Ha ha. At 36k that’s inviting corruption, which will probably be pretty easy in this role.

What is bitcoin?

It’s the smells. Digital photography doesn’t smell of anything.

It’s why a use a tripod for my landscape photography though. Apart from helping to get an accurate composition, it slows me right down so I can be present in the moment, out on the hill.

Thanks for the shout out. Hope you all have a great Christmas.

Ugh. I know that feeling all too well.

Thanks Gigi. Immich is absolutely brilliant, especially the machine learning based search. It’s excellent for finding little moments I remember from when my kids were younger.

Your work has been an inspiration in the past too. Thanks again.

VDO Ninja for your private video calls, it uses WebRTC and it totally private.

OBS to record everything. Eg Your own camera and mic....and bring the VDO Ninja feed for your guest.

I use it for my podcast and its super reliable and high quality. OBS can simply record to you hard drive, stream live, or do both.

Huh!? No he isn’t. “Jimmy Carr is the United Kingdom’s most popular comedian and celebrity.”

I did enjoy the way he just casually dropped that in though.

I use OBS to record and bring everything together. VDO ninja to online call your guest and bring it into OBS.

🤝

“Suitcoiners” 🤣🤣🤣

I’m very bearish on normal people’s strength to resist authoritarianism and centralisation. Especially in the west where life will remain just comfortable enough, so long as you follow all the rules and sing for your supper.

Reckon if we’re truly orange-pilled, we might have to accept it’s gonna take a long time and some sacrifices will be required.

“I burn my life to make a sunrise I’ll never see.”

A good few exciting options.

I'm DONE with Adobe...

#photography #opensource #selfhosting

https://blossom.firstmanphotography.com/53571c38d660e678213d4043f128eef21ff54af9b0da7f6dbbb1150c66751195.mp4

They’re not gonna take our internet connections away. The last thing they want is us gathering (and organising) in the real world.

It’s so dumb. Still depressing to see how many people are in support of government doing parenting though.

It’s a place for the desperate, trying to reassure each other that being a corporate hack is meaningful and fulfilling.

Bought some gold before there's none left.

The hybrid model has worked for me for several years now. The V4V portion remains very low though, probably less than 5% at the current time.

After building out my own system - where I post the same videos as I do on YouTube without the ads and sponsors - I can now smugly direct people to my website whenever they complain about seeing another sponsored section in my videos. They nearly always choose to stay on youtube though, and it seems convenience also plays a factor in this whole story.

Like nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9 also touched on in the video, "the ask" can create tension and easily appear desperate or greedy if you do it too often. Whereas I can land a new sponsor, get more money into the pipeline, plan ahead, and there's almost no friction from my audience.

The other important aspect of the "lifeboat" in my case is maintaining a newsletter email list of my audience, and then keeping it trim so it represents my core fans as much as possible. I've been using Sendy for about a year now, and if a platform suddenly disappeared, I could stay in touch with the most important followers.

Breath of the Sea. A calm, long-exposure seascape where tide, sky and timber meet in soft blue tones. A moment of quiet breath from the sea.

Limited edition print is available now. Shipping worldwide.

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#landscapephotography

💯

Someone mentioned this to me the other day:

Repetition compulsion: The unconscious tendency to recreate past, often traumatic, situations or emotional dynamics.

I don't know him. I have mentioned Nostr to quite a few people now and I find the sell extremely difficult. You can see that cynical look on their face like you are asking them to check out the "latest" app or bit of software. They then tell you they like Discord (like Alex here) or Bluesky and a bearish wave washes over me. You say the word "decentralisation" and their eyes glaze over.

However im gonna promote Nostr again on some upcoming videos and got a decent response when i menttioned it before. Will also soon be introducing Immich and other self-hosted and FOSS options that exist for photographers.

It's just very easy to forget how far down the rabbit-hole we are here. Releasing my current stream of consciousness would be like talking a foreign language. Especiallly to people still so deeply ingrained in the fiat system and who are often seen supporting authoritarian regimes, such as the recent "ban" of social media for young people in Australia.

Apologies for length of reply. You just struck on something i've been thinking about a lot lately.

I honestly don’t think he’s well.

Ha. Was literally about to share this. The creep of authoritarianism is unrelenting.

I don’t want to leave and run to some metaphorical citadel. I’d rather stay and fight for my home.

The digital ID card announcement has definitely triggered a fight or flight response though.

Thanks mate.

Nice, I saw that the other day. I’ll give it a whirl.

I’ve been constantly disappointed how many people are cool with authoritarianism when it flips in the direction of controlling things THEY don’t like.

Absolute magic on my latest shoot.

#landscapephotography

💯 We all think we’ve found a better way (we have!!), and we want to share it far and wide to make a better world.

If you’re not virtue signalling on Nostr, what are you even doing really?

Stunning photography.

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Posting landscape photography to Nostr on a self-hosted blossom server for the win.

#landscapephotography 🌸

There are times when things seem dark and intimidating, but the path ahead is very clear. We are fortunate in these moments.

#photography #landscapephotography #photostr #nature #lakedistrict

I really can’t understand why anyone would want to clone their own voice. Deception at the heart of the technology.

Nice. Thanks.

Any thoughts on SearXNG? Self-hosted or otherwise?

It’s got so much worse in the last couple of months.

There should be a word for when someone describes the results of countless years of hard work as “luck.”

Run your own business to control your own time.

Run Bitcoin to control your own money.

#freedom #livefree #free #landscapephotography #photography #peakdistrict #rocks #nature #photography #arran #scotland

Controlling your own time is catastrophically undervalued.

https://firstmanphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Control-Your-Own-Time-Nostr.mp4

#proofofwork #lifehacks #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #peakdistrict #rocks #nature #photography #sunset #goldenhour #art