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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Sending this when friends send me suggestions for AI tools.

Famous Soviet poster against alcohol showing a man refusing a drink by making a blocking gesture towards a hand offering a shot of vodka but instead the glass is edited with the word AI written on it.

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The golden mask of king Tutankhamen and a view of the pyramids from the new museum. The first time I ever develop and scan a film at home. I used a 3D printed tank and a DIY changing bag. But I also think the camera is leaking light. 📷 Canon AE-1 Program […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

View of the pyramids from inside the museum. Silhouettes of people in the foreground. Black and white.

Black and white photo of the solid gold mask of a pharaoh.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

3/n - Stations near major transportation networks don't connect with them and are situated very far from them. Example, the Zahraa BRT station is 1 km away from the Zahraa metro station and this diatance is exteremly unpleasant to walk as you have to cross […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Google maps screenshot showing how far the metro station from the BRT station and the points where pedestrians have to cross dangerous roads.

Google maps screenshot showing the distance to be walked over unpaved desert to reach the monorail, with two dangerous areas circled in red.

Screenshot from google maps showing the stairs from the BRT reaching an unpaved desert.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Cairo now has a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. I tried it this past week a couple of times and I was impressed by some of its features but I am not sure I am going to take it again. The good: - It is inexpensive, a 10 stations ticket costs 10 EGP (0.19 USDs) […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A Bus Rapid Transit station pictured from above. A white electric fullsized bus is waiting for passengers.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This surveillance state is in serious need of cable management.

Traffic lights and a light pole with cameras attached on both. Dangling between them in the air is a mess of wires, extension cords, chargers and a tiny ethernet switch (I think).

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Hey Mastodon, you have peer pressured me into buying a #gravel bike. It was so hard to find one but I've finally managed to get one and it is a pretty fancy too. Took it for a spin this morning and its the best thing ever! #Biketooter #Fennec

Yellow and blue gravel bike pointing to the right. Background of rocks and vegetation.

A Canyon gravel bike overlooking a canyon in the desert.

A fennec crossing a path in the desert. It is ochre brown colored with a fluffy tail and long ears.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

We went #birdwatching on the Nile this morning with an NGO called Dayma. We saw plenty of birds .. some of them are migratory. Just 100 meters away from #Cairo's busy streets you can see a fascinating variety of birds. We saw: - Mallard ducks - Moorhens - […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A night Heron standing on a tree branch. White bird with grey wings and a black cap. It has a long thin white feather at the back for mating.

Wide angle shot. Above the horizon a yellow pink sun rising in a clear sky. Blue grey skyline and a small green island. All of this is reflected on the surface of the water below.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

@hoogla_kalfat بدون حساب على انستاجرام الرابط شكله كدا

لقطة شاشة لحساب على انستاجرام، الموقع يرفض اظهار المحتوى بدون حساب

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Good morning. Weird rainbow over greater Cairo. Forecast says there will be a thunderstorm. #Cairo #Egypt

Photo of a wide empty street. Some buildings on the side of the road. Orange clouds and a faint rainbow in tbe background.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

@mike Hi Mike, it seems that your Mastodon server is blocking access to people with IPs from Egypt. That is really unfortunate, I hope you can fix this.

Screenshot saying Sorry you have been blocked.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

Almost every year around this time we see a large rise in illegal and irresponsible parking.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Undersea Internet cables owned by Tata Communications and Alcate- Lucent was cut on Saturday in the Red Sea but multiple news sites ran a stock image of a Microsoft building showing its ugly logo with the story. As if Microsoft is the Internet now for some […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Gentoo Penguin swimming underwater at Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium, Nagasaki, Japan. Photograph by Ken FUNAKOSHI.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pygoscelis_papua_-Nagasaki_Penguin_Aquarium_-swimming_underwater-8a.jpg

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Ok #Linux help needed. So I got this screen after I left #Debian to upgrade to #Trixie while I went to make a cup of coffee. I am running KDE. The problem is I don't have any virtual terminals. So going to ctrl + alt + F1 to F6 shows me a blank screen with […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Black screen with white text. It reads: The screen locker is broken ans unlocking is not possible anymore. In order to unlock it, switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. ctrl+alt+f2), log in to your account and execute the command:

loginctl unlock-session 4

Then logout of the virtual session by pressing ctrl+D, and switch back to the running session (ctrl+alt+f7).

Should you have forgotten the instructions, you can get back to this screen by pressing ctrl+alt+f4

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

Went on an early morning group ride (had to wake up at 4). My 1st time to join a group ride and I was no match for their speed. I managed to stay with the group for 10 mins. I covered a distance of 105km with an average speed of 20.5 km/h. Their average was […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screenshot from Strava showing the route of my ride (Maadi, Heliopolis, Sokha road)
105.21 km
Moving time 5:08
Elevation gain 667m
Average speed 20.5 km/h
Average power 73 watts
Calories 2889 Cal

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

Found a Fab Lab nearby. Asked them to print a couple of things for my bike that I think will be useful. I found the 3D designs on thingiverse.

4 Prusa 3d printers (orange and black) printing 3d things.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

I've noticed that you can see the destruction of #Gaza using Google maps satellite view. Images are from 2025. Complete neighborhoods turned into rubble and entire plots of agricultural land turned into wastelands. Bomb craters that reach a diameter of ~15m […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Satellite view showing dense neighborhood. Most buildings are destroyed. Ruble everywhere. No signs of life.

An agricultural area that seemed to have dried out. In it there are two bomb craters. Looking like a round depression in the land. Few destroyed buildings surround the area.

Area where the roads were completely destroyed. Twisting tank tracks plowed the roads and farm land turning them into sand.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

An underground metro was built under this road (which is very good) but after construction ended, the green space in the middle of the road was not restored and was instead turned into a car park. The green space was large and spacious, with big trees […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A very wide road. More than 100 cars parked in the middle. It is hot and sunny with very little shade. Large grey and beige concrete buildings in the background with very few trees in between.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

We keep going above 1.5°C, year after year 😥 Also, very few people care. #ShowYourStripes #Cairo #Egypt

Graph showing increasing temperatures every year represented in bars. From 2000 to 2024 temperatures increase to almost 1°C and beyond. The colour of the bars is red and dark red.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

دراجتي على الأتوبيس* في القاهرة .. هل ده حلم؟ * مش كل الأتوبيسات بتسمح بكده او فيها مساحة، اتوبيسات شركة أسمها مواصلات مصر فقط وتذكرتها ب٢٩ جنيه (غالية على أغلب المواطنين)، الدراجة مالهاش تذكرة.

دراجة حمراء واكسسواراتها سوداء مريوطة أمام كراسي مطوية في منتصف الأتوبيس.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

صور من معرض حضرته أمس لمشروع فني جديد: خرائط الشرائط

لافتة: شريط كاسيت وردي على خريطة القاهرة بالأخضر مكتوب عليها:

خرائط الشرائط
أسامة حلمي - أرشيف أوديوز

مجلة الكواكب عليها صورة ايهاب توفيق بجوارها واكمان وسماعات ومجموعة شرائط كاسيت

مكتبة ممتلئة بشرائط الكاسيت وأجهزة سمعية ومجلات قديمة

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Cycled to Mokattam today. It was windy and the ascent was tough. Cycling along the ridge of the plateau is quite pleasant but as everything they've built an IDF-style concrete wall to block the view. The autostrad is probably the worst spot Earth to ride a bike. #cycling #BikeTooter #Cairo

Screenshot from Strava showing path on map. From Maadi to Mokattam and back.

Screenshot of Strava showing:

Distance: 30.94 km
Elevation Gain: 271 m
Moving time: 1:30:11
Avg Power: 86 W
Avg Speed: 20.6 km/h
Calories: 903 Cal

A breach in a concrete wall showing a view of a huge city underneath. Large clouds in the sky. A red vintage road bike in thr foreground.

A concrete wall at the edge of a plateau.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025

Finally managed to finish The Secret of the Monkey Island. I had it in 1994 or 95 on CDROM. Back then I couldn't leave Mêlée Island™. Even after 30 years, it is still so hard I had to use a walkthrough at several points. Thank you @grumpygamer and all the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

TV screen with a retro pixel art portraits of two game characters.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

My coffee setup after years of trying almost everything. ☝️Buy beans & grind them before each cup, this way no more stale coffee. It takes a minute to grind 12g with this Hario hand grinder. ✌️A moka pot is perfectly fine. Technically not an espresso […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A moka pot, a hand grinder, a jar with brown coffee beans, a digital kitchen scale and a tea spoon.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2025

No real changes in the #Chromecast situation. It is still not working. Google posted the following saying it identified the problem and is working on a solution […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cropped screenshot of my phone screen. Lists one app being updated. Google Home 4.7MB with an incomplete blue circle representing the download progress.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

اليوم مبادرة عالمية للانتقال إلى شبكات اجتماعية غير مركزية مستقلة، حرة ومفتوحة المصدر بدلا من سيطرة ٣ شركات على الإنترنت. #GlobalSwitchDay

أول فبراير يوم الانتقال العالمي
أيقونات التطبيقات المختلفة وسهم يرمز للانتقال من شبكة الى بديل

من أكس الى ماستودون
من انستاجرام الى بيكسلفيد
من واتساب الى سيجنال
من فيسبوك الى فرنديكا
من يوتيوب الى بيرتيوب
من تيكتوك الى لوبس

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

My year 2024 in podcasts. #AntennaPodEcho We also listen to If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri but we play it from my wife's podcast app.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024

A mobile shop in Helwan has this amazing display of #retro mobile phones. I really miss the Motorola Razr V3. They are not for sale. #retrotech #dumbphone #vintage #Egypt #Cairo

Around 40 mobile phone handsets are displayed on 5 shelves. Most are Nokia dumb or feature phones. They range from 26 years old handsets to a more recent HTC from 2011.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2024

صباح الخير من المنيا عروس الصعيد. #مصر

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

النهاردة في كايروكومس زحام على الرويات المصورة وأعمال الفنانين المختلفة 😊 المعرض بحديقة متحف محمود مختار ومستمر حتى الغد. #Cairocomix #كايروكومكس #مصر

شنط بنفسجية مطبوع عليها شخصية كسلان من ماجد وبجوارها بوسترات برتقالية لتنابلة السلطان.

جمهور كبير امام كبائن العارضين في الخلفية أشجار ونخيل

رسومات بحجم ضخم على حوائط معرض داخلي عليها رسومات ملونة من رواية مصورة بأسم من قتل أسمهان.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2024

Unexpectedly good weather this morning in #Cairo. Temperature is 27°C with clouds blocking the sun*. First time I see clouds in 3 months! It also rained very briefly. I can't reconcile that this has been the harshest summer ever and also the nicest one to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Blue sky with some clouds framed by tree foliage at the bottom the head of a palm tree.

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