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Felsenkirche, Lüderitz, Namibia. Scanned from slide taken mid 1990s.
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Namibia #photography #filmphotography
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Scanned slide. Somewhere in Southern Germany 1996
#silentsunday #stillersonntag #germany #photography
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Observation deck of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan. It used to be the longest suspension bridge in the word but was overtaken by the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey.
#Fensterfreitag #windowfriday #japan #bridges
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The maintenance walkway of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
in Japan.
#footpathfriday #japan #bridges
📊 Post engagement
9
Avg engagement / post
8.6%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Felsenkirche, Lüderitz, Namibia. Scanned from slide taken mid 19 · 33 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
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Posts several times a week.
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Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
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Felsenkirche, Lüderitz, Namibia. Scanned from slide taken mid 1990s.
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Namibia #photography #filmphotography
Today I learnt that the US Defence Information school has a flickr account. Up to about 2014 they posted great photos. (unfortunately not anymore, Scroll to the last page)
This one got to me. My first thought was "Another young person tha…
The curse of AI bots.
I’m coming across way too many broken Cloudflare turnstile and Anubis installations.
If you want to block bots make sure you don’t block humans as well. The bots won’t, but the humans will go somewhere else.
#AI #aibo…
Spamhaus provides a “Don’t Route Or Peer” (DROP) list of IP ranges that they call the worst of the worst IP traffic. My little VPS blocks about 20000 connection attempts from this list each day. I think it is a worthwhile tool to help figh…
Trying to find the downloads site for Behringer’s X32 mixer and stumbled on yet another prime example of enshittification
https://support.empowertribe.com
NB. I’m not looking for help here, I’m ranting!
#enshittification #musictech #musict…
Scanned slide. Somewhere in Southern Germany 1996
#silentsunday #stillersonntag #germany #photography
The maintenance walkway of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
in Japan.
#footpathfriday #japan #bridges
Observation deck of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan. It used to be the longest suspension bridge in the word but was overtaken by the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey.
#Fensterfreitag #windowfriday #japan #bridges
After Google’s announcement that they will start showing AI results rather than links in search results a lot of people showed interest in blocking them from scanning their sites.
If you want to do this rather block their IP ranges than us…
There was a time I worked on wordpress sites regularly. I used the Kadence theme and subscribed since 2018 to the Kadence full bundle that later got grandfathered but still available for current subscriptions. I still use it for 3 sites. I…
If you stop sweetening what you eat and drink you soon stop craving sweetness e.g. sweetened coffee tastes disgusting to me since I got used to drink it without sugar or sweeteners.
Carbohydrate intake control is, at least to me, far more …
I referred someone to the “Someone’s wrong on the internet” xkcd and clicked on random afterwards. I stumbled on https://xkcd.com/670/
Unfortunately most real engineers are way to literal to be smart.
#engineer #engineers #engineering #xkcd
The curse of AI bots.
I’m coming across way too many broken Cloudflare turnstile and Anubis installations.
If you want to block bots make sure you don’t block humans as well. The bots won’t, but the humans will go somewhere else.
#AI #aibo…
Spamhaus provides a “Don’t Route Or Peer” (DROP) list of IP ranges that they call the worst of the worst IP traffic. My little VPS blocks about 20000 connection attempts from this list each day. I think it is a worthwhile tool to help figh…
Trying to find the downloads site for Behringer’s X32 mixer and stumbled on yet another prime example of enshittification
https://support.empowertribe.com
NB. I’m not looking for help here, I’m ranting!
#enshittification #musictech #musict…
Scanned slide. Somewhere in Southern Germany 1996
#silentsunday #stillersonntag #germany #photography
The maintenance walkway of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
in Japan.
#footpathfriday #japan #bridges
Observation deck of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan. It used to be the longest suspension bridge in the word but was overtaken by the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey.
#Fensterfreitag #windowfriday #japan #bridges
After Google’s announcement that they will start showing AI results rather than links in search results a lot of people showed interest in blocking them from scanning their sites.
If you want to do this rather block their IP ranges than us…
There was a time I worked on wordpress sites regularly. I used the Kadence theme and subscribed since 2018 to the Kadence full bundle that later got grandfathered but still available for current subscriptions. I still use it for 3 sites. I…
If you stop sweetening what you eat and drink you soon stop craving sweetness e.g. sweetened coffee tastes disgusting to me since I got used to drink it without sugar or sweeteners.
Carbohydrate intake control is, at least to me, far more …
I referred someone to the “Someone’s wrong on the internet” xkcd and clicked on random afterwards. I stumbled on https://xkcd.com/670/
Unfortunately most real engineers are way to literal to be smart.
#engineer #engineers #engineering #xkcd
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On Mastodon since
Dec 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 9 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.2× per week.
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Estimated89/100
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High
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- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~8.6% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
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- Established account (3+ years old).
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