, you risk scratching the screen. if you put a #phone on a #camera, you risk scratching the camera.
#architecture #drawing #art
it seems people usually understand “nothing” as dark, black. in the techno subculture, where “we don’t show off” — people choose no colour — black colour. in other words - blank, empty.
wait, but blank means white in a number of languages. first i know it from esperanto, where blanko is white. ‘blanc’ in french means white. ‘blanco’ in spanish. ‘bianco’ in italian.
so emptyness, depending on perception, can be black or white. or other colour?
indeed, if we think in rgb colourspace way, then nothing — 0, 0, 0 is black. however, in cmyk way, nothing is when you print nothing on a white paper. so nothing is actually white. so is the paper. in number of languages empty list of paper is blank.
#perception #colour #language #techno #esperanto #french #spanish #italian #zero #nothing #empty #culture
interesting, win10 during setup tells you “create a super memorable password”, doesn’t tell “create a super unbrutforcable password” or something more security oriented. because super memorable is an alias to easily breakable, right? probably. (:
#microsoft #security #password #windows10 #usability #privacy
At that time, we didn’t really like to see grain in the images… The first thing you heard when you showed your photos to others after a lot of “it was over (or under) exposed”, was “you should have taken that at 50 ASA!”, “There’s too much grain, it’s not beautiful”.
(:
https://emulsive.org/reviews/camera-reviews/mamiya-camera-reviews/a-complete-guide-to-the-mamiya-rz67-part-five-conclusion-and-personal-stories #photography #aesthetics
is it already a well known fact, that default sailfish camera on xa2 gives a choice of 16mpx (16:9) or 13mpx (4:3), while piggz’ camera: 5984x3392 (187x106) max, which is 19 mpx? at the same time lineage os default camera gives: 22.9mpx (4:3) and 20.2 mpx (when using 16:9 resolution), strange.
#sailfish #camera #xa2 #sony #lineageos #photo
left a comment under vsauce video:
the username/email crisis is easily solvable. decentralized web doesn’t imply there can be only one norayr on twitter, it implies that there can be norayr from mastodon.social and norayr from թութ.հայ. so more people on the net should theoretically not create huge nodes, but a lot of smaller nodes. just like towns in Austria - I believe except Vienna most of the towns have population less than 500.000. And, having user accounts on different networks don’t mean they cannot communicate. The oppressive strategy of forcing people to have account on your server should vanish in the future. #decentralization
We’re incredibly excited that Mozilla just announced that they’ve selected Matrix as the successor to IRC as the communication platform for the public Mozilla community!!
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/19/welcoming-mozilla-to-matrix/
#mozilla #matrix #irc
Third, and this has been touted by others already (and even rebutted), the disappearance of the public web in favor of mobile and web apps, walled gardens (Facebook pages), just-in-time WebSockets loading, and AMP decreases the proportion of the web on the world wide web, which now seems more like a continental web than a “world wide web”.
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
#internet #web #design
Get your product to be something useful for others as fast as possible. Until you deliver something valuable, you only have a hobby.
https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/failed-saas-postmortem/
sad story worth reading. about overengineering, about difficulties of today’s fast changing world, about technologies, about meeting others’ needs. #technologies
photos of Masha Ivashintsova are now exhibited in Tallinn. the official website, run by her daughter features worse quality scans, than the links below.
Just like Vivian, Masha had not seen most of her photos - those are undeveloped negatives. It is obvious for me, that she was trying to make art, she did know what is photography, and she was working, and she loved what she was doing.
latest petapixel article: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/16/russian-vivian-maier-becomes-a-star-20-years-after-her-death/ old petapixel article: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/16/russian-vivian-maier-becomes-a-star-20-years-after-her-death/ rfefl article, very good one, it gives you also political and historical perspective: https://www.rferl.org/a/leningrad-photographer-never-showed-her-photos-of-soviet-life-to-anyone-years-later-relatives-discovered-her-work/29088470.html artnet article featuring more beautiful photos: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/masha-ivashintsova-1251347
#photography #masha_ivashintsova #ivashintsova #ussr #history #photo #amazing
i made a same shot with mamiya rb-67, polaroid sx-70, lomography instant wide, mamiya zm and canon 6d. so you know something about my camera collection.
my kitchen, yesterday.
kodak tri-x pushed to 800 in olympus xa-2, developed in d-76. scanned with pacific image xa2 se.
#tri-x #mamiya #photo #film-photography i am getting free so i’ll publish photos on flickr soon
shot on kodak tri-x pushed to 800. olympus xa-2, 35mm lens.
me at #tapastan #yerevan.
says
I really don’t know what a “rich pastel” color is. The terms “rich” and “pastel” would seem to be mutually exclusive.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/digital-camera-with-a-film-look.500195/
#photography
This resolution has passed at a time when there are still survivors of the Genocide. Menendez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRPnf8LMp0
https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/e9r1xj/breaking_us_senate_just_passed_resolution/
on #pixelfed, there is this guy Ben Kramer. I found him by looking through #film related tags. so on one of the photos he has his name.
wow, is that hardcore #watermark?
#photography
other question - what do you think of diaspora, as an image sharing platform?
is there any #pixelfed protocol compatible federated image hosting software implementations?
i would like to avoid having php on my server, though it seems that’s unavoidable.
also is there a commandline script that allows upload to #pixelfed instance?
today analogue aesthetics is often mentioned here and there. this usually means colours, film grain, sometimes imperfections.
how would you describe digital aesthetics, or do you think it exists? #aesthetics #digital #analogue #photography
If you’ve ever wondered why people say tools like Scribus aren’t ready for professional production work let me share this blog post by @davidrevoy
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article747/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-2
This should be a slam dunk. David knows what he’s doing and One Bookshelf provides instructions that clearly show how to produce a PDF to their specifications.
We need to do better, folks. Color Profiles that work for everyone except FOSS tools are unacceptable. Period. There are no excuses for this.
source #scribus #graphics #foss #libresoftware #printing
one of my friends reminded me of this channel. i have actually been in the recording studio in Vanadzor, which you can see at the end of the video, and Lernapat is the village very close to Vanadzor, like almost a suburb. the guys visit villages, film the life there, talk to the people, and collect songs. then record those with the aesthetics close to them - they like rock.
i personally have mixed feelings, i am tired of rock, and i am not sure turning folk songs in to rock is good idea, but anyway - this will be interesting for you to watch and listen, i believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbwV_By5Lk #armenia #music #lernapat #vanadzor #music #armenian-music #armenian_music #mountains #folk #song
i am playing with pocket operator synth.
from the last batch of photos by @{Սոնա Մանուկյան; sanyokot@spyurk.am} on olympus xa-2, kodak tri-x, pushed to 800. you can find very yerevanian photos at the flickr stream.
i just like this image. it’s a screenshot from vnc screen to the other computer, which is connected to the scanner.
i took it in early spring i guess, in #kond district of #yerevan.
i remember i liked it when i shot it, but i like it more on a scan.
shot with #mamiya_rb67 on #kodak_tri-x, at EI 1600. from hand.
i have so many unpublished photos, i am just under very high load and have no time to publish. it’s good now i have a scanner which scans 35mm automatically. hope i will catch up and upload all the photos to my blog and flickr. i gave up uploading to diaspora, but sometimes think that may be it worth to open separate photo stream? #photography #photo
(06:30:16 ) ***jedb considers starting a list of technologies that have been unfairly maligned through propaganda
(06:30:28 ) jedb: no, wait, that's not the way to put it
(06:30:48 ) ***jedb considers starting a list of technologies where the general population's view is completely wrong due to propaganda
(06:32:17 ) specing: like wind turbines?
(06:32:26 ) jedb: hadn't considered those yet
(06:32:49 ) specing: or electromagnetic radiation?
(06:33:12 ) specing: or vapes?
(06:33:14 ) jedb: the list so far in no particular order includes Ada, monorails, nuclear power, and bicycle helmets
(06:33:34 ) specing: Hmm, what is the view about helmets?
(06:34:21 ) jedb: the general population, at least in a lot of the English speaking world, thinks they're an important/essential safety measure when cycling, when in actual reality they're generally pointless and mandatory helmet laws are demonstrably counterproductive
(06:34:57 ) jedb: bicycle helmets was why I had to be careful with how I titled the list, as they're a bad tech that the public thinks is good
(06:36:02 ) ***specing has had too many close encounters with pavement to declare helmets generally pointless
(06:36:13 ) specing: I agrre about the laws, though
(06:36:27 ) jedb: did you study physics in high school or equivalent?
(06:36:32 ) specing: yes
(06:37:02 ) jedb: then you should know that whether you're standing still or going along at 30km/h, if you fall and hit your head on the ground the hit is going to be the same amount of force
(06:37:09 ) jedb: plus or minus some road rash
(06:37:28 ) specing: not if you have a helmet that can crumple
(06:37:40 ) specing: the make those as well, and they are hideously expensive
(06:38:17 ) jedb: still the same amount of force applied in the accident though, which directly implies that the risk of injury for pedestrians and for general cycling should be similar, which they are
(06:38:32 ) jedb: the horizontal speed only matters if you hit a wall or a tree or something
(06:39:13 ) jedb: bicycle helmets don't really crumple either; they're generally pretty bad at protecting against concussion
(06:39:30 ) specing: search for MIPS helmets, they have energy absorbant foam
(06:39:41 ) specing: I think MIPS is what the foam is called
(06:40:10 ) jedb: I was thinking of the hovding, aka a head mounted airbag that some swedes invented
(06:40:15 ) jedb: *that* would protect against concussion
(06:40:52 ) specing: I wouldn't want to cycle without a helmet though, even the road rash protection is worth it
(06:41:07 ) ***jedb shrugs
(06:41:26 ) specing: two years ago my glasses also intercepted a 5mm stone, which lodget itself between the frame and lens
(06:41:28 ) jedb: if that's what you want to protect yourself from then sure, that's mainly what bicycle helmets are good at doing
(06:42:02 ) specing: I was thinking of buying myself a downhill helmet (chin/teeth protection) for city cycling
(06:42:09 ) specing: with a nice gas mask underneath
(06:42:31 ) jedb: you're gonna cook your head, I think
(06:42:42 ) specing: I have an electric bicycle
(06:43:02 ) jedb: oh, nevermind then
(06:43:22 ) specing: its broken though :(
(06:43:40 ) specing: I managed to fry its motor going uphill, haha
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(07:21:18 ) Lucretia: jedb: the issue with bike helmets is because there were a lot of injuries here (uk) involving brain damage and that's why they have to be worn here.,
(07:21:42 ) ***Lucretia crashed a few times, never hit his head but damagaed a bike tho
(07:22:12 ) jedb: Lucretia: I actually looked up UK stats a little while back, apparently there was no noticeable change in injury levels despite helmet use rising from 0% to 40%
(07:22:39 ) Lucretia: probably not tbh#
(07:22:50 ) Lucretia: because if we crash, we don;t fuckign die
(07:23:10 ) Lucretia: imean i collided witha girl, both bikes came out worse
(07:23:30 ) Lucretia: herse was from the side,. but mine was head on
(07:23:43 ) Lucretia: it's just a thing that happens
(07:23:59 ) specing: we mostly die from collisions with cars
(07:24:02 ) specing: ban cars
(07:24:21 ) Lucretia: cars are cool, so fuck that shit
(07:24:39 ) ***Lucretia imagines specingin an air balloon
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(07:25:15 ) Lucretia: with his ilver foil hat
(07:25:35 ) Lucretia: there's way too many bacofoil people here :D
(07:29:16 ) jedb: Lucretia: ever seen the stats on what happened when mandatory helmet law was introduced in Aust and NZ?
(07:30:12 ) Lucretia: mandatory helmet law sounds rather pervy :D
(07:30:26 ) Lucretia: so no :D
(07:30:51 ) jedb: http://cycle-helmets.com/imgs/nz-injuries-participation-per-cyclist.gif
(07:33:48 ) Lucretia: you may as well tell me, i;'m not reading that
(07:33:58 ) Lucretia: can't be fucked tbh
(07:34:02 ) jedb: that should be just a simple graph...?
(07:34:16 ) Lucretia: hanfg on
(07:34:48 ) Lucretia: tyhoght that said pdf
(07:34:53 ) jedb: but anyway, when the law came in the number of cyclists more or less halved, while the injury rate more or less doubled, in a very conclusive looking fashion
#bicycle #helmet #safety #city
today i connected my #xa2 with #sailfish to the docking station of dell 7400 laptop at work, then got a jabber message, and… i was unable to answer, the onscreen keyboard did not appear. hmmm, i thought, and disconnected it fro usb type c. then the onscreen keyboard appeared. then i thought - may it be, it recognized the keyboard connected to the dock?
and tried to write something with keyboard, - and yes, letters on the screen of xperia appeared.
so sailfish works now almost like a real computer.
before i already created hardware keyboard layouts - i used those with bluetooth keyboards.
i have converted xkb layouts to special qt format.
the only drawback now is that i cannot change the input language with alt+shift or something like that, i need to go to sailfish settings, and change the input language every time. but well, that’s less an issue when i write english, because i have all the symbols at hand, but when i write armenian and need to use the hashtag symbol, i need to switch the keyboard. (:
Programming makes me think that people value the things they do because they were hard, not because they were useful. Once I master the hard thing, I’m proud of myself and find it easy to forget that perhaps that damn thing should not have been so hard in the first place. Probably true for a lot of human activities. Stuff should simply be easier, that is all.
because author’s toots expire, i want to put it here. #programming
a lot of people on the internets say that with the developer subscription you can see the knowledge base of redhat, but i faced it so many times, when you cannot. #redhat
i noticed that first in the army, back twenty years ago. i was listening tarkus with my sony walkman, and it wiped the headache away.
@{ NaturalNews Diaspora ; naturalnews@share.naturalnews.com} 11/11/2019, 18:05:13
Music naturally improves health and relieves pain without harmful side effects https://www.naturalnews.com/052974_medicinal_music_pain_relief_side_effects.html #music #health #pain #naturalremedies
says: do you know who is the main promoter of armenia? it’s turkey. if not turkey, nobody would remember us. if not turkey, who time after time remembers and says something about armenia, that we are bad guys, or that there was never a genocide. thus someone living in island may think, stop, wait, which armenia, and try to find it on the map, which is indeed not easy.
continues: i would go further and claim, that turkey saved armenians. when turkey conducted genocide of armenians, armenians practically did not exist as nation. in turkey and russia they were forgetting how to speak armenian, and were speaking empire languages. there was no single party that would claim the independence of armenia is its goal. instead the goals were to make turkey or russia a better countries, so that equality for all, would mean also equality for armenians. the genocide is what forced armenians to face that they are different. because they are treated differently. the genocide was the reason for them to remember that they need security, army, borders. if not the genocide, most likely we would not have this armenia today. so thank you turkey, this nation would not exist, if not you. we would dissolve like every old nation does. we did not want to survive, but you were saying - hey armenians, comon, lets play war, hey you, defend yourself, take this weapon. yes, take the weapon, we are gonna play with you.
#sarcasm #armenia #history
#manual #xscreensaver #unix #linux #systemd #design #screenshot #nonsense
things like this we’ll see over and over again. because we use centralized services, therefore, vote for single point of failures. nice.
@{ Christoph S ; christophs@pluspora.com} 29/10/2019, 17:59:25
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi pet feeders around the world | ZDNet
I’m sure the pets appreciate some extra meals ;)
#InternetOfShit
says: now this scotland wants to prevent brexit, they say, we wanted to stay in eu, what are you doing, we want to get out of britain now. continues: these english people didn’t learn, they were friends with turkey for so long, and still did not learn anything. they had to genocide these scotts, and solve the question once and for ever. and now they hear - we want, we don’t want, we like your brexit, we don’t like, hey england, if you’d murder those guys priorly, you would not get these problems.
#sarcasm #turkey #genocide
now i thought a long before publishing this in english, because i need to tag it with sarcasm, otherwise you won’t get it. also, the context is, it is said by an armenian guy, obviously, the side which was not a beneficiary of the genocide.
so the translation is: such a free country, such a privileged people. how cool is that!
i am writing a bash script, and think of, how convenient it would be to be able to call a particular function from a script from shell.
and realize that it is already done in #oberon.
now in shell i can do source myscript && myfunc smth, instead of neat and clean myscript.myfunc smth. :/
#oberon #bash #linux
how to survive without adjustment layers in gimp https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/120401/gimp-level-adjustment-as-layer-like-photoshop
#gimp #photography #editing #linux #tips
#photography
#linus #linux #amiga #kernel #mutt #utf-8 #mail
i understand: using apple is like being in an unhealthy relationship with an abusive person. you cannot leave it because it’s so beautiful, but it keeps humiliating you. #apple #bdsm #freedom
roy uses #hongkong flag as an avatar. yay!
#hongkongstrong #watermovement
this guy publishes photos from hong kong՝ https://www.flickr.com/photos/n_ipper/ #photography #hongkong #hongkongstrong #hongkongprotests #watermovement #freedom #2019 #networkofnow
Superia X-TRA 400 and Superia Premium 400 are both different films and are sold side by side here in Japan, theres a chart in some of the shops illustrating the difference
階調 translates as tone, 硬調 on the high side of the up/down scale means high contrast
色調 translates as colour tone.
So up is high contrast, down is low contrast, left is low saturation, right is high saturation.
#photography #japanese #film #film-photography #film_photography #film
we climbed a hill near the lake, well, to be precise, water reservoir, and the map, maep with openstreetmap tiles, showed that we are in the water. i switched to google maps, and it showed an island. and them microsoft satellite photos showed that there’s a water. so apparently water goes as high, probably in the spring, and we saw the traces of water on nearby mountains even higher, and the hill remains under the water fully.
there were a lot of small burs on the ground, probably very fresh, they don’t have time to grow up.
#map #trip #osm #screenshot #lake
so we went to the short trip, and i can say, that it is so pity, that fujifilm fp-100c is not produced any more.
this is an amazing instant technology, the best ever made.
and we lost it, and we most probably won’t have it. :/
these shots i made in the night, before going to sleep. i’ll show scans later probably, but may be it’s visible that polaroid originals’ polaroids have no correct colours, that fuji instax shots are okay, but peel apart film shots are just amazing, of an amazing quality, and of an amazing colours. black stripes on shots because i used a polaroid back for mamiya rb67, and the original frame is a bit wider than mamiya frame. #photo #trip #fp100c #polaroid #instax #mamiya
#riot syncs “indefinitely” and vibrates the watch indefinitely.
#sailfish #matrix #pebble #screenshot #notification
the world went mad: there is trump in usa, putin in russia, and matrix works over http.
#why #screenshot #programming #compilation #technology #matrix #design
Why I use Object Pascal https://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/
#pascal #programming #article #object_pascal #design
first of all, the article does not mention the most important thing - modules. pascal has modules. modules were introduced to c++ just in 2017. modules are why you can have type checks across boundaries of modules.
and pascal units are modules. if they do those loadable on demand, that would be cooler.
Pascal is very strict, so the programmer has to differ between subroutines that return values, in Pascal called functions, and subroutines that does not return something, called procedures. Functions and procedures can also be passed to variables or other functions thanks to procedural types.
well, in pascal successors the function keyword removed, leaving just one procedure, or to be precise PROCEDURE because Wirth decided to make successor languages case sensitive and decrease the number of lexems.
It is possible to overload operators for specific types. With this feature, you have the power to define, let’s say, the result of the addition operation of two or more instances of the same class.
That’s one of the reasons why Wirth doesn’t like modern pascal implementations. The author tries to say - Pascal has all the features, while Wirth was trying to create a minimalistic language by following “less is more” principle.
Pascal is modular
okay, he said this. but did not connect to the type checks.
Pascal has good documentation
indeed, freepascal.org documentation is good, understandable and comprehensive.
well, for me Pascal today is like ‘better c++’, but why would i need better c++ if i have Oberon?
i will use it to write gui applications, or if i need to write something very fast and i don’t have libraries for Oboren and time to create libraries or bindings.
#pascal #oberon #modula-2 #wirth #design
and then, i thought, what did we gain with wayland. ok we loose things, but for what?
https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1905024-HV-FEDORA30D09&obr_sgm=y
11 years after the first release, what we have is comparable performance to X.
11 years is a lot of time. you had everything, all corporate resources, political force to push this technology, money to develop, and still, 11 years after the first release - comparable performance.
should i believe to wayland?
#xorg #wayland #benchmark #politics #technology #linux
p. s. if i use wayland + gnome | kde (and those are cpu hoggers, let’s say you cannot deal with audio + gnome/kde, gentoo-studio recommends and ships by default xfce, but even xfce is too heavy for me) then i loose speed anyway, because gnome/kde.
and if the speed of xorg vs wayland is comparable, then windowmaker on xorg is faster than gnome on wayland.
p. p. s. phoronix has to remove ‘php’ letters from its url apis, to be free to change underlying php and get rid of it.
The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one.
I don’t know much about Wayland but the immediate question is: Why would you want to do that? If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one? It’s like support for Windows or OS X. Not needed as those systems have their own window managers and not really support replacing it. This is contrary to X which has no window manager by default and allows and encourages others to implement it. Window Maker is a window manager for X (as stated in the info box) and Wayland aims to be an incompatible replacement of X. So they are not really a good match at first sight.
now, they say - use wayland, it’s a new and good thing. this is a dealbreaker for me. i can’t live without windowmaker.
also, says
If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one?
wait, how? seriously? if there’s a one brand of bread, why would you need another one?
this is centralization again.
#quote #technology #wayland #xorg #linux #unix #windowmaker #design
in 2014, after getting a #jolla phone, i started a thread on #tmo, which stated what i miss in #maemo, and what is not yet available in #sailfish.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=94283
i forgot about the post, and the search engine brought me as a result, when i was searching for something.
so, almost nothing changed.
the only things that changed so far are
has Mappero, I did not find comparable program for Sailfish.
we have maep and pure maps. that’s a relief.
external bluetooth keyboard cannot be used with non qwerty layouts. I use dvorak or programmer’s dvorak for Latin, and I also use Armenian typewriter layout. It’s not possible with Sailfish yet.
i did this https://github.com/norayr/sailfish_h...yboard_layouts but it only works for me on jolla device. which died.
and sony xperia xa2 doesn’t recognize my bluetooth keyboards.
funny event in the old industrial building.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:20:47 PM
մի հատ հաւէս, ծիծաղելի, պոպսա իւենթի էինք գնացել, շատ լաւ շէնքում։
#sevan #instax
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:21:50 PM
շեքսպիրը խնդրեց սեւանից նկար ուղարկեմ, սա արի։
#yerevan #sarian
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:32:31 PM
@{Artin Barseghian; artin@spyurk.am}֊ին էի ուղեկցում, սէնց բաներ տեսայ։
#երեւան #սարեան
i was searching for vector ui libraries, and would like to understand, whether it is a good idea today, and found this library, so cute and nice. https://littlevgl.com/ not what i was searching at all, i was searching for a desktop library.
