Grant_H

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

#Teacher #Geek
Finder of images , still #photographs and #video
#CapeTown #SouthAfrica

#fedi22

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@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 1:57 PM

@arclight @uastronomer possibly. There are bubbles of people so insulated by their privilege that they are unaware of the existence of others' issues.

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 7:55 AM

@uastronomer this often comes from a position of unexamined privilege

@uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 6:58 AMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

"I will not morally compromise myself by voting and choosing a party which does not reflect my values, the lesser of two evils is still evil" I admire the purity of a position so morally superior that it literally doesn't care what degree of evil everybody around you has to suffer through […]

@uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:44 PMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

If you want to know how my wife's job is going, she works for the sort of digital marketing agency that has a trophy cabinet for their Cannes awards, but she's still having to explain to her highly experienced and highly paid seniors that she is not going to put a QR code in the mobile platform […]

@paulmwatson.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:33 PMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

photography builds an archive that eventually thinks back at you
photoni.st/index.php/20...

@publicnewsfeed.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 12:46 PMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

South African former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the judge who headed the Rwanda genocide tribunal and last year presided over a UN commission that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. […]

@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 12:57 AMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Vale Margaret Hamilton.
She was a Software Engineer.
She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering:
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […]

[Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

@i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 2:01 AMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

trying to explain to normies how it's possible to be both a complete nerd and a total luddite.

infamous meme of Charlie Day chaotically gesturing infront of a corkboard covered in papers and red string.
credits: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 6:05 PM

From my daughter's blog:

"I make tea when I don’t know what else to do with myself, so I drink a lot of tea. It isn’t perfect for quenching thirst, but is a lot better than coffee or nothing. "

She might be like her father in that regard. And we might share some others...
#Neurodiverse […]

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 5:29 PM

@MrBerard hopefully 120 minutes is long enough to get it typed in right!

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 4:20 AM

@uastronomer ah. I was a bit confused, since it would need a very new or old moon for them to be close. The very flexible scale can be muddling.

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 6:55 PM

@uastronomer mmm. 3 degrees is a little close, indeed.
And I'm hunting Saturn at opposition between the clouds of an icomi g cold front...
Maybe Wodehouse and a cup of tea are the answer!

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 5:38 PM

@uastronomer

Jupiter's path behind the moon 6 Oct 2026

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 5:37 PM

@uastronomer
If I am making sense of the data, you guys will get an almost graze in Pretoria:

13h50:30 -> 13h52:08, quite close to the southern edge

@adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 5:02 PMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075. Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, shelters more than 2,600 of them. Poaching, once the species’ biggest threat, has fallen 86% since 2016; India, Nepal and Indonesia all recorded zero rhino killings in 2025. That’s […]

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 2:15 PM

@ObsidianUrbex the Torment Nexus between shifts.

@junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 1:50 PMReposted by @grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

[Sensitive content - history, war, genocide, starvation, graphic image]

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

This is Lizzie van Zyl. In May 1901, aged seven, she died of starvation and typhoid in the British concentration camp hospital at […]

[Original post on mastodon.africa]

May contain graphic violence

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 12:55 PM

Grey days have their own peaceful charm.

#Photography #BettysBay #SouthAfrica #seascape

Original:
https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1387860556

An overcast, grey-blue beach at low tide. Some rocks on the water's edge. A tiny gull flying through the scene.

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 10:39 AM

@GrahamDowns yes. I have read variously about the anger at how hijacking useful tech for useless or bad purposes, is a cost we are not counting on the current hype cycle.

@grant-h.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 7:21 PM

#Astrodon question:
What do people use to stack videos? I have a few hundred frames of Venus and I'd like to see what I can get out of them?
Thanks (& boosts welcome)
#astrophotography

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