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Cake day: February 22nd, 2025

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  • Made exactly the same experience. Dumped the map plugin and using memories now, to geo tag and re-import photos to my existing local photo manager. I might even transfer the whole bunch of photos¹ from local storage to NC. Which will be a good reason to get rid of all tha external drive and SAN-based crap in the house and replace it by fiber and a proper NAS.

    ¹ 20+ years worth of them, I basically shut down my darkroom and analog lab when digicams became available to common mortals. The bastards who stole my Minolta, my Fujica and the case with most of my lenses, flashes etc. made the decision to go digital a lot easier for me.








  • According to German daily Bild, the military police fired practice ammunition at the arriving police officers, believing this was part of the military exercise.

    The police officers then reportedly fired back with live ammunition, hitting one of the soldiers.

    I was wondering why the cops were involved as back in the day we did not need them to inadvertedly shoot each other. A couple of 24 hour shifts of boredom at the guard house and some live ammo were all it took…






  • The Nobel Peace Prize -once granted by a jury of scholars- has been given by politicians to other politicians for years now and has become just as worthless as you’d expect. Trump should definitely have one, just because he likes golden things so much. Maybe they should create a special category, the Trump Nobel Peace Prize, just as the economists did with their “Nobel prize” for economy (or whatever). The latter is not a Nobel prize at all, but who cares. Maybe put double gold on it or better put two medals and extra cheese in a burger roll. I bet Trump would like that,