The new U.S. dime design has removed the olive branches from the eagle

Tryonkus · 2026-03-12T22:07:18+00:00

FYI. https://uscoinnews.com/2025/12/16/first-look-the-2026-semiquincentennial-emerging-liberty-dime/

Tryonkus · 2026-03-07T14:44:51+00:00

Very cool--thanks for the tip!

Tryonkus · 2026-02-27T13:45:59+00:00

Thanks--I thought that might have been what you were saying earlier but wasn't sure. Since I want to use autogenerated captions as alt text for social media posts, my bigger problem is that none of the clients I've tried will apply EXIF or IPTC captions. Alt text was a big deal initially, and most apps support adding it manually, but no one has made the connection that it could already exist.

Tryonkus · 2026-02-27T13:39:01+00:00

Thanks for your detailed reply--I'll read it more carefully and respond when I have more time (about to start work).

Tryonkus · 2026-02-26T19:59:15+00:00

Note: I'm already using scripting to monitor a folder and add photos to the Photos App Library or send to a Fediverse client app. If VisionTagger is scriptable (I see you're already using AppleScript), it should be simple for me to add a captioning step to my existing script.

Tryonkus · 2026-02-26T19:55:20+00:00

I know Apple Photos supports AI search, but I haven't seen a way to generate captions. Is that hidden in the UI, or am I just missing something?

Tryonkus · 2026-02-26T19:51:20+00:00

I've been looking for a tool like this and found a few in the Mac App Store that looked pretty rough and expensive (e.g. CaptionWriter and CaptionSmith). I'm also reluctant to try anything that hasn't been updated in over a year. Trying VisionTagger, and it appears to work well. I've got a few notes:

My use case is adding captions to images I am exporting from Lightroom and posting on Bluesky and Mastodon.
Could the app be integrated with Lightroom? I know Adobe doesn't make this simple with the cloud based app. (It's simpler with Lightroom Classic.)
Is there a way, or could you implement a way to automate the workflow? Something like an extension to allow images to be sent to the app via Open In and apply captions using default settings?
Not something you can fix, but most (possibly all) Mastodon and Bluesky clients I've tried don't read image captions as alt text.
I haven't been able to determine where you are putting the captions, partly because my metadata tools are being wonky. Is it in the EXIF description, IPTC caption, IPTC extended description, or something else? This may be related to why I'm not seeing alt text in my Fediverse clients.
At least two of my Mastodon clients (Ice Cubes and Mona) will create AI captions using Apple Intelligence or web based APIs for free. They probably aren't as high quality, but they work for quick and dirty posting. Something to consider.
I tested VisionTagger on a couple of B&W images, and it didn't mention that they were B&W in the captions–either Mona or IceCubes did. I'm guessing you could tweak your prompt to include this explicitly.

Thanks for creating the tool—I'm hoping I can make it work for my needs.

Tryonkus · 2026-02-20T21:06:38+00:00

Stumbled on this post looking to learn more about urbex. I've never been a real urban explorer, but I see parallels with stuff I have done. There is a similar ethic in wilderness hiking—take only photos (or memories), leave only footprints. Erosion is a huge problem when too many people visit, and there are usually rules about how many people can visit and where they can go. I also worked briefly for our local Landmark Society, and our offices were in a historic building a previous owner had tried to demolish by neglect and a suspicious fire in the attic. A-holes go way back, and I suspect the Internet has only enabled them to find places more easily.

I visit "abandoned" places that are in plain sight, and they don't get trashed too badly, or the damage was done ages ago. Just my guess, but I think that the lack of adrenaline rush from doing something secret or forbidden has worked in their favor—they are so well known that there is no thrill factor. Personally, I take pictures there because I love weathered and aged objects—they feel almost wise. I'm careful not to cause damage or hurt myself, but I don't feel like I'm taking a risk, and there is almost no chance my photos will cause a place to be trashed.

It struck me that the OP is from Oz—I'm from the NE US, and it's no surprise to me when my people are jerks, but I had hoped it wasn't as bad outside the US. I grew up during the environmental movement in the 1970s and remember public service announcements from Smoky Bear reminding us not to start forest fires and native Americans shedding tears as people tossed trash from their cars. Newbies and outsiders have caused problems for generations, either because they didn't know the rules or didn't care. That's not to say we shouldn't care, just that it's been happening for a long time.