#programming #technologies #it #embedded #gui #library
btw, firemonkey started as a vector gui library (was called vgscene back then), then got purchased by embarcadero, and now it is a raster library, probably for performance reasons.
we are all jockeys, j’s, sharing interesting materials, and constructing our streams.
#media #communications
nice to know it’s not me.
#funtoo #linux #1.4 #upgrade #kms #nomodeset #modeset #kernel #graphics
there are people, who research migration patterns of humans. humans migrate toward countries/places with more developed economy, also to the places with a better climate, to the places where many people already live.
do you aware, of a internet human migration related researches? how do they choose places, how they migrate between services?
i wrote “internet human”, because the “user”, well, doesn’t really express all the people on the internet.
#internet #migration #people #humans #research #web #tendencies
It’s such a big deal that I really don’t know what the heck are features like “port to GTK3”, “improve animation features” and such doing in front of it in the roadmap pointed out by /u/eXoRainbow. I wished the GIMP guys could hear of this. I’d tell them that the Layers box (or an eventual nodes view) is almost as important as the viewport itself.
#linux #gimp #open-source #open_source #freedom #nondestructive #non_destructive #feature #gtk #competition
@{artak@spyurk.am; artak@spyurk.am} just published recording https://soundcloud.com/bohemnotsradio/inky/s-lnjmp i was playing on #bohemnots #radio live, that is a complete improvisation, i did not prepare these three and something hours.
#electronicmusic #music #djset #set #house #deephouse #techno #progressivehouse #tsarav_aghbyur #yerevan
“Think about wind,” says Ching. “It can blow open doors, blow cool air off a body of water to the land surrounding it, or fire from one part of the forest to another. The door analogy relates to TCM’s understanding of how exposure to wind can weaken our body’s defenses.”(Perhaps as a permutation of these ideas, East Asia has numerous ancillary superstitions about air and wind, the most notable of which is a deathly fear of sleeping in rooms with running electric fans, a belief that has its epicenter in Korea, where “fan death” phobia remains rampant even today.)
@{քամի; o_o@spyurk.am} #wind #masks #asia #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAWWcKtgzG8 ancient capital of #armenia - #ani, and pantheon of armenian gods on the #nemrout mountain in the vlog by the #russian historian.
interesting, important discussion https://github.com/modula3/cm3/issues/42
i think the requestor is right. may be i need tot initialize the array with other values, why spend time to initialize it to zeros?
#programming #programming_languages #modula #modula-3 #design
https://youtu.be/MV5UkVB2JcI apparently you can play on those things from laptop batteries #techno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_TvYxUhzU #vermona #gdr #synth
vivian’s colour photos are even darker than black and white https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-vivian-maiers-never-before-seen-color-photography #vivian_maier #photography
medium format look. #film #photography
who’s a good boy?
breakfast with ektachrome
#film
booting, daemons. #unix
Hovsep (HOV) works in a different way.
His setup includes a laptop with ableton, and a lot of midi controllers.
These are my video recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYw_JV8RLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYKScr-a6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTwbiBXJZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iID7qPZiY3I
and this is his recording on soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/eychovi/live-set-embassybohemnots/s-5amB7 #bohemnots #yerevan #hov #electronic #electronic_music
this guy’s name is ben wheeler. he currently lives in tbilisi. has vermona synth made in gdr, hardware drum machine, and a lot of hardware effects.
somehow we’ve talked with him before he started to play, i did not know he’s playing.
he joked, when he plays, many people just leave. (:
so he has a soundcloud page, with only 11 followers including me.
https://soundcloud.com/benmwheeler
and these are my video recordings of his set (set?) at #bohemnots event at embassy, #yerevan.
this was in friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQTDC1kniM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq1qVmLtUus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCCjyIP_u8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02wtSCTtXMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbCIoXC4hM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_2CC_UQ_4 #synth #electronic #electronic_music
https://t.me/lseliq/411 this is a very good piece by trentmoller and kalkbrenner.
i don’t know if this research was conducted properly, etc, but i feel the same
since @{Fla; fla@diaspora-fr.org} told me diaspora keeps the full versions of the uploaded images, and it will be possible to get full versions via click after update, and also since #flickr changes the way it works, i may consider to again show off my photos on diaspora.
for that i think of ways to automate that, because i did not share on diaspora for years, and i’d like to have many photos in my profile.
i guess i might use this https://github.com/produnis/myscripts/blob/master/python/pic2diaspora.py and try to not flood here by posting one picture in an hour? because i have so many pictures that haven’t been uploaded to diaspora.
or may be there’s a better script. i am not an expert in python, i see the https://github.com/marekjm/diaspy/tree/master/diaspy gets deprecated, and may be i’ll end up writing something myself from scratch.
#diaspora #automation
when you do opengl tutorials for “fun”
source #opengl #fun
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/tokyo-street-photographer-mikiko-hara/
#photography #japan #tokyo #street
the software i linked to is written in crystal. very interesting language itself: https://crystal-lang.org/
Crystal’s syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby’s, so it feels natural to read and easy to write, and has the added benefit of a lower learning curve for experienced Ruby devs.
very useful software: lightweight frontend to youtube.
experience it at: https://invidio.us/
this picture is from the datasheet of superia 1600, which is the same, as i understand, natura 1600.
so what for is the fourth layer? we know the three: red, green, blue. so we see that the fourth layer is sensitive in the area of greens.
now, question: who designed x-trans sensor which contains more green reading elements? fuji, who applied the knowledge from film area to its digital designs.
#photography #design #engineering #sensor #photo #superia #superia_1600 #natura_1600 #film
aaa this manual of arp 2600 moog synthesizer.
#manual #moog #synth #arp2600 #synthesizer
despite being fire-breathing creatures, dodongo dislike smoke.
#dodongo #smoke #fire
Currently, humans risk becoming similar to domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful. We are now creating tame humans who produce enormous amounts of data and function as efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but they hardly maximize their human potential. If we are not careful, we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ #humans
Can parliaments and political parties overcome these challenges and forestall the darker scenarios? At the current moment this does not seem likely. Technological disruption is not even a leading item on the political agenda. During the 2016 U.S. presidential race, the main reference to disruptive technology concerned Hillary Clinton’s email debacle, and despite all the talk about job loss, neither candidate directly addressed the potential impact of automation. Donald Trump warned voters that Mexicans would take their jobs, and that the U.S. should therefore build a wall on its southern border. He never warned voters that algorithms would take their jobs, nor did he suggest building a firewall around California.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari #politics #clinton #trump #wall #california #firewall
New technologies will continue to emerge, of course, and some of them may encourage the distribution rather than the concentration of information and power. Blockchain technology, and the use of cryptocurrencies enabled by it, is currently touted as a possible counterweight to centralized power. But blockchain technology is still in the embryonic stage, and we don’t yet know whether it will indeed counterbalance the centralizing tendencies of AI. Remember that the Internet, too, was hyped in its early days as a libertarian panacea that would free people from all centralized systems—but is now poised to make centralized authority more powerful than ever.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari #blockchain #distribution #concentration #power #cryptocurrencies
The biggest and most frightening impact of the AI revolution might be on the relative efficiency of democracies and dictatorships. Historically, autocracies have faced crippling handicaps in regard to innovation and economic growth. In the late 20th century, democracies usually outperformed dictatorships, because they were far better at processing information. We tend to think about the conflict between democracy and dictatorship as a conflict between two different ethical systems, but it is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. Democracy distributes the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. Given 20th-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place. Nobody had the ability to process all available information fast enough and make the right decisions. This is one reason the Soviet Union made far worse decisions than the United States, and why the Soviet economy lagged far behind the American economy.
However, artificial intelligence may soon swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. In fact, it might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffuse systems, because machine learning works better when the machine has more information to analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you’ll wind up with much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people. An authoritarian government that orders all its citizens to have their DNA sequenced and to share their medical data with some central authority would gain an immense advantage in genetics and medical research over societies in which medical data are strictly private. The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the 20th century — the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place — may become their decisive advantage in the 21st century.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
and, if it sometimes fail, it also may lead some people, or in some cases, the whole country to a disaster. because you have single point of failure. and single point is not guaranteed to not make mistakes. just not all mistakes will be vital for all. some will be vital for some. some will be vital for all.
Imagine, for instance, that the current regime in North Korea gained a more advanced version of this sort of technology in the future. North Koreans might be required to wear a biometric bracelet that monitors everything they do and say, as well as their blood pressure and brain activity. Using the growing understanding of the human brain and drawing on the immense powers of machine learning, the North Korean government might eventually be able to gauge what each and every citizen is thinking at each and every moment. If a North Korean looked at a picture of Kim Jong Un and the biometric sensors picked up telltale signs of anger (higher blood pressure, increased activity in the amygdala), that person could be in the gulag the next day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
The conflict between democracy and dictatorship is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. AI may swing the advantage toward the latter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
In one incident in October 2017, a Palestinian laborer posted to his private Facebook account a picture of himself in his workplace, alongside a bulldozer. Adjacent to the image he wrote, “Good morning!” A Facebook translation algorithm made a small error when transliterating the Arabic letters. Instead of Ysabechhum (which means “Good morning”), the algorithm identified the letters as Ydbachhum (which means “Hurt them”). Suspecting that the man might be a terrorist intending to use a bulldozer to run people over, Israeli security forces swiftly arrested him. They released him after they realized that the algorithm had made a mistake. Even so, the offending Facebook post was taken down—you can never be too careful. What Palestinians are experiencing today in the West Bank may be just a primitive preview of what billions of people will eventually experience all over the planet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
The same technologies that might make billions of people economically irrelevant might also make them easier to monitor and control.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
On December 6, 2017, another crucial milestone was reached when Google’s AlphaZero program defeated the Stockfish 8 program. Stockfish 8 had won a world computer chess championship in 2016. It had access to centuries of accumulated human experience in chess, as well as decades of computer experience. By contrast, AlphaZero had not been taught any chess strategies by its human creators—not even standard openings. Rather, it used the latest machine-learning principles to teach itself chess by playing against itself. Nevertheless, out of 100 games that the novice AlphaZero played against Stockfish 8, AlphaZero won 28 and tied 72—it didn’t lose once. Since AlphaZero had learned nothing from any human, many of its winning moves and strategies seemed unconventional to the human eye. They could be described as creative, if not downright genius.
Can you guess how long AlphaZero spent learning chess from scratch, preparing for the match against Stockfish 8, and developing its genius instincts? Four hours. For centuries, chess was considered one of the crowning glories of human intelligence. AlphaZero went from utter ignorance to creative mastery in four hours, without the help of any human guide.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #alphazero #stockfish8 #chess
harari https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ #harari #technology
i don’t understand mastodon. why on mastodon people care who follows them? like if bots follow them. or they block some people from following.
does it make sense? if you block someone, but you write publicly, (s)he can read your public posts anyway, without logging in.
or why would you care if somebedy follows you? it does not make you automatically follow them. and if you don’t follow them, why would it bother you who follows you?
#mastodon
i have deleted my twitter. created it in june 2017. to stay in touch with local community. from envy, i saw people who know each other, who socialize online, and that’s where the envy were coming from. I also wanted to socialize, and be part of the community. to not feel disconnected.
if there is a discussion, i also want to be able to be heard. may be i have a good argument, nobody else has? may be not, all arguments are already known to anyone? but then i want to express myself regarding of what is directly around me. not in the world. not about the people who fight for their rights in europe or states. but about the coming elections in my country? about the political system i have to live in. about the questions regarding trash management in my city? about the #nkpeace or processes at our borders where people die very often?
and when i express myself on diaspora, nobody hears me. local community is too small. and i don’t hear “them”, because diaspora community does not represent the local society. so we don’t or cannot have discussion. may be we already agree on many things. that does not leave the place to discuss. it’s like, i’ve heard that there is a such political situation/problem/discussion, and I stand near the mirror, and tell myself what I think. How can I think something of it, if I don’t even know the context as much, as the people who socialize?
so anyway, i had a seizure of not participating in the deal, de facto deal, that centralized services suggest. i get rid of the “celebration of life” and communications with locals online, and go back to the state I was for years before that. this leads to, sorry for this word, marginalization, isolation and being disconnected from locals, and local publicly important themes.
i’ll try to compensate, may be, this, by staying connected with foreigners here, people what have different contexts, other level problems, etc, which may lead me to even more not understanding the atmosphere around me. I don’t know how long will it take, but I guess, it took years last time, why not now?
still, I don’t think rare real life connections will also contribute to me not being disconnected. So this is it. I know it’s tough, but it is also hard to participate by the suggested rules. I also don’t know if I’ll be active here, I have two jobs now, and get pretty exhausted.
still lets see.
and i keep telegram for now. if i cut it off, i will loose even a couple of remaining contacts i have, in, lets say, small film photography community which has a telegram group.
when you teach, it’s like you have an exam at every class session. so i have an exam three times a week. #exam #university
#akai
“We used to think our fate was in our stars,” James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the structure of dna, declared in 1989. “Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.” The implications were clear. Unravelling the genetic code would bring an exquisite understanding of bodies and their afflictions but also of minds. After the completion of the human genome project, which Watson initially led, such hopes faded. Individuals’ physical or mental characteristics, and their susceptibility to diseases, turned out to be extraordinarily complex. Some of the swagger went out of genetics. Now it is back.
For much of the 20th century, psychology was dominated by the idea that human nature is a blank slate embellished by upbringing and environment. “Blueprint” begins by describing how Mr Plomin and others have demonstrated that, on the contrary, behavioural differences are strongly influenced by genetics. Studies of adopted children indicate that in disposition they more closely resemble their genetic parents than their adoptive ones. Even when they are reared apart, identical twins are more alike than the non-identical kind (who are as genetically different as any brother or sister).
Such research shows that, on average, dna accounts for about half of the psychological differences between people, with the remainder due to environmental factors; the actual proportion varies with the characteristic in question. More recently scientists have combed through human genomes to identify thousands of genetic variants associated with particular traits, from height and weight to educational attainment and neuroticism. Tests costing less than £50 ($65) can measure genetic propensity to different outcomes—to be overweight, or to go to university.
For those who imagine all that leaves enough wriggle room for benevolent parents or teachers to exert an influence, Mr Plomin has bad news: these environmental factors are themselves substantially influenced by genes. For example, his work shows that genes account for about a third of the differences between the television viewing habits of children. Worse, the remaining tranche of environmental influence appears to be mostly attributable to unpredictable events rather than, say, being brought up in a house full of books.
These findings, says Mr Plomin, imply that “parents don’t make much of a difference in their children’s outcomes beyond the genes they provide”; dna is a “fortune teller” that “makes us who we are”. Environmental effects are “important”, but “there’s not much we can do about them”.
Mr Plomin insists that, armed with their genetic test scores, individuals can take action to counter or augment their innate proclivities; but they are hardly likely to succeed if their psychology is as delimited by genes as he suggests. An equally plausible possibility is that these scores will be used to stigmatise genetic “have-nots” or to justify discrimination. This is the high road to eugenics, about which Mr Plomin is largely silent.
Instead he advocates the use of such scores when choosing between candidates for a job. Yet a person with high scores for traits associated with coding skills is not necessarily a good programmer—they merely have a higher likelihood of being one. A candidate who had demonstrated their aptitude for the job would feel rightly miffed to be passed over in favour of a genetically gifted incompetent. Likewise, though doctors may find it useful to know that a patient is genetically predisposed to be obese, the best way to establish their weight is to ask them to step on the scales.
These are problems of emphasis rather than accuracy. But in a field as ethically fraught as genetics, even that can be troubling. For instance, as Mr Plomin notes, the size of the genetic component of a particular trait—its “heritability”—varies between different populations. The heritability of educational attainment in Norway has increased since the second world war as the country widened access to health care and schools, flattening out environmental effects. That trend seems, worryingly, to have reversed in America in the 21st century. The irony is that the heritability of many traits rises if states do more to provide for all their citizens equally.
You might conclude that without broad measures to tamp down inequalities of opportunity, genes have fewer opportunities to shine. “Blueprint” instead touts the importance of dna in shaping the individual. Hubris indeed.
i had to register a free account to read this. some people say if you just enter with the private mode, it’ll show the article. i don’t know.
#genetics #humans #heritability
source #art #city #night
i might have shared something about this guy and his car.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/rafik-ordyan-gt-77-1977.315706/ http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Rafik_Ordyan
#gt77 #yerevan #ordyan #ordian #gt-77 #car #diy #handmade
First things first: printf is expecting a valid (i.e. non-NULL) pointer for its %s argument so passing it a NULL is officially undefined. It may print “(null)” or it may delete all files on your hard drive–either is correct behavior as far as ANSI is concerned (at least, that’s what Harbison and Steele tells me.)
#programming #c #null
do you understand how telegram makes money?
or it still does not?
just uses the initial investment?
#telegram
these are very interesting, cheap and powerful devices: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar300m/
the company not only uses opewrt, but also provides several types of firmware for the devices, notable one is tor firmware - route all you traffic through tor.
the only disadvantage that the device has no battery space, but you can use powerbank to power it.
#device #internet #tor #anonymity
my major lifegoal is to keep #oberon alive.
unlike digital sensors that use Bayer interpolation, a scanner captures the RGB data for every pixel. single pass, three pass, whatever. you get the full monty. it doesn’t make much sense to degrade the data so it can be interpolated from a RAW file. instead the user can save the data as either a (8/16bit) JPEG, or (8/16bit) TIFF file. Vuescan let’s you save the scan data into a special kind of extendable TIFF called a DNG. the DNG wrapper lets the scan program separate the tonal data from the color data. using LR or PS one can then apply their own secret sauce. :)
#photography #film-photography #film_photography #scanning #tiff #jpeg #dng #vuescan #bayer #photo
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are there decentralized photo communities out there? i only know mediagoblin. diaspora is not actual since they started to reduce sizes of photographs.
what would you suggest? the ideal solution is not only the software which i can host on my server, but also a community of photographers. #photo #diaspora #mediagoblin #decentralization
just created this gif, with this script։
#download
youtube-dl -k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBx7Jg4m-o
mplayer -vo jpeg 'This is Fine-0oBx7Jg4m-o.f137.mp4'
RSZ="-resize %25"
DEL="-delay 1"
set -x
str=""
for i in `seq 50 92`
do
#apply a patch (draw rectangle) to erase '[adult swim]' writing.
convert 000000${i}.jpg -fill '#f9ec50' -draw 'rectangle 1620,950 1820,1050' 000000${i}.png
convert 000000${i}.png $RSZ 000000${i}_.png
if [[ -n "$str" ]]
then
str="$str 000000${i}_.png "
else
str="000000${i}_.png "
fi
#echo $str
done
#make actual gif
convert -loop 0 $DEL $str test.gif
#gif #dog #this_is_fine #fire
may i rant a little about sailfish 3.0 ?
omg, why this android like top menu? is it the urge to not, accidentally stand out? i really don’t understand.
my gesture to close programs was to swipe top down. and people were amazed by that. now to close the program we need to minimize it first, then close. aaah, dull? in order to close minimized app one needs to press on it, then leave and press the ‘x’ button. so three steps to just close the app.
why? sailfish was supposed to be convenient, geeky, other.
i also dislike recent gallery changes, where we lost going back by left gesture, and need now to use an icon ‘x’ to close the photo and get a gallery view.
ok and if you wanted to know, i guess my favourite sailfish is sailfish 1.
p. s. i think i appear in my english stream moarmore.
#jolla #sailfish
chief of pm’s staff is playing techno set at the celebration of the independence of armenia.
his playing hydrae by frankie and sandrino.
#yerevan #armenia #independence #set
when you read about the magical ring or the marodeurs map, you wonder, why those are the rare exemplars, why they could not be recreated. i thought that if the humanity once had the technology, and went further, it means it can create better devices, and certainly can recreate the past ones.
now i understand, that there are a lot of pieces of disappearing technology in our world.
apparently, it took ~10 years for impossible project to achieve comparable quality with the polaroid integral film. and still, they cannot fit 10 papers in to the cartridge, they fit only 8.
apparently, no one is able to produce peel apart film comparable in quality with fuji fp-100c film.
and even if the company would document and publish, as patent free, open source, the whole process, still, there are things you need to learn from others. lets say if there’s a team working on some project, it cannot document everything, but new members of the team get the knowledge which is not documented. or they need to stare at the source code for weeks to guess what those 3 lines are for.
so now i understand, that i have a piece of disappearing technology in my freezer. it’s fp-100c, and i understand, that i have cameras, that will be very hard to produce again. that is one more reason to value old things. only starting to produce something comparable is not realistic, needs a lot of resources.
these are my adventures on connecting bluetooth keyboard to jolla sailfish device.
first of all, the keyboard would not connect. manual says just ‘press the connect button and let them pair’, but devices were not able to connect. i have tried to type ‘1234’ on a keyboard and press enter, then sailfish asked me for a password, i typed ‘1234’ and again got the message indicating that device is not paired. then i repeated the same with ‘0000’ and somehow, the device works.
now, how would i use my favourite programmers dvorak layout, and armenian typewriter?
it turned out i need to
so there is an utility called ckbcomp that can convert xkb layouts to kmap files:
emerge ckbcomp
…
ckbcomp -keycodes evdev -layout us -variant dvp > /tmp/usdvp.kmap
ckbcomp -keycodes evdev -layout am > /tmp/am.kmap
now, i was searching for kmap2qmap utility, but apparently it absent in all linux distributions. so, my qt version on my laptop is 5.9.4, so i went to qt site, and downloaded version of qttools source for that version.
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.4/submodules/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
well, these was not as easy, it took me a lot of time to understand that i need to compile the source, where to get it, etc. i also tried to install it on sailfish, but there was a problem:
[root@Sailfish keymaps]# pkcon --allow-downgrade install qt5-qttools-kmap2qmap
Resolving
Testing changes
Finished [ ] (0%)
The following packages have to be installed:
qt5-qttools-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl Development tools for Qt
qt5-qttools-kmap2qmap-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl The kmap2qmap tool
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y
Installing
Starting
Refreshing software list
Querying
Resolving dependencies
Downloading packages
Finished
Fatal error: File './qt/armv7hl/qt5-qttools-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl.rpm' not found on medium 'https://releases.jolla.com/releases/2.2.1.18/jolla/armv7hl/'
[root@Sailfish keymaps]#
but from this output i guessed that i need the package called qttools to find the utility.
so, i have got the package, then:
tar Jxvf qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
found the source directory with find, and went there:
cd src/kmap2qmap/
now there is a .pro file, and .cpp file, how do i compile them?
i just tried qmake and make, and it worked!
