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coisasdavida

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Photographer and Coder.
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coisasdavida··on Experiments with Plotter Art
I always been intrigued with the drawings of Nake and also woth the ones by Knoll. It so happens that there is an used Ender printer on my way to this week. Thanks for the wonderful link!
coisasdavida··on Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes
Repair Jig + Metal Hook = Could someone point me to it, please?
coisasdavida··on KDE daemon – the annoying restart is needed to complete update
Found this article from 2025 with a solution
coisasdavida··on Old Computer Challenge
I want to participate. But maybe I already do everyday. My daily driver is a MacBook Pro 2009 running Linux MX 23, does that count as an old computer for this challenge?
coisasdavida··on The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced
well, makes me think of this guy reading labels in french in Canada: https://www.instagram.com/steven.massicotte/
coisasdavida··on Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg
Very useful! I'll bookmark that! My most recent search to use with FFMPEG was to convert a folder of Sony videos to Prores. ChatGPT helped me with this one-liner: for f in *.MTS; do ffmpeg -y -i "$f" -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 1 -vendor apl0 -pix_fmt yuv422p10le "proResLT_${f%.MTS}.mov"; done Maybe having the option to create one liners like this, for different platforms, would be nice!
coisasdavida··on Player Piano Rolls
I often use the term "pianola" to search the Vinted plataform for keyboards. Apparently italians use this term for stuff they don't think too much of. Recently I used the same "trick" on the Wallapop plataform. But Wallapop has a higher dose of spanish and portuguese in the mix. They use the term in a different way and the search results are usually flooded with piano rolls. It would be cool to buy all those lots just to check out which songs they contain.
coisasdavida··on What Happens When You Break the Rules of Tape Loops? [video]
Thank you!!! I knew there had to be a way to get more than 12 seconds!!!
coisasdavida··on Photography Composition: The Definitive Guide
Take something that could never be definitive, call it definitive and spend first two paragraphs explaining boundaries and how limited this definitive thing is (or rather it is not).
coisasdavida··on Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?
Whisky. Japanese cameras from the 1960s.
coisasdavida··on Putting the "Person" in "Personal Website"
As the famous blogging platforms are getting older, I've seen a couple posts here about people celebrating their 15-year or 20-year blogging activity. In a sense, for those who have been comfortable with blogging platforms, this piece makes a lot of sense and also relates to these texts I've seen. Thanks for sharing!
coisasdavida··on Why don't more people use Linux?
Because they can't pick a distro.
coisasdavida··on Gimp Is No Longer a Viable Photoshop Alternative
I second Krita's suggestion!
coisasdavida··on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Launched 15 Years Ago Today with '0 New Features'
Still run two Macs on it just for scanners, it is a great version.
coisasdavida··on Why Is Custom Framing So Expensive?
Laerte, a Brazilian artist known for his comic strips, once did a strip explaining the difference between artwork and framework, which is that framework has to be good.
coisasdavida··on What we can learn from vintage computing
Recently I discovered the joy of running Mac OS9 on Qemu on a Windows 10 machine. Reinstalled my old copy of Photoshop 5.0 and a bunch of filters I had back in the 90's. So much fun!
coisasdavida··on Perseid meteor shower 2024: when, where and how to see it
I left a camera out shooting every minute on auto. When it gets dark auto exposure will be around 30 seconds. Tomorrow I'll find out if it saw anything...
coisasdavida··on Ask HN: What songs do you listen to over and over again?
THE TECHNOCRATS- Ruckzuck (Düsseldorf #3)
coisasdavida··on Built a tool that roasts your LinkedIn profile, have fun but be careful
I'm almost re-enabling my profile just to try...
coisasdavida··on A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film
Anyone knows a similar supplier in Europe I could source the parts from?
coisasdavida··on Discussion: Do you write? What about? Why?
I started a blog about 20 years ago to organise ideas while writing my final paper in a photography bfa program. It had to do recycling stuff to make photographs. I never stopped writing the blog, it keeps me sane, it keeps me aware of I have done and what I have yet to do. I read it a lot, to get back om track.
coisasdavida··on Single-Board Computer from a TV
Thanks! Great resource!
coisasdavida··on Computers are an inherently oppressive technology (2022)
According to Flusser, these things are not machines, they are apparatus. Machines process things, apparatus process information. They accept inputs and return outputs. They emulate theories and thoughts - like rules in games, differentiating them from toys, these theories/rules are one thing that make them what they are - to achieve some output, certain inputs have to be provided.

Ruthless? They are far from unpredictable, how can something like that be ruthless, if you know how it will respond to specific inputs?

coisasdavida··on Ask HN: Anyway to appeal for replacement of MacBook Pro display?
Whenever I had to explain a case like this to a customer, there would be photos attached to the case that I could email the customer. Photos would show findings during attempted repair and why it was decided it was damage. If the Mac was sent to an Apple owned Repair Center or Apple Store, why not call Apple Support, right away ask to speak to a supervisor, that will get you to someone who can lookup photos and send them to you. If the repair center is third party, maybe speak to them directly.
coisasdavida··on Photography Application lists
Interesting! I'd love to be able to sort the apps, for example, just open source ones or even just free apps too.
coisasdavida··on Traffic-Cone Film Scanning: High-Quality Film Digitization on the Cheap
Is there a specific treatment or pattern to make inside of tube less prone to reflections?
coisasdavida··on Ask HN: Locked Out of New, Unregistered iPad
If restarting didn't take you back to the "Welcome" screen, the account was created, I suppose. Did he prompted for activation lock?
coisasdavida··on Ask HN: Locked Out of New, Unregistered iPad
Start a request at the end of this page, https://support.apple.com/en-us/108934, if it gets that far, but I would exhaust all options first.

Should look into account password first. If he has started account recovery, Activation Lock removal will fail.

coisasdavida··on Ask HN: Locked Out of New, Unregistered iPad
Activation Lock is never dealt at Store level. There is a website specifically for this and the customer should start the procedure online.
coisasdavida··on Ask HN: Locked Out of New, Unregistered iPad
iTunes does not need to logged in to correct account to erase the iPad, for example. The iPad needs to be in Recovery Mode (showing a USB cable on its screen).

After you get into Recovery Mode and erase the iPad, it will reboot and be in Activation Lock with his account. Apple Support should be able to guide you on how to send the Best Buy receipt if you are unable to get thru Activation Lock.

But go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and check if his account can accessed with the info he provided so far.

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