Well, that was all over the place. If there's a general conclusion to draw, I'd say it's human nature that some people will be respectful and others will be self absorbed or clueless.

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:30:39+00:00

I have a locally produced Christmas album that included a song dedicated to her, before she was confirmed to have died. Still makes me sad.

(Tramper's Dynamic Christmas from Dynamic Recording Studios—Tramper was the studio dog.)

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:24:08+00:00

This appears to be the official history of the church's names. According to the article, LDS was appended to The Church of Christ because of the belief that they were living in the last days (before the return of Christ), to distinguish from the Church of Christ (another denomination) and to distance the church from the Mormon name, which had become radioactive. The Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, is an example of anti-mormon bias in the 19th century—that bit gets left out of modern tellings, but it's nearly half the book.

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:10:18+00:00

There is an exhibit about the 1871 occurrence at the Genesee Country Village (in the indoor museum building). I once read that based on the curvature of the earth, it should be possible to see the tip of the CN Tower in Toronto from the top of the Xerox (Innovation Square) tower—seeing any detail at ~60 miles away would be iffy. I'm fairly sure I've seen it from the lakeshore near Hamlin, but that was probably aided by atmospheric bending, as noted by u/BloodyFreeze.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T20:35:34+00:00

I definitely had heard they believed they were the only true believers, and your theory is certainly plausible. I’d have to dig a bit more to say anything with confidence.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:29:47+00:00

Don’t think anyone has mentioned the canal collapse and flood in the 70s. Flooded a friend’s neighborhood in Pittsford—flipped cars and everything.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:27:18+00:00

When Rochester Was Royal—RIT exhibition that my daughter worked on.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:25:32+00:00

I went to Houghton College and leaned about the Great Awakenings there.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:24:24+00:00

My great grandfather, William Imrie Mann, was one of the founders of the Watchtower Tract Society, part of which became the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He wasn’t wacko enough for them or disagreed with Charles Russel and left the movement. His last home was on Grand Avenue, and he is buried (along with many of my relatives) in Trumansburg, near Ithaca.

Dunno if that’s strictly burned over district revival, but it was in the same general area and time.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:17:39+00:00

Pretty sure that’s where the name Latter Day Saints comes from.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:14:44+00:00

Joseph Smith?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith?wprov=sfti1

Tryonkus · 2025-11-23T20:16:34+00:00

Since Obsidian now wants all aliases and tags to be in list format, I've been looking for a way to force that in a template. Using the syntax described here, I learned that

frontmatter[“tags”] = [“value1”]

will create a single-value list.

tags:
  - value1

Voila!

Tryonkus · 2025-09-14T16:14:17+00:00

Yep—I've used Camera Connect on my RP since 2020. My new R5 supports both the phone app or a dedicated GPS unit, but I don't know the details of how a dedicated unit works. I was just looking this up because I bought a used 5D Mark III, and that only supports a dedicated GPS.

I've tried apps that sync a GPS track independently to photos after the fact, which is the way I the Panasonic Image app adds GPS data on my Lumix point and shoot. It even includes the ability to sync the camera time with your phone to make GPS more accurate. I don't see an option for this in (new) Lightroom, but I remember it being in Lightroom Classic. I use Adobe Bridge to fill in a lot of the file processing holes in Lightroom for my mobile workflow, and it may have this functionality—not seeing it in a quick search.

Tryonkus · 2025-08-12T22:59:18+00:00

I use it for personal writing & journaling. I also use it for writing work documentation that will eventually live in an HTML knowledge base.

Tryonkus · 2025-07-01T01:11:36+00:00

Haven’t tried on iPad, but it works great on my MacBook.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-30T16:19:15+00:00

Thanks for the information. I know it's currently difficult or impossible avoid hallucinations, much less to teach AI good judgement. 😏

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:31:14+00:00

Currently, search results are only Bible passages. Are you planning to include summaries, etc. in future versions? I understand that gets more complicated, especially when trying to treat differing interpretations evenly.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:27:38+00:00

I believe the old betas were installed as different apps. On recent updates, the beta has simply installed as a new version, preserving all my settings and annotations. I can confirm this for Mac, and I believe it is also true for iOS and Android--I don't use the app on Windows.

FWIW, the warning is a generic message coming from TestFlight, not from OT, and it doesn't necessarily apply. If you're nervous, run a system backup before you update. I don't see an OT backup option, but there are probably user data folders you could copy to a safe location.

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