Apple Photos as an Adobe Lightroom Alternative 📷
Initially making the switch purely for file management purposes, I stumbled upon a pretty darn powerful set of editing tools for both RAW & JPG 🤩
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#photography #blog #writing #apple #adobe
Apple Photos as an Adobe Lightroom Alternative
Ayup! Since switching from Adobe to Affinity, I've been using Apple Photos as a replacement for Lightroom. Initially, this was purely for file managementmikehindle.uk
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Dodental van ‘terroristische aanval’ Bondi Beach Sydney loopt op tot twaalf
Bij een schietpartij bij Bondi Beach in de Australische stad Sydney zijn zondag ten minste twaalf personen om het leven gekomen, onder wie een van de twee schutters.Miluska van Rompu (DPG Media)
The #Kabwe lithic assemblage in #Zambia
#Hheidelbergensis and the origin of the #MiddleStoneAge
#archaeology #Africa #MiddlePleistocene
link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage - African Archaeological Review
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) saw the emergence of novel behaviours in the archaeological record and is generally associated with our own species, Homo sapiens.SpringerLink
Bought my kids a mini cactus two years ago. Today we gave it a much needed repotting. Very pleased with the
Topped the soil with roughly 1 cm of gravel for added stability. I also think it added some fitting aestetics! 🙂Gardener (All For Gardening)
Popcorn the bird is sick. Been vomiting. We are worried he will not make it through the night.
We are supposed to go away tomorrow for a little holiday for a few days. Timing is terrible.
The Kindle app on iOS is rolling out a feature that allows people to use AI to explain the book’s plot or how characters relate to each other. I like the idea of being able to ask “Who is Sally again?” after picking up a book from where I left off.
The main problem I see is the risk of LLM hallucinations feeding you wrong info about the book.
globalist.it/culture/2025/12/1…
Bene bene bene
Il Fai acquisisce l'Archivio della Fondazione Portaluppi
Libri, documenti, disegni e arredi della Fondazione Portaluppi saranno trasferiti nella storica villa milanese progettata dall’architetto nel 1932. L’inaugurazione del nuovo spazio è prevista per maggio 2026.redazione (Globalist.it)
Some Spiny Sugar Ants (genus Polyrhachis) spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector, Singapore on 8 March 2025. They were holding on to some pupas. During the few minutes I observed them, they did not move from this position.
On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicoidea #Hymenoptera
Dives-group Spiny Ants (Complex Polyrhachis dives) observed by Soh Kam Yung
Dives-group Spiny Ants from Mandai, Singapore on March 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM by Soh Kam Yung. Not sure what is happening. Ants stayed in this position for several minutes, holding on to the g...iNaturalist
沈伯洋帶女兒散步遭突襲錄影 北市警查獲男子送辦
民進黨立委沈伯洋日前帶女兒在國家音樂廳散步，遭1名男子以手機強光錄影並質問，北市警方受理報案。警方今天說，已查獲涉案林姓男子到案，依妨害自由等罪嫌函送檢方偵辦。中央通訊社 Central News Agency (中央社 CNA)
The UK Online Safety Act ushered in an age verification market without regulating providers.
Our open letter calls for this to be corrected ahead of tomorrow's debate.
We're supported by the Age Verification Providers Association and 600+ members of the public.
Read more ⬇️
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#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Online Safety Act: Age assurance industry must be regulated
Open Rights Group has written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall MP calling for regulation of age assurance providers operating under the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
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“Platforms choose which [age verification] provider to use, and the public has to hope they can be trusted.”
They have an incentive to choose cheaper and less secure vendors, mainly located in the US, with varying data protection standards.
This can't continue. We need regulation now!
🗣️ @JamesBaker for ORG.
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
ORG is asking the UK Government, ICO and Ofcom to establish compulsory privacy and security standards for age verification providers to ensure that users’ sensitive data is protected.
Tell your MP to attend the Online Safety Act debate on 15 December ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
“The ones we love: all 16 of REM’s albums – ranked!” (The Guardian, June 2025)
“As their album Fables of the Reconstruction turns 40, we assess REM’s hugely varied discography, from mysterious masterpieces to commercial failures”
Rather stunning conversations this morning over coffee of what ‘form’ thought takes: apparently my partner can play whole songs, in real time, in their clever head. For me? Only the concept of the thing, unless I subvocalise. It was only by delving into the nit and grit of it all that we were able to discover such divergence. You think you know a person!
I hope your world becomes a little richer #today, friends. ☁️
@astronomerritt What’s funny is my partner actually has aphantasia, which I still can’t quite wrap my head around as to how that works, as they also have what I would call a “vivid” or even “photographic” memory! but apparently, it’s more alt-text than the images themselves!
and funny enough: my partner, with aphantasia, works in visual design, just as your partner, who can’t ‘play’ music in their head, is a musician. ♥️
Hong Kong's oldest pro-democracy party announces dissolution
The Democratic Party was founded in 1994, near the end of British colonial rule, when Hong Kong's leading liberal groups merged.The Japan Times
#Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
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Thought this was the most compelling article so far to both acknowledge the bubble but also the differences. Very much worth a read. #ai
nytimes.com/2025/12/09/technol…
(NYT gifted article)
Also it is astounding the extent to which this article downplays the financial shenanigans which are propping to the bubble.
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in reply to Mike Hindle • • •@ewen Did you see that Apple acquired pixelmator inc. photomator? Don’t be surprised to see more advanced editing tools appear in photos in the future 🔮
pixelmator.com/photomator/
Photomator
PhotomatorMike Hindle
in reply to felixthehat • • •Ewen Bell 📸
in reply to Mike Hindle • • •@felixthehat
PhotoMator gets good feedback from a lot of folks wanting to push their RAW files without the Adobe empire interfering. Comes up a lot in discussion.
Mike Hindle
in reply to Mike Hindle • • •Thank you to @ewen for the generous feedback on Apple Photos.
Wile it's generally a solid option for those shooting JPG, it's maybe not the best for RAW. My bad, I didn't realise this.
Updated (thanks again, Ewen 🤩🙏🏻) - mikehindle.uk/apple-photos-as-…