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ qmake
Info: creating stash file /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/.qmake.stash
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ ls
kmap2qmap.pro main.cpp Makefile target_wrapper.sh
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ make
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -O2 -march=native -pipe -std=c++1z -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wvla -Wdate-time -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wduplicated-cond -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_NARROWING_CONVERSIONS_IN_CONNECT -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_INPUT_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_DEVICEDISCOVERY_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem /usr/include/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport/5.9.4/QtInputSupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/5.9.4/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport/5.9.4/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/5.9.4/QtCore -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore -I.moc -isystem /usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/lib64/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o .obj/main.o main.cpp
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -o ../../bin/kmap2qmap .obj/main.o -lQt5InputSupport -lmtdev -linput -lxkbcommon -lQt5DeviceDiscoverySupport -ludev -lQt5Gui -lQt5Core -lGL -lpthread
now, ls does not show the compiled binary
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ ls
kmap2qmap.pro main.cpp Makefile target_wrapper.sh
where do i find it? what if i try to install it?
/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake -install qinstall -exe ../../bin/kmap2qmap /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap
Error copying ../../bin/kmap2qmap to /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap: Cannot create /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap for output
Makefile:348: recipe for target 'install_target' failed
make: [install_target] Error 3 (ignored)
(reverse-i-search)`wget': ^Cet https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.4/submodules/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
this failed, but aha, there it is.
at ../../bin directory.
cd ../../bin
cp kmap2qmap /home/noch/test
I also put my usdvp.kmap and am.kmap files there. now generating qmap file
./kmap2qmap usdvp.kmap am.kmap noch.qmap
copy it to jolla device:
scp noch.qmap root@10.23.23.5:/usr/share/qt5/keymaps/
now on jolla i had to backup the existing boston.qmap file, and replace it with my file.
cd /usr/share/qt5/keymaps/
cp boston.qmap boston_.qmap
cp noch.qmap boston.qmap
how do i now change the settings menu to indicate the change?
apparently, by editing /usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/text_input/textinput.qml file.
I have added there
ListElement {
layout: "am"
name: "Armenian"
}
ListElement {
layout: "us(dvp)"
name: "Dvorak"
}
reboot, and now it works!
well, there is a problem, that if the bt keyboard is on, then the login screen of jolla requires you to use hardware keyboard to login, not the screen keyboard. so i turn off the bt keyboard during restart.
also, make sure you have wifi connection via ssh to the device in case something goes wrong, you would need to login to device and change things. #jolla #sailfish #keyboard #bluetooth #layout #dvorak #armenian
^ and $ are new alpha and omega.
since i know sailfish, it’s even hard to read texts on the internet, because those are either black on the white background, or whitish on the dark background, and all these themes are predefined by the designer.
while i got used that i generate the theme from the picture i like, therefore text can be on a blurred image i have chosen, and the colours are chosen by me, and its not just white on dark or black on white, or whatever.
#sailfish #design #text
our PM in his own town Ijevan with kids.
can you see how relaxed are the kids? nobody afraids or tries to be ‘decent’ because he is with an important person.
i like this man so much. #armenia
and did you see what he have had done with Merkel? he took her to the people, to the streets, they were making photos with people, her bodyguards were shocked, never experienced something like that.
Israeli dronemaker said to have bombed Armenians for Azerbaijan faces charges
#israel #armenia #azerbaijan #war #drone #bombing #military #2016 #artsakh
new #set, live at #KIROVAKAN event at #Vanadzor https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/live-at-kirovakan-25-08-2018
enjoy
i have uploaded more photos to flickr and blog this photo is from http://norayr.am/weblog/2018/08/08-19-42/
blog: http://norayr.am/weblog flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/norayr_chilingarian/
A good language design may be summarized in five catch phrases: simplicity, security, fast translation, efficient object code, and readability.
http://norayr.am/papers/Hoare_Hints.pdf #hoare #programming_languages #design #programming #computer_science
aaa, i succeeded in connecting my midi keyboard to bristol synth.
when i connect it, /dev/midi1 file is created.
qjackctl does not work in my windowmaker — when i start it, whole windowmaker hungs unless i don’t kill the process from pure terminal or via ssh.
so without jack, just alsa:
startBristol -mini -audio alsa -midi alsa -channel 1 -mididev /dev/midi1
now it is necessary to connect midi keyboard’s output to bristol’s input:
aconnect -l shows:
client 20: 'Impulse' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'Impulse MIDI 1 '
Connecting To: 128:0
1 'Impulse MIDI 2 '
client 128: '/dev/midi1' [type=user,pid=11247]
0 '/dev/midi1 input'
connecting:
aconnect 20:0 128:0
works:
noch@hactar ~ $ aconnect -l
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 20: 'Impulse' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'Impulse MIDI 1 '
Connecting To: 128:0
1 'Impulse MIDI 2 '
client 128: '/dev/midi1' [type=user,pid=11247]
0 '/dev/midi1 input'
Connected From: 20:0
noch@hactar ~ $
now i can play on midi keyboard and get sounds of moog mini. aaa.
#midi #linux #bristol #alsa #midi_keyboard #keyboard #console #sound #audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2UyevkGvRA #viken_arman #armenian_music #armenian-music
you know this is yerevan, when you meet the organizer of the event at the event and tell her, that you had troubles entering and had to fake a ticket, because they only used facebook for the event promotion, and she says that she is sorry, organized it poorly, and next time it’ll be better, without a need to fake tickets. #yerevan
aaa such a nice project, aaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7ho9gV6IA https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-armenian-velvet-revolution-comic-book-part-1-books-adventure#/
new set https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/yellow_friday_setpp
@{Gerda de Vos; nypa@sysad.org} did you happen to meet them? lets say in a bus. i guess you live in the same city. https://medialeaks.ru/3007dalex-barnaul-terror/
and do you know Viken Arman (Վիգէն Արման) ? He’s very nice, and I also have been at his lives. Indeed very interesting, and this video from Cercle is very beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_npZfZmRiM&t=5219s #armenian-music #viken_arman #music #electronic
enjoy the other work of Armen Miran՝ https://soundcloud.com/armenmiran/armen-miran-precious-story-105-mix #armenian #music #armen_miran #armenian-music #electronic
and this colud be interesting as well, i will be more cautios with expired film.
april 29, rally, revolution Vanadzor. #vanadzor
I just noticed that I have published the other photo with umbrellas from April 29 rally in Vanadzor. I wanted actually to publish this photograph. #vanadzor
microkernel operating systems follow ideas of liberalism. on the contrary, monolitic kernel, is like a leftist idea, where you have big government which has to deal with everything. it can be efficient, though, as dictatorships as well, butif it fails, you’re screwd. microkernel means less central power, not as efficient, but more reliable. #liberalism #operating_systems #os #microkernel #engineering #design
fujicolor prenn 400, expired, april 29, rally, revolution, #vanadzor
agfa agfaphoto 400, pushed to 1600, april 29, rally, revolution, #vanadzor
agfa agfaphoto apx 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #վանաձոր
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #վանաձոր
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #yerevan #dog
#yerevan
#barcampevn18
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan #kond
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan #summerhall #architecture
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#aygestan #yerevan
#aygestan #yerevan
mamiya rb67, polaroid back, fuji fp-100c, #kond #yerevan
Pashinian met with Venediktov.
Pashinian: Ilham Aliyev should send his son to serve in Karabakh as well, this would mean - like me - would have a personal stake in peace; interview with @aavst @EchoMskRu “We don’t want war, but we are determined to defend ourselves” https://echo.msk.ru/sounds/2246298.html #russian #artsakh #armenia
people, i have published photos for april-may-june at http://norayr.am/weblog btw, now i use hugo, no wordpress, no php, and this is fun.
so today (yesterday technically) russian soldiers were shooting in armenian village. what was going on is described pretty well in this video in russian language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSP7AaudUWE #russia #armenia
see my comment there: https://spyurk.am/posts/3191543 where i explain why it’s not possible to just translate the text to let’s say english and post it.
I have made two mashups this night: https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/are_you_going_to_read_the_kubark_mashup
and https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/are-you-going-with-me-forever-mashup
recorded live on pioneer xdj-rx. #music #mashup
Борьба приобрела децентрализованный характер и застала врасплох полицию, которая до этого привыкла действовать по привычному сценарию: протестующие собираются в одном месте, где-то рядом силы полиции, и в случае необходимости они силой разгоняют акцию, задерживая лидеров. Если раньше полиция задерживала несколько десятков человек на несколько часов, и акции сводились на нет, то теперь методы полиции уже не действовали. Более того, чем больше полиция задерживала людей, тем больше протестующих выходило на улицы. Кроме того похищение лидеров протеста 22 апреля сыграло злую шутку: на улицы вышло как минимум в два раза больше людей, чем Пашинян собирал до своего похищения.
Правозащитник отмечает, как на практике выглядело применение этого закона: «Заявляешь о начале стихийной акции и можешь на протяжении 6 часов проводить собрание. Через 6 часов, заявляешь об окончании акции и тут же сообщаешь о начале новой стихийной акции. Но власти хотели изменить положение дел в этой части закона. К счастью, им этого не удалось». Важным фактором является также то, что по закону за административные нарушения не предусмотрен арест, а только штраф. Причем задержание может длиться не более трех часов, после чего задержанные должны быть либо освобождены, либо обвинены в уголовном преступлении.
about online niches and misery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHj0kgos_Q
did not even want to watch it but my coworker insisted it is worth seeing. well indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2blcr747NGM #travel #azerbaijan #russian #omg
surprise surprise https://yalantis.com/blog/whats-wrong-telegram-open-api/ #telegram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8R76gTRM6A
surprisingly this guy knows what he tells. about #armenian #language in #russian.
Kenton Nelson “Such a Sight”
#art
In the film envelope, there was a ‘sac’ of developer gel. When you processed the film by pulling it out of the holder, the two stainless steel rollers crushed the pod and spread the gel over the image surface. That’s why it was critical to pull steadily and carefully.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/rb67-w-polaroid-back-first-tests-and-failures.5509574/
So, Samvel Martirosyan writes on telegram, that he spoke with Artsakh military and other gov people, and
a. The probability of new offensive (Azerbaijani, obviously), is extremely high now. b. Because now it is hard for them to be invisible while approaching our positions (we have cameras and drones), the easiest way to bring military to the border is conducting military exercises. And now Azerbaijan is conducting military exercises without a pause, and it looks like those are very expensive. c. The probability of war will be much higher after July 14, when the football championship will be over. Before that starting the war can offend the Russian side. By the same logic, now they almost don’t shoot at the borders. e. The offensive probably will start from the south, so that less people will be affected, to decrease response of international community.
#armenia #artsakh #war #peace #nkpeace
this is how it is supposed to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBRHH2jIGs
and this is how i fail https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/rb67-w-polaroid-back-first-tests-and-failures.5509574/ #photo
tells that ccd colours and picture details are much bettec, is it the case?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCi8-mYxpRE
also, its interesting, that he tells that the camera is very power efficient because it has no motor to move the shutter, but the lever.
#photography #camera
p. s. how can i remain silent that i know the camera since long time ago, and i wanted to get it for my collection, but it was too expensive, and somehow unreasonable. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuLRJLJjCz0 #exactly #russian #armenia
well, our NSS works very well, when they are allowed to.
very old paper i quote often http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/
#rob_pike
A great shot by a Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz #Armenia 2017: Few seconds before the catastrophe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRFQ_amDp_U everything you ever wanted to know about living in diaspora, but were afraid to ask.
#armenian
i was playing today, preparing new set, and noticed that these two can work together https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/electric-horovel-relaxation, mixed live and recorded on pioneer xdj-rx deck. thank you.
#horovel
yesterday evening i spent with iranian armenian architects who live and work in usa now, and they were telling me, that they are amazed, that they are able to see and greet our ‘stars’, people whom they know from theatrical performances, which hey watched on youtube, in cafeterias on the streets of the city. #yerevan
so our new pime minister makes lives on facebook every day, even several times per day. first he showed how the gov rooms look like, then he tells us about the news and decisions he made, and why did he make those. these all without pathos, tables, very simple, he continues to be that simple guy who, it seems does not enjoy these luxurious rooms, and tries to be useful to us. #armenia
https://newrepublic.com/article/148241/armenia-breaking-post-soviet-mold
i think if the language marking feature will be implemented one day, i will merge back two my streams, english and armenian. merging, it seems will be soon possible.
there are two good #telegram channels to follow events in #armenia in #russian` https://t.me/hetqinrussian https://t.me/infocomru
Four months ago, Armenian parliamentary deputy Nikol Pashinyan, his spouse Anna Hakobyan and their daughter Arpi were on a New Year’s Eve programme on Armenia’s state-controlled Public TV. They were making idle talk about holiday routines when the anchor wondered if Pashinyan had asked Santa for anything political.
“I think in politics, people are the Santa Claus,” Pashinyan said. “And I want our people to realise that the notion that they cannot change anything is wrong, that in fact they decide their destiny.”
i understand this is not exactly for you, but i run a telegram channel with music recommendations. texts are in armenian, but you still might enjoy the music. mostly electronic, but not necessarily. http://t.me/lseliq #telegram #music #channel #electronic
tomorrow parliament has to vote for the new prime minister.
looks like for now republican party did not suggest a candidate. so KK is out of the game for now. the other big party which belongs to the rich oligarch, and was in the alliance with the ruling republicans said they will vote for our candidate. then his party, which has %7 in the parliament. (faked elections) and then dashnaks, who also were in the alliance with the ruling republicans said they’ll vote for our candidate. so the rats flew the sinking ship.
republicans did not say they will vote for Nikol, and even if everybody above will vote for him it is still not enough because republicans have majority. so if 7 or 8 of them vote, then Nikol will become a prime minister for some time. If not, then the parliament has to kill itself and new elections should be conducted. This will be the survival way of republicans because the laws still allow them to fake elections, also they have city/village majors, etc, so they have the resource. On the other hand if Nikol is elected, then he will propose his new election laws to decrease the probability of falsifications, and then according to his plan we have to have new elections, fair this time.
so this is a long process, and the road is hard. anyway tomorrow everybody will be at the streets to support him so that he could be elected.
so to me it looks like everything is much worser than it could be. if we just left serj it would be better. this guy ‘karen karapetyan’, former gazprom chinovnik, who has close connections with oligarchs, and is now leading republican party, is much worser than serj. so many reasons, it needs time to explain. in short nothing will change, except that this guy has no local background, has nothing to loose here. he can just burn the country and fly to russia at any moment. but he gets already established system, he is obviously more controllable than serj, nothing will change - again business spheres will continue to be divided between a couple of people who don’t even pay taxes.
karen karapetyan (men’s name in armenian) tried to establish an emergency state already, but police/army refused.
my expectations are - if parliament will not vote for our, people’s candidate, and he or someone from republicans will become a prime minister, use own people as police/army heads, and because they cannot control the country, they will declare emergency state and solve their problems.
there are questions - will army or police be ready to shoot own citizens? police was ready last time, 10 years ago, when serj kame to power. we had 10 deads that time.
i sincerely don’t see any ways out, looks like a dead end.
so the parliament will gather to choose a new prime minister at may 1, and we have to continue protests till and after that.
but this is not inspiring, when government obviously is not legit, have absolutely no support in people, but they persist on ruling.
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/why-has-putin-not-intervened-in-armenia-yet-opinion-61261
april 21 video, so that you can imagine how the movement which was not very strong yet looked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2_CIZ7DKK0
something like that.
ok not so bright. republicans canceled tomorrow’s negotiations. they still have majority in the parliament, and i don’t know what they want to do. so we have to continue civil disobedience, till they also realize they have no country.
yesterday people were celebrating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nb3hneruz8
and today they are cleaning the republic square together https://www.facebook.com/CivilNet.TV/videos/vb.195018463901371/2327181687351694/?type=2&theater
this decentralized strategy worked! they have detained Nikol, but realized it does not matter. Nikol did not control the situation. everybody was self-organizing and showing the government has no control over population. we with IT people created a couple of telegram groups to coordinate our civil disobedience actions. police was running from here to there, and they had no enough forces to control everything. they were asking each other for support and people, and had no resources, though we have a lot of police, unfortunately.
authorities were desperate, they detained leaders of the movement, then started to use criminals to threaten protesters. just unknown guys in masks, armed, got out to streets and started to beat protesters.
that caused even more waves of disobedience and more people at the evening protests. around 180.000 people in one of recent meetings.
so they realized they have no country to rule and have to leave. DDOS - Distributed Denial of Serj worked.
The ruling republican party seems dead. They are nothing without the head. And the dictators seem to surround them by toads, so they have even noone to replace them. They cannot trust those toads they nurtured for years.
That’s probably one of the reasons why Serj tried to stay for the third time. They just had noone to trust.
I am very proud of my people, who did not tolerate Serj, and it is indeed unbelievable that we succeeded without a drop of blood. we had several injured people, when police was trying to pressure us, not more than 10.
And Nikol said during the rally - “remember that christian saying, give the second cheek, if someone heat you? every one who answers to violence with violence is against our movement, because it will make government an excuse to use the force.”
So this was sort of other example of satyagraha, when nobody was listening to the regime, and people on streets were supporting protesters by signalling. first days they did not get it, and was annoyed, but after three days most of them were happy we are blocking streets. many people around were joining us, and drivers were getting out of the cars, and behaving like the cars are broken, so they have to repair those.
and the very emotional thing is showing open palms of hands. whenever police were trying to pressure people, they were showing open palms of hands, raised up, that they are not armed, it’s peaceful protest. this was very impressive and beautiful.
unbelievable! we did it! velvet revolution succeeded! (:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1927943233902715&id=260603653970023 #saakashvili #armenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iTStVljbs #tankian #armenia
#photo #yerevan #protest #rejectserj #night #street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZMmqzNlWpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ONOmyyiDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cljWEITquU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRAgSN9GDhU
#rejectserj #yerevan #protest #rally #dence #night
nice explanatory video. https://twitter.com/CurrentTimeTv/status/985885135965966337 titles in russian.
there is civil disobedience, clashes with police, and protests here. i am of course with the people. authorities brought a lot of power. let’s see what happens this night. https://www.evnreport.com/politics/armenia-in-crisis-again #yerevan #armenia
so today we found out interesting things. the fact that telegram was banned in russia is not as interesting alone, but more interesting is that it is the only messenger that got banned. from which we can speculate on how the others work. #telegram #russia #yarovaya_law #surveillance
iranian propaganda poster #women #iran #poster #propaganda
https://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/i-want-to-believe-in-rss-enamel-pin #pin #shop #rss
shot with mamiya zm, 28mm f2.8 mamiya sekor e lenses on fujifilm eterna 250d film. #firstoftheroll #robot #balloon #film #35mm #film-photography #film_photography #kanaker #qanaqer #yerevan #rust
https://soundcloud.com/xeneder/kin-dza-dza-main-theme-2a03-cover #kindzadza #cover #2a03 #nintendo
i’ve set a dark gtk theme with gtk-chtheme, and realized how amazingly cool is sailfish’s ambience idea. you don’t have just applications with dark, or metallic look, you have a look, you have generated from your own picture. and every app is semi-transparent, and you see a blurred wallpaper through it. that’s so cool. and never been done before. and nobody loves sailfish. it struggles to get market, vainly. #sailfish #ambience #jolla
my #artsakh ian friend have been drawn.
#kemerovo #кемерово #кемеровомыстобой #rip #screenshot
hey, #diaspora #podmin, #podmins, #devs. yesterday evening i have logged in to my server, and noticed, there are delays. run ‘top’ and saw ~120 load average. opened a production.log, it was scrolling like crazy.
then noticed that someone somewhere, may be on irc, wrote that geraspora is down, and then, that geraspora is back. and i guess, may be geraspora came back and started to send a lot of messages to other servers, and my machine is weak small server, and it was under the load because of that? i have tried to reboot, and saw that my server is ok, just it has to process a lot. so did anyone experience sloweness (my server was under such a load it was unusable) . and then i saw that the log does not scroll as fast, and load average started to go down. and then i did not touch anything, just server became useable. do any of you have monitoring logs, did you have cpu/memory usage peaks in the evening?
i have been written this comparison two months ago in armenian, when set up local mastodon instance. let me try to translate.
so diaspora vs mastodon.
technical:
— diaspora has markdown support — mastodon has not. — diaspora provides atom feeds — mastodon does not։ (the comment under armenian post says that mastodon version 2.3.1 actually provides atom feeds) — diaspora has mail like system — mastodon has no։ — diaspora has real time chat — mastodon has no։ — diaspora can strip geolocation information from images. — diaspora can crosspost to twitter, facebook, tumblr, wordpress. mastodon cannot. — diaspora has post preview. — recent feature - diaspora provides embedded players for media links.
— it is possible to follow/subscribe to the tag in diaspora. in mastodon as i understand, you can pin the tag and see it always in one of the columns of desktop web view.
— mastodon streams are autoupdating. as i understand they use push, and it’s very fast. also i like it because you see life is happening. diaspora page has to be reloaded manually, it only shows notification count. — diaspora has no API, mastodon has. — that’s why there are several useful applications for mastodon, but no one for diaspora. — mastodon allows to customize your page a bit more, and to choose that long header image. — mastodon has user data import/export, therefore migration, but that’s coming to diaspora. — mastodon provides a feature to silence not only a person, but node or tag. — mastodon provides separate stream for all public posts on a node, and that i find useful. — it’s much easier to set up local community rules from the admin interface. — admin interface has much more features.
cultural:
in diaspora, in my opinion, people not from our node usually tend to not write, but share links or images. also, they are mostly from europe, and leftist. let’s take in to consideration, that american lefts are right compared to european lefts.
in mastodon people from not our node usually come from twitter background, therefore the text is more common there. even if it’s realtime shitposting, i love that. also, they seem different to me, not necessarily mostly left. there seem to be more people, and more technical as well. it looks like there are more life than in diaspora.
#diaspora #mastodon #community #technology #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IzKoQQuyIU
tigran hamassian and serj tankian. i also know tolstov, hes yerevanian. tigran is from gyumri.
#music #armenian-music via
https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0mBFwl8PO/?taken-by=haroutunianmariam very yerevanian #yerevan #architecture #love
people, i need a web software, cms, preferrably not php, for a film photo community. need to have some customizable front page, user blogs, user invites, image uploading. that comes to my mind now. markdown, if possible.
anybody has this track? Orche/Strada ft.Claire Chase - Calligraphy please please #music
#friendzone
https://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/press/statement-british-council-russia
on jolla encryption https://together.jolla.com/question/2158/optional-encryption-of-the-device/ #jolla #sailfish #encryption
#hyperspace #lofi shot with Polaroid i-Zone 550
at box film lab. #yerevan #box_photolab #lofi shot with Polaroid i-Zone 550
#lofi #achajour @{անկապ; ach94er@spyurk.am} shot on Polaroid i-Zone 550
https://www.buzzworthy.com/jakub-rozalski-fuses-history-fantasy-captivating-paintings/ #art
today everything not over http (let’s say IRC) is sort of underground. #irc #underground
i love the grain of black and white film. hp5 400 EI 1600.
#vanadzor #saxophone #bw #film #outofthescanner #35mm
bye bye slack. #slack
why i like social networks is because those contain traces of life, just like walls do. it’s interesting that one of the first things kids do with text, is they write their names on the wall near the house.
