Also, I was looking into London Review of Books. I like The Economist, but find it can be a bit lacking on culture. Any experiences with LRB?
Readit Newsalfyboy commented on Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) ianservin.com/2026/01/13/... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
Super interesting project and impressive engineering. It wasn't quite clear to me how he solved the problem with
> Their motors are designed for slow, dampened pans across a stage, not for tracking a jet moving at 300 knots. The mechanical and electronics latency is significant; if you simply tell the camera to “follow that plane,” by the time the motors react, the target has often moved out of the frame.
Is he able to move the motors faster than they are designed to be moved? Is this the __Control (PID + Feed-Forward Loop)__ fix?
I was recently evicted from my apartment in a city in Norway experiencing similar growth in short-term rentals. The rental on that apartment was around €750 (same for my roommate). Apparently, during high season in the winter similar apartments goes for ~€830 a night. High season is 3 months in the winter, but seemingly that is enough to outcompete longterm tenants.
alfyboy commented on WhoSampled Is Joining Spotify whosampled.com/news/2025/... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
Woah, that's kind of unexpected to me, but it totally makes sense in many ways.
Sad to see decades of user contributions being sucked up for profit again, but as long as they don't lock it down... well, they will at some point, I fear.
Hopefully Discogs won't be next.
Yeah, my bet is they are going downhill. Would love to know if anyone is archiving the work. I've contributed with a few samples over the years, and it't kind of annoying that this is now under Spotifys ownership.
alfyboy commented on Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release github.com/immich-app/imm... · Posted by u/Alexvb
They've been around for a 3 years, which is not a very long time for FOSS. However the software seems stable, fast, it has lots of releases, all of which are good signs in terms of future availability.
I forgot the name, but there is a software "law" that software that has been around for N years will probably be around for N more years (so the longer it's been around, the longer it will continue to be around).
I see about 7 big contributors: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors. I think most of them work for/are sponsored by FUTO: https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/
And seeing the FUTO description, I like that. We need more of that :-)
> FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation.
Though this part needs more research:
> From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf.
I have no idea who Eron Wolf is...
Edit: found some more info. Potentially promising:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264
https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open...
Though the question remains about FUTOs long term sustainability.
You’re thinking about the [Lindy effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect)
I donate to Immich monthly, and I’m glad they managed to keep the project going and not paywalling any of their features, even under the influence of their new sponsor.
Interesting read! And kudos to the security researchers for investigating
How do you know what to say?, usually I can start the conversation but I don’t know where to take it after. How are you able to shift to the next stage when you have both agreed that the weather today is nice.
How do you get over the feeling that you are wasting their time?
Finally, how do you end the conversation when you're still going in the same direction or waiting at the same place?
If they are open to small talk, they will drop some tidbits that you can spring off on. Conversation is a two way street. If they don't seem interested in keeping the conversation going, tell them to have a nice day and carry on with yours.