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We reach Rabaul after 4 days of navigation over the Bismarck Sea. I am now docked at the Kute shipping quay for how many days I don't know yet. The good thing is that there's a new company covering the last stretch of my journey, from Rabaul to Buka, Bougainville. I'll just have to wait for the time the ship is ready to depart. In the meantime, I watch at slave-like work of a group of men downloading copra from a cargo ship and uploading it on trucks delivering it on local markets. They tell me they get the equivalent of €2 for every ton of copra downloaded, to be divided among a team of 6. Slavery I said.
More to watch here: https://youtube.com/shorts/Srl5RPy6gE0?feature=share 95/
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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Day 75-78: Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel taking me from Lae to Rabaul: There's no couchette and no shower room. However, people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All other passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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Day 75-78: I don't think I'll ever see as much as beauty as in these breath-taking sunsets over the Bismarck Sea. They fall gently like leaves caressed by an autumn breeze.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qA-dFbqb4ic?feature=shareThey are an utmost pleasure in my 4- day 1,100km ferry trip from Lae to Rabaul. Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel: there's no couchette and no shower room. But people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do. 93/
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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Day 72: In Papua you can never be sure about schedules and timing until the ship has actually taken off. After an obligatory 3 hour delay, I am eventually about to embark for the previous to last stage of my journey: 4 days of navigation over a 1,100km route: Lae-Umboi-Gloucester-Kimbe-Rabaul. I still don't know how to manage the last stretch from Rabaul to Buka....
I can't believe that after 70 days of travel I am just about to complete the 28,000km dividing Italy from the Solomons without flying! It will count nothing in terms of overall greenhouse emissions, but for me, now, it's everytghing I can do to for this wonderful fragile planet. 91/
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Lae #MerobeProvince #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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There are no bus schedules, no tickets, and buses depart when they are full. I am getting to the main departing point in Madang when it's already late in the morning - but I really wanted to talk about locals about coastal erosion in the city. Fortunately, I still find a place for me on probably the last bus, and two seats are allocated to my bulky luggage. Off we go for the last stop in Papua island before hopefully embarking for the Bismarck archipelago.
It takes 6 hours to cover 212km on "Ramu Sugars" road. It was even slower 3 yrs ago with unpaved track
85/I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Madang #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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Day 65: After a smooth 9-hour boat ride over the Sepik river, we made it to Sisimagung, Northern Papua. This is the 65th day of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomon islands. The coastline is beautiful, what you could describe as paradise on earth. Coconut trees gently bend over sandy beaches and the sound of the waves quietly resound among villagers busy with their fishing nets or cooking earths. It is then all the more upsetting that this beauty is slowly but incessantly being destroyed by sea level rise. This is what Jeffery Bae, a local resident, tells me in the few hours I have here before getting on a truck to Madang. It seems impossible that a sea so quiet can become the agent of destruction, but this is precisely what happens, as Jeffery shows traditional houses made with sago and bamboo leaves having been dismantled by the latest storm surges.
"We will have to relocate", tells me Jeffrey with an empty, "but we don't know where, because right behind our village there's a swamp".
Once more, I hear the same story: no help from national, regional governments, and neither from international organisations.
How many million stories are similar to Jeffrey's, and I wouldn't hear were it not for my slow travel.Check interview here:
https://youtu.be/hk4Vr9p5ZFc#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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Time for new nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5H422ha4 #bouganville #png #papua -
Lossless converting the palleted PNG (at 100671 bytes ≈ 101 kB) to JPEG XL result in a file at 25178 bytes ≈ 25 kB.
Converting lossless to webp, using
cwebp -lossless -m 6 -z 9 -o e08463_353cfb9f6bf646159fdf9dc573b1080e.{webp,png}
the file is 85118 bytes ≈ 85 kB. Lossy webp (i.e. without `-lossless`) is 437632 bytes ≈ 438 kB
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Since the #PNG spec is getting some updates, I was thinking... you know what would be sick? Baking classic #lossy compression right into PNG.
I don't mean #JPEG or anything like that. Not even the #LossyPNG scheme I enjoy using where I reduce the number of colors to reduce the entropy. That wouldn't need any changes to the spec.
I'm thinking #Amiga HAM modes! Instant 3:1 (well, 2.4:1) lossy compression with (hopefully) minimal artifacting. That would be SICK!
Makes me want to throw together a Python script or something to read PNG files, apply the HAM "compression," and then see how the output looks. It wouldn't provide much compression savings with regular PNG, it would need a change to the format. But since I never had an Amiga, I'm curious to see how it looks, and how well it might scale to modern image resolutions.
Conceptually, it's not much different than 3:1 horizontal chroma subsampling, but might actually look a lot better.
Quick explainer: instead of having a 24-bit-per-pixel image, you have a 10-bit-per-pixel image, where the first two bits are a mode selector, and the last 8 bits are the actual pixel data. The modes are Hold and Modify{R,G,B}. Modify{R,G,B} modify just the red, green, or blue component of the 24-bit color for that pixel with the 8 bits specified. The modify mode assigns that pixel to be equivalent to the 8-bit value from a pre-defined palette or some pre-defined bit-assignment mode like RRRGGGBB or something. So basically, the horizontal color resolution is divided by 3, but sometimes you get lucky and there's no noticeable loss.
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#Lines in a #Star by Kaye Menner #Framed Print Wide variety other #Prints & lovely #Products at:
View more info and products on my link above.
** USE DISCOUNT CODE JGBFHS for discount on ALL my prints and products.
#png #pngformat #geometric #geometricdesign #blackwhite #layers #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
