@miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone

miss_brainfarts

@miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone

So my fear of sharks has gotten better, and I don’t quite understand why.

Curious 🏳️‍⚧️

But anyhow, you’ve probably found me because you’ve seen one of my totally inconspicuous comments

I’m open to chat about these and other related things over on Matrix

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miss_brainfarts,
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miss_brainfarts,

Though it’s also not a given that being intersex even shows itself in the phenotype, is it?

Karyograms aren’t something that’s being done for a lot of people, so who knows how many intersex people actually exist.

Unless I’m confusing something, I’m not 100% sure.

miss_brainfarts,

What results from a persons biology has people say a lot about gender, and that’s where the social construct comes in, yeah.

You have the genotype, karyotype and phenotype, that may or may not be strictly related to each other depending on what happens during development in the womb.

And now I realize I’ve already started to go on a tangent that wouldn’t even address your comment anymore, so I’ll stop myself

But it’s fascinating. I’d love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.

miss_brainfarts,

I don’t really expect anything, no.

Being a newly realized transwoman, it would be kinda fun to have XX chromosomes and show that to the Simple Biology™ crowd, not gonna lie.

But then again, science has already established that chromosomes don’t have to mean what many people think they mean, so that wouldn’t matter.

Though I’d also just like more karyograms to be done in general, to have a better understanding of how present certain karyotypes actually are

miss_brainfarts,

How is sex defined? Physical attributes? Chromosomes? Both?

miss_brainfarts,

Excuse me, I have since transitioned to blahaj lemmy^^

miss_brainfarts,

Haha, thank you^^

miss_brainfarts,

It only requires it if you want the host to have a gpu, too. Otherwise, single-gpu passthrough is very much possible

miss_brainfarts,

That’s the case with proper hardware passthrough either way. Just wanted to make it clear that running a VM doesn’t automatically bring the need for two GPUs

miss_brainfarts,

That’s a really nice option, yeah. No need for the extra expense when the CPU you use or are going to buy has an iGPU anyway

miss_brainfarts,

My mirror is faulty, it always shows beard shadow. Some setting screwed with the colours for subsurface scattering

miss_brainfarts,

You called me?

miss_brainfarts,

Bit bratty today, are we?

miss_brainfarts,

I always enjoy thinking about the fact that botulinum toxins in their undiluted form are one of the strongest toxins in existence

miss_brainfarts,

I don’t think there’s a limit to what people do with botox

miss_brainfarts,

As with so many things, it’s the dosage that does it. I honestly can’t tell if informing patients about it is a good or a bad idea.

miss_brainfarts,

I’m currently working through that process myself, what do you need to know?

Depends on the country though

miss_brainfarts,

So basically, what you’re saying is that I did in fact have my first kiss already?

miss_brainfarts,

Hell yeah, I’m happy for you <3

I’m in a similar position, though at this point I don’t know when I can actually start. Might be a few months from now, might be end of next year.

It’s moving slowly and with uncertainty, but it’s moving, and that’s the important part for what we’re going through^^

miss_brainfarts,

Absolutely, and always make sure you have consent to do it.

miss_brainfarts,

So I’m currently pretty obsessed with using old vintage lenses for photography and videography, because they offer so much character over their modern alternatives.

See, modern lenses are perfect. Correctly rendered colours because the glass is engineered to perfection, the image is uniformly sharp, and generally true to real life.

And don’t get me wrong, that’s important for many scientific applications, where an unbiased recording of what you observe is paramount.

However, for creative purposes, modern lenses can be pretty damn boring, because they are so perfect.
Imperfections are what brings a creation to life, what makes it feel organic. And they offer so much potential for creative work.

Many of these old lenses have a very soft image when shot wide open, some even introduce heavy blooming on sharp edges, which gives the image a super dreamy feel.

Others have spherical abberations so strong, they distort the unsharp background to the point that the word swirly bokeh became a thing. Such a great effect to frame a subject, draw attention to it, everything revolves around it style.

