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Help keep our association going. Join the ima team as an Executive assistant. Our current treasurer, Corinne, will be stepping down in less than a year. We are looking for someone to become an executive assistant to Corinne. Are you a Club Member with a love for ipernity? WE NEED YOU! Becoming an assistant to Corinne will also allow you to learn exactly what it means to be our treasurer and for you to consider whether you would like to stand for treasurer next year. Wh…

Saviez-vous que l’IA représente un réel danger pour la planète, au même titre que les voitures ou les avions ? Avec leurs centaines de milliards de paramètres et des terabytes de données pour les alimenter, faire tourner les systèmes d’IA générative demande beaucoup de puissance de calcul de serveurs situés dans des centres de données. Donc beaucoup d’électricité. Une requête sur ChatGPT consomme 10 fois plus d’électricité qu’une recherche sur Google, selon l’Agence internationale de l’énergie.…

Selon Yuval Noah Harari, l’IA pourrait provoquer une crise financière aux conséquences catastrophiques L’écrivain et philosophe Yuval Noah Harari a, à plusieurs reprises, soulevé les problèmes existentiels que pose l’IA. Il est d’ailleurs l’un des premiers signataires de la lettre ouverte de mars dernier “Pause Giant AI Experiments”. C’est lors d’une interview au Guardian qu’il a alerté récemment sur les menaces que l’IA fait peser sur le système économique mondial et leurs conséquences. L’…

Berhard wies dankenswerterweise auf Bilder hin, die gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen oder sonst anstößig sind. Ich stelle deshalb den Antrag, auf der nächsten IGA folgenden Beschluss zu fassen: -------- In die Nutzungsbedingungen (Terms of USe) wird unter Punkt 3.4 ein neuer Aufzählungspunkt (m) aufgenommen: (m) Inhalt zu veröffentlichen, der in voyeuristischer, erniedrigender oder sonst grob anstößiger Weise Dritte herabwürdigt. Davon ausgenommen ist Inhalt, für den eine Freigabe der b…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026. 1) Images suggested for groups. We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision. With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrato…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Photon festival. We have started an experiment. From September 5 to 7, 2025, we had a booth at the PHOTON Photography Festival in Illingen / Saar, Germany, where we promoted Ipernity. Thanks to Bernhard (Bergfex), who traveled from Austria especially for this event, we were able to talk to visitors at the festival and raise awareness of Ipernity. We'll have to wait and see if this will be reflected in the membership numbers. We also l…

Elle s'appelle Youki. C'est ma fille July qui l'a affublée de ce nom ridicule. Youki est une petite chienne au pelage noir et blanc, à la mâchoire rectangulaire, âgée entre trois et cinq ans. Nous l'avons rencontrée, avec ma femme et mes deux filles, pour la première fois en 2013 à Bang Shaphang Yai, en Thaïlande.

L'un est cycliste. L'autre est chien. Ils se sont rencontrés au hasard d'une route himalayenne. Le chien n'a rien demandé à l'homme, le choisissant comme copain le temps d'une aventure sportive. Que sont-ils devenus ? Je ne le sais pas. Je que je sais c'est que tous les deux étaient des athlètes d'altitude et de haut niveau.

World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This is the 5 th year that our club's World Photography Day group will honor the day and we will be accepting photographs taken on Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. Each photographer may submit one photo. Last year we had record 73 participants. Can we get more this year? Tell your friend! Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editing,…

[Edit 8/6/2025: The loading of pages is back to normal speeds] Currently our club’s beloved ipernity website varies in accessibility. You may notice times with basically no access, times with very slow loading times and other times when it works quickly. There doesn’t appear to be any regular pattern to these disruptions. As noted before, these overloads are caused by excessive requests accessing our servers. These may be from the new AI bots that since March 2025 now have software t…

Quel dommage que l'IA intervienne dans certaines des photos proposées. Que devient le naturel d'une photo savamment cadrée ? Que devient le côté humain dans le portrait ? Que deviennent les heures de patience pour capturer l'image d'un animal dans la vraie nature et le plaisir d'avoir réussi ? Que devient la présentation d'une nature morte aboutie après de nombreux essais ? Que devient la vraie créativité avec de vrais pinceaux et de la vraie peinture ? Va-ton laisser la machine dépass… qui fait…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. To summarise, the meeting went well, and the board for the coming year was elected. Of particular note is the exciting news that we now have a Vice President whose position will support promoting ipernity along with other tasks. We welcome Andreas Schindler Arlequin Photographie to the position and look forward to their support. That said, it…

1. HAVE FUN! 2. ADDING IMAGES TO COMMENTS: -- Image has to be up on ipernity (though it can be private). -- On image page, go to Actions/Share (HTML code) [find the Actions link on the bar to the right of the image]. -- Choose size of photo you want to embed in the comment. -- THEN, copy "Insert the photo" code HTML (bottom box). -- Place this code into the comment field. Note: You can preview your comment to make sure the image shows up correctly and is the size you want. All comme…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Is a group active? In order to support the current efforts by our members to improve the perception of groups, especially to visitors, a new feature has been added to assist them. On a group's homepage, the blue (?) icon beside 'Latest contributions' shows how long ago the most recent image was added to the group. Additionally, this is available via the [ i ] under each image. This is the date that a user agrees to a suggestion, or when a g…

World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This is the 4th year that our club's World Photography Day group will honor the day and we will be accepting photographs taken on Monday, August 19th, 2024. Each photographer may submit one photo. Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editing, processing, and uploading. See also: 2024 group rules Posting suggestions…

Photo contribution from 2022 World Photography Day Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) World Photography Day. Our event on August 19, 2022 was a joyous success. Over 50 members participated. With photographs from Austria to Australia, from Poland to Peru - over 12 countries are represented - truly a World event!! Contributions can be viewed in the group World Photography Day . If you have interest in how the event will be run next year, please add to the discussion in the g…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) This weekend we are celebrating a 5 years anniversary , as on September 1, 2017, we members took over the operation of this website and thus saved it from disappearing. Since then, we have overcome all challenges. We a…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Hi all, For the first time, there is the opportunity to preview and score the pictures for the ipernity homepage for the upcoming season (autumn). As supervisor for the homepage content, I hereby invite you to participate in this rating: Homepage Picture…

Collage: Totem Poles, Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, NY (25 May 2009) and Architectural Relief, Mount Vernon, NY (27 April 2012) On this 11 October 2021 the debate continues to rage in the United States about today’s holiday. Some call it “Indigenous Peoples' Day,” others continue to call it “Columbus Day” – I call it both, with the term “Indigenous Peoples” at the forefront since there are oral records of North American peoples hunting mammoths, saber-toothed tigers an…

English ARTICLE VII – THE BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION Section 1 – Composition and responsibilities of the Board: The Board of the Association consists of up to five members. To the extent permitted by law, they may deputise for each other. and reassign The responsibilities and duties described below may be reassigned by resolution of the Board at any time during the its term of office. Section 10 – Executive Assistants: Each member of the Board may nominate at his…