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reading is difficult

I shoot with Canon (R5, R6ii) and Sony (A7r3) mirrorless bodies and I have a Samsung S25+ that I regularly forget has any value as a camera at all. I've made efforts to add smartphones to the work that I do, but even with contemporary flagship devices and a willingness to shoot in LOG format for use in big-boy editing software, it's a lot more work to deal with output from a phone than to use a proper camera. Low-light performance is poor at best and shutter lag is a real thing on phones even when they're just being used for photos. The phone is fine for anything I don't care about, but since I do want output of a certain quality, I'd far rather have a big-boy sensor and a fast aperture lens for my projects.

With regard to people shooting professional cinema projects on smartphones, do please go watch behind the scenes footage. Overwhelmingly, you'll see that they're still using tens of thousands of dollars worth of lighting and production assistance to make that workable. Put a couple 36" beauty dishes with 500W continuous sources just out of frame and I think you'll see that even at 30 year old Kodak DC290 will take amazing pictures.

With regard to fixed-lens pocket cameras, the appeal is most often in something that's pocket friendly and dedicated purpose, even if that purpose is just "I know I'm going to be shooting a lot, so I'd rather drain the battery of this thing rather than kill my phone's battery while I'm walking around." You can get to roughly the same place with a smaller Sony full frame body (e.g. A7C R) or a Pansonic/OM Digital MFT camera and a pancake lens, but by the time you buy in to either platform, you've probably spent hundreds or thousands of dollars anyway. It's all well and good to say that you don't need such a thing, but pocket cameras definitely have better sensors that anything in the action-cam class of product that probably represent the cheapest dedicated portable cameras available otherwise.

"Who the fuck"

I call this old ditty the "Lament of the /. old person"

Fuji's GFX line have larger-than-full-frame sensors that sometimes get called Medium Format. Given the limitations of Fuji's lens ecosystem, you're almost definitely a professional portrait or nature photographer if you're buying one, and since the only competition they have in that space are Leica and Hasselblad bodies that ALSO cost north of US$8000, this isn't a huge deal. Fuji is actually a bargain in comparison.

But lenses and cameras have seen prices raised across the board. None of the pricing is out of line from Tariff policy, but it does mean that I'm not buying any new gear until someone sane gets back in charge of trade policy in the USA.

Calling AI like 60s AI on steroids is like calling a rocketship just a basketball on steroids. The only possible explanation for your post is that your feelings prevent you from discussing the topic in good faith.

The obfuscation was a feature. Not a strong degree of security but not nothing. Dumping the database of urls would be insane and invite all kinds of scrutiny and abuse.

"Trump is a liar who destroys every thing and particularly every one he comes in contact with"

Pin that in your clipboard and paste it into discussions as needed.

40 years? That's so cute.

(whoops, replied to the wrong post .. meant the one below)

Transactional doesn't mean anything without consistency. To my mind the worst damage this administration is doing is to themselves in the longer term. What's the point of making any concessions for a deal at all if it will just not honor it? By defanging any oversight, and make itself its own enforcer, other parties really have no foundation upon which to assume that negotiated terms mean anything at all..

Lol you can't land a job because you're a shitty person.

So do it yourself. Honestly, this kind of kneejerk response is stupid. Is Google a good company? No. Does that mean everything they do is useless/untrustworthy? Also no.

You can fetch OSS Rebuild's SLSA Provenance:

$ oss-rebuild get cratesio syn 2.0.39

or explore the rebuilt versions of a particular package:

$ oss-rebuild list pypi absl-py

or even rebuild the package for yourself:

$ oss-rebuild get npm lodash 4.17.20 --format=dockerfile | docker run $(docker buildx build -q -)

"destroyed by their reaction of hiding"

My point was exactly that while we think we have all the context we need, we sometimes don't, to potentially devastating effect. The fact that the internet brigade has a high chance of being "right" in this case doesn't invalidate the point. People can have perfectly legitimate reasons to not want the details of who they're in a relationship with broadcast at large.

All you post tells me is that people are very hungry to see people "get what they deserve" and extrapolate all sorts of things to make them feel justified about doing so.

I opened my post with "I think cheating is bad" so what do you think, dummy?