Modern Vespa

lol nice, I have the K6 S in red and white. Thought it looked familiar. Great helmet. Wore it across Italy.

Really wanted the italian-flag color scheme but sold out in my size. Buuuuut Optimus Prime was a good second choice.

May add a blue iridium visor for sunny days but i have some time. Weather is just cold and stupid for a couple weeks yet.

Booked up going to Le Mans for 2 full days of Practice before the 24 hour race in June.

A good day for Team Dolphin.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/512507/sailgp-s-first-day-cancelled-after-dolphins-spotted-on-course

A quick fix that worked well:

bit of scrap metal (cut from an old pc case with heavy tin snips) + epoxy glue. Better than new





[External pics as MV refuses to let me upload them]

What size were they? I normally re-size pictures to something like 1200px per long side. Only takes a second or two.

If you are experiencing a problem with image uploads you should report it and provide more detail.

External images, generally speaking, won't last very long before they disappear into the ether.

My neighbor dropped off the three boxes of Girls Scout cookies I bought from her weeks ago. This morning I am have a Samoas with my coffee while trying not to eat eleven of them.

Let's count them shall we ?

10 you say ?

MV now uses 2000px (width) as the resize target. Anything larger will be sized down to 2000px across. This is to account for increasing screen resolutions and a very varied device landscape (desktops, phones, tablets, etc).

You can certainly upload something less than 2000px across if you like. But 2000px would be closer to ideal.

Noted, thanks. Irfanview's default reset.

So that's where all my mobile data is going!

Sorry!

it doesn't give an error. the browser just shows it progress bar that it normally does for the period of submit + load next page but never continues. the images are direct from my phone camera and upload promptly to other sites so no need to blame the user.

That doesn't really give me anything to go on.

Sugu and a bottle of Villa Dei Misteri tonight, along with some work done on the Atlas.

What's Villa Dei Misteri? I'm glad you asked.

VDM is the original varietals of grapes grown in Pompeii during its heyday (based off carbonized grapes found during excavation), planted in the original ancient vineyard after it was unearthed, and harvested/turned into wine as faithfully as possible taking modern sanitation and safety practices into account.

It's yummy.

But apparently image uploads in general are working ^^^^

So, the images you are trying to upload are extremely large, relatively speaking. The connection from Australia to the server in California (via your mobile) might be timing out, but I can't say for certain since you haven't given me much to go on.

But I can upload this image, with some effort.

I have to say, on the very few times I've tried to upload a large ( > 5MB ) jpg it's looked as though it would take forever. Not timed out, I just abandoned each effort, re-sized and then uploaded almost instantly.

Just an ordinary Android phone trying the big file upload.

I should just be used to it but you keep surprising my with your tasty beverages and eats!

On another note, trying a different Thai place in a little bit, F yes. Picking up my brother in law to join us, just F. Hope he's in a good mood.🤨

i appreciate the compliment! i just kinda figure caskets aren't filled with 100s, there's always more money out there to be made (in fact starting 1 October i'll be retired from the .mil with the 50% pension plus likely 100% VA on top of it) so might as well enjoy it for whatever time we've got.

I got no time for Barefoot or Kendall Jackson.

After I figure out how to do that I'll try it. Sometimes my pics go right through and other times molasses. I'll check the size. Thanks.

it's comments like this that made me not report it.

Why?

Okay. Suit yourself.

My aim is always to try to improve the site if I can. It's frustrating when people say "It doesn't work" without giving any additional context that I might use to diagnose the problem.

It's even more frustrating when that person also works with software and almost certainly knows better.

Days like this make me wonder why I bother.

For the good of the empire, should I be reducing my photos for MV? I just take them right from the Photos. Is that problematic?

No, it's generally not a problem. The server has always resized images down to a reasonable size, though that size has increased (slowly) over the years as storage and bandwidth have become cheaper and screen resolutions have become higher.

The only issue there is that the image you are uploading might be very large, so actually getting the image to the server becomes a bandwidth challenge. Not bandwidth for the server, per se, just moving raw bytes across the wire and the additional time it takes. Especially if you have asymmetric broadband, as is often the case in the US. Or if you are on a cellular connection.

Presently, the server can't resize the image until it arrives intact at the server. I'd like to pre-resize the image before uploading automatically, but there are only so many hours in the day and I spend entirely too much time trying to chase down other elusive pointless problems.

At various points in time, mobile phone OSs have mitigated the problem by using smaller images when sending via email or within a chat. I don't know if that's still the case, or whether it applies to images uploaded via a web form.

But if you're having problems uploading a large image, resizing it in advance will almost certainly help.

I need to cut down on my Giraffe obsession I guess.

I must admit that this went over my head.

OK. Thanks. If this changes just shoot me a 'knock this photo sh*t off.'

Because we're all good, please enjoy this photo of delicious tater tots…which also is making me happy.

I long ago removed all the code related to upload quotas and per-user limits. Storage is cheap.

Fuck it. I'm done writing code today.

I dislike potatoes in all forms except 'Tots. Love me some Tater Tots!

I can see your house from here.

Please don't hurt my cat

We've seen what he can do. There's no chance of that.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-25/victoria-police-traffic-officer-glenn-weir-speeding-apology/103629572

"Victorian road policing assistant commissioner apologises after being caught speeding"

No need to count. Discard the cardboard and you will find that GS cookies are packed in convenient single serving size plastic packaging.

Chris from CLE

Regarding images:

I recently tried to upload a pic to a post via Attachments, and it wouldn't take. The image was a PNG, and was very large file.

I converted it to JPG which reduced the filesize significantly, and it uploaded just fine.

I didn't bother to report, as I figured it was a PNG vs JPG issue, as well as a file size issue. But since this topic has come up, I figured I'd mention it.

Unfortunately, I can't remember what the photo was. I suppose I could scroll through my history and see if anything jogs my memory. I also can't remember what the error message said.

The server will accept PNG, JPG, GIF, HEIC, and WEBP. PNG files are first-class citizens, and we'll automatically convert HEIC and WEBP into PNG for broader compatibility.

Most likely, the size was the issue. I'm looking at all the different places where size could potentially be causing issues to see if the limits can be increased.