Pat David

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Husband, Father, Tinkerer. Minor photographer, major nerd. Free Software user + advocate, GIMPer, founder https://PIXLS.US. https://patdavid.net
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Pat DavidJun 3
Small update on https://pixls.us. We had a drive die on our infra and are hoping to get it replaced soon. We’ll need to rebuild some things with guidance from our intrepid sysadmin darix.
Hopefully we won’t be toooo long!
#pixlsus
PIXLS.US - Free/Open Source Photography

To provide tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography using Free/Open Source Software.

Pat DavidDec 23
Show threadØyvind KolåsDec 11, 2025
A major part of verifying results for the ametameric terminal palette optimiztion is this visualization of all color pairs as crossings both in full trichromatic color and for the three classes of full dichromacy, with additional CIE Lab Δe color differences and visualizations for the four worst pairs. On the website the same visualization can be seen for other common 16 color terminal schemes.

#terminal #color #accessibility
Pat DavidNov 27, 2025
darixNov 26, 2025

haproxy 3.3 is out!

ktls, quic support for backends just to name a few highlights.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-3-3
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg46300.html

Announcing HAProxy 3.3

HAProxy 3.3 improves HAProxy's performance, usability, observability, and security in key ways.

HAProxy Technologies
Pat DavidOct 28, 2025
The Public Domain ReviewOct 28, 2025
Sabine Baring-Gould’s *Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition* (1865) is a landmark study collecting global tales relating to lycanthropes and other human-animal transformations: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-were-wolves/
Pat DavidOct 22, 2025
Project GutenbergOct 22, 2025

The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/newby.html

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

Project Gutenberg
Pat DavidOct 7, 2025
The OatmealOct 7, 2025

Let’s talk about AI art.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Pat DavidSep 17, 2025
Aleksandr ProkudinSep 16, 2025

So much happened last week in FOSS: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; @GIMP is getting SVG exporting and in-app notifications, @Krita is getting color management support on Wayland, @Blender just got another major corporate sponsor. Unnoticed earlier development: the Surge XT project has an OB-Xd fork as a new arrival

https://librearts.org/2025/09/week-recap-14-september-2025/

Weekly recap — 14 September 2025

Mew releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; Blender gets new major sponsor

Libre Arts
Pat DavidSep 8, 2025
darixSep 8, 2025

This video was blocked by Bloomberg with a probably fraudulent DMCA claim. I mean it would be too bad if it would get a lot of views now that it is back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI

(for details about the strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOCY )

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

YouTube
Pat DavidSep 1, 2025
Ivan Sagalaev Sep 1, 2025

Our orchid is blooming again. It's been at it for 11 years!
This time I decided to play with focus stacking to get all the flowers in sharp focus, while keeping the background uniformly blurred. It came out a little *too well*, almost unnatural. But it was a nice experiment.

Thanks again to @patdavid for the instructions https://patdavid.net/2013/01/focus-stacking-macro-photos-enfuse/

#photography #FocusStack #flowers

Pat DavidAug 12, 2025
Elly LoelJun 12, 2025

facts 🗣️🗣️🗣️
say it louder for the mfers in the back

@shibbles at @webdirections