#photo #outofthecamera
#photo #outofthecamera
#photo #outofthecamera
Just as it helps our politicians to know when we want change, we can tell Kodak just how much we want Kodachrome back in production. Share this article with your friends. Tell them to call and email and write to and about Kodak. Tell them how much we want Kodachrome back, how much it would be in Kodak’s best interest, how much we do love it, and the responsibility that they have to deliver on that love. After all, Kodachrome: sounds an awful lot like something only Kodak could bring to the market.
https://fstoppers.com/film/kodachrome-might-make-comeback-and-you-could-help-161128 #kodachrome
very interesting article about Joel Meyerowitz https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots #photography #ny #street
#architecture #regjevingskvartlet #oslo #1958 #1969 #erling_viksjø
#charles_angrand #impressionism #city #evening
#rodin #erwitt #photography
#putin #photography photo by associated press photographer. #orwell
i believe, very necessary feature in diaspora is search for user’s posts, tagged with some tag.
let’s say i want to see what i, or this user have been written about it. #diaspora
this openbsd’s theo is just crazy. and that’s amazing. because of openbsd we have openssh, openntpd, mozilla’s memory allocator, and atheros chipset. just what i remember right now.
#openbsd
#architecture
While turntablism and broader DJ practices should not be conflated, Katz suggests use or lack of use of the turntable broadly by women across genres and disciplines is impacted upon by what he defines as “male technophilia.”
Lucy Green has focused on gender in relation to musical performers and creators, and specifically on educational frameworks as they relate to both.[49] She suggests that women’s alienation from “areas that have a strong technological tendency such as DJ-ing, sound engineering and producing” are “not necessarily about her dislike of these instruments but relates to the interrupting effect of their dominantly masculine delineations.”
i know this guy for more than 15 years, and he is amazing and crazy. (:
first world problems.
impressive http://stuffin.space/ #earth #space #satellites
https://issuu.com/urbanlab_am/docs/ind-scape-preprint #yerevan #armenia
affordable backup solution with open source client https://tarsnap.com
https://medium.com/@_neerajpal/explained-difference-between-x86-x64-disassembly-49e9678e1ae2
idea for horror film https://mobile.twitter.com/Vartan84/status/967119721597456386 (:
kodak t-max p3200 is back. #kodak #film #photography
yesterday i have tested and sent this piece of code to one girl, it calculates only the size of directories, the sum to be precise.
find -type d -ls | awk 'BEGIN {a=0}{a+=$7}END{print a}'
and she said she did not receive the email, so i have checked and apparently i sent it to other girl because of the thunderbird autocomplete.
then i replied to the other girls email - no offence. #bash #scripting #awk
dirk de herger #photography #foto #girl #city #bw
But of all the games, I prefer the one about the other Asterion. I pretend that he comes to visit me and that I show him my house. With great obeisance I say to him “Now we shall return to the first intersection” or “Now we shall come out into another courtyard” Or “I knew you would like the drain” or “Now you will see a pool that was filled with sand” or “You will soon see how the cellar branches out”.
https://klasrum.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/9/1/9091667/the_house_of_asterion.pdf #borges #asterion #story
aljazeera published an article about Artsakh.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/nagorno-karabakh-silent-war-door-180215082611944.html
#artsakh #nkpeace
Vatican releases special postage stamp depicting Pope Francis and Armenian Genocide Memorial behind him https://armenpress.am/eng/news/913872 #armenian-genocide #armenian_genocide #pope #francis #stamp #vatican
wow such a nice video about one decisive fragment of armenian history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4FHivSplU #armenia #history #persia #empire #politics #freedom
because you’re a fool when you start something new. so if you’re not willing to start anything new, and if you’ll never start anything new then you won’t develop. and so the willingness to be a fool is pre-curse for transformation. and that’s the same as humility.
so if you gonna write your destiny, do a bad first job. you gonna get smarter when you get forward.
may be the star you pedalled wish for is the wrong damn star. but at least it was a star. at least it was in the sky. at least it moved him forward. and so you say in your life something grips you and fills you with interest. and you think should i do that? and answer is if not that then something.
you’ve been informed by the results of you errors. what happens is you follow the light, and you’re blind, you don’t know what like is, its deeply apprehended only, and you’re afraid to follow it. but you decided to take stumbling steps towards it, and as you take stumbling steps towards it, you become illuminated, and enlightened, and informed, because of the nature of your experience, because you were pushing yourself beyond when you are, and you’re going in to the country you have not yet been in. and you learn something. and what happens next is the star moves. you move ten feet towards it, and you think, no that’s not right, it isn’t there, it’s actually there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z1vRF4L-sE
#peterson
i know there are problems, even one time i have mixed up the button and it stopped this my first set https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/live-b4-room-feb-9-2018 #inkyfromthetape #set
it looks like a very good design decision of mastodon developer(s) to show in the mastodon instance window posts of the contact your node knows about, but if you want to see all the posts, there is a link to the person’s original page at their instance. diaspora has no such link, so we cannot explore posts by someone which our pod anaware of. #diaspora #mastodon
this is 3d rendering. https://twitter.com/SmallLebowskii/status/960208966717464578 #3d #history #render
the excerpt from an email sent by someone i used to serve with in military ~20 years ago, he lives in usa now. one of my early nicknames was chnorik, which i did not choose, btw, and never liked. i also don’t like when people use shortened version of my name like here. and not that i adore che guevara either. but still.
Privet dorogov Che Norik!
Yes, there is no mistake. Che Norik, like Che Guevara. Quote: — What is the most important quality of a revolutionary? — El Amor…, Love… Love for humanity, for justice and truth. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/che/)
This is how I remember him. In the gray environment, created by *****nyans, carnations, toadies, ****kians, there was a bright person, who used to smile, greet other people and stay just a normal human.
surnames closed by me.
well thank you. it is a pleasure to get such an email.
Featured artist: Cressida Campbell
We stayed at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel, which was built by the Sarkies Brothers in the 1800s. They were the Armenian brothers who built the Raffles hotel in Singapore.
https://www.dumbofeather.com/conversations/featured-artist-cressida-campbell/ #art #cressida_campbell
Nasturtiums, (2002) by Cressida Campbell. #art #cressida_campbell #nasturtiums
enjoy this piece by nalbandian brothers and dzuk (fish in armenian) https://soundcloud.com/brothersnalbandyan/brothers-nalbandyan-and-dzuk-ashun-instrumental #music
ah fckn-serious.de has instagram channel https://www.instagram.com/fckng_serious/ and they have published this https://www.instagram.com/p/BSa-3Z_ACsP/ #techno #music #edm
contract based programming http://www.jacob-sparre.dk/programming/contracts/fosdem-2018-slides #ada #spark
ali li pona
#tokipona #toki_pona
this is something like a breakthrough http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html
on #telegram plans, somewhat sceptically https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2710410.0
aaaaa this is an amazing possibility, if you want to transfer files from one host to the other without scp/rsync, just by using ssh. apparently, ssh can take data from standard input, so the pipeline works like this:
tar -cf - env/novation | ssh arnet.am "cd /tmp; tar -xf -"
https://github.com/norayr/home_sweet_home/blob/master/scripts/ssh_sync.sh #openssh #ssh #network #unix
so one french armenian dj came here recently, and this week-end he goes to tbilisi, to bassiani. i have asked, if he did know bassiani before coming to the region, and he said - of course, it is one of the best clubs in the world. #tbilisi #bassiani
— did you sign a contract with satan so that you don’t get old? i think you haven’t changed for the last 10 years. — yes, how did you know? the deal is that i don’t get old but always fail with the girls I like.
Lebanon pre-civil war, Byblos, 1965.
#lebanon #byblos #1965 #history
i did not share it, how get physical presents itself, they are those who brought you whomadewho. (:
#get_physical #getphysical #whomadewho #screenshot
Apparently, rhel/centos 6.5 sssd version ioesn’h have -E option, but 6.6 already has.
I think #nxs price will skyrocket when they skyrocket the sats. Literally.
so #telegram #tokipona group has 99 members.
@{Քսելջեն; xelgen@spyurk.am} տես https://medium.freecodecamp.org/designing-a-font-from-scratch-and-submitting-it-to-google-fonts-in-24-hours-152a30c57095?mc_cid=4ed259619b
list of tlds. http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt #internet
new lens new me.
never never going do~wn~~ https://soundcloud.com/m-a-n-d-y/whomadewho-hi-low-mandys-higher-and-lower-remix
the best hi & low remix ever
i have norayr.am/tmp, for temporary data, now need to create norayr.am/pmt for permanent. (:
march 2017. i did not publish it back then, because i was ashamed of those small carpets, and got rid of them soon after seing them on the photo. but i would like it to be published. yes, not a good photo, but i have an emotional connection with it.
fujichrome velvia 50, mamiya zm, 28mm mamiya lens. #tea #girl #yerevan
when i see videos like that, which i usually don’t, and i see that attractive racing game, i have a feeling that i am not developed and narrow minded person, who because of that misses important things in life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIZY8pofpy4
#game
i collect this sugar envelopes, get them at the cafeterias. it started because i never had sugar at home, and one of my friends was getting very frustrated that i would suggest him tea without sugar. so, instead of buying sugar i started to get those small sugar envelopes i was getting at the cafeterias with tea. then i became obsessive about it. and today i don’t allow anyone to touch my collection. though the friend also learned by himself, that the sugar is not the best thing to use sugar, and gave it up.
this was said because now there’s such an envelope on my table, given to me by another friend when we met last time. when she was somewhere last time, she got the sugar envelope to bring to me. and that’s extremely nice feeling.
there’s a turkish chewing gum, called ‘love is…’, it shows small sketches on relationships.
so i would say, friendship is… getting sugar envelopes for him, so that you can give it when you meet.
#friendship #sugar
my diaspora uses postgresql-9.5. i have also postgresql-10 now, and two different startup scripts.
how do i move (or should i?) the diaspora db to postgre-10 ? #diaspora
@{Սև կատու; alils_@spyurk.am}, may be you can answer?
if i upgrade prosody to 0.10, will diaspora modules continue to work? #diaspora #prosody
very interesting photo stream https://www.flickr.com/photos/robof07
this guy used nikon p7000, small sensor camera, and now uses ricoh gr. you cannot really distinguish by pictures.
i guess, may be preference for tabs or spaces is connected to how low level person is that, if it’s a person who prefers more granular control, even when not necessary, they would prefer spaces over tabs. #programming #tab #space
how does it feel, to be a disappointment? #nth
when people play chess, they sometimes say “i have every step written down”. so we have every step written down in the blockchain. #blockchain
#smile
Seen some great charts this week from the #Meltdown patch, here’s memcached getting hammered due to RDS latency.
modern game with pixelart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupdeq1MoVw
via https://spyurk.am/posts/2940805 #game #pixelart
i guess we get this satisfaction from the small tools we build, because at least something in our lives works and is controllable. to some extent.
new gimp splash screen. (:
#gimp #splash #design #autumn
This combination of the defender’s advantage and the positive feedback loop in mining creates a property called censorship resistance.
https://taylorpearson.me/why-is-bitcoin-valuable/
very good article on bitcoins, and it relaits to all cryptocurrencies. #bitcoin #decentralization #censorship
summer or autumn 2013. mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7, kodak cft. #kodak_cft #film #street
The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson Why are young Brits flocking to hear a psychology professor talk about morality?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/the-curious-star-appeal-of-jordan-peterson/
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} @{կաֆկաէսքի հերոս; hrexen@spyurk.am}
so interesting, in armenian we use wave like sign ՜ in order to stretch or stress words. and i noticed that people in japan use ‘~’ sign, and it turned out the usage is very similar. see the screenshot. (:
This 1831 Armenian language book on how to fight fires and survive fire published in Venice.
#armenian #1831 #book #survival #venice
today is friday, right? is it caturday? so i can post a caturday picture. not very funny may be. still have a good sleep. #caturday sorry, this was scanned with not an excellent scanner. mamiya ze-2, kodak cft #kodakcft #film
p. s. may be saturday is the day? whatever.
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} in shoushi realschule ruins, summer 2013. kodak cft, mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7.
#shoushi #shushi #artsakh #2013 #realschule #building #kodakcft #film
someone else. #screenshot #mastodon #someoneelse
fashion show in in yerevan, 1985.
inscription on the wall says something about soviet-czechoslovakia friendship. i guess the design is from czechoslovakia. note how ‘sad’ everything is, in this try to make something shiny and attractive. this expresses sovietness a lot.
http://history.armenpress.am/photos/5479-նորաձևության-ցուցադրություն.html
#yerevan #ussr #cccp #czechoslovakia #fashion #1985 #design #history #girls
when you try to fit in where you don’t belong.
Study: Chickens prefer beautiful humans.
Abstract: We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this result in the light of current debate on the meaning of sexual signals and suggest further tests of existing hypotheses about the origin of sexual preferences.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-002-1021-6
omg, that might be because we all are relatives, and have similar taste, or because there is universal concept of beauty, and we all get some of it. but i think first is more probable. #taste
#armenian #fashion #1903 #constantinople
they way homeless walk and talk. that’s my stream.
shot by @{դինջ; lubekar@spyurk.am}, it was her birthday. @{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} and @{Allergic Designer; alex@spyurk.am} are also taggable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbgELsq75Yw
#birthday #fun #kite
in the dream i was making photos of a girl, in a flat, in a high floor building.
when looking through the made photos, i first thought that probably she’ll like this and this picture, because her face is expressive there, but then i saw a photo, i have chosen.
i made a shot against a window, and she is not very well seen, there is also a mirror on the wall, and the city is visible through the window.
and i thought that’s the best shot, though i cannot see her face, but i see the pose, how she sits, by the way with her back turned towards the city, and the room in the mirror and the city behind her, tell us about a context of her life.
something like that. #dream #photo
In Armenia, Mount Aragats looms overhead as a permanent fixture in the sky binding people from all walks of life together
text about one of armenian design companies.
probably no other service affected internet as much as facebook, which by having an ambition to cover as many needs as possible, turned internet in to the universal access to one global BBS, not more, not less. i don’t know, may be it’s because of us as well? may be if we were more literate, it would not happen?
factory in yerevan, march 2012, nokia n900, fcamera.
#photo #yerevan #factory #nokia_n900 #n900 #fcamera #lofi
i thought this is a failed shot because of the light leaks, and now i think, it’s better because of the light leaks.
mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7, kodak cft. september 2013.
https://norayr.am/weblog/2017/12/20/19380/
#photo #horses #lightleak
this is a very bad scan. shot in june 2014. airport of goris, armenia, near shinuhayr village. my father told me, he was a pilot, that they were calling this airport an aircraft carrier, because the runway ends at the gorge border. no other place for an airport in the vicinity.
mamiya 1000dtl, zenitar fish-eye 16mm (i did not have other ultrawide angle lens that time), kodak cft.
#architecture #armenia #airport #goris #shinuhayr #photo #film
says:
the global warming is a myth, it’s just funtoo/gentoo popularity is much higher each year
#gentoo #funtoo
i watch people who walk at the street and think that every time has its spirit, and there are people who are out of that, in some way.
talking with @{անկապ; ach94er@spyurk.am} about the negative sides of globalization at burger king, in yerevan.
well, sincerery, the shawrma made by syrian armenians at let’s say, pushkin street, is just amazing compared to all this crap. cannot resist being judgemental, it’s all too much unbearably uneatable.
the problem with esperanto, i understand today, is that, if many people adopt it, and it’ll become really alive, if tumblr kids will write in it, they’ll screw the language up, it won’t be the language without exceptions, because humans are the creatures who treat languages freely, so it would loose its essential properties of the language which is easy to learn, has no exceptions, etc.
#esperanto #language
https://www.flickr.com/photos/116685283@N05/37092036076/in/dateposted/
#photo #photography
Map those instances, and one thing becomes clear pretty fast: Mastodon is mostly a Japanese phenomenon. The two largest Mastodon instances – pawoo.net and mstdn.jp – have over 100,000 users each, significantly more than mastodon.social, the “mothership” site that Rochko himself administers. Three of the top five Mastodon instances are based in Japan, and the Mastodon monitoring project estimates that 61% of the network’s users are Japanese.
In one sense, this isn’t a surprise. Twitter is massive in Japan, where it has more users than Facebook, and is projected to be used by half of all social network users and a quarter of all internet users this year. But that’s not the whole explanation.
#mastodon #federation #decentralization
i feel so stupid, i was browsing through my bios to turn off hyperthreading, because some build scripts run 4 processes on my actually 2 core machine, so i went to bios to disable hyperthreading, and i have noticed the setting for charging, and an instruction, that if i press fn+f2, i can stop the charging, and not overcharge the battery! of course there had to be such a feature, but i thought it’s too good to be true.
i even remember the bios update of somene’s, i guess asus, which would not change the battery more than 80%, and it is not always convenient, what if i know i need the fully charged battery today?
thinking that something is too good to be true is a pattern, by the way, i usually think that something good is not really possible, but that gives me opportunities to not keep high hopes in people, if someone promised to do something, i still have to have a backup, and i check if anything went successful, whatever i do, if it’s a copy of the file, or new function in the code. thus i keep better relationships with people, because i don’t expect them to be responsible, trustworthy, good, willing to help, etc, but on the other hand i don’t manipulate them to be responsible by let’s say being offended, so that may be does not make world a better place.
my new sailfish ambience, made from kenji tsuruta work, from the memory of emanon.
#kenji_tsuruta #jolla #sailfish #ambience #emanon
tokyo has TLD and there’s a pod social.ciubotaru.tokyo. amazing.
#night #day
Once on her own, Manana is shown enjoying the small satisfactions of single life: listening to music, reading, noodling on her guitar, changing her clothes without disturbing others, shopping at leisure, nurturing tomato plants on her deck, and eating cake instead of an entire meal without attracting any criticism. She builds her new life slowly, fighting to resist attempts by needy family members to draw her into their time-sucking circle again. But when she attends a school reunion and proudly tells her female friends about her new status, they share some news that comes as a shocking revelation to Manana, and almost shatters her newfound peace of mind.
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/my-happy-family-review-1201962787/
looks like this georgian film also worth watching. well, georgian cinema is amazing.
hmmm i’ve been in this village https://massispost.com/2017/12/village-armenia-may-teslas-next-powerpack-location/
http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/memories_of_emanon/
http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/memories_of_emanon/
#kenji_tsuruta #emanon #manga
source #art #girl #airplane #trip
looks like pixelart, but that’s oil.
#eyvind_earle #painting #oil #coast
this type of connection is called ‘half duplex’ connection.
think how different America would be, if every American knew that this is fifth time western armies have gone to Afghanistan to put its house in order. And if they had some idea of exactly what had happened on those four previous occasions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI
this guy is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_tI21aUHrw (: #sofort #instax #fuji
i guess, instax film is more sensitive to being expired, because it’s a film and developer in one. regular film is only the film, and you can develop it in fresh chemicals. also, of course usually cameras won’t allow you to set iso manually and compensate by overexposing. #instax
city of ani on theatlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/01/the-ancient-ghost-city-of-ani/100668/ #ani #armenia
because those are beautiful!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure
#anime
I can’t describe what my brain experiences by looking at this photo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HwanHVDKQU There is something amazing in buildings and windows. I shot a roll of superia 400 at 1600 iso recently and it’s all just buildings and windows at night.
today we had buttle/tuttle kind of problems at work. this happens in reality. indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWrUl3uemb4
http://www.rimac-automobili.com/en/supercars/concept_one/ yet another electric car.
#artsakh #freedom
i’ve shared it but let me share it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU
there is a guy, he got deported from usa several times. last time he tried to enter usa via mexico with the guide by mountains. so these guy could do any dirty job in usa, but of course he does not work in armenia.
and i think, how am i different, i would photograph anything with pleasure, any other city, but not yerevan.
i found it, i found it, i found it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI_ge2VYYAI
it’s on seventh minute of the mandy mix by whomadewho.[1]
#music #whomadewho #Christian_Löffler
i want to not have fomo and do a lot of work. i want to read on the internet less. i want to leave stupid comments less, not because of embarrassment, but because time is limited. i want to accomplish some work. and i want to be in the warmer place, where will be no snow or haze.
and i feel myself a philistine, when i talk about tbilisi. because i lack to appreciate the city i live in. and i would not like anyone who does that.
i want to feel that the most frightening thing is not what i am afraid of, but not making work.
i want to be able to photograph yerevan, but it is very hard for me. i don’t love it. i don’t. i cannot.
how he was able to understand?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
amazing.
i have a feeling that diaspora is a trap you don’t invite people in. trap in the sence, you give them false hopes, they come and try however they can to find themselves here, and they leave frustrated. how does mastodon feel? it has community and ‘life’, right?
having commitment and integrity to who you are keeps you away from those who may bring you frustrations, and brings you closer to those you would enjoy socializing with. if there are any.
this is not even a problem of a small society. it is on the scale of the planet.
relationships have dependencies and prerequisites. for a friendship or romantic relationship to exist, the participants have to meet. meeting means that they exist in the same world.
i say world, and mean dimensions and time. i say dimension, and mean, shared environment, existence, way of life. in one world everything most important exists around the theatre: discussions about directors, current performances, unanswered questions. in the other world, it’s when and where to harvest food. in some world the main, big and fat tag in the tag cloud is politics. somewhere it’s literature. some people live in a world where it’s important to know modern hardware, models, trends. some people live in a world of mathematical proofs. the worlds have to overlap, this is a prerequisite.
worlds can overlap somewhere outside of the main tag area. people go to clubs, pubs, political rallies, film festivals, art exhibitions, IT conferences. so if one does enjoy friday nights, and the other has no idea what people do on friday night and where, then they won’t meet and get acquainted. and even if they have been acquainted somewhere else, in order for the relationship or a friendship to sustain there must be willingness and readiness to merge the worlds, existences, or at least some parts of those. but why?
what can decrease the amount of frustration in the world, is the recognition that the person you had an idea to be involved with somehow lives in the other world. you don’t get involved with someone from the mars. so it’s not stupid to recognize that let’s say this young girl who talks about the theatre all the time, has her own world, and options to consider there. and that may be if you cross the world border, and establish your troops there, because you think you need this, that’s an aggression, and unjustified behaviour to mess with someone’s life.
this is a very good article https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article #golang #go #rob_pike #programming
these are film photos, but lofi, taken with ‘soap’ automatic, fixed focus camera.
https://aniramsky.com/portfolio/hayastan-3-autumn/ - bw photos https://aniramsky.com/portfolio/hayastan-2/ - colour photos
check his site for more work. #lofi #armenia #photo #sketch
photo of the day.
by gleb garanich/reuters.
#saakashvili
vanities. marla maples, donald trump and imelda marcoss. march 1991 by dafydd jones.
#1991 #trump #vanities
#sevan #architecture #modernism #armenia #mazmanian #kochar #photo #lake
the cheapest fuji film - c200, mamiya zm, 28mm lens.
