Why You Should Print Your Digital Photos

Many people, especially millennials, question the practise of printing one's (digital) photos. With the prevalence of social media, including sites such as Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, Flickr and so on, sharing your photos is so much easier when sticking to a digital workflow. Besides - digital photography costs nothing (except for the initial investment in equipment). Printing can be very expensive.

This is not a long, detailed debate. It is a singular observation as there are many arguments for printing your photos, in addition to the reason discussed in this post.

Take a look at this photograph I took a couple of days ago of some wild flowers. My computer monitor is based on an IPS panel, so although it cannot render all Adobe RGB or P3 or even sRGB colours, it is considered much better than many computer / mobile phone monitors out there. It is colour calibrated as well. Take a look what happens when I ask Lightroom to simulate which colours will be clipped when rendered on a device that can display all sRGB colours (the standard used on 99.9% of all computer monitors):

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Squirrels Are Hungry

Seems like this one finally decided to jump from my window sill to the bird feeder. Impressive.

Squirrel feeding on bird seeds
Squirrel feeding on bird seeds

Sorry for the bad photo - had to make do with a grab shot from my iPhone through a window.

Another Day, Another Scam

Watch out for this - it is quite obvious but if you are in desperate need for cash, do not fall for it. I just received an SMS message:

SMS message from +1 613 301 6963
SMS message from +1 613 301 6963

First warning: Canadians do not write the $ sign after the amount. CRA will never send Interact payments to you personally - they send cheques. Then there is the URL.

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Apple is Geo-Challenged

Photos app thinks this is correct
Photos app thinks this is correct

Passwords Passwords Passwords!

Joke aside, I recently had to respond to some comments about password strength checkers and revisited an old blog entry I made back in 2012. What interested me, was that in 2012 my relatively high end rig managed an average of 925 million hashes per second:

Speed........: 924.0M c/s Real, 929.7M c/s GPU

That meant I could brute force any 6 character password within 13 minutes. On my latest rig I checked again and what a difference 5 years made (not that my system is optimised for password cracking):

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