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mine seems to be 53ish percent

At least it's consistent, but I'll ask my boss what he's doing here... as the % doesn't result in a massive amount of $ for me, but for him it does, and so if it's wrong then he's going to be on it.

More importantly, is 42-45% of an amount still enough for a field?

Well I'm keeping none of this for spending, it's just going onto the mortgage to reduce it a bit.

The % of tax just affects how much of a dent that is.

Sale of share options in a secondary event on NASDAQ

Is that the correct rate of withholding?

Tax withholding on shares works out to be 53% of the gross value of the shares (before fees / deductions, so more like 55-58% if it is applied post-fees)... does that sound right? Is it the higher rate income tax and additional National Insurance?

It turns out the future was more Fahrenheit 451 than Big Brother.

Once upon a time I seem to have decided that I'm not allowed to ignore things.

Fixed the Insta links, this should now work https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-XHkcngwEy/

@Tijmen does it work?

Also... how did you ignore forums? There's no button for that. Is that on the mobile app?

I have a sub-forum on ignore but it still shows up on the front page.
If the last post in a forum is in the ignored sub-forum, that post shows up on the right on the front page.

This one is fun.

I think it's this query...
https://git.dee.kitchen/buro9/microcosm/src/branch/main/models/microcosms.go#L1148-L1157

SELECT microcosm_id
      ,title
      ,logo_url
  FROM microcosms m
 WHERE parent_id = $1
   AND is_deleted IS NOT TRUE
   AND is_moderated IS NOT TRUE
   AND (get_effective_permissions(site_id,microcosm_id,2,microcosm_id,$2)).can_read IS TRUE
 ORDER BY is_sticky DESC, comment_count DESC, title ASC

And I think this is the solution:

SELECT microcosm_id
      ,title
      ,logo_url
      ,i.profile_id
  FROM microcosms m
       LEFT JOIN ignores_expanded i ON i.profile_id = 79578
                                   AND i.item_type_id = 2
                                   AND i.item_id = m.microcosm_id
 WHERE parent_id = 807
   AND is_deleted IS NOT TRUE
   AND is_moderated IS NOT TRUE
   AND i.profile_id IS NULL
   AND (get_effective_permissions(site_id,microcosm_id,2,microcosm_id,79578)).can_read IS TRUE
 ORDER BY is_sticky DESC, comment_count DESC, title ASC;

For your set of ignores, this would literally only show the Current Projects forum on the home page, nothing else... and effectively all other threads in all forums become unnavigable.

I might deploy the fix and see what I blow up.

except its everywhere and keeps visiting me

And yet, I have successfully not visited it for years.

Just treat the X as a modern Swastika and feel enough disgust with yourself for clicking a link to it.

is there any way to automate seeing linked tweets without visiting the site using an embeded nitter frame?

No, the bird-hell-site has clamped down on third party calls so much that we'd need to pay for them, and nitter and others are struggling to retain access.

Best thing I can say is do not visit the hell-site.

Current issue is balancing the mak

Hello ridiculous Harmonic Drive mounts that require no counter balance at all.
https://www.firstlightoptics.com/harmonic-drive-mounts.html

And of course, that made it possible to at least imagine I could travel with this stuff.

I've also just found an image within an RFC822 "encapsulated mimetype".

I'm in a meeting, but am tempted to go find out what the hell that is about.

Oh God... it's worse than I thought... no wonder it didn't work.

• image/tiff
  
• image/svg+xml
  
• image/x-ms-bmp
  
• image/x-portable-pixmap
  
• image/x-nikon-nef
  
• image/x-matroska
  
  

That last one sounds like it's a video not an image... most are unsupported by anything, and some are custom.

This is 15 out of the last 50 attachments... but there are some PDFs and other things in there and it doesn't mean a third of images based on the most recent sample.

It just means it's not garbage per se... it's just unsupported by a library that focuses on a tiny number of most common image types.

I'm split on visual and photography... a large part of me wants to just do visual, but I want to see deep sky and really you need the benefit of time and a super long exposure, hence the photography comes in then.

I'd sat on this idea for years, my first serious bookmarks for buying a telescope was in 2018 when I really wanted a Takahashi FS60Q with their Teegul mount. I've not deviated from that initial idea much, the Takahashi FSQ-85EDX is the grown up quadruplet version of it, and is just more precise as this kind of astrophotography whilst still being amazing for visual. The big changes of course are all around the mount, and then things to make photography work. My initial thing was "just use a DSLR", but the ones I've got are all Sony and no ASCOM support rules them out and focusing all night would be a PITA... so I just said fuck it... just go all in, hence the setup I eventually chose.