#sevan #architecture
mamiya zm, mamiya sekor e 28mm f2.8, fujifilm eterna 250d film. my weblog link: https://norayr.am/weblog/2017/10/07/18856/
Saakashvili’s greatest dreams have come true and Tbilisi’s hybrid of exoticness and refinement has reached the tastemaker’s class. You no longer have to worry about getting hit up for a bribe or randomly shot. Tourists come to Tbilisi, and more importantly they overwhelmingly love the place. It is the closest thing to the last unspoiled place in Europe. There is a new Tbilisi that is dynamic, on the vanguard of culture, and they have first class accommodation for all the posh journalists that have come to marvel in the fact that Tbilisi is not some Soviet backwater.
http://www.postpravdamagazine.com/tbilisi-fucking-documenting-sexual-awaking-omara-gogichaishvili/
here it is also very interesting how georgian journalist would like to present georgia and tbilisi, independently of what’s the reality. i know what’s the reality. (: people are creatures that believe stories they tell about themselves.
#tbilisi #georgia
What I found out was that even though there are frustrating moments when inheritance IS actually the optimal solution, being forced to use composition has helped me think differently about how to structure my code for the better. Inheritance makes it too easy to design yourself into a trap where refactoring becomes extremely expensive even when necessary. Go is designed to make refactoring much easier by doing things like forcing the use of composition.
https://www.quora.com/Why-should-someone-choose-Go-as-his-main-programming-language
#golang #programming
Competitive programming means you are generally skipping some solid philosophies and patterns for stable development. Training to be competitive is thus developing bad habits on purpose.
https://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming-Is-there-any-top-competitive-programmer-using-Go-as-main-language #programming
this is why its easier to get blown up highlights on digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsqbe8Gwi4 #photography
aaa fpm’s don’t you know main riff sounds like sweet child o’mine (((: #fpm #gunsnroses #music
apparently the director is mamoru hosoda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg7f4Eu4XKQ i did not know him when i first watched this fpm clip. take a look at this as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7p5mTYw0cs and this is takashi murakami.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwenXbTIm8
https://the.me/unprecedented-retro-rangefinder-yashica-y35-digifilm/ #yashica #camera #kickstarter #japan
the reason of doing this is not because we want to be entrepreneurs, i actually hate being called entrepreneur, cause i’m not in to these whole ‘i want to make money and be successful and buy rocket ship’ or whatever people would do with their money nowadays, i think that most entrepreneurs are, when they are successful, they turn in to idiots. and they want to be rockstars, because we have this view of entrepreneurs as the new rock stars, they same thing with entrepreneurs and rock stars, like big egos and lots of money and privileges, so we should stop celebrating entrepreneurs, and just celebrate innovation instead.
shoushi on architectonictravels stream. not the most iconir shoushi architecture of course. according to the new constitution, it is called republic of artsakh, no ‘nagorno karabakh’ any more.
#shushi #shoushi #artsakh
i like this too. #photo
this is an outstanding shot of khanjian’s house. it is made with 50mm lens, and it is not easy to shoot buildings with that focal length. by @{noon; noon@spyurk.am}, or actually, this is the real user page on instagram.
shot on #fomapan 400 film.
#khanjians_house #dilijan
the second photo I would like to share with you today is taken with Nikon FM/35mm F2.0 lens on Eastman Double X 5222 film.
#eastman #35mm #doublex #eastman_double_x #5222 #film #film-photography #film_photography #girl
i’d like to share a couple of photos with you, those are not taken by me. this shot was taken with 50mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar ZM F1.5 lens on Adox Silvermax film. I guess Helios 85mm F1.5 is one of its descendants, well its design is taken from Biotar 1.5 but I guess it is related with Sonnar F1.5 too.
#photography #adox #silvermax #film #35mm #sonnar #sonnar_zm #film-photography #film_photography #zeiss #girl #photo
watched the circle. would like to discuss it with someone irl.
#robot #programming
bringing the sound of tbilisi to london, berlin, india, tokyo, world wide! fuck yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYlzQjAhyA8 #set #tbilisi #newa
I have added a grouped tag cloud on my blog, so the photos are browsable by film, by camera, by location, by lens, and by scanner.
https://norayr.am/weblog/ #photo #photography
you know, i love georgia, and i love tbilisi, and i would like to spend a month there, because i am extremely tired of the constant high load, i would describe tbilisi as a best city in the world i have seen, and the second would be new york. i mean, now you can imagine how i do love tbilisi. i also love the georgian language, i sincerely would like to be fluent in it, it sounds very beautiful to my ear.
now after this disclaimer i would like to tell you, that it’s surprising, how we, in caucasus can feel ourselves losers, if the neighbour could achieve something which we did not.
once i was in tbilisi, and there was this girl, who was sharing her experience with the mentioned by me in the previous post application ‘picsart’. she said - “it’s an amazing application, i do not use photoshop any more, you don’t need to as well, you can edit photos in picsart, and it has outstanding features”. well, i doubt you don’t need photoshop or gimp if you have picsart installed, but still, i said, not without feeling good about it, of course, that it’s an armenian startup.
now, because i write it here on my english stream, i need to justify why did i feel good. i know i personally did not participate the development of the app. but those are people like me. i did not study with them, they are a bit younger, but they share the same university teachers (not the best in the world, obviously), the same blockade, and crappy political situation, they went to serve in the army near the borders, like me, and they had some good ideas to create/participate the development of the application. i think it was possible to make it technically much better, i dislike the implementation, but still. the same feeling i do have, when i see good architecture. i know those who did the projects - again, people i know, those are some of us, i am one of them, not better, not worse, and that means we, are actually capable, as a society to produce good buildings, make good design, i would like, and not ashamed to show. even less ashamed than to show picsart, i would not be proud to show picsart. but that means, that though the ruling elite has its own toy architects, who are, of course stupid, because no sane person with dignity would collaborate with the regime, and that’s why we have a lot of buildings i am ashamed of, we as a society are able to produce something i won’t be ashamed of.
so if i can be ashamed of something, then i may allow myself to be proud of something as well.
and yes, i know the yerevan is completely spoiled place, it’s not what it was, it’s not what it could become. one of my friends (friends? acquaintances) uses the tag #independentlandscape for that, which is really sad, because yes, in the independent armenia we are not able to have the ruling elite we would choose. there are different global factors, including russia’s support of our current government, and the real war situation. i used to say ‘semi war’ to describe the situation, when no active military actions are taken every day, but the shootings are real, and every day people near border live under the fire. it’s real. just those in yerevan, or those who don’t take their noses out of yerevan don’t feel that. don’t know that. don’t understand that.
so back to the story, the girl in tbilisi was showing the picsart as an app, because of which you won’t need photoshop. and i said - yes, i know the app, it’s our local startup. and she said - ‘no, it’s not possible, it’s a good, important application, how could it be developed in armenia?’. and i said: ‘yes, my friends work there, i know the people who does it, i have been in their office.’ and she was in denial for some time, and then she was very upset.
so to me, georgian successes in fighting corruption, let’s say, those give me a hope, that we also can do that. this is something very close to us, and it demonstrates that we also can do that, it is real, observable, tangible. so i am glad we have georgia as a good example and inspiration.
what is frustrating, is when your neighbours have this competition feeling with you, you cannot be good for them by definition, because they are superior. it is sad when they, instead of being glad for your achievements, feel upset about those. we go to georgia, but they mostly don’t come to us. the only case a lot of young people from georgia came to yerevan was the concert of the ‘system of the down’, the armenian group at the main square of yerevan. so this is the story. sorry for bothering you. till.
i do not like the armenian startup ‘picsart’, the pride of many, because of different, mostly technical reasons, but i really like that it’s the first successful company, which promotes remixing, and encourages you to upload a photo under a license which provides opportunity to remix. they even have a hash tag, #freetoremix, if i am not mistaken. #picsart #instagram #photography #mobile_photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGhk0fPhyY
the video found via @{rareloveboy@diasporing.ch; rareloveboy@diasporing.ch} #facebook #piratebay #young_turks #social_media
omg fl studio is written with delphi.
#flstudio #fl_studio #daw #delphi #pascal
i have shown you this building several times http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/9184/lake-sevan-writers-resort-history-armenia-modernist-masterpiece #sevan
indeed
Me being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
#wirth #pascal #modula #oberon
yep. #phone #call #dinosaur
girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
from the instagram stream of the girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
The files show that in 2011, VTB funded a $191m investment in Twitter. About the same time, Gazprom Investholding financed an opaque offshore company, which in turn funded a vehicle that held $1bn-worth of Facebook shares.
this building is usually (and now) on my desktop.
#architecture #georgia #modernism
#georgia #architecture #design
http://simula67.at.ifi.uio.no/50years/ 50 years anniversary of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language.
#simula #programming-languages #programming_languages #programming
isn’t the google wear better than pebble? no.
#pebble
Baku Blacklists Anthony Bourdain for Artsakh Visit
http://asbarez.com/168025/baku-blacklists-anthony-bourdain-for-artsakh-visit/ #artsakh
what you see on the photo is called ‘jingialov hats’, bread with herbs, more than twenty of them.
#always (that’s an armenian twitter meme, #միշտ)
#lewis_carroll #stark #screenshot #alsa #sound
#ararat #city #yerevan
http://www.shondaland.com/live/a12919749/amy-tan-interview/
i read, therefore i am in the basement, near the wall, listening the set.
teenager garage band from yerevan https://soundcloud.com/drowner47/khio #yerevan #band #khio #armenian
dream different!
#dream #different
#dirkgently #dirkgentlybbca #mandelbrot
usually i don’t enter jabber any more. i am tired to turn it on by knowing noone will write me. there are a couple of contacts anyway. all of them had other ways of communication with locals, except me.
since june i have twitter. i don’t keep that thing opened, and don’t receive emails from it with the account i always check.
recently one guy tried to contact me for a very important for me opportunity, i had to be somewhere at exact time, and he did it via twitter, so i missed that.
i’ve asked why didn’t he use email and he said it did not pass through his mind. several people also agreed that email only has an association with work and tons of emails they need to read but don’t want to.
What’s a bit unclear at this point is the company behind this Ektachrome relaunch. The original announcement at CES was made by Kodak Alaris, a separate company that’s owned by the Kodak Pension Plan in the UK and which runs Kodak’s Personalized Imaging division. But this latest comment was made by the Facebook page verified as being operated by the Eastman Kodak Company, based in the United States.
https://petapixel.com/2017/09/13/return-kodak-ektachrome-film-nigh/
#ektachrome
let me share it with you as well, it’s amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRIjeN7Yjk #whomadewho
barev (բարեւ) means ‘hello’ in armenian, and probably means wishing the good cause ‘bari’ (բարի) means that.
#tbilisi
i have shared it a lot of times may be, but it won’t harm, one of my favourite buildings ever, photo not mine. #tbilisi
I FIXED MY CAR! I FIXED MY CAR! I FIXED MY CAR!
well, it was way too easy and duckduckgo helped me, also i had that idea myself because it was similar to the other car issue, and i was reading about it before, once in the mountains, but still, i bought the tool, opened the hood, looked very serious and cool, and apparently it worked,
I FIXED MY CAR, I FIXED MY CAR, I FIXED THE CAR!
#tokyo
#architecture #dog #berlin
: This is a picture of a couple of dogs on a farm called Cabeça Gorda in the Alto Alentejo province of Southern Portugal, which I took when I was a teenager. A shepherd entered the room, and they turned their heads to his direction.
http://emulsive.org/interviews/i-am-luis-barrancos-and-this-is-why-i-shoot-film #photography
obviously armenian guy https://soundcloud.com/herztoene-musik/herzfrequenz-von-armen-miran #armen_miran #music
this is an amazing project. #yerevan
https://www.behance.net/gallery/57668225/Armenian-intellectuals-role-pIaying-llustrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtJ-IvDzGg #woz at pozner’s show in #russian.
i met him in yerevan, have his signature on sweet16 documentation. (:
me by @{Սոնա Մանուկյան; sanyokot@spyurk.am}
#gyumri #photography
wow. xkb? doesn’t xkb work only for X? wayland has it’s own keyboard mappings.
#jolla #xkb #wayland #x11 #keyboard
i have new photos of #lori-1 wind farm. well, “new”, made in summer. i thought it’s kodak ektar, but it turned out to be kodak cft inside the kodak ektar roll. if i would new it’s b/w i would process it myself. whatever, i get this roll developed just recently, among other 9 rolls, and my slides are still undeveloped, because the lab in the other city did not have chemicals.
btw, i mentioned it again, i love this film. that film never stops to amaze me. as well as the place, it’s always always always different. unfortunately, it does not look possible to find kodak cft film in the vicinity any more. it was medical film, and some people got their hands on it in hospitals, and sold. now the resource is exhausted. it is not available on global markets as well. it was only possible to find in the region.
now i would say, that #լոռի֊1 tag in my blog, which features the place i always revisit, shows my development, but not (merely?) as photographer, but as a person. so these are the photos, attached to this post.
#kodakcft #kodak-cft #film #mamiya-zm #28mm #evening #stars #wind-farm #powerplant #lori-1 #lori
Golshifteh Farahani
me in one sentance.
roller coaster bridge http://themindcircle.com/terrifying-bridge/ #bridge #japan
English translation of the newspaper cut:
“in Omsk,
somethingwill be repaired till 15 Sep”.
According to the tender results to repair backyard spaces in Omsk, there is a list of 10 lots, each from 8 to 15 mln rubles.
The winners are companies belonging to Melik Petrossian, Artak Hakobian, Karen Martoian, Aramik Grigorian, Abgar Hayrapetian, Lazar Poghossian and Hamlet Saroian.
https://twitter.com/inkyfromthetape/status/915865312834326533
#russian #armenians #everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAawr32cVBM #dating #horror
trail along the whole territory of artsakh. https://armenpress.am/eng/news/894015/artsakh-offers-incomparable-hiking-experience-in-its-popular-trail.html #artsakh
i am not sure it’s good but it’s true. #armenia #artsakh #georgia
amazing
One day in 1999, after having been in the Ku Klux Klan for about 20 years, Kelly, who had risen from grand dragon to imperial wizard, called me, said he was leaving the Klan and apologized for having been a member. He told me he could no longer hate people.
#kkk #ku-klux-klan #hate #people
so there are these entertainment sites with that kind of ads for attraction like “which one question to ask, in order to know whole inner world of someone?”.
my friend shared facebook screenshots of such an ad, in russian. should be picture number zero here.
and the comment on the second screenshot suggests such a question: “whom crimea belongs to?”.
the background to understand how brilliant the joke is: what you may not know about russia, is that when the crimea annexation happened, there was a lot of euphoria and excitement about that, and the phrase which became a meme, and was often written without whitespace - крымнаш, which means “crimeaisours”.
when someone says “crimeaisours” you can make a lot of assumptions about them. as i am against militarism and aggression, and for me aggression is evil, you can imagine that i do not share that excitement. and when someone labels that as “annexation”, then you know whom do you talk with. i found one of my best friends by that phrase, i’ve just heard around “was it before or after crimea annexation?”. so she became one of my best friends, and later she was pressured by the government and police. btw she is ethnic russian.
“The great difficulty is thus considering the unity of the many and the multiplicity of the unity. Those who see the diversity of cultures tend to overlook the unity of mankind; those who see the unity of mankind tend to dismiss the diversity of cultures”. Edgar Morin, L’identité humaine.
https://hdelhumeau.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/language-and-globalization/ #globalization #language
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-helps-preserve-endangered-languages
do you think globalization harms or helps more small community languages? how globalization and colonization differ in that respect? how globalization relates to decolonizatdon processes?
#globalization #colonization #decolonization #language
amazing article
I cannot remember all the details. But I remember one peace conference with the French where the Vietminh were not invited. On Sept. 14, when ho signed this basically hollow document, he was heard to murmur, “I am signing my own death warrant.” But to a colleague he concluded, “there is noting else to do but fight.” Ho returned to Vietnam, but then fighting broke out in Haiphong, Mus said, that Ho had been betrayed, adding, “I use the word betrayed with full knowledge of what it means.” After that, Ho never placed faith in negotiations.
At one point, Ho went to Paris for talks again, but the French put him aboard a very slow ship while behind He’s back, they tried to install a French puppet government in his absence.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2017/09/ho-chi-minth-by-richard-sale.html
#politics #article #life #history #story
https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
#email #kernel #development #github #automation
#haskell #people http://argumatronic.com/posts/2017-09-27-haskell-is-useless.html
#car #film #photo
rock was music of hope. techno is music of solace.
#rock #music #techno #hope #solace
#girl
#girl #makeup #photo
#girl #photo
roadside america http://blog.flickr.net/en/2017/09/29/forty-years-and-eleven-thousand-images-of-roadside-america/ #flickr #photo #loc
cool gadget http://www.instructables.com/id/Modern-LED-Desk-LampPowered-by-5V-USB/
i don’t like material design. a also don’t like emboss/3d buttons.
i also don’t like retro. though i like vintage.
i think there’s no sense in making buildings today, like in 17th century. not a good design.
same with the design of the on screen buttons - if they are trying to pretend to be real, have shadow, or look like real, it does not make them real. and emulation/simulation like that is not about good design.
so the ‘back’ button on android. it emulates the phones with keyboards and those legcy interfaces. but why when you have a touchscreen? here jolla approach is much better - you don’t have that ‘back’ button. why would you? no need for that on a touch screen.
see you. #design
minolta xg-m has an amazing viewfinder, bright, big. i think i never seen any like that. mamiya 1000dtl has a good one, but not that good. also, it has the led panel near the scale with the shutter values in the viewfinder, like mamiya z series, which is very convenient. and also shows the aperture value. the film advance lever is of an amazing quality. you just feel the quality while moving it, and holding camera in hands. #minoltat
our pod is 5 years old. photos of an attempted dignity attempted birthday party here. #diaspora #attempted_dignity
C, Rust, Pascal and Go are the best in terms of energy consumption!
https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-137264.html
#golang #c #rust #pascal #energy #programming-languages #programming_languages #programming
i have a lot of film scanned with noritsu scanner at the lab. at first i was happy, especially with the results from the consumer fuji films. but the cinema fuji film - eterna, was obviously out of balance, with green shift. i’ve tried to colour balance, and was again sort of satisfied by the results, but then decided to scan same pictures with my minolta. hmm, here i think the quality is much better. there are even colours noritsu did not capture, the photo on the right have deeper colours, but if i try to do something like that with the noritsu scanned photo, i get red skin, and artefacts. so i am confused, i paid for the scanning, because i have very limited time recently, and wanted to get cool out of the scanner photos without spending much time on the process.
#photography #scan #film #film_photography #fuji_eterna #eterna #kite
this photographer has a lot of armenia photos made on leica monochromatic sensor. https://www.flickr.com/photos/74638417@N03/ #armenia #monochrome
what would an entirely flood proof city look like? #city #architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/25/what-flood-proof-city-china-dhaka-houston
#esperanto on #freakonomics http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-learn-esperanto-special-feature/
Turkish nationalists: there was no Armenian genocide Also Turkish nationalists: well there was but the Kurds did it Also Turkish nationalists: we’re gonna kill the Kurds like we killed the Armenians
https://twitter.com/mathaiaus/status/912952351178104833
#armenian_genocide #turkey #1915 #kurds #nationalism
#yerevan #1988 #carldekeyzer #photo
#tbilisi #spacehall #nicolas_jaar #concert #hands #outofthecamera #unedited
#caffeinebrewlab #dilijan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Step_Sequencer #linux #sound
#book
This is the IP address for the entire nation of Qatar. As such it is a very sensitive IP address to block and any prolonged blocks are likely to wind up in the news. As such please exercise extreme caution when deciding to block this IP address. Only block if there has been a long succession of disruptive editing or vandalism in a very short period of time. Please use very short blocks, generally anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:82.148.97.69&oldid=760432863 #wikipedia #qatar #ip #internet #screenshot #history
Black is a statement. It gives you a “look,” and fairly uncomplicatedly. It says you’re damn serious about life, and have neither the time nor the inclination to faff about with silly colour combinations and patterns. Nobody should ever mistake you as the type of person to listen to anything but dark music played in dark rooms with unsmiling people who want their clothes to be the physical extension of the abstract ideas that techno brings to the dance floor. And for the most part, it works. Nobody sees a monochrome press shot of two dudes dressed in tight black tee shirts and skinny jeans staring forlornly away from the camera and thinks, “maybe those guys play lots of disco!”
But most importantly, wearing black tells people you’re “in the know.” And in a subculture like dance music, where superior knowledge is traded like cultural capital, being in the know is basically everything. Showing up to an after party as the only dickhead dressed in yellow screams “I’m new here,” which won’t exactly earn you a surprise invitation into the green room for a cheeky one with the cool kids.
http://www.onlytechno.net/techno-djs-fans-wear-black-want-bring-colours-back-techno/
also this https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comments/2shjhx/why_do_most_djs_wear_plain_blackt/
#black #techno
#independence #sep21 #armenia
looks like i don’t need ableton because there is bitwig. (:
Live 8.2 works perfectly except for this one problem. It’s much more stable than under Windows and I can get much lower latencies (really important) using wineasio.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15695
#linux #wine #ableton #sound
If this does not help and you use pulseaudio (default on Ubuntu), kill it. Kill it with fire. (sudo killall pulseaudio).
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2113
#pulseaudio #linux #ableton #audio
that’s me!
do we have an estimation of real, active diaspora users? not the quantity of accounts, because obviously, if we don’t delete old accounts, quantity should slowly grow, which we see. so we see the slow growth, but i have an impression, when i go back several years and see some posts, that diaspora was more alive place back then. with more comments, discussions and posts.
i also have an impression, that mostly the core of dedicated users remained, others left, some came, but the social economics is sustained mostly by that dedicated core, which may be cannot imagine itself in some other place, but should anyway notice that the economy stagnates. economy with circulating likes and comments. (:
so is that only my impression? #diaspora
he also called azerbaijan a nazi state. and i must admit his words had an effect on many - we here are disconnected from the existence in azerbaijan, we read the words spoken there, and the propaganda, but we don’t take it seriously, because we on a deep level, cannot believe it happens and we are longing for peace so much, we can believe it’s indeed reachable. situation here is that people are much less aggressive-nationalistic, would like to integrate, feel themselves the part of the world, not being isolated, solve problems peacefully, and many would accept significant trade offs to establish the stable peace. and the question is, will those trade offs, that weaken de facto armenian security on the field, for the some recognized by both parties intermediate status for artsakh, will those trade offs indeed pay by peace, or we may end up in a worse situation with more aggressive azerbaijan which knows it has even more power, and gaining the remaining territories back in a short war is much more real for them. and in that scenario, would they stop by getting back artsakh by war (which is already a disaster, and means ~200.000 refugees plus a lot of deaths among both military and civilians, and everyone here would be sent to war, and we cannot handle all this), or they would go further by establishing a connection to nakhinchevan and cutting armenia from the iran. and in that case, would be armenia a country which can sustain it’s life, or that would just be the end of the state?
i always say, that feeling the situation on the ground is very important. going to artsakh and closer to the armenian borders, and seeing what is happening there is very important. driving by the road close to the border and knowing you can be shot at any moment is very important. watching the mountains and identifying who controls which one is very important. that brings you down to earth, to the reality. so freed lapshin also brings many to the reality, because he just experienced the azerbaijani reality, where one of the faults he had to pay for, he was ‘guilty’ for was calling artsakh by it’s armenian name, ‘artsakh’. that alone cannot be tolerated there. while that’s completely normal thing even in case of not political, but merely geographic entities - same places, rivers, mountains are called differently in different languages.
so Lapshin is free.
