luna, friend of eggbug

queer poly kinky disaster • digital sorceress • creative coder • reverse engineer • demoscener (yx)

pronouns: she/they
website: https://moonbase.lgbt/

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2026-03-24 21:31:19 UTC

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i believe mine's one of the more readily moddable ones but i've not felt the need to do so yet

2026-03-24 21:30:53 UTC

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there are also various aftermarket hardware mods to upgrade the battery and storage capacity, if that's of interest to you then i'd make sure to do the research into which models are best for that first

2026-03-24 21:26:40 UTC

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I'm still using the apple tooling for now, but there are other options (and i've done a fair amount of poking at the database format myself and could cobble together my own tooling if i wanted) plus there's always rockbox to turn it into a regular-ass "just put the mp3s in the usb volume" media player

2026-03-24 21:21:09 UTC

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already got an ipod classic that i'm steadily reintroducing into my life ^^

2026-03-24 21:15:30 UTC

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so help me god i'll replace this fucking thing with a wristwatch and a walkman

2026-03-24 20:54:55 UTC

sorry what do you mean iOS 26 shrinks the clock if you have the big album art on the lock screen
who the fuck signed off on "yeah if you want the big album art you can't easily glance at the time any more"
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/286/130/004/707/714/original/a1ff6b8144bc6f0c.png
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2026-03-24 19:23:20 UTC

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kodak alaris are still selling it as portra everywhere, kodak eastman are now also selling it as ektacolor in the US.
https://www.kodak.com/en/still-film/product/professional/ektacolor-film/

2026-03-24 18:56:23 UTC

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sorry did i say rest in peace i meant good riddance

2026-03-24 18:49:52 UTC

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kodak is actually two companies; eastman kodak manufactures the film, kodak alaris distributes it (nitpick: alaris distributes *stills* film, *motion picture* film was always handled by eastman)
recently, eastman has started distributing film directly to consumers (nitpick: in the US only) with name changes where alaris presumably holds the trademarks
portra is now being sold as ektacolor, so rest in peace "porntra"

2026-03-24 18:47:23 UTC

finally, the analog circlejerk subreddit will have to come up with a new joke

2026-03-24 18:08:28 UTC

why am i sitting here staring at a "cloning into [...]" wondering if this git submodule update has gotten stuck because it doesn't have a progress indicator
(you can get one by adding --progress to the command but it really should be the default)

2026-03-24 01:37:09 UTC

[rhetorical] is there anything more wonderful than taking a nap with a loved one?

2026-03-23 18:53:42 UTC

the economy every few years for my entire adult life
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/279/995/171/113/834/original/0b07e7cb7fa467cd.mp3

2026-03-22 21:31:38 UTC

using the tech from the edge-o-matic to detect when you're about to cum, but instead of using that data to edge you, it just hits you with the GPWS voice going "[bwoop bwoop] Pull. Out. [bwoop bwoop] Pull. Out."

2026-03-22 18:54:11 UTC

[playing Burnout 3]
"okay i feel like i'm starting to get the hang of the controls now"
[i immediately slam full-speed into an oncoming car]
"...never mind"

2026-03-21 18:34:26 UTC

reading up on film scanning theory
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/268/600/750/606/079/original/a7cd97a90ba5b6f7.png

2026-03-21 13:07:34 UTC

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i open my follow requests
there is a single follow request
the approve/reject buttons are touching the bottom edge of the screen

2026-03-20 17:02:24 UTC

I’ve just seen the words “my AI co-founder” with my own two eyeballs and I’m resenting that I ever learned to read

2026-03-18 23:29:41 UTC

okay how many squats do i need to do before i can be legally considered a cake for tax reasons?

2026-03-18 18:53:17 UTC

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there is shadow detail in the blue layer for those with a scanner to see it (but the noritsu just completely crushes it out)

2026-03-18 18:09:06 UTC

learning to recognize the hallmarks of noritsu-scanned harman phoenix and driving myself insane

2026-03-18 00:58:08 UTC

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I type “🫂” but that can’t ever convey just how badly I crave touch, how badly I need to feel my arms around your body and yours around mine

