AnAustralianPhotographer

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[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Steady up over ~~their~~ ~~they're~~ there.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would they be dangerous to mount them on sharks ? asking for a friend.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 15 points 1 month ago (13 children)
[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Calibre conversion kits do exist. I think they could be for might be cases where people want to practice marksmanship with smaller calibers like a .22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliber_conversion_device

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I propose anyone playing one adopt a house rule that Outback Mages can use Lamingtons and Yeast Extract (combined with bread) in a manner similar to healing positions.

Edit: and maybe consider creating an Outback Barbarian class with a primary weapon of a wooden club made of willow and can sometimes deal ranged damage by using the club to propel a fist sized spherical rock that someone (typically another party member) has to throw at them.....

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it was me, I would go in, dressed smart casual, be on time, polite, own up to the issue, say sorry I forgot to get it renewed and I hadn't realized it needed doing, inform the judge of any mitigating circumstances that might have distracted you and ask that because it's your first offence if they could be lenient as there were no other aggravating factors (speeding, drunk, crashed car with injuries rtc).

Was the car or truck in pretty good condition ?. It's what I'd try if all indications are you are an otherwise legal and safe driver. I'm not asking for you to answer to me, but they seem relevant to a judge. I hope things work out ok for you.

The only other thing I could think of is if someone could be a character witness but the court might not want to hear them.

Maybe you have a good reason to ask for the fine to be waived if you have sick kids etc, or have been saving for a worthwhile cause and this would be a major setback or a penalty like losing your license would make you unable to work or look after kids.

If you are pleasant and don't make things harder then they might have discretion to adjust the penalty and decide to do so. But the law might also be written so the judge has no say in the penalty or a minimum penalty is required.

I know of some drivers over here if they have an established safe driving record they can write and ask for a speeding fine to be reviewed and possibly waived (if it was just a few kms over, cant see it work gor 30km/h+ over).

I think there's also been a few cases where people who would otherwise have their license suspended over here get an exemption for work etc.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 7 points 5 months ago

Network Attached Storage. A computer on a network designed to store files people work on. It usually has several hard drives that work together for extra speed and redundancy if a hard drive fails.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While I don't want to say this is a perfect solution, it is a free solution, and one id checkout early, that said I'd still recommend shopping around to see what best meets your needs.

You could get a Gmail account for the business/ website and then register for a free WordPress site. WordPress is both software you can download for self hosting and a website service where they take care of everything (for free or a price. The free version may end up with the website having ads served to viewers and only has limited upload).

As for design, there are a few free as well as paid templates. They can also get your site a domain like yourbusiness.com , but you can get a free subdomain at WordPress like yourbusiness.wordpress.com

If you wanted to go complex, you could self host or hire a virtual computer to host from a cloud provider, but things like making sure software is up to date and security patches applies are up to you. You might already have a server / network attached storage device which could be the server and get the domain linking to it and have your router forward incoming traffic to it, but it depends on how hands on you want to be.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 1 points 8 months ago

I reckon a Pelican would easily be able to get a skateboard rolling. I'm just now sure the best steps to proceed testing it.

I'd try a skateboard at the top of a hill and see about getting a cockatoo to somehow get the board to roll under it's own propulsion so it can sit back and enjoy a ride down a hill. That'd be the way I'd try if I wanted the bird to do it repeatedly.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

My guess is with the protests that some of the top content creators moved away and never came back.

I remember sorting by hot once gave a wide variety of things and now it seems to be more drama posts like AITA posts.

Although it feels like I'm still following an ex, There was one place over there I used to visit a lot and I believe if you took a snapshot of the top ten posts of a random day few years ago and today, they'd be very different. Today's seems to be a group picking up a trend and running with it and before it was more original content. I remember going there because I knew there'd be something new I'd likely laugh at or be amused by and now it feels heavily recycled.

The subscriber count is still way up, but I'd you look at the online/active user count, it feels like its around 10% it was off recent highs.

It felt like the sub had a ship of thecleus moment where it seemed to just be growing, but was also losing people until the group changed but the name was the same.

Someone else said the new reddit gold allows people to receive real money* if people gild their posts (by spending real money) * receiver must be in certain countries.

I saw a post recently on a wholesome memes page where someone tagged repost sleuth bot and someone else commented that todays post was literally a copy of the third top voted post of all time. It was.

I also remember that bot support got affected and this led to a spam detector bot being moved from active development to sunset mode where it was still supported but not actively enhanced.

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Edit: my comment isn't about exactly the same thing, but ..

Some new camera tech might be opening a can of worms about whether what's pictured can be taken literally.

There was a story late last year of a woman trying on a wedding dress in front of two mirrors and someone snapped a photo.

When they looked at it, the reflection on the left mirror had a different pose to the reflection on The right mirror.

And this cast doubt on what exactly was going on the moment the shutter was pressed.

It looks like the camera had one of the stitch together the best photo of the people pictured (e.g. don't show shots of people blinking etc) and it treated the mirror images as different people.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11579263

This young koala was still new to climbing on its own and was moving slowly and mum was nearby on another branch. It was moving to eat some leaves.

It managed to find itself under the branch at some point, but got on top again and carried on.

 

This young koala was still new to climbing on its own and was moving slowly and mum was nearby on another branch. It was moving to eat some leaves.

It managed to find itself under the branch at some point, but got on top again and carried on.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11570406

While near a dock, these two were perched ontop of a pole and looking out over the water.

 

While near a dock, these two were perched ontop of a pole and looking out over the water.

 

(Not the best shot, but after taking a photo of a noisy miner and this species being mentioned, i wanted to post the next ok picture i got)

 

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AnAustralianPhotographer to c/birding
 

(Posting another image of the same species again so soon as i think this is a better image)

Is it just me, or does it seem to be smiling for the camera?

 

 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11464238

Galahs are similar to Cockatoos in that you'll commonly find them around suburbs and near parks where they'll fly down and eat seeds from the grass in groups.

They'll keep an eye out and fly off if anything gets too near.

I saw two together, I don't know if this is the same or the other one.

 

Galahs are similar to Cockatoos in that you'll commonly find them around suburbs and near parks where they'll fly down and eat seeds from the grass in groups.

They'll keep an eye out and fly off if anything gets too near.

I saw two together, I don't know if this is the same or the other one.

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