In a separate Facebook post, the blogger reflected on the Karabakh conflict and made an emotional appeal to Armenians.
“I am ashamed of admitting that before I found myself in the Azerbaijani prison I sincerely believed that the Karabakh conflict is a very disputed one and should be resolved on the basis of respect for Azerbaijan’s national borders,” he wrote. “What an idiot I was! Already in 1988 Azerbaijan began [a campaign of] terror against Armenians in [the Azerbaijani city of] Sumgait, Baku and Karabakh.”
“Armenians, hold firm!” he said. “These people want to see you dead full stop. And if you lose Karabakh as a result of negotiations or a weakening of Armenia’s position, be aware that they will come to slaughter you. Just like the Turks did 100 years ago.”
i took the English translation for you from here
#artsakh #lapshin #azerbaijan
նոր յօդուած ջոշից՝ https://www.joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay #օհ #դիզայն
i’ve changed my pin. because TRUST NOONE!
https://www.troyhunt.com/face-id-touch-id-pins-no-id-and-pragmatic-security/
armenians, armenians everywhere.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone-fingerprint-search-warrant/480861/
btw my german friends, if you know danito and athina, i am listening for their set in yerevan now. (:
i have seen the scan of the original paper in russian.
high hopes
cool, of course.
It remains unclear what the real motivations of the Culture Ministry were for shutting down the exhibit that was to run until late autumn.
https://www.evnreport.com/raw-unfiltered/eclipse
to flatter russia?
on conlangs https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/101265/constructed-languages #language #conlang
Three things you should know about RT and Sputnik https://euvsdisinfo.eu/three-things-you-should-know-about-rt-and-sputnik/ #rt #sputnik
make happen
#make
blogging is for losers http://modernreject.com/2012/01/blogging-is-for-losers/
RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/rt-sputnik-and-russias-new-theory-of-war.html
is there a prayer for successful compilation? give me a link please.
Meet KARYYN Syrian-Armenian-American electronic musician and ‘visual composer’ http://sugar-zine.com/music/meet-k-a-r-y-y-n-syrian-armenian-american-electronic-musician-and-visual-composer/ #music #audiovisual #syria
the most popular show in Armenia (among netflix users) is Sherlock. (:
#sherlock #tv #netflix #show #armenia #map
TIL swift allows emojis as variables
yes, that’s a very useful feature of the modern languages, and unicode will allow to use one exact symbol instead of =>, <=, and most importantly ==, by mapping keys, so that we’ll avoid problems like if (a=b) which is always true. (:
#programming #programming-languages #programming_languages #emoji #unicode
— … and there is no uber in monte carlo. — you had to call gg[1]. — imagine how opel astra with ‘gg’ sticker appears from behind the corner. — they would not let opel in to monte carlo, they only let ferraris and lamborghinis, because the tunnels are low, and only low cars are able to pass.
#talk #tourism
1 - local armenian taxi startup.
early eighties.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #autumn
early eighties, yerevan, phone booths.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh
bread queue, artsakh, early nineties.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh
early nineties, artsakh.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh #girl
again, 1988, liberty square.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan #protest #history #1988 #liberty_square
this photo is taken during the protests of 1988, probably early morning. yerevan, liberty square, back then theatrical.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan #protest #history #1988 #liberty_square
i would like to share some photos from the exhibition, and the book, by Gagik Haroutiunian. I’ve already shared this one before, but this photo is of a better quality. or may be not.
so, the photo is called ‘president’, and dated 1991. however, we can see the flag of armenian soviet socialistic republic, and obviously it’s 1990, atd LTP was not a president yet, he was a speaker.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #1990 #1991 #armenia #photo #ltp #flag
We in illumos were indisputably on our own, and while many outsiders gave us no chance of survival, we ourselves had reason for confidence: after all, open source communities are robust because they are often united not only by circumstance, but by values, and in our case, we as a community never lost our belief in ZFS, Zones, DTrace and myriad other technologies like MDB, FMA and Crossbow.
In stark contrast to proprietary software, open source does not — cannot, even — die. Yes, it can be disused or rusty or fusty, but as long as anyone is interested in it at all, it lives and breathes. Even should the interest wane to nothing, open source software survives still: its life as machine may be suspended, but it becomes as literature, waiting to be discovered by a future generation.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
#oracle #solaris #open-source #open_source #free_software
Oracle didn’t deserve them and now it doesn’t have them — they have been liberated, if in a depraved act of corporate violence.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
#oracle #solaris
amazing, mac version of Ableton is just a windows version running on wine.
The Azerbaijani Laundromat is a complex money-laundering operation and slush fund that handled $2.9 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in the UK.
#photo
that moment when you notice an armenian surname.
let me complain about life. i believe that’s okay to complain. may be that even has genetic base. there was a research which showed that some people, who have some genetic pattern, love to complain to friends. but that’s in usa, in korea, where complaining is considered bad, nobody does that.
so i believe it’s ok to complain. what alternative do we have? you go to instagram and you see that everybody is happy. there are couples (have have resistance for those photos, never feel bad because i know they are not as happy as they show), and there are companies, friend photos, community photos. on the opposite, armenian twitter community is rather complaining. because as i understand those are people who don’t fit in this or that way, and are refugees from facebook, of course to the known, and not isolated from the world place - twitter. not diaspora.
so to me twitter is a very nice place. i can feel connection to the local community. i don’t follow anyone interesting from the outside world - i have interesting people here. and for celebrities, well, IT celebrities, I don’t follow them on twitter, though I would like to, because I cannot handle and digest big streams. I just cannot.
and the twitter here is the place for losers, for “refugees”. and i believe that’s ok to be a loser, and accept it, and live with it. so i perceive that community as community of complaining losers, and i guess that’s much more healthy environment than the happy instagram. first of all, because the happiness is not true. especially theirs. secondly, because we see that everybody around have problems, and everybody struggling, and everybody is unhappy, and that’s okay. it’s not only you, the loser, we all are.
thus the popular tags or meme replies on the twitter armenian community are “always”, “as well”, those that confirm that everyone has the same unhappiness. and by using those as memes people make fun of themselves.
so my today’s complain is - i hate my pidgin. i hate to turn it on every day to know i won’t chat with anybody. even the IRC communities i am part of, the most interesting to me, are rather silent, because nothing, no life is going on there.
i love tbilisi because of the life. not sweet, sometimes really tough, but there’s life. something is going on. armenia is a really sad place, because it is separated from the world. now also by the curtain of the “eurasian union”. we’ve got two guests in may, for the conference, so one of them was from russia, one from europe. on the road from the airport, the russian one panicked - ‘why don’t you have anything written in russian?’, and the european one said “why do you use so many latin inscriptions, if you have own letters?’. i have answered - i guess because we want to feel ourselves the part of the world. desperately.
this Tomas Barfod song is used in David August’s epic mix. I just felt I need to hear it right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-jLy3ttEU #tomas_barfod #pulsing
the great man was wrong.
from the book and exhibition of photos made by Gagik Haroutiunian, called ‘shadows of time’.
this photo is called ‘president’, and dated 1991. however, we can see the flag of armenian soviet socialistic republic, and obviously it’s 1990, atd LTP was not a president yet, he was a speaker.
#1990 #1991 #armenia #photo #ltp #flag
p. s. i remember those sessions of the parliament, i was following them every day from the beginning till the very last minute. every day. i was 13 years old.
today’s haul.
this is very characterizing and sad, when the sentence like “you can only love armenia from afar” gets many likes and retweets.
i do believe that
one of the defining properties of love is being highly motivated to stay close.
#emigration #armenia #love
#william_egglestone #photography #egglestone #art
eventually. it is an astonishingly beauhiful road.
https://www.azatutyun.am/a/28709821.html #armenia #road
i love rob pike http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming
Rule 1. You can’t tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don’t try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you’ve proven that’s where the bottleneck is.
Rule 2. Measure. Don’t tune for speed until you’ve measured, and even then don’t unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don’t get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)
Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they’re much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.
Rule 5. Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Pike’s rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare’s famous maxim “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Ken Thompson rephrased Pike’s rules 3 and 4 as “When in doubt, use brute force.”. Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often shortened to “write stupid code that uses smart objects”. #programming
she says “traditions of our backyard”. (: #yerevan #backyard #coffee #tradition
apparently, the good style when programming PLC’s or even microcontrollers, is to not write to the ports directly from different functions, but set flags, then have only one function, which looks at the flags and sets ports.
i’ve seen the schneider’s development environment, and apparently you cannot copy the code, let’s say to compare (diff) it in the third party tool. you do everything in one, sluggish, big, slow IDE, not only the code development, but also you write to the device, you read from the device, you configure connection settings, everything.
just the opposite of unix philosophy - do everything, and do it bad.
i guess that’s because most of the developers who use schneider products are electrical engineers, otherwise if they would be programmers, then by being acquainted with the cool development tools and culture, they would not tolerate such a product.
#schneider #plc #programming
#vanadzor
he compares kodak color 200, cheapest kodak consumer film with the high end samsung device.
well, actually the camera matters too, in a way how it calculates exposure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5qE7A6NGM
#film #kodak_color_200 #kodak #samsung #comparison #filmphotography
from #mirzoian_library birthday party.
#yerevan
nice effort to create a site about armenian modernistic architecture.
#modernism #armenia #architecture #site
#6502
#existence #film #room #colour
#mirzoian_library #yerevan
today i found some sweets, that were expired long time ago. and remembered a status, i did not write long time ago.
you know it’s time to give up and forget, when the sweets you’ve got because she likes them, are getting expired.
well, knowing is not being able.
Mirzoian library is 3 years old. #mirzoian_library
#achajour #yerevan #parpetsi
article by Mikayel Zolian in Regional Posh on repatriation. #armenia #repatriation
#gravity-falls #gravity_falls
http://www.thewindpower.net/windfarm_en_7409_lori-1.php
these italian turbines are used at lori-1 wind farm.
https://en.wind-turbine.com/wind-turbines/55062/vestas-v47-660.html #lori-1 #wind-farm #wind #power
atmel solar panels https://www.manz.com/markets/solar/system-solutions-for-bipv/
Iowa Becomes the 47th State to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
https://ditord.com/2017/08/24/iowa-becomes-the-47th-state-to-recognize-the-armenian-genocide/
This photo is so telling… with the members of the Turkmenistan delegation carefully writing down everything, while the Armenian officials look like they don’t give a damn.
https://ditord.com/2017/08/24/photo-of-the-day-sargsyan-berdimuhamedov-meeting-in-yerevan/
this twitter, under every armenian post, writes ‘translate from indonesian’. comon, it’s not so hard to detect armenian language, it has unique alphabet, no other language uses.
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
runs #debian, not clear about window manager/desktop environment.
let’s see if it gathers community. #linux #phone #privacy #surveillance #matrix #decentralization
i am gonna have 24 students, 5 from them are from diaspora (armenian), and i am gonna teach operating systems.
i am very excited, and i hope i won’t fail it. this is very responsible but is an amazing opportunity.
my ta is @{Antranig Vartanian; antranigv@spyurk.am}, the syrian armenian guy, hey, you cannot sleep, you have to be there earlier than everybody, ok?
the university has this moodle system, but i don’t like it. why would we need to use web software? i think we can use git instead.
new game for oric atmos! inspired of google chrome t-rex runner. (: with this music.
https://www.oric.org/software/run_t_rex__run____-2359.html
#oric #game
this is my map which shows which places i do recommend to explore in tbilisi, with my photos and stories. stories in armenian, sorry.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Dbppkt6KdvUG3JlAiYHAKP4s41M&usp=sharing #tbilisi #map
btw i don’t know how could i create something like that by using osm. do you? tell me. #osm
let me share with you my playlists https://github.com/norayr/music - i know it could be done with just one makefile, but something stopped me from doing that. don’t remember. #music
so i was trying to establish sshfs connection to jolla, i remember i was doing that without problems, but probably not with this update, and it was failing with the message:
remote host has disconnected
i’ve tried to run
sshfs -odebug,sshfs_debug,loglevel=debug nemo@jolla.arnet.am:/home/nemo/Music /mnt/jolla
i’ve got a lot of debug messages, but no use.
then i examined /etc/ssh/sshd_config on device.
turned out it contained the line Subsystem sftp /usr/lib64/misc/sftp-server.
what? why lib64?
changed that line to just ‘lib’, did not work.
then tried to understand what that should look like.
[root@Sailfish ~]# rpm -qa | grep ssh
openssh-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
openssh-clients-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
openssh-server-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
[root@Sailfish ~]#
[root@Sailfish ~]# rpm -ql openssh-server | grep sftp
/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
/usr/share/man/man8/sftp-server.8.gz
aha!
commented out that line and added new instead in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#Subsystem sftp /usr/lib64/misc/sftp-server
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
now
systemctl restart sshd
and sshfs works. (:
#ssh #sshfs #jolla #sailfish
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yukihiro/ ah! #photo
Wes Anderson & Yasujiro Ozu: A Visual Essay
three germanies. regional gdp per capita.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three_germanies_regional_gdp_per_capita_op/
#map #germany
so i had an experience with expired (in 1991) fujichrome 50, and all the shots look overexposed by one-twe stops. after some research i found out that:
Negative films fog darker with age (or temperature), as grains get thermally, chemically, or cosmic ray exposed. Negative films have a large exposure latitude, so you can increase exposure to get above the fog.
Reversal films fog lighter with age. That is why photos may look overexposed. But they don’t have the large exposure latitude, so you can’t increase exposure to get above the fog. You are squeezed between fog and the top of the curve.
#photography #slide #reversal #negative #positive #fujichrome #film #filmphotography #expired
i have a guess that there is a correlation between being socially active, like to socialize, and not being aggressive.
it may even have an evolutionary explanation. it looks like there is a connection between us being less aggressive and us being juvenal creatures - animals that look like kids when adult.
also, who likes to communicate and socialize more - kids, they need it.
so, i guess those of us who like to socialize more are likely to be less aggressive.
well i have an impression that in the armenian twitter community there are sort of, sometimes even infantile people, very liberal, accepting differences and each other, they are chatting there being far from the eyes of the “everybody”, who in armenia are of course on facebook.
also many of them don’t use their real names on twitter in order to not be found by those relatives or coworkers/costudents who would not understand them.
so my impression is that in armenian twitter community there are mostly very liberal, open minded people.
who comes to the armenian diaspora community? i don’t really know, it’s so small, i probably cannot speculate about that. yes of course i know that i speculate. (:
so i don’t understand. i guess part of us are people who value some ideas, the old core, and the newcomers are usually those who are willing to communicate but don’t always have proper skills for that, because they lack experience. also when they come, they see that they are pretty much alone, and it’s possible to get some kind of feedback elsewhere, and go there. they could of course change the language, but most of them would prefer to express themselves in a wave, without thinking is the sentence grammatically correct. (:
very funny (:
#not_pascal #pascal #component_pascal #oberon
same with software
another lofi photo featuring @{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} and @{utopianlab*; utopeanlab@spyurk.am}.
#lofi
so i’ve got this old device, Polaroid i-Zone 550, it makes 5mpx photos. it’s an interesting and exciting toy. makes this lofi look i really like. so several photos. one of them is not by me, obviously. (:
#lofi at #achajour on #parpetsi street (: #աչաջուր
armenians and greeks in 1900 and 2000.
#1900 #2000 #armenians #greeks #map #history
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6uwh6d/armenians_and_greeks_in_1900_and_2000_1097x1070/
today twitting is like getting accepted to study in the university - your scores should be enough: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/instagram-kevin-systrom-wants-to-clean-up-the-internet
— i miss that ‘delete’ button, can i press it? thank you.
#mac_user #talk
book to read: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak. #book
such a nice screenshot by @{Fla ; fla@diaspora-fr.org} from this amazing video from an amazing event!. thank you for all the seemingly unnoticeable but very important contributions.
#diaspora
materiel industriel en bois pour l’industrie chimique
#book #1903 in #dilijan w/ @{tanamasi ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/staring-the-zeitgeist-right-in-the-face/
november 23, 2014, vanadzor. nokia n900. #vanadzor
explorer, not finder.
well
https://twitter.com/Fullscreen/status/869720091289460738/video/1
An ode to the men who wear shirts over T-shirts in clubs, the heroes of our time https://thetab.com/2016/04/26/ode-men-wear-shirts-t-shirts-clubs-87672
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe: Armenian Merchants and the Origins of European Café Culture
november 2012, me, booting spyurk.am server, probably.
probably nothing really new.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/armenian-family-fled-raqqa-describe-years-living-isil-video/
they speak arabic i guess.
my stream was too big, more than 1000 people, and i realized, i cannot use groups, i mixed everything up, and it takes time to enter, choose the group, and for some reason syntax with a_ids[]= did not work for me, and i decided just to remove most of my groups of people, and then add those i communicate with.
this will help me to communicate, i hope. may be i needed to remove more people, in order to make the stream maintainable and then only start adding from scratch, from zero. so when you get a message that i followed you, it’s not that i did unfollow long ago in the past, it’s because i indeed followed you. (:
if i don’t follow you, then i will, if we have some kind of connection. i want to make this diaspora useful, and indeed to be able to follow those i know, well i know on the internet, as people i’d like to socialize with, and not get a huge stream, when i never notice those whom i want to talk to.
and i’ll try to comment you. it’s hard. i need to convince myself to comment, when i know, i will say something stupid. just because the stupid comment will create a connection.
Table tennis players. A 1970s painting which I would attribute to Sargis Muradyan (the work is unsigned). Oil, canvas. Title is unknown to me. Currently hangs in Armenian Public Radio headquarters, Yerevan.
#yerevan #tennis #sport #art #armenian-painters #sargis-muradyan #sargis_muradyan #sargis_muradian #armenian_painters #socialrealism #neoromanticism #painting
the text is astonishingly stupid, but you can see some pictures. https://vimeo.com/213748725 the place with the rock paintings in the beginning, well i have been there, not easy to get there, the mountain above (it’s 3500 m above the sea level) is called “ughtasar”, from “ught” - camel, and “sar” - mountain. it has two peaks that remind camels. #armenia
please like me.
this one is very clear. full version http://norayr.am/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MG_1903.jpg #hrazdan
i like this building. #vanadzor
ok and these two, kodak portra 400, artik, armenia. #artik #armenia #landscape
these two are from vanadzor, after the rain. film, hp5 pushed to 1600. #vanadzor #night #rain #street
this is ilford hp5 400 pushed to 1600. developed at home. #yerevan #night #tree
these three are rather old, 2003, 2007. shot with 0.3 mpx camera, genius smart 300 v2. #zurich #street #sky
this one shot with jolla. #room
#yerevan #charents #street
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}
many things we learn are about culture. the culture is not less important than the actual ‘knowledge’. let’s say you write a program. you may write it in hundreds of ways, but when you have a culture of unix programming, you may prefer to make it usable with pipeline. that’s not about programming, purely, that’s about the culture. or may be you have the culture to write a markdown, or you know the wiki syntax. that’s about the culture, and having the culture is as important as other skills.
and i am very much frustrated, that when somebody around has culture, it’s not close to the culture i have adopted. well i have chosen my culture, so i have chosen to not be understood. but it’s not on purpose. it’s just the way it is.
i sometimes notice that i differ. when i communicate. during the barcamp meeting someone sent me an attachment, and i’ve received it, saved with alpine, and a girl sitting next to me said something like ‘i swear by my mother’s name!’ and i realized she experienced some cultural shock, and then i noticed that i am different.
however, it’s not a pleasurable feeling, to be different always. i would prefer not to. i would prefer many people with similar culture around, so that i would feel better understood, and i would have more fun socializing. something like that. aha. #culture
i can get the gnome 3 development (sorry the same topic) if there would be some effort to create gtk tablets. and i would like that idea. i would like the existence of such tablets.
but there’s no such tablets, there’s gnome 3 on desktops, sometimes at work? why?
i don’t get it, why mainstream linux distributions on phones and desktops tend to hide the boot screen. no i understand, that probably the designers think, why would someone stare on something he does not understand, but does he understand the moving things better? may be he’ll start to read, well, some of them, and get interested in what’s going on underneath. #linux
catastrophic example. #oberon
indeed, insane
Forty-six years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, 44 scientists from the USSR and the United States gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia. Each scientist had impeccable credentials, most of them were well-known in their field, and three were Nobel-Prize winners. The theme of the conference? Communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence.
https://haypopup.com/2017/08/03/the-soviet-era-conference-on-communicating-with-aliens/
#carl_sagan #victor_ambartsumian #frank_drake #marvin_minsky #armenia #aliens #conference #ceti #byurakan
#elna sewing machine, #1940, #design
and the wheel is located below, not where we expect to see it. #green #book
new delorean http://mashable.com/2017/08/14/delorean-flying-car-vtol/?utm_cid=hp-r-14#FHQ_._zdWiqQ
new version of alpine: http://alpine.freeiz.com/alpine/release/index.html #alpine
so many dialogs, so little time.
http://www.graphicsgroups.com/16-gimp/a266d1befc5afaa9.htm #gimp
by the way, you don’t get that it is not really fare that palestine gets a lot of attention, but artsakh(nagorno-karabakh) problem does not, and those who managed to not be expelled or killed, are now considered occupants just because they were able to stay alive and not become refugees. if they would become refugees, the international community, and people like you would say that “it’s very sad”, but now, when these people, well some of them, managed to live with dignity already more than 20 years, well, by paying with lives of many, of course, but live where they used to, now some think that this gives them right to tell that “these barbarians are killing each other”, which is actually very imperialistic thinking, but clearly, these people would not live there if not the failure to expell them because of the armenian resistance. and armenia does not get sanctions from the international community, because everybody knows the truth - there would be no single armenian in artsakh, if they would not defend themselves. and yes, if we would not help them.
actually, i really understand the importance of not changing the borders. because that could kindle the war, and many could be killed. so i am the first, seriously, who thinks, that changing the borders even on post soviet space, where those borders were drawn by colonial administration without taking in consideration what’s “fair” but because of their short term political interests, let’s say good relationships of early bolsheviks with turkey, and trading armenian land (i mean the actual republic of armenia, not some historical, virtual land) for the port cities (batumi), so still i think that changing borders is a very bad idea. but! when there is a choice - you don’t change the borders, and people live peacefully, even discriminated, but in peace, then let’s keep borders, bad peace is better than war.
but when people anyway get exterminated, then you don’t have peace anyway. whether you fight, or you die/leave without it. and i mean really exterminated, not like in crimea, where nobody had a danger of being even expelled. (well now tatars and ukrainians have that danger). i am already used to participate discussions why crimea and artsakh cases are absolutely different, but that will be too much for you. anyway this post won’t get much attention.
and yes, this is very important to me and each and every armenian, not because those are armenians, or we dream of an expansion, or “armenia from sea to sea”, there are armenians in georgia, and guess what, they live, well, sometimes get discriminated, but still, nobody exterminates them, and such a surprise, nobody said that armenia occupied parts of georgia, right? while i know, that during the russian-georgian war russia tried to ignite armenian-georgian conflict. i cannot prove that, but military people who knew, told me, - so this is important to each of us not because of imperialism we cannot actually afford, but because anyone has a friend or relative in artsakh. just anyone. when you know someone, you feel their pain, and you can identify with them as well. they always were, and are a part of our society. they were coming to study to armenia, they were working here, and though soviet azerbaijan made everything that there would be no feasible physical connection - for instance no real road from artsakh to armenia, but it was impossible to cut the connections that way. and when you know your friend’s sister or brother is under the fire, it’s very influential, you cannot be indifferent. it does not matter that’s not your sister. that’s too close to not care deeply.
i strongly believe there are cases, when you need to pay, but stay with dignity. let’s say, you are in a country where you can be punished for what you say, no free speech. first they burn your car, then they put you to jail. or you go to the political rally, and they catch you. that does not mean that you don’t have to go to the rally. that means that when you want to live with dignity, it means, you go to the rally, and you know you can end up in jail. that’s what you have to pay. it’s inevitable. otherwise you don’t respect yourself. so to me this is similar. they tried to eliminate the population, first by the help of soviet army, then by themselves. they failed miserably. now they sold a lot of oil and have a lot of military power, got a lot of arms from our “strategic partner and alley” called russia, and the military budget of their country exceeds the whole budget of armenia. we already paid by the years of blockade, huge emigration, stagnating economics. but that’s the price, when you have hostages. and we have hostages there, in artsakh, actually. that’s not a pleasure. nobody feels that we are occupants, we feel that we have people who live under constant threat. and one year ago, during 4-6 days war, that got confirmed. azeri army entered the villages, they could manage to, and killed, cut years, the elderly people who could not leave. the whole rhetoric of their media was along the lines of “armenians run from karabakh, it’s our land”, and after that they want to use all their resources to make us leave artsakh alone, to get control over it by using international community and the law. well that’s very nice. so we do not feel occupants, we feel like someone who has close hostages would feel. i don’t even talk about people who live in other places near the border, not necessarily in artsakh. or actually any of us could go to war at any moment, we know that. we are not happy about that. just it is what it is.