2026-03-18 00:53:58 UTC

I tire of the everything box
I crave the tactile
buttons should feel like buttons
not fingers on glass
the only thing it does right is letting me adjust the volume without looking
remember buttons?
remember owning something and knowing it so intimately that you could identify each button, each knob, each switch, from touch alone?
I love my film SLR
every button, every switch, every dial has a purpose
I can adjust the exposure compensation without looking because It’s a physical knob with click stops
same for the aperture ring on the lens
same for every single aspect of it
every function is a distinct mechanical part with its own feel
I could probably load film into it blind if I needed
maybe I’ll try that sometime

2026-03-17 19:19:32 UTC

thinking about bananaman again

2026-03-17 18:36:30 UTC

yeah Burnout 3 still whips ass

2026-03-17 14:26:32 UTC

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https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/244/975/526/279/452/original/08128fc2cd3bca18.jpeg

2026-03-17 14:24:01 UTC

any time I see a stock symbol my brain starts playing that one Justice track

2026-03-16 23:19:28 UTC

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looks like AI fyi

2026-03-15 00:18:15 UTC

Ham radio (ham ra·dio)
Police scanner.
#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

2026-03-14 22:54:14 UTC

i just don't see why you'd pay $200 a month for the slop machine that gives you brain damage when you can get a lobotomy at Claire's for free

2026-03-14 20:51:29 UTC

hey so apropos of nothing at all, anyone got any rust/c++ jobs going that won't irrevocably corrupt my eternal soul?

2026-03-12 13:16:21 UTC

on a call with my sleeping girlfriend and hearing her cat yelling for attention in the background 😭

2026-03-11 23:56:21 UTC

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i suppose the easy answer is to find a filter whose spectral transmittance mimics the luminosity function and just slap that over the lens

2026-03-11 23:46:59 UTC

lazyweb: are there any black-and-white filmstocks whose spectral sensitivity approximates the perceptual luminance observed by the human visual system (i.e. higher sensitivity to green, lower sensitivity to blue) rather than the typical roughly-uniform spectral response?

2026-03-11 00:33:04 UTC

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(in my earlobes)

2026-03-11 00:32:49 UTC

i finally got the surgery they gave me *two* new holes

2026-03-10 14:08:27 UTC

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look I don’t wanna be all return-with-a-v about it but the idea that a piece of technology can run for a year on two coin cells feels revolutionary in today’s age of devices begging to drink from the teat of the wall outlet daily

2026-03-10 14:00:04 UTC

finally ran down the batteries in my SLR, “only” took a year and a half

2026-03-04 22:30:18 UTC

okay i have almost zero romantic or sexual interest in men, but even i'll admit the weather girls were cooking with that song

2026-03-04 13:25:44 UTC

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do we think I have enough of them yet?
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/171/121/205/314/897/original/1b7ed817b47d0102.jpeg
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/171/121/308/695/424/original/89fecf02144c423d.jpeg

2026-03-04 12:26:23 UTC

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"more depth of field" means "more shit in focus" not "more blurry" you cretins

2026-03-04 12:23:15 UTC

i will die mad about video games getting the term "depth of field" backwards

2026-03-04 12:02:09 UTC

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final update on the 14mm extension tube that got stuck in purgatory:
after three weeks, royal mail sent it back to the seller with no explanation, the seller shipped it back out to me yesterday, and it arrived intact this morning

2026-03-03 00:48:48 UTC

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I *do* use RSS, and your feed has made it into my reader already ❤️

2026-03-02 20:32:11 UTC

just had a very cathartic cry reading this
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

2026-02-25 17:56:59 UTC

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anyway rip to the 14mm extension tube that's presumably lost down the back of a sofa in a royal mail sorting office, thankfully the 7mm and 25mm ones from different sellers arrived just fine

2026-02-25 16:50:10 UTC

@npub1x59…gect just a heads-up, the prefers-reduced-motion css rule you've put in for the view transition on your blog doesn't appear to actually work - with reduced-motion enabled, the animation still plays on both ipad safari and desktop chromium

2026-02-25 13:59:51 UTC

dear eBay, how the hell have you managed to fuck up implementing a TEXT BOX??
on the Item Not Received page, in the Give Us More Info field, it just starts dropping inputs and teleporting the cursor to the end of the text if you type too fast??

2026-02-24 02:22:54 UTC

watched a terrible movie for date night
https://letterboxd.com/lunasorcery/film/fast-furious-presents-hobbs-shaw/

2026-02-23 21:15:45 UTC

anyone happen to have recommendations for print-on-demand shirt companies? (looking to maybe run a small storefront, but not wanting to wrangle the complexities of payments/inventory/shipping)

2026-02-22 11:35:53 UTC

can’t believe I’m getting called out like this
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/114/072/705/385/071/original/b07d2d69a1b72438.jpeg

2026-02-21 18:47:58 UTC

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or this Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T30 in *Casino Royale* (2006), which I could only differentiate from the T50 (which has the same chassis but different rear buttons) by a single brief shot later in the movie that just *barely* shows the rear button layout
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/110/087/233/262/112/original/cb891cf5cab51f76.jpg
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/110/091/861/410/058/original/e75808d99c887d59.jpg

2026-02-21 18:21:49 UTC

so for a while now I've had the "what camera is that?" impulse when watching movies
sometimes it's easy, like this Nikon F3HP in *Hackers* (1995)
sometimes it takes a bunch of digging and stepping frame-by-frame to catch identifying details, like this Praktina FX in *WarGames* (1983)
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/109/829/311/874/656/original/cf992c4ac6f0dee0.jpg
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/110/003/837/057/470/original/612c55df408b0554.jpg

2026-02-17 18:57:17 UTC

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we can't move a small ring of metal across a distance of about 50 miles, we just don't know how

2026-02-17 16:17:38 UTC

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maybe it will be delivered today

2026-02-16 21:12:53 UTC

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royal mail are withholding my lens extension tube from me because they know i'd be too powerful with it and they're cowards

2026-02-16 21:05:49 UTC

love when my parcel is stuck in *"an update will only be provided when we attempt to deliver your item"* purgatory

2026-02-14 14:43:31 UTC

catching up on the new Mock The Week and ooof, someone needs to tell Russell Howard that it’s not 2009 any more and Harry Potter is not the beloved property it once was

2026-02-13 20:38:05 UTC

growing up in the UK in the early 2000s i remember a lot of worry about a group of food additives called "e-numbers", and separately there was mass fearmongering about monosodium glutamate in particular
anyway it turns out that MSG is actually an e-number too; for more information look up "e621"

2026-02-12 17:37:24 UTC

nope, sorry, the universe clearly operates on wave-function logic because the animated fast and furious spinoff series which apparently ran for *six seasons* simply did not exist in this world until i looked at the franchise's wikipedia page ten minutes ago

2026-02-09 22:18:34 UTC

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https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/987/250/571/805/original/978e789aea020640.png

2026-02-09 21:49:18 UTC

they call it chekhov's gun because you put the gun on a todo list and then you have to remember to chekh it ov before the movie ends

2026-02-09 14:37:26 UTC

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I’ll have to give it a try at some point! I’ve heard conflicting reports that the current Fuji 400 is just relabeled Kodak Ultramax but I’ve not tried it for myself yet.

2026-02-09 01:13:07 UTC

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oh my god so many things make sense now and I hate it so much

2026-02-09 00:38:22 UTC

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it's like poetry, i guess
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/037/859/085/892/977/original/126a2c01a44296e1.png
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2026-02-09 00:07:37 UTC

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mid 2024 i was pretty burnt out, didn't want to crunch for party deadlines any more, just wanted to quietly noodle with ideas at my own pace
decided i wanted to look at lens emulation to elevate the photorealism in my work, so i went down the lens optics rabbit-hole and built a lens-tracing system
then i decided i wanted to explore filmstock emulation, so i went down another rabbit-hole researching the silver halide photochemical process
from there, it was a pretty short jump to realizing that my learn-by-doing brain would probably benefit from just picking up a film camera and going out shooting
so i did
late 2024 i bought a 35mm slr and went out shooting film for a bit
and now i have an outside hobby and i don't like the computer so much any more

2026-02-08 23:56:20 UTC

it's so funny how the demoscene was the thing that (indirectly) got me to go and touch grass

2026-02-08 12:50:29 UTC

who the fuck massacred zombocom

2026-02-07 21:00:32 UTC

supermarkets should play faster music the closer it gets to closing time like it’s the last lap on mario kart

2026-02-07 19:48:53 UTC

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🥰

2026-02-07 19:36:01 UTC

Do you know what a “mutual” is, in a social media context?

2026-02-06 11:25:30 UTC

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yep! adding -f lavfi -i anullsrc to the ffmpeg command immediately after the other inputs seems to do the trick

2026-02-05 18:07:35 UTC

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and here's brightest pixel values (again with a falloff) over a six-hour capture from the same source feed at night
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/019/350/111/423/910/original/6055affd909ec086.mp4

2026-02-05 17:36:47 UTC

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oh wow yeah it absolutely does

2026-02-05 16:41:48 UTC

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also finally figured out the ffmpeg incantation to generate a dummy audio track so mastodon doesn't hide the player controls on these

2026-02-05 16:40:07 UTC

Playing with video processing again, this time taking the *darkest* pixel values over time (with a falloff function) from a four-hour capture outside Tokyo Dome.
(source video taken from https://youtu.be/7XzfKy8CzdY)
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/018/983/523/478/377/original/135c96d170eedfc2.mp4

2026-02-05 14:13:10 UTC

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doesn't appear to be in any of the official GH or RB games, and the one custom chart I could find only has a chart for the lead guitar (incl. the intro synth arps, for some reason) and not the bass

2026-02-05 01:10:07 UTC

It's on Flickr. It's literally on 500px. It's on Instagram with ads. It's literally on Grainery. You can probably find it on Fotoapp. Dude it's on Newgrain. It's a Pixelfed original. It's on Glass. You can watch it on Glass. You can go to Glass and watch it. Log onto Glass right now. Go to Glass. Dive into Glass. You can Glass it. It's on Glass. Glass has it for you. Glass has it for you.

2026-02-03 19:18:26 UTC

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[...] lord, what is happening in there??

2026-02-03 11:13:39 UTC

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I don’t much care for the art style of the remaster anyway, so I guess I’m sticking to playing the original version in a virtual machine

2026-02-03 11:12:49 UTC

“oh neat, there’s a mobile port of the zoombinis remaster!”
[installs]
“…well, fuck that”
[uninstalls]
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/006/396/007/895/847/original/7068b3cbb61b71b9.png

2026-02-02 16:34:34 UTC

[ledger joker voice] "ya wanna know how I got these milkers?"

2026-02-02 13:07:00 UTC

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augh 😩

2026-02-01 21:01:21 UTC

spending sunday evening the way god intended
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/115/997/387/255/840/851/original/e9696448d2d0cd81.png

2026-01-31 23:33:26 UTC

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dying laughing over here, 10/10 no notes 💕

2026-01-31 16:05:32 UTC

"I’m going into battle and I need your mommiest milkers"

2026-01-29 21:51:37 UTC

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observation: "religion'll" and "original" also rhyme satisfyingly with "dirigible", do whatever you like with this information

2026-01-29 13:52:03 UTC

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wait he made everything public domain i can just share the bit i mean
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/115/978/708/429/084/381/original/d283033ccff32907.mp3

2026-01-29 13:42:16 UTC

[to the tune of that one bit in Tom Lehrer’s *The Vatican Rag*]
🎵 2, 4, 6, 8,
Time to disassociate! 🎵

2026-01-28 17:51:01 UTC

fallen
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
#FilmPhotography
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/115/973/941/123/270/389/original/f0077707322c0831.jpg

2026-01-26 17:56:43 UTC

peekaboo!
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO 800
#FilmPhotography
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/115/962/677/694/087/958/original/acadab5da25b55d5.jpg

2026-01-25 14:51:09 UTC

The old joke "ten years ago we had Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs, and Bob Hope, now we have no cash, no jobs, and no hope" has been inaccurate for well over a decade; since Cash and Hope both died in 2003, we're now at "Twenty-three years ago we had--", and you have to remember to update it every year.
This is of course an enormous hassle, so here's my modest proposal for an evergreen version:
"Prior to 9/11, we had--

2026-01-21 00:27:42 UTC

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I mean strictly speaking it’s still the “public APIs are fun to play with” autism, just with the network rail data feeds this time

2026-01-21 00:20:40 UTC

well, the train autism finally got me

2026-01-20 00:23:03 UTC

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love you too!

2026-01-20 00:20:30 UTC

Osama Bin Laden, September 4th 2001:
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/115/924/560/229/541/463/original/9a379d91947d713a.png

2026-01-20 00:15:34 UTC

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I- (finger to earpiece) pardon?
[...]
The south tower, too??

2026-01-19 20:01:29 UTC

forced grunglerification

2026-01-17 20:00:37 UTC

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Columbo chambering a bullet in his pistol "just one more thing"

2026-01-17 19:56:54 UTC

"What you want is Missing Persons, I'm in Homicide"
"I know that Lieutenant, but I've been up to Missing Persons and there's no-one there!"
bestie what did you expect from a department called Missing Persons???