But even with these quirks, many old lenses are still capable of shooting tac sharp images when stopped down a bit, and are in no way behind modern lenses in terms of image quality.

My current favourite for pure quality shots is the Pentacon auto 50mm 1.8 multi coating, a prime kit lens that came with several Praktika camera models like the for the time very affordable MTL5B. This model has seen many parts produced under not so great conditions in Cottbus Prison, by political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic.

Since they’re completely manual, you have to go over every setting yourself, which helps tremendously with familiarizing yourself with your camera, the lens itself, and just how photography works in general.

So this, and the fact they’re also so cheap second hand, make them a great choice for not just professional photographers or videographers, but also for beginners who are still learning, and might not have much cash for fancy equipment.

Some of these lenses have made appearances in big movie productions, such as The Batman. That movie sees my favourite lens being used in some scenes, the soviet Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0, alongside some other model from Jupiter. To match the look between the different lens models that were used, the studio even modified their grotesquely expensive anamorphic cinema lenses to be more in line with the Helios.

Fun fact to close it off:
The Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0 is by far one of the most mass-produced lenses ever, being spread over multiple different production facilities and receiving several revisions over the years.

miss_brainfarts,

The fun begins when you learn how to make the magic happen yourself^^

Well, if you ever do get into it, I can’t recommend vintage lenses enough. Having to shoot manual mode is wildly outweighed by the fact that you pay 50 bucks for the lens, instead of 500.

And shooting manually allows for maximum creative control anyway :D

miss_brainfarts,

I think taking someone out to show them photography would be such a cool date, too🥰

Well, it they want to, of course

miss_brainfarts,

That’s really sweet of you^^

miss_brainfarts,

Just be adorable and continue to not know what to say, that works too, kitten. You won’t be able to talk much once I put everything on you, anyway.

miss_brainfarts,

omg you’re so cuuuute🥰

miss_brainfarts,

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(Yes, I used an online converter. No, I can’t be bothered to add the spaces for legibility🙈)

miss_brainfarts,

I wonder if you’d still call me cute after I did what I would do to and with you😇

miss_brainfarts,

Feel free to sneak into my DMs if you really want to find out😘

Gonna go to bed now though, so no haste

miss_brainfarts,

So cute🥰

Well, I’m gonna go sleep now, giving you plenty of time to decide how to follow up on your flirt😘

I hope I’ll have a nice message to read when I wake up tomorrow :P

miss_brainfarts,

Unacceptable

miss_brainfarts,

A tip for (more or less) cleaning up jpeg artifacts:

Selective Gaussian Blur

miss_brainfarts,

Now that truly is a band name right there

miss_brainfarts,

But what about photo based memes?

miss_brainfarts,

Vectors are funny, aren’t they? The whole concept is just 🎶 where did you come from, where did you go? 🎵

miss_brainfarts,

Mineclone2 is a mod for Minetest that aims to be a 1 to 1 clone of Minecraft, so there’s that

miss_brainfarts,

I’ve heard of Mineclonia, it’s pretty much a fork, but focused on maximum stability, right? Basically the opposite of what Mineclone5 was

miss_brainfarts,

Blauhai

miss_brainfarts,

Sadly, no

The position is open, for anyone who’s interested

miss_brainfarts,

The pay is cuddles

miss_brainfarts,

You have been signed in.

When can I expect your arrival?
(Delays will be punished)

miss_brainfarts,

Good to know :P

miss_brainfarts,

His rule only applies to domestic cats, right? But then again, some people actually have biiig cats at home

miss_brainfarts,

Maybe being trans will finally help me with my fear of sharks

miss_brainfarts,

Do you need a model for anything? :P

miss_brainfarts,

Someone to pose for you? :P

miss_brainfarts,

Being my sub, I will force you to genuinely practice drawing. But in a hot way, obviously

miss_brainfarts,

I use Adwaita cursors on Windows, so

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