It might be a dumb idea, I've yet to find out.

Booking these things in advance means you can determine the best things to observe and the moonlight, etc... but you are still subject to clouds and poor weather.

It seems like it parses it from the image data itself, so a 49% failure rate is bonkers

Yeah, I'm unsure why that would be, I keep Go and all of the dependencies up to date and so I expect that this would just work.

I started recording dimensions on day one, as most of what you describe is what I wanted to do. I just never had quality in the data to do it.

I wonder if there's an Nginx plugin for image resizing and reporting dimensions... because I could always come up with something convulated that used that, i.e. created thumbnails via an inline request to a reverse proxy, and then reported out the new dimensions, and saved those back to the database for subsequent views.

At least it's not me being totally inept this time.

No, this is me.

Or at least https://git.dee.kitchen/buro9/microcosm/src/branch/main/models/link_process.go#L224

It's this: https://github.com/mccutchen/urlresolver

Which calls this: https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell

Somewhere in there... something is causing two bugs:

1. the path / folder parts of links are being lower cased when they should not be.
   
2. the # fragment is being removed when it should not be.
   
   

will investigate later.

always been open source, but just moved it recently.

I do process files on upload, as many cameras screwed up the orientation of images and so I needed to read EXIF and perform rotations to correct orientation.

https://git.dee.kitchen/buro9/microcosm/src/branch/main/models/file.go#L554-L616

So I do have the dimensions at that point in time.

However... it's not as good as you might imagine.

I've been processing dimensions since day 1, but only 51% of images have a dimension attached with them, and there are 6,085 distinct values for width, and 5,252 distinct values for height.

It's a total mess... some dimensions couldn't be extracted, and the variety is huge, and this barely has 50% coverage of the attachments that are known image mimetypes.

It turns out images uploaded to the internet are mostly garbage.

Finally... doing the CSS you suggest would break more than you imagine, today images are "maximum size within the flexible layout", they aren't the true image size... true image size for files that are 30MB might be huge and totally blow up the layout as it would expand the layout to fit, or it would overflow and result in scrolling.

This approach seems to be a bad one.

A better one is probably to generate thumbnails for every image at known dimensions, and embed those at a maximum size and allow downscaling. I originally did try this, but the image processing... Go wasn't good at everything thrown at it, so many garbage images, and I refused to add complexity, cost, and to reduce security by adding ImageMagick to process these things.

I could've used a third party for thumbnail generation, but then I have additional egress charges as well as a third party charge, and we have a non-trivial trivial number of images, over 1M on LFGSS alone... so the cost would also be very high.

All of this was thought about, but least worst won out.

in real-time it also gives us nothing... we don't have the image dimensions until after the image has loaded.

in theory I could then store them, but if they images are modified on the remote source I'd not know and then it would be wrong again.

the current behaviour is the least worst, and the oldest style of inlining images on the internet... so the browsers should do a good job with it, it's the most ubiquitous approach on the internet.

but I'm constantly surprised by minor incompatibilities and issues 🤷

nope, I don't store the dimensions.

I agree that doing so would make everything better... but it won't work for the vast majority of images which are third party and just inlined.

oh interesting... the link is case-sensitive and something converts the actual link to lowercase.

I don't get this one at all.

Is it about his hair transplant, jawline fix and other bits of gender affirming care that he's undergone?

Saw this thread pop up last night and thought… he’s gone all in straight away! Read back and confirmed it lol.

Am I not famed for stewing on something for years, researching the hell out of it and then going all in and straight to the destination?

I could've easily bought several cheaper things and other cludges on the path, over years, but life is short, opportunity to stargaze limited, my time is valuable... may as well spend the time and money now just getting to the destination I want, and then having high quality experiences and enjoying it all more for it :)

All of this because, three years ago I moved to a dark sky site, half way up The Long Mynd, in Shropshire. It’s the perfect place to enjoy what little clear skies we have. If you wana come hang out for a weekend we have an apartment for guests

Well I will 100% take you up on that as the nights draw in more. I'd actually booked a glamping thing in a dark sky site in Wales for a few nights in September and I hope the weather favours me. But yes... I can't help now look for houses, fields, farms, and mountains to buy in that kinda area... researching for a few years time when I'd be more willing to make the leap. Would love to come and stay, stargaze, catch up, and also see the area.