Maks Ksenjak

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Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

Yeah, I have bulk of it on external drives (trying to limit what I have on my laptop to projects I am working on). Also avoiding adding exported jpegs to the catalog.

Need to probably start trimming them down too. I am bit of a shutter click happy guy

How big is yours? I had accumulated over 60000 raw files and tiff film scans in over 10 years 🤦🏻‍♂️

They are much faster (C1 feels much faster too). Haven’t encountered any errors yet either.

So I did start working on smaller catalogs - making annual ones for miscellaneous work, started off with oldest (reasoned I did process them already, and if I feel inclined to mess with old raw files, it would be to perhaps try new processing styles), and ended up liking small catalogs a lot!

True. Planned to toy with virtualization for CaptureOne there as well. Bring best of both worlds together.

Yeah, I love that for C1: I dropped some older raws from Fuji X100T into it and it felt like it C1 really made resulting jpegs really shined as opposed to Lr. There is some magic in how it “cooks” the images.

That new retouching module is amazing as well. Made my job so much easier.

Perhaps, I can feed some less crucial/silly projects into it, instead of CaptureOne, and see what develops

… for this situation. Feel like smaller catalogs would make better sense.

Been playing w Linux again a lot recently as well, and really, really like CachyOS. Darktable on that side of things seems to be a phenomenally powerful piece of software, and I was curious to try it out too.

Appreciate it. To be honest - I am toying with using this as an opportunity to reevaluate my workflow and how I use the app/catalog system.

My whole “single catalog” workflow came from years of using Lightroom in similar configuration, so I carried same system as I migrated & kinda set myself up …

Yeah. Went through different options with them, making sure that permissions and access are okay (they are), that catalog is not stored on external drive (it is not)

Latest suggestion was that I create a new catalog, then import my old one into the new one in order to force re-indexing and rebuild.

I suspect that overall, the size of the catalog and me moving operating systems (Mac to Windows) contributed to the problem.

I think I should perhaps sticking to creating smaller ones (catalog per project, or a model I work with constantly, for miscellaneous shots - per year), keep them manageable

Did have backups, restored them - ran into another issue: old backups would point to locations of photos that are no longer correct, so I would correct them and locate the files, however that change would only stick until I close the app. Start it again, and I am back w the web of old missing paths

Toying w idea of perhaps taking this opportunity to take a deeper dive into Darktable (and also explore various other open source options)? Been booting into Windows just for CaptureOne pretty much 🤔

Dealing with corrupted CaptureOne catalog is not the business.

Ukrainian Fashion Week returned to Kyiv, showcasing an inclusive and resilient new fashion scene.

🧵 1/6 ⬇️

The determination of rich famous Americans to create a society of bitter resentful people armed with weapons that can kill from long distance is

stunningly dumb

3yrs ago, Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated Izyum and found mass graves of 447 people. Most of the murdered were civilians — 215 women, 194 men and 5 children. 22 were servicemen, 11 bodies couldn't be identified.

Many bodies had signs of violent death.

The occupation lasted less than half a year.

Indeed - my very first Leica (I mean, I've used a Leica Lux app for my phone, but that's a different story). Traded w a buddy of mine for some photo books.

Needs some tune up, cla and (looks like) a new light seal.

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Would you look at this beauty?
🐈‍⬛ 🐈 experts looked it over and concluded that it is not edible tho

You know, I frankly don't mind free transit access, and for that matter free access to resources/places/etc available to public. We all deserve better, but that said - I think it will require a baseline of stable and safe society to function successfully. Otherwise, its just patients running asylum.

Had seen enough die in the streets while actively refusing help, just because that's how illness rewired their minds.

Not just that - looking at this from a pov of working with mentally ill and unhoused folks experience - letting them rot in the streets, in hope that somehow sometime they will finally accept an offer for help, is not a humane thing at all.

The idiotic “progressive” mindset that every violent mental patient should be left to sleep on the streets and/or terrorize their families is hypocritical and sick.

There’s a percentage of people who must be isolated from society.

Our previous asylum system sucked, maybe we can build a better one.

Decarlos Brown was a disturbed, violent man who assaulted his own sister on top of his many crimes.

He displayed psychotic behavior earlier this year.

He should not have been free to murder Iryna Zarutska.

No way Brown’s family had resources to care for him. Few families do.

We need asylums.

Totally agree - and that's wild to see as well, as I had been actively using public transit for decades now (lucky enough to where it suits my needs pretty well).

There are plenty of unstable ppl in Kyiv! You’re just not forced to consistently tolerate them when you’re on public transport.

Drunks are also ejected. A drunk person on a metro platform = staff grab them. Fellow passengers help out.

No system is perfect, but what you tolerate is key.

Look at public transport in a city like Kyiv. It’s a high trust environment.

Stuff happens, but you rarely get horror stories. NOBODY is used to riding the bus or metro with lunatics.

Strict fare enforcement is key. It’s considered a safety issue, not just a revenue issue.

We can learn from this.