#armenia #artsakh #karabakh #freedom
i don’t like the building, however let me share the story https://www.evnreport.com/arts-and-culture/grand-hotel-yerevan-a-living-legend-of-the-city #yerevan
#brin_marling #girl #photo
p. s. i was reading a wikipedia article about her ‘another planet’ film and apparently i have watched it somehow, and have no idea how, because i do not usually watch films, i did not watch this in the cinema, i have no tv, i don’t remember i have downloaded it, i don’t remember anyone make me watch it. but everything sounds so familiar i guess i have watched that.
i like the other mixes, this i did not listen yet, but will do now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-qP1b7vcg #mix #armenia #viken_arman #dj #music
may be those ties are indispensable. may be they are colonial and exploitative. think of who controls energy in the country. but in many ways the relationship of armenia with today’s russia is far more colonial, than those relationships were before 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8s8K_a1EMM #suny #armenia
about armenian language in russian https://postnauka.ru/video/79035 #armenian
#armenian
https://soundcloud.com/vikenarman/viken-arman-live-set-38-katzen-katerblau
this guy is armenian obviously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_npZfZmRiM #mix #armenian
so kicking saakashvili out means that ukraine has serious problems on their way to become a normal country. still, it’s better to have these kind of seizures, but try to move to the future, than moving to the past without breaks, as russia does.
#1942 #airplane #photo #history
people on the internet are like music genres: pop people - write about eternal love, breakups, rejection, rock people - write about protest, non conformism, hip-hop people - write honestly, sincerely, sometimes a bit blunt. #people #internet
#ussr #cccp #history
don’t forget to give chocolete or express somehow appreciation to your sysadmin. today. #sysadminday
http://cse.aua.am/sms/ yerevan has stable wind patterns (:
#yerevan #wind
the mountain chained by clouds. i had an attempt to get there, but failed. i’ll do that one day. (:
blog about making blog with make https://reykfloeter.com/posts/blog-about-my-blog #blog
Iranian tourist wearing ‘Armenia’ shirt stopped in an Azerbaijani mall & forced to change his shirt by security after too many complaints`
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}, @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am} are preparing Psycamp Vanadzor 2014.
Achajour Parpetsi, Yerevan, 2014. Ultrafine Extreme 400, Mamiya ZE-2, 50mm F1.7
#psycamp #vanadzor #2014 #achajour #parpetsi #
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10109
those are armenians who accepted islam and haven’t been eliminated. #armenian
over edited for my taste, but still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglsaK4C5ng
#armenia #yerevan
The “Repatriates”: Deception, Sacrifice, and Now Scorn
http://hetq.am/eng/news/80649/the-repatriates-deception-sacrifice-and-now-scorn.html
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
#court
If you had ever wanted to go on a tour you should have had your play list approved beforehand. We could have never stated that we were going to perform the Beatles’ songs. Hrayr Kotoyan’s father, composer Vagharshak Kotoyan, was authorized to approve the roster. We cheated a little stating that we were going to sing the English coal miners’ song written by Lennon and McCartney.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/24330/
#beatles #music #armenia #dreamers #history #film #ussr #censorship #sixties #1969 #sevan
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft #vake
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft #vake #barnov
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft
The “Dreamers” film found 48 years later. http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/24330/
#armenia #rock #film
#kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft
#kodakcft #kodak-cft #kodak_cft
love muted colours. unfortunately they did not realize that sarian’s proposal was much better. #armenia #flag
#font #design
shot on ultrafine extreme 400 film. (: #dog
so according to the internal light meter of my camera, yellow filter makes a difference in one stop, red filter - three stops, and polarizer - exactly two stops!
so i can use it to push while pushing iso 400 film to 1600. in the evening take out the polarizer, and shoot at 1600, in the afternoon, shoot with polarizer on by setting light meter to 400. unfortunately neither red nor yellow filters will work.
i wonder if two stops neutral density filter would suit this purpose of pushing better than my polarizer, it shouldn’t right? #photography
#photoquote
#photoquote
meanwhile, Tamar Kaprelian is in Armenia!
#screenshot #tamarkaprelian #tamar_kaprelian
#kodachrome
interesting iranian photographer.
he uses #outofthephone tag. well, the photo looks edited.
i decided that publishing photos made not by me is better by quoting them with the context as a screenshot.
#nocomment
very funny to hear armenian with strange pronunciation. because foreigners rarely speak it.
i can recognize artsakh and gyumri dialects. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1RL-NOAMo #armenian #song #cover #gyumri #artsakh
#antistalking
lori, fioletovo, may 2013, kodak cft, mamiya-ze2 with 50mm f1.7 lens. i have no idea why i did not publish this photo before. may be i did not consider it to be good enough for publishing back then, and now my taste has changed and i can appreciate it more.
#armenia #lori #fioletovo #kodak-cft #kodakcft #film #filmphotography #landscape #village
good morning. i decided to publish some very old shots. this one was never published. i also find myself liking the quality of the lab scanner, which i did not like before. i guess i’ll publish today several photos, unedited, out of scanner files.
still life with sunflower seeds, neo freerunner phone and debian cds. may 2013. shot with mamiya-ze2 on kodak cft film. #stilllife #openmoko #neofreerunner #debian #kodak-cft #morning #film #filmphotography
girl, flower, and detained robot. #yerevan #aygedzor #robot
#yerevan #aygedzor
#yerevan #aygedzor
“The Russians don’t really care about Armenia,” the European diplomat said. “What they care about is their military base. They want to keep their soldiers here – they have soldiers on the border with Turkey, they have soldiers on the border with Iran, and they’re looking forward to deploying peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh. That’s what their interest is in.”
Curation by Anahita Ghabaian and Newsha Tavakolian #iran #photography
mozilla factory space https://www.behance.net/gallery/53022847/MOZILLA-FACTORY-SPACE #mozilla
these wolves also decided that life in ocean is much cooler http://www.boredpanda.com/swimming-sea-wolves-pacific-coast-canada-ian-mcallister/
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/28/15886560/democrats-raffi-krikorian-chief-technology-officer-dnc
other gifs here or may be i’ll publish them here as well later.
Despite the challenges it faces, Armenian civil society remains energetic and defiant. Armenia has its share of human rights problems, but so far has resisted making the sharp authoritarian turn seen elsewhere in Eurasia in recent years. This is due to the dynamic nature of Armenian civil society, the importance of a semi-open political system to competing oligarchic groups, and political elites’ understanding that such a turn would aggravate the West and some influential diaspora figures, which Yerevan sees as hedges against Russian geopolitical and economic domination.
http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/07/armenia-at-twenty-five-rough-ride-pub-66351
#armenia #democracy
#lori-1 #lori #bazum #bazum_pass #pushkin_pass #armenia #wind-farm #power_plant #electricity #cloud #mountain
i feel a bit guilty that i don’t share texts with you recently. i write in the armenian stream but not here.
so let me tell you something which i did not write there because i have been written there the same in the other context.
i want to tell you why i feel reluctant to use instagram. years ago i wrote here (and if diaspora navigation would be better, here would be the link to that post) that i have many questions, in particular, is it ethical to post to instagram photos made with dslr or on film?
now i see that well that’s a standard behavior of many photographers. though there is an irony - photographers come to instagram because there is market - a lot of people, and a lot of people they know in person. on the other hand if i would be on instagram, i would follow the photographers, not the people i know. and if the stream would get bigger, i would not be able to follow everyone. i don’t even talk that i try to avoid saass, that’s okay, i would use it, it’s not the only saass i use after all.
but there’s another reason. the maintenance of instagram stream is too much of overhead for me. i find myself trying to avoid unnecessary overheads. to me updating funtoo is not an overhead. it’s a pleasure. as well as driving. if i would be rich i would not have a driver.
but putting photo to a phone ir order to upload to instagram, because instagram only allows to upload from it’s own software (i even don’t mention it’s proprietary, you see?), just the absence of the api to do so is a hustle. and i find myself saving movements. i feel humiliated by obeying those rules. every time i would do that i would feel humiliated.
i am trying to have less ovehread. i have jolla, so often when i have downloaded new track or an album, copying it to the phone takes seconds before getting out of home. i do scp that to the phone, and then while i take the backpack and get out, it’s already there.
but somehow instagram feels like unnecessary overhead i am just trying to keep me away from. #instagram #jolla #hosting
#usa #europe #uk #eastern_europe #surveillance
night over margahovit.
#margahovit, #lori #trees #night #stars
cloud over the lermontovo village, lori, armenia.
#cloud #lermontovo #village #lori #armenia
there was a short talk on quality of photographs and i decided to showcase my photo which has no technical quality, but i like it.
#lori-1 #wind-farm #bazum #pushkin_pass #bazum_pass #girl #wind-turbine #electricity #armenia #stepanavan #vanadzor
Don’t think you can come back tomorrow and get it. Won’t happen. Light won’t be there, subjects will have second thoughts, and there’ll be a parade right where you want to shoot. Don’t ever assume you can do a picture “later.”
#sotrue
http://gogreenarmenia.com/ apparently
who is therealtalk.org podmin? #diaspora i need to contact him regarding one user who cannot login, and probably forgot the email she’ve used. (:
#aragats
found in the phone. #impact_hub #tbilisi #building
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bawgaj/32037992580/in/dateposted/
by Przemek Strzelecki #photo
this guy suggests to use separate stream for each of the languages you write in.
so that’s good i have two separate streams. i even think, what if i move English language posts from my earlier account to this stream, and if db hacks would help me. #diaspora #language
a formal grammar for toki pona http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chin/661F12/Projects/ztomaszewski.pdf #toki_pona
it is always a nice feeling when you are the first in the list.
According to the study (in the Turkish media), the most targeted group is Armenians followed by Syrians, Jews,…
https://bianet.org/english/religion/187429-media-watch-on-hate-speech-january-april-2017-study #hate
#vanadzor
#vanadzor #girl #kid #armenia
#lori #lermontovo #armenia
UPPER CASE lower case Title Case camelCase snake_case kebab-case Train-Case ǝsɐɔ ʇɐq çt̶̀͢͞h̴̷̨̡̕u̴̸̴l̡͜͞u͜͠ ̡͜͝c̀͞á̷̧̧s̷̀͠͠e̸̶͟
profile says he also writes in English, so I am sharing this #newhere post.
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Սամս ; martiros_yan@spyurk.am} 13.06.2017, 15:08:36
ինձ բարի գալուստ սփյուռք։ գրեք ինձ ձեր հաշիվները եթե ունեք #սփյուռք
i’ve read about this way of debugging. #duck #debug #programming
#dilijan #architecture #book
what i enjoy very much in discussions on our #oberon channel in IRC, is that it becomes obvious that knowing the language, does not mean knowing how to use it, i. e. how to program.
#programming
whomadewho brilliantly mixed their own this work here։ #musig #mix #whomadewho
#dog
When I am shooting with my film cameras and someone asks me if I can still buy film I politely answer “no” and keep on shooting. They usually walk away and leave me alone.
source #photography #film
old, but interesting:
https://www.instagram.com/p/mKT8uArKoq/ https://www.instagram.com/p/mKS4NGrKni/ https://www.instagram.com/p/mKXNVdLKrJ/
#kodak #cinestill #ektar #film
they talk about creativity, blues, LP’s, beliefs and reading. very interesting part about shooting concerts with mobile phones and enjoying concerts at the moment.
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դինջ ; lubekar@spyurk.am} 05.06.2017, 16:16:40
Խոսում են ստեղծագործելու, բլյուզի, վինիլի, հավատքի ու կարդալու մասին։ Շատ հետաքրքիր մաս կա, երբ խոսում են համերգների ժամանակ հեռախոսներով նկարելու ու պարզապես համերգը նայելու/լսելու ու հենց այդ պահին վայելելու մասին։
let me tell yo usomething, people of diaspora.
though some times what i read here is very frustrating, but i have to tell you that the quality of discussions and the kind of topics, and the level of education of some people here is outstanding. i really enjoy being a part of this community.
thank you. #diaspora
the important part here is their awareness of cher’s armenian ancestry. that was irony, as many other things i write, in case you wonder.
#armenian #quote #cher #book
as i understand first uploaded to the post picture is not necessarily shown first. i cannot understand how, based on which criteria, diaspora chooses the sequence to show uploaded pictures. #diaspora
#vote #chomsky #elections #democracy #politics #book
good morning.
this song is used in ‘blind dates’ georgian film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_bLcGrVrE though i don’t like neither this exact performance nor the video. of course.
but the film is worth watching. #blind_dates #georgian #song #georgian-music
left frame: film. middle frame: out of the camera photo. right frame: edited digital photo with a film preset.
http://www.iandriyanov.ru/blog/sravnenie-plenki-i-tsifry
#film-photography #film #photography
(:
you use VAR because you want to get the pointer to the array, instead of copying the whole array to the procedure’s stack.
so the suggestion was that if you want to make sure the array won’t be modified, you use “-” mark.
what about optimizations, they say, that in principle compiler can understand that you did not write to the passed array, and instead of passing it to the procedure by value (by copying the whole array), pass it by reference (by copying only pointer to it).
i disagree, because i believe, it is important to mark your intentions. if you intent to make sure you pass it read-only, you pass it with “-”, if you intent to pass it read-write, you pass it just with VAR. passing with ‘OUT’, when you cannot read it, but can only write to it is not supported in Oberon.
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 01.06.2017, 19:08:27
#oberon #programming #language #design ##
colour and contrast, in russian
http://ezhe.ru/data/vgik/zhv-cvet_kontrast.html #book #russian #colour
Here’s a great example of the problems with having only a few red pixels from an outing a few years ago, comparing a Canon 5D Mark II with 4×5 Velvia. Obviously the 4×5 Velvia has more resolution but we downsampled it to match the 5D Mark II and got the following result (show at 200%)
On the right (the 4×5 image downscaled) we can see all of the berries on the tree but on the left (the Canon 5D Mark II image) a lot of the berries have disappeared. The only berries shown are where there were larger groups of them (i.e. a single pixel size berry is unlikely to match up with a single red pixel whereas a group of berries covering 2×2 sensor pixels will definitely hit a red filtered one).
https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/comparing-image-quality-film-digital/ #film-photography #photography
Petre Otskheli and Elene Akhvlediani
http://idaaf.com/petre-otskheli/ #petre-otskheli #georgian-painters
don’t crowdsource your self-esteem. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-cz_Unwpc
#photography #instagram
I wear a t-shirt with Petre Otskheli work on it. (:
#petre_otskheli #georgian-painters #self_portrait
Armenia has one of the most educated work forces in the world, outpacing not only the South Caucasus, but the EU AND the US.
though the quality of education… (: #armenia
A series of maps showing locations in Turkey that have been re-named over the past century. #turkey #map
Jan was saying that the pull request has to be immediately approved, even if it breaks the code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyOOGwSdbs
This is also about so called “instant gratification” which our limbic system likes so much.
#social_architecture #community #programming #open-source #barcampevn #barcampevn17 #software
http://oe1.orf.at/player/20170530/481820
Radiokolleg - Land der Steine
Kleiner Staat, große Diaspora (2). Gestaltung: Brigitte Voykowitsch
#armenia #deutsch #german #radio
how to trap a self driving car https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/17/laying-a-trap-for-self-driving-cars/ #selfdrivingcar #trap
poor creature can enter it, and is unable to exit.
#barcampevn17 #barcampevn #barcamp #armenia #yerevan
#photography #dynamic_range #chart
text is a very nice place to hide behind it. #text
how desperate and miserable one has to be to show off on the internet like i do. #show-off #internet
just met Jan Wildeboer at #evn #zvartnots #airport w/@{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am}. he’s a #redhat guy. #free-software evangelist. we are really excited to have him at our event.
already discussed #wayland vs #xorg and other political and technical questions. (: i’ve heard some very interesting stories.
#barcampevn17 #barcampevn #yerevan
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am}, i guess you might enjoy some debates with him. (: @{utopianlab* ; utopeanlab@spyurk.am} he’s Dutch, you know. (:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sop220/22511142519/in/dateposted/
my understanding is, he uses x-pro2 with 35mm lenses.
towel day!
the problem with showing off is that usually those whom you’d want to show how cool you are, don’t care. and won’t care.
so you have to show off for yourself only. show off, then like yourself, don’t hesitate, and accept that’s it.
my bot is live and chatting. https://github.com/norayr/irc_client/tree/vocbot for that i’ve implemented sockets wrapper, IRC library, and some list classes. written from scratch in Oberon, it only uses socket related system calls.
#oberon #irc #bot #vocbot #screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxCV-_8WTU https://github.com/in0rdr/diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOkRZrvqQ9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6meNYo3rFI i love it so much!
emerge bubblemon
it is also a very good idea to scp it to your phone and use as message notification sound. (:
scp /usr/share/bubblemon/wak.wav nemo@jolla:/home/nemo/Music/
#wak #bubblemon #duck
Startup nation or left-behind nation?: Israel’s economy is a study in contrasts: http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21722037-dazzling-high-tech-firms-divert-attention-serious-productivity-problem-israels
#israel #economy
btw my bot is live and chatting. https://github.com/norayr/irc_client/tree/vocbot
for that i’ve implemented sockets wrapper, irc library, and some lists. #oberon
‘how raw file looks’ - an #article in #russian. (features #odzun monastery in #lori, #armenia) there are a lot of greens because of the design of bayer matrix. #raw #matrix #sensor
http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/10/film-news-new-cinestill-50-iso-daylight-xpro-c-41-film/
#cinestill #film #colour
Judah Vs. The Machines https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/judah-vs-the-machines/?ncid=rss
This is not suprising, since the entire tonal palette for Kodachrome was based on rendering the skin tones as pleasingly as possible of those who would be its principal consumers: caucasians (hence Stalin looks less “caucasian” because he actually came from the Caucasus). “Color” is literally the colour of American consumerism. Japanese Fuji colour film followed the same imperative, but for Asians. Pinks and reds are the colours which “color” recognises and amplifies most dramatically, though sometimes the effect is akin to a mortician’s make-up: people occasionally appear as if they have been painted after death to give the illusion of life, which of course is, historically speaking, exactly what has happened.
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/09/07/the-color-of-whiteness/
#kodachrome #colour #photography
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/kodachromes-lasting-color-and-memory/?_r=0
#kodachrome
#kodachrome #history #london
divided d-23 developer http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/DD-23/dd-23.html
this is like gentoo use flags. compile it yourself with this or that option. #gentoo #d23 #developer
i cannot forgive myself. i don’t know how can i live with this further. the only thing that gets me off touch with the feeling of guilt is diving in to the work. obviously i want you to not comment and i needed to let this out.
the man who develops the world’s found film. #film #photography #photo
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-man-who-develops-the-worlds-found-film
@{Martin Sand Christensen ; martinsandchristensen@joindiaspora.com} so you know how to use flash in daylight.
I’ve discovered this flickr photographer recently, Tod Gross, most of his photos are daylight street photography, and we know that it’s hard to make daylight photos because of the shadows and high contrast. So I guess what he does, is he uses on camera flash in order to decrease a contrast of the picture. (it may sound counter intuitive, to use flash when it’s sunny, and not use it when it’s dark). there is even some evidence of that in the mirrors or sunglasses.
so i remember you asked if i used flash for one of my daylight photos and i said no. how would i use flash with film cameras? i never used it, but i happen to have a couple. one has some buttons on it, and one does not. so these cameras have sync? what does it mean? to fire the light at the ‘right’ moment? but what shutter/aperture values should i use then? do these flash units use standard light amount or those are different? there is X on one of my mamiyas which is fixed to 1/90 and serves for a shutter i guess. i’ve seached in the web, but i actually want to socialize, and to hear your opinion on that.
Daidō_Moriyama #photography http://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/app/selected/syabi?no=200803
btw i eventually solved my pidgin sound issue. just filled out ‘aplay %s’ in the command textbox in the settings.
