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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

In a very long list of useless things I am playing with right now, it seems that NTP does it's job... And my rube goldberg machine of raspbery Pis and ATAs do not add that much latency Dialing NIST Colorado's time service here, from France, the clock pulse is basically in sync with this computer

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/03/2026

ISO of (BW, for simplicity) film is determined by computing how much exposure is required to achieve recorded density in the shadows at a specific rate of development I do not have a sensitometer, so I use my enlarger and a step wedge: but here's my test of Kentmere 200 (found 182, close enough!)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/03/2026

giving some bean juice to the fruit computer fruit computer has lotsa work to do tonight

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/03/2026

How can it take 5 days to remove an email address from a list, for a company that its sole product is basically A FRONTEND FOR A DATABASE FULL OF TASKS

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/03/2026

With the caveat that this is the THC used for Canadarm2, This is an analog device!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/03/2026

Fun tidbit, Canadarm uses the same input method, as demonstrated here by JAXA Astronaut Wakata Koichi

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/03/2026

Maybe I am missing something, but I cannot find a good replica or a good analog of this input device on the space shuttle's cockpit that can be just used on a computer. It is called the THC: Translation Hand Controller, and is a 3 DoF device used for... Well, translation control in space!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 20/02/2026

Very good quality software, thank you Meta

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/02/2026

The full Vulkan specification in its latest version with all extensions is a small 6884 pages, as a PDF (most of it is the description of data structures and function calls, but the first few chapters actually are explanatory)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/02/2026

I have downloaded the demo of Kittens Space Agency. Need to spend a little bit of time with this, but as far as a "spiritual successor to KSP", I think they're really getting somewhere here. Loading the solar system (apparently the whole thing) destroyed my 3080 10GB I got in 2020

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 10/02/2026

You will generally see a blurb like this in the docs for each function

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/02/2026

This is a modern retro-looking flash. It works stupidly well design-wise on this 1960’s rangefinder camera!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 30/01/2026

New prompt in the steam beta client (I guess) Though, I figure if a person has explicitly enabled this view filter in the past, they are not part of "most user" 🤔

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 25/01/2026

Apple Podcast automatic transcription and chapter detections trying to understand what Do By Friday is about is hilarious

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/01/2026

ChatGPT was doing fairly well at attempting to reconstruct a STL file form Gcode, analysing the extrusion commands to build cylinders, then fitting voxels inside.... But then it decided that it needed to check that 1+1 = 2

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/01/2026

The fact that Outlook for Windows needs to display this banner is really a sign that Outlook for Windows is very very well integrated with the other small Microsoft product called... "Windows" ...

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 30/11/2025

Going to spend a few drops of it to ask Waterman France why did this happen and also to encourage them to reintroduce this product on the market. Mostly for the bit. But I would be surprised if they don’t respond! (Yes, this bottle is about 10 years old - so it’s not the newer blue label)

Picture of an envelope addressed to “Waterman France - Service Client - 1 rue Maison Neuve BP 175 - 44800 Saint-Herblain”. This is written in brown ink.

The envelope has a teal Mariane “Service +” stamp.

On the envelope is sitting an old bottle of Waterman Absolute Brown ink.

An amber and gold fountain pen is visible on the top of the image. The pen is a Pilot Custom 823.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/11/2025

I promised film scans, here there are: This is no alternative to Ektachrome. Kodak might be unintentionally making a pretty acceptable 50 ISO tungsten balanced "lower" contrast and saturation slide film (with some amount of magenta/green shift) Again, it's a negative film for ｐｌａｎｅｓ

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 02/11/2025

E-6 Cross processed Kodak Aerocolor IV (REFLX Pro 100 in this case. It's same film as SantaColor 100 and Elektra 100. Probably other rebrand exist) Rating it EI 50 (so, box speed +1EV), 85B warming + Skylight 1A filters. This looks too good to be a hack, like WTF? Will do real scans later...

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 25/10/2025

Searching stuff inside the scan of a old paper from 1922. The OCR that was used on the PDF read the greek letter gamma (γ) as a 7. Which is slightly annoying when this is a paper about sensitometry. (Interestingly they use a geometric method of obtaining the gamma, not the analytical one)

screenshot form Firefox. Searching for "whole word" 7, γ is highlighted in text instead

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/06/2025

I really really this image to be softer contrast. To illustrate, here’s a digitally made inversion of the above picture Retaining the highlights and getting shadow details exposed and developed are the 2 things that should allow getting more of the tonal range of the slide expressed on paper.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/06/2025

This is the negative exposure developed. It kinda looks like if this was film, was pushed many many stops. Maybe this result is effectively a low exposure over developed. It’s really hard to know. Also this grey-ish thing is the maximum silver density on this color paper developed in BW

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/06/2025

All the test prints. First few are too blue. I need to think about which of the 3 ways of reducing contrast I should try to test first. (May need all three of them combined)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/06/2025

This is a scan of the slide. You can see there is a lot of dynamic range lost on the printing process. I have 3 things I can attempt: - use a low contrast BW developer as 1st dev before reversal exposure - pre-flash the paper - retard color development with sodium sulfite

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/06/2025

This is a very first attempt of doing RA-4 reversal printing from one ektachrome frame. I simply used ILFORD Multigrade black and white developer as 1st developer and just waved the print for a minute I for of a light before color development though the normal RA-4 process. Need lower contrast

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 06/06/2025

Businesses, you do not need to put this bullshit in the footer of your emails. This is not going to fix climate change

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 05/06/2025

I may actually write a blerb about this maybe on my mostly abandoned blog A rarely documented online cause of shutter failure for Canon A-series (here AE-1 Program) cameras is the "SW4 Count Switch" not actually closing after the 1st curtain latch is armed if it's dirty, or corroded (or both)

This is a picutre of what's under the left hand side of the Canon AE-1 Program's top plate.

Circled in red is a small golden spring (probably plated). This spring want to contact a golden (also probably plated) post.

I drew a blue arrow pointing to the contact point that can get dirty.

Normally after you advance the camera, the white plastic bit at the end of the sprint moves out of the way, the tension on the mechanism makes this contact act as a closed switch. Camera uses this switch to both know that the shutter is ready to fire, and the fact that the 1st curtain started moving (for exposure time control)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 05/06/2025

My language préférée is Fenglish. And it’s my phone’s aussi.

A shipping notification from Mondial Relay in the “Parcel” app on my phone saying

“Delivery received en Point Relais”

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/05/2025

À par Wikipedia je trouve pas de source disant qu'elle pourrait être née à Barentin, tout pointe sur Paris. On va faire confiance aux fiches d'auteurs de la bibliothèque nationale de France et donc c'est corrigé.

bio box de la marquise du châtelet corigée avec les informations dans le thread

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/05/2025

Wikipedia et Wikidata ne sont pas d'accord sur la date et le lieu de naissance d'Émilie du Châtelet! Qui donc croire sur quand et où est née la traductrice du Pricipia Matematica de Newton (et amie de Voltaire)!

Le corp de l'article "née le 17 décembre 1706 à Paris"

La bio sur la droite de la page (wikidata) "18 décembre 1706 à Barentin"

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/04/2025

This happens way too often Wake up to only one of the AirPods in the case having recharged overnight.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 20/02/2025

A few straight RA-4 darkroom prints of @harmanphoto.co.uk Phoenix 200 on Fuji crystal archive paper Lack of orange mask and purple-ish base are non-issue. Just do test strips. Had to filter out a lot of yellow interestingly. It is just different than Kodak/fuji but it works just fine.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 20/02/2025

one day youtube will understand that I do not want to see shorts on my desktop computer

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/02/2025

Mine is an older Zorki 4 (non K) from 1963 and it’s setup with the before-mentioned Jupiter 9 and a 85mm finder!

The camera described in the actual post.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 17/02/2025

If anybody is curious, this is the color of Fujicolor Crystal Archive Photo Paper. The cyan is an anti halation dye. You are not supposed to see this but apparently this 4x5 sheet was out when I turned the lights on so now it’s ruined lol.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/02/2025

Microsoft Copilot does not format formulas at least not on the desktop app 😔

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/02/2025

Pendant ce temps là, Y'a d'autres fous qui prennent des photos noir et blanc d'un monde en couleur... 🤭

Je tiens une cartouche de pellicule noire et blanc 35mm ILFORD HP5+ 400IS devant la bande dessinée postée au dessus

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/02/2025

In today's time, those cinema color film with the remjet removed (stuff like CineStill 800T) are the more susceptible kind of film for this sort of artifacts.... Image from there www.japancamerahunter.com/2021/12/unso...

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 06/02/2025

Made the mistake of trusting the Godox Lux Master flash’s auto mode (wich does not work as good as actual vintage thyristor flashes it seems😕), I have under exposed some ektachorme by a bit more than a stop or two. But, despite how dense the actual film is, the result scanned relatively well

The developed film against the ridiculously bright “flashlight mode” of Apple Watch Ultra 2

Another picture. A bit less under exposed but still under exposed.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 06/02/2025

Canceling a Chess dot com subscription is a 5 page form of surveys with the big highlighted button being "keep my subscription" Annoying, and somewhat dark pattern-ish. That would already be bad. But also it just does not work, it results in a server error.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/01/2025

@nileane.fr as far as EDC goes, I am French, and - granted I work from home and I generally don’t bring it out with me in town - I have a Swiss Army Knife handy at almost all times. A Victorinox Deluxe Tinker. Great Pliers and scissors integrated in that. This one is a gift from my mom!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 06/01/2025

The only notable thing after new years really is this recurring mistake when writing the year.

Just a tiny little exerp of a journal. 2024 corrected into 2025. Dark purple fountain pen ink on cream colored paper. Paper is lined.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/01/2025

With keeping the chems in collapsible bottles, with no oxygen, in a cool place, a Bellini C41 kit I mixed mid October is working fine today, and has processed quite a bit of film already, probably more than half way through the capacity. If you ask Bellini, these chemicals should be dead by now

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/01/2025

Parcel you are drunk. If a thing is coming from the UK and going through an airport called “City”, it’s probably not someplace in North America.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 28/12/2024

Rollei P350AF slide projector that I got yesterday. Needed a bit of a clean but it do be workin’ I have a spare bulb for it too.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 27/12/2024

A Canon Speedlite 540EZ on a EOS 650 looks slightly ridiculously big. (It is quite heavy at the very least) It was an eBay bargain. But I need to look for a A-TTL (so, film era EOS) canon flash that also has a movable head for bounce flash that is not that stupidly big maybe.

I am holding a Canon EOS 650 fitted with a Canon Speedlite 540EZ flash unit. I am holding the camera by the lens, a 28-70 zoom lens (that I don’t like very much to use, but is otherwise a very serviceable trans-standard Zoom for full frame EF camera. But it is also very slow.)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/12/2024

Very happy with this now.

Door seals of the camera (not cut very straight. I know.)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/12/2024

Also exchanged a few parts from a broken one in better cosmetic shape onto this body

Spare parts from a Canon A-1 including a bottom cover, a couple of battery doors (one with a broken bottom, and screws and springs)

The “new” battery doors fitted on the camera

Disassembled shutter button and mode selector of a Canon A-1.

Top plate in needs of a clean. Can see the spring loaded plunger pin inside the shutter button assembly

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