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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hey, why is that Native American wearing a cardigan, beanie, and holding a soy latte? Oh, he's an indiegenous person

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

GIMP Image Manipulation Program

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Today I TIL that GIMP struggles with 60MPix TIFF files.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm building a time travelling car, but for now I only have a placeholder for it. I'm calling it the DeLoream.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I don't usually listen to stuff about US politics specifically, but this is really really good. A discussion about race, class, the current state of the US Left, and how the "self-made man", and "pulling yourself by your bootstraps" are myths. I've listened to several episodes of this podcast […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I switched from Tusky to the official Mastodon app, works much smoother, even with GotoSocial

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I wonder how the music genre of rare earth metal would soon like. I'm sure it would be hard to find.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Adding links to toots is only available for the members of the STFN GOLD (tm) subscription. Adding both photos and links is only available on the MOLYBDENUM level.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Somehow I now have five spools of unopened filament, and three partially used. As a great Polish poet once said: "how did it happen? I don't know"

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Either I suck at video games (highly possible), or SuperTuxKart is extremely difficult at the highest difficulty setting

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Here is the new 3D print I designed: It's a small dovetail for astronomy and astrophotography, in the "Synta", or "small Vixen" standard. Useful for mounting guide scopes or finders. It's designed to work with M5 allen bolts, so that their heads are flush with the body of the dovetail […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Thank you everyone who contributed! I added a brim and ensured there are no draft in the room, and now the part printed without any warping or peeling. <3 #3DPrinting

An upside down dovetail 3d printed and still on the printer bed. This time the print has a brim around the bottom, and there is no warping or peeling from the bed.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I will create a band, that will play heavy music about animals, without any virtualization or nesting technologies. I will call it bear metal

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

hey, how do you call dinosaurs negotiating? diplo macy

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

As I am back into #astrophotography (for the n-th time), can I ask you to share your Astrobin accounts? Here is mine: app.astrobin.com/u/stfn

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Immich reminded me that three years ago I was in the Netherlands, and I saw a

A metal frame with the word SCHEEPSWRAK cut in it. It shows the location of a ship wreck that was found in the nearby field.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

After casting my vote, I went out of them voting venue. According to the Exit Polls, I was an Exit Pole.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

In 1999 Civilization: Call to Power was released, game similar to Sid Meier's Civilization series, but with a lot of differences. One of them was pollution, a feature missing in Sid's games. Cities could produce pollution and if it went over a level, it would destroy the surrounding tiles. You […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If people had those giant manga/anime eyes, we could see much more objects in the night sky. Larger irises would allow for more light gathering.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

If you are into renewable energy and offshore wind farms, you might find this blog post interesting. It's written in some heathen language full of mysterious diacritics, but at least there are photos: slomaislonce.pl/posts/09-polski-off… #blog #renewables #OffshoreWindFarms […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Sputnik sickles found in the seats Self-destruct sequence This station is non-operational Species growing Bubbles in an IV loitering Unknown origins Is this the comfort of being afraid?

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

My router started talking about gender equality, human rights and climate change. I guess that is what you get when you turn on Woke-On-Lan

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Let's say I have a still photo, and I want to record a short video in which I zoom and pan over that photo. How can I do it on Linux and with preferably FOSS tools? #AskFedi

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

An excerpt from the book "Keeping Lights in the Dark Age" by Chris Smaje. Chris talks about how he envisions the future after the period of social and political unrest caused by the incoming ecological crises. The title sums up the book well, he seeks how the […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

A cautionary tale sometimes told about post-Roman Britain is that ceramic manufacture disappeared entirely along with the departing Romans. This is an exaggeration but it does seem that the industry simplified and localized. What similar tales might be told of our own future?

Looking at the mass of high-tech manufactured products around my home and farm, I find a lot of reasons to be fearful about this. Perhaps we should get simplifying and localizing fast. As we head back unavoidably to the world of the local workshop, what's clear is that there won't be anything like the modern petrol or diesel car in it, still less electric vehicles, driverless cars and all the rest. But there may be a lot of useful stuff that local workshops and technicians can turn out with whatever energy they can muster, repurposing and catabolizing what's to hand from the prodigious material remnants of the dying high-energy economy.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Commercial Rib Charter? Did Adam become an entrepreneur?

Photo of a boat with signs CREW TRANSFER and Commercial Rib Charter

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P.I.W.O. Poznań @piwo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