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/10/el-candigato-fed-up-with-ra.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/candigato-morris_n_3565971.html #caturday
on money, in russian but with english subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nob0wutM-Xo
old, reminded via this post. #caturday
i used to think that i am a good person. in generally. it turned out that i am a regular evil person like everybody i don’t like for that. :/
now it’s better (than the commented version)
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 17.05.2017, 22:29:36
solving https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/68oda5/20170501_challenge_313_easy_subset_sum/
#DailyProgrammer #Oberon #Oberon-2 #voc ##
#programming #screenshot
this is also very interesting stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quarlo/
source https://www.flickr.com/photos/bit_sikari/33494787084/in/dateposted/
Tears of rage.
I had not visited Cinthia and Peter for a while. The day was sunny and they looked older, as if we hadn´t met for years, as if their faces were disappearing, getting away. They didn´t say a word about what happened to them. Maybe they were more silent. Maybe Peter smiled at me in a way more sweet. But I noticed that something was going wrong. They were doing so good lately! The farm was very clean and they were being taken care of by someone, a highly recommended nurse. But the other day I found their house all messy. Cinthia looked unkempt and one of the dogs is very sick and doesn´t move. I asked a neighbor who lives nearby, a true angel who watches them. She told me that she got a call from a worker of the bank office. He was worried. The nurse who was taking care of the old brother and her sister was driving Peter to the bank very often lately. Too much, he said. Peter signed papers, money was removed from the account every time. Peter will turn 90 years old in March and he is the youngest brother. This supposed nurse took advantage of a very old man´s trust and age. The neighbor checked everything and kicked her out. And now they are all alone and uncared of.
Tears of gratitude.
Knowing about what happened to them broke my heart a little bit, I guess. I couldn´t understand who is able to do something so mean! After the neighbor told me, I stayed in the farm a bit longer. Cinthia got a plate of old rice from the freezer and warmed it up. She also cut a few slices of chicken while Peter was getting the grill ready. I looked at them, they were so beautiful! There’s no one in this world, no thing in this world, that can change them now. There´s not a betrayal able to disturb a long life of kindness and trust in its end. The peace of their faces was a revelation suddenly, shining as an everlasting sunny day.
— what is the difference between redhat and centos? — the hat. centos does not have the hat.
#redhat #centos
my comment here
once i have found a definition of an ethnicity which i like: people who share common existence. by living in Armenia we share the same politicians, the same blockade, same prices, same political and economical situation, same fears, same teachers in the universities, same roads, and same little joys.
thus i think repatriation, or not emigrating is an act of solidarity with the others, like not using the hood under the rain, if you know your friend does not have one.
since i was a child i did not think about an ethnicity as of something which is connected to the genes. and genetically we all are homo sapiens, that’s pretty obvious.
another old photo, old edit is darker, i’ve edited raw file again, and it was interesting that then i found out that i like the old edit more.
the inscriptions say - ‘no flats for sale’ and ‘no don’t ask for job, we have no any’. #yerevan
some old photos i accidentally found. ranging from early 2000ths till 2010.
I was watching a video about someone’s camera collection, and I recognized a thought I had many years.
The tool is a very important thing. It is complete, because it has a purpose and it can serve it.
The camera can make photos. Someone may use it to make “art”, someone to document something, someone to play. It absolutely does not matter.
The camera can make photos and that’s it. The qualities and properties and purposes of those photos are not important. The camera is complete because it is a tool that can make something.
And I love making tools. Making photos is a nice game to play, but you never know if your photo has any value. But the camera always has value because it is a tool that can serve to make photos. It’s purpose is not creating this or that kind of photos, good or bad, artistic or random snapshots. It’s purpose is to make sure the film or the sensor have been exposed to the light for the necessary time. That’s it. And by that it is complete. So creating a tool has sense, and creating it is motivating.
When you create something with the tool, let it be the hammer, and you create a chair, you never know if your chair is any good. But the hammer is important.
So I think that I love making tools. I want to make tools.
Human existence is overwhelmingly sad. It does not matter what choice do I make. Anyway the life is sad. And making choices in order to “improve” life sounds funny to me. Me feeling a bit more or less good or not so much, is so unimportant. So by making the choice why would I consider that? People who are so concerned about their well being are so funny. They are ready to fight, they get angry or sad because they did not get something, because they feel something is not fair, or because they don’t care what is fair. And in any case everything is so unimportant.
May be it’s better that we can be sad. It’s better than being a bunch of self obsessed violent monkeys, who would never get sad because of what they or other violent stupid monkeys do.
May be it’s better to understand how spoiled is everything and be sad, rather than feel good.
Vegetarians say, that by not eating meat we vote, contribute to the existence of less animals, therefore less animals are suffering. Not only when they die, they suffer when they live.
So by following that logic, if we don’t want to contribute to human suffering, we can vote for that by not propagating. If you don’t have kids, they won’t experience this overwhelming sadness.
if there are no humans, they don’t exist and they don’t suffer. humans are suffering creatures.
Adams was writing that some ask if getting out of oceans was a good idea? Yes, life in the ocean is easier and less painful.
But still, I don’t get it. Is it better to be a dolphin than a human? Because of dolphin’s experience? But it’s not important. Experience is not important. Just someone got more or less lucky with the way of life at some time frame.
Then is it better to be a hydra than to be a human? Is it better to have a brain? Is it better to be a stupid human? Why life happens, and is it good, that there are some animals that live and die, nobody knows why. Then does it matter what language we speak? Does anything that ever seemed significant or important to me really matter? And what matters? And what’s really? What’s important?
I don’t know why do I write this, and what’s the sense of getting to this after what i’ve been written above. I want to tell you that I feel so much pain when I return to Armenia. It is so insignificant, of course. Why would my feelings be important?
There are gorgeous mountains and gorges. Breathtaking landscapes. Beautiful houses. With dark winodws. Roofs with the holes. Empty houses. Nodoby lives there. You can see that almost nobody lives there. It is such a lonely place. The owner of the flat in Georgia described his life “I live in a God’s gifted country and city”. Then I would say I live in a god’s forgotten country. Some place nobody wants to look at it, because it’s so sad. Easier to forget that it exists. Get rid of it. Hide it under the carpet. Get out of it. Never remember.
I don’t know why do I love life. It’s amusing. It’s cute. I want to photograph it. And I want to make tools for someone. Because tools are usable. What they do with the tool - I don’t know. But the tool itself is an important thing. This was a reprise. Take care.
Thorens New Century radio with separate receiver, controls, and speaker. Front and back of prospectus, 1949, Thorens S. A., Saint-Croix. #1949 #design #radio #thorens #saint-croix (սուրբ խաչ , երեւի քաղաքի անուն է)
in lightroom mobile it’s possible to edit dng’s. and ricoh gr sends raw dng files over wifi!
I follow amazing photographer on flickr. He’s name is Masashi Wakui. He makes photos of night Tokyo. Hes cameras are Fuji x100F and Ricoh GR, both are APS-C sensor cameras with prime, 35mm ond 28mm equivalent lenses. #masahi_wakui #tokyo #x100 #ricoh #photography #city #japan #night
Masahi Wakui’s flickr page.
#city i guess #tokyo #japan #art #graffiti #girl #shop #welcome
The shadow economy is not just ‘poor’ people. It’s potentially anybody who hasn’t internalised the correct state-corporate narrative of normality, and anyone seeking a lifestyle outside of the mainstream. The future presented by self-styled innovation gurus has no scope for flexible, unpredictable or invisible people. They represent analogue backwardness. The future is a world of endless consumer choice built upon an inescapable digital uniformity of automated rules, a matrix outside which you can neither exist nor think.
Brett Scott, thelongandshort.org via @{-Alessandro- ; flam3boy@joindiaspora.com}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5GxSR3jPI #photography
https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=RS5GxSR3jPI #photography
oh no, firefox now requires pulseaudio to play audio.
and I have USE=”-pulsaudio” always. well, I have actually MINUS=”-pulsaudio -systemd …”, and then I have USE="$MINUS $GENERAL $CODECS…”.
sigh. time to quit firefox? i was saying that chromium is a very attractive girl but i would not leave my lovely firefox. may be seamonkey would be my default choice now. i am really confused. #firefox #seamonkey #pulseaudio #gentoo
#armenian national #radio #1978 http://www.intervalsignals.net/sounds/arm-z-national_radio_external_210200.mp3 #radio
aaa, ode to joy http://radio.garden/jingles/bestensee/deutscher-freiheitssender-904/ #radio (((:
radio ddr (: http://radio.garden/jingles/frankfurt-oder/radio-ddr/
http://mymodernmet.com/cinema-palettes/ via @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am} #design #palette #colour
f2f protocol, face to face.
struggling to understand how this linearity works https://sourceforge.net/p/ufraw/discussion/434060/thread/63d7dec9/ #photography
#Einstürzende_Neubauten is demanded at #Achajour #Parpetsi, #Yerevan (:
#window #shadow #fish #love
by @{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am}
#achtung
my friend’s book on photography is out.
#photography #armenian #book
in addition to this - and whatever happens walk with straight back and hold your head up high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvsvLr91dU
difference between night vision device and thermographic camera.
night vision device is “active” in the sense that has an infrared light source, and a sensor that captures the reflection of the light.
thermographic camera is a “passive” device, it only captures the temperature.
thermographic camera cannot “see” objects with temperature close to the temperature of the air, or the objects behind the glass, because the glass can screen the thermal radiation. the night vision device cannot see objects in the haze, also warm and cold objects are hard to distinguish.
“Book publishing isn’t the healthiest industry in the world, and individual authors don’t make any money out of out-of-print books,” Cunard said to me. “Not that they would have made gazillions of dollars” with Google Books and the Registry, “but they would at least have been paid something for it. And most authors actually want their books to be read.”
veri interesting article https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
via @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am}
on memory.
so, garbage collector is a good solution when you have two threads, or two programs that use shared memory, and you need to free memory automatically. it is very hard to do that in other ways (let’s say with smart pointers). which is obvious, one process does not know how the other behaves.
on safety. wow, in rust you have no null pointer. and you cannot dereference it therefore.
#programming
apparently, linux kernel has “holes” in it, and yaboot does not work with holes, thus the kernel after compilation has to be copied with cat, not cp, otherwise yaboot may not boot it. (:
#powerpc #yaboot #linux #sparse #mac #powermac
i have learned an interesting way of developing b/w film.
first of all, you don’t need to buy a developer, like d76 or rodinal. you can make a better developer yourself. (:
for that you need: solution number zero:
Dilute this in one litre of water.
solution number one:
Keep the film for 7 minutes in the first solution, then 7 minutes in the second solution. if you feel you need more details in shadows, then keep up to 15 minutes for the second time.
what is important, and what distinguishes this process, from d76 is that you never can “spoil” the negative. whatever ISO is it, however long you keep the film in the fluids, it will “expose” what is on the film, but it won’t go beyond that. I even got to know how does that work chemically, but i cannot explain that myself.
this solution is also known as Kodak D23, or “hungry development”.
By the way, you don’t need to buy a “Stop bath” solution as well. Just get %5 solution of Acetic Acid and dilute it in one litre of water. That’s your stop bath. (:
For instance, this one works very well:
Also, it is possible to get a fixer from the med lab, which works with x-rays processing, but i haven’t learnt that yet. (:
#photography #photo #developer #development #d76 #d23 #black_and_white #black-and-white #bw #negative
since pretty long ago i don’t feel comfortable telling others about my sad life, about how unfair somebody treated me, etc.
because whenever someone tells me, how unfair they have been treated, or even left/dumped by someone, what I think is, well, may be it’s not them who haven’t been good friend to you, or haven’t been loyal, may be you are the one, who haven’t been a good friend at the first place, and that’s why it happened?
this does not mean, that i have always been treated as i deserve. it does not mean that people have to stay in relationships, if they believe they haven’t been treated as they deserve. this rather means, that may be the “negative feedback” is not always necessary. and that if i tell someone, that somebody haven’t been fair to me, then that listener has a right to raise a question, very understandable, though may be silent, if it isn’t me, who are responsible for that?
i also believe that indeed, i have “earned” most of the treatment, which i have got from others, and i am not happy about.
and today i am very thankful for all the obstacles, “misfortunes”, and the chains of pain i have got, because if it taught me something, may be it made me a better person. for instance, it taught me that if i feel hurt by something, it is not necessary to hurt back. and it is better to try hard to keep staying calm in any situation.
#vanadzor
#yerevan #street
#bicycle
#backyard
#graffiti #street-art #dog #girl #street
#dog #street #tree
just updated spyurk.am certificate by using let’s encrypt service and acme.sh script. very convenient.
those who had issues with chrome/chromium should not have them any more.
house with little horns. #house #building #tbilisi #backyard #windows
#selfie #people
#dog
@{Սոնա Մանուկյան ; sanyokot@spyurk.am} #portrait #provia
there are filters in the paper bag which we have to take to Dilijan’s #caffeine which is run by two girls.
#tbilisi #Coffee_LAB #window
#tbilisi #sololaki #street
#building #tbilisi #sololaki
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
now on velvia (:
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
i almost never can resist stopping at that place.
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#mariam #caffeine #dilijan
#caffeine #bicycle #dilijan
irresponsible newspaper. #caffeine #dilijan #newspaper
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
however i scan it, the cup remains burned. but it is not on the original slide.
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
deathworld
#picsart #yerevan
#yerevan #bridge #provia #film
#yerevan #bridge #gorge #provia #film
#yerevan #dog
#yerevan #provia
dancing with the kitten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGjaAG-pwQ #sololaki #cat #dance #backyard
i’ve shared the backyard photos of this building a couple of times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kPdV5vhLA #sololaki
#dilijan
#dog
i am sorry for the stream but you have to admit that it’s not every day. (:
#street
#sololaki
#cat #cats #gate #sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki #bicycle #street
#sololaki #backyard #staircase
#sololaki #dog #cat
#tedx #sololaki #entrance
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#staircase #sololaki
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
10 #abovian street in #tbilisi, #sololaki. #house
#backyard #sololaki #window
#cat #backyard
#tbilisi #backyard
#design
#tbilisi #entrance #windows #staircase #building #sololaki
#backyard #yerevan
zombie balloons.
there was an event in the frame of tbilisi fashion week at the “fabrika” space - there were talks, photographers with cool cameras, designers and elite youth. and these women were engaged in catering: preparing food and drinks for the participants of the event. they were watching the event from behind of the hung clothes. taken with jolla phone.
#fabrika #tbilisifashionweek #tbilisi_fashion_week #tfw
theoretically the word “entrance” in russian has to be written as “подъезд”, not “под’езд”. this practice to use the apostrophe sign instead of the letter have been widely used back in 20ies, when bolsheviks were enforcing new orphography. armed people in loose-fitting uniform jackets and armed with mausers were confiscating the letters used in old orphography from printing houses, among them this “hard sign” letters. that is why people were using apostrophe signs instead of them.
this photo have been taken in tbilisi with jolla phone. (:
#tbilisi #russian #georgian #orphography #entrance
special armenian hamburger and anthony. #rhcp
@{Սև կատու ; alils_@spyurk.am} 12.04.2017, 23:36:34
#աչաջուր #նկար /w @{կողմնակի; norayr@spyurk.am} @{անդրանիկ; antranigv@spyurk.am}
#achajour
#mirzoian_library #yerevan #tree #backyard
#landscape
#courtyard
#dog #house
#cat #caturday #house
The M-3 could have also remained a one-of-a-kind machine (its development was not officially sanctioned by the government), had it not been for the academician Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian. Upon his arrival in Moscow in 1954, he asked his friend Andronick Gevondovich Iosifian, Director of the All-Union Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Electro-mechanics [today the Vserossiskii nauchno-isledovatel’skii institut elektromekhaniki, or VNIIEM], to help him obtain a computer for the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Iosifian turned to Brook, and the two of them agreed to manufacture three M-3s at the Institute of Electro-mechanics, which had its own manufacturing facility. One computer was to be built for the Institute of Electro Mechanics, one for the Yerevan Institute of Mathematics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and another for Korolev’s space program. They formed a joint group of specialists: Matyuhin (from Brook’s laboratory), Boris Moiseevich Kagan, George Petrovich Lopato (from Iosifian’s Institute), and others. In 1956, the first of the M-3’s was fine-tuned and presented to the State Commission, together with technical documentation required for industrial mass- production.
…Because the M-3 was actually a self-initiated project, independent of any state plans, the State Commission headed by Bruevich and assisted by Shura-Bura showed its true character by not wanting to acknowledge this computer, claiming that it was “born illegitimately.” Although they did eventually accept it, two years went by without it’s going into mass production. During this time, the Yerevan Institute of Mathematical Machines was founded and began producing its own computers using our documentation for the M-3. 27 At the same time, the first industrial computer factory in Minsk, Belarus, was built, but had nothing to produce. The factory managers learned that Iosifian had a model of a computer but nobody had given him permission to make it. Only then were the M-3’s documents transferred from the Institute of Electro Mechanics to the factory in Minsk and the M-3 computer became the basis for computer manufacturing in Yerevan and Minsk.
#book #quote #computing #yerevan
apparently, this soviet song’s hebrew version was popular in 70ies in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLo_LhfLy5M
the difference is, the hebrew version has the god, Elohim, in it. soviet version, obviously did not have that. (:
#hebrew
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Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 07.04.2017, 15:48:06
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Dave: What’s the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave: sudo open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: There you go.
#HAL9000 #SpaceOdyssey #sudo #gnu #linux #unix
#hal_9000
The diagonal of the 18x24mm half frame is 30mm; the diagonal of the 24x36mm full frame is 43mm; so the “normal” focal length for a half frame would be about 30/43 x 50 or 35mm. The “35mm equivalent” of the 28mm on the Pen would be 43/30 x 28 or 40mm.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/lenss-focal-length-for-half-frame-camera.72488/ #half_frame #equivalent
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via @{YA ; ya@sechat.org} (sorry cannot tag you) from this post.
the author’s original post, maybe. I believe this photo have been taken in Geghard, Armenia. Exactly here I guess.
#armenia #geghard #monastery #flowers #photo
#trees #snow #sevan
#trees #snow #sevan
#sevan #velvia #ice #lake
Same location, almost same time, as here, but the film is different - old photo on fujifilm c200, this photo on fujichrome velvia 50 slide.
#sevan #winter #lake #ice #velvia #film #slide
http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-90/PopUp.html #airbus
I have met a family in one of the Armenian towns.
They both are educated.
The wife works as a teacher at the local school. The husband, however, decided to become a farmer. That was an efficient way to support the family. All the day long he works at the farm, and she, after the school, makes cheese and matsun, which they distribute to sell at the town shops.
When he was a teenager, he was an M. C. Hammer fan. He said he had to go to Tbilisi to get shoes like those Hammer had. Also, they did not have any interesting clothes, so they were asking tailors to make custom clothes for them.
They are able to support a rented apartment for their kids, who study in Yerevan. One of them was able to get and keep a free education at the medical university, which is very hard. They say, that according to the other brother, this guy only studies and sleeps. Another brother, however, who had chosen the IT way, has more free time usually and enjoys the city life.
The wife dreams of having a room with bookshelves, but they send all the money to the kids. “It has to wait” - she said.
We, of course, also talked about coming elections. She said how the teachers have been forced to go to “stand” at the faked rally when the current “prime minister”, from the ruling party came to the city.
She also said she wonder how some people can engage in such a dirty thing to do, as distributing ads of one of the parties. They get paid around $100 for that. “Well, some people have no choice” - argued her husband. “There are more important things, I would do anything, any kind of hard work, but I would never distribute those papers” - she said.
She said - “they’ll never get our voices. they’ll never win in our town. whichever falsifications they do, they won’t win.”. “It’s you, your town, who give them voices, where they are able to fake” - she condemned me. (:
She said that one of the kids - the one who studies to become a physician, already decided to emigrate. He has a feeling that the corruption in the field is huge and he’s not gonna fit the system.
The other one can see how he can live in Armenia. He’s a programmer and he hopes to find a decent job, or maybe, found a startup here.
Everything in the house had been built by them. The husband built the furniture, the walls. The walls are still naked concrete. I have noticed that the walls are built very well, very accurate. I’ve seen different walls and I believe I can notice and appreciate a good work.
Her sister sends her books from Yerevan. She showed me books she reads currently - one of them was an Armenian translation of Hermann Hesse. She is proud that she can convince the pupils to read. She said recently she found out one of them have read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde, by following her advice.
There is no bookshop in their town, she said. Though recently one had been opened, but it only sells books in Russian. “I am not reading Russian fast” - she confessed.
Overall, they both left an impression of advanced, smart people in very hard circumstances, but who still can find their way to live with dignity, and without betraying their values.
When you stand in front of someone (with your car) and you horn at that person, … In my opinion, it’s like pointing a loaded gun. It is a threat. One you probably wouldn’t execute, but that is also one of the biggest uses op weapons: threaten. The victim never knows for sure what you are going to do…
from comment by @{Eddie G ; eddygz@pod.disroot.org} under this post. #quote #threaten #weapon
#sevan #winter #lake #ice
bbc presence in yerevan.
#caturday #cat #bbc #yerevan
the best cat ever. #yerevan #backyard
Saint Petersburg photos by Alexandr Petrossian
also his blog http://petrosphotos.livejournal.com/ #photography
#photo #yerevan #street
NSA tools to hack macs https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/document/
it looks like those tools have been developed by the NSA. so it is not obvious if Apple have participated in that process at all. also these tools are somehow outdated. #wikileaks #apple #nsa #sonic_screwdriver (this is an allusion to dr. who) #seapea #nightskies #triton #derstarke #efi
i have three problems with my pod.
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
it’s a same host.
i am unable to make web chat to work. everything seems to be configured according to manuals. need to chat about it.
if I use prosody modules from https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Integration/XMPP/Prosody - roster from diaspora friends is not being built. however if i use old custom modules sent to me by @jhass then the roster is built.
#diaspora
testing friend’s headphones. by qualia.
amazing:
Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product. […] When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say ‘Have you considered the alternative?'”
Brian Acton and Jan Koum, June 20121
“Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross-platform mobile messaging company, for a total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares.”
Facebook Newsroom, February 20142
“[B]y coordinating more with Facebook, we’ll be able to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp. And by connecting your phone number with Facebook’s systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them.”
Brian Acton and Jan Koum, August 2016
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Created by Alexandra Elbakian (:
x100f is out! https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x100f #fuji #x100 #x100f
#wikipedia #wikisource #wikidata #wiktionary #wikicommons #armenian
‘come and hug me’ in Lori province dialect.
#armenian #caturday #cats
from dmesg output of two different servers, may be the same tigran:
icrocode: CPU39 sig=0x406f1, pf=0x1, revision=0xb00001e
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-4f-01
Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 43455816k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:43455816k
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@veritas.com>
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
tg3 0000:01:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
#dmesg #linux #microcode
by Melissa Findlay | source
#photo #street #urban
by .tom troutman | sources
#hebrew #east_coast #photo
radio run by kids of tumo dilijan.
http://diliradio.out.airtime.pro:8000/diliradio_b
http://diliradio.airtime.pro #tumo #dilijan #radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcvng_CpMQ smth to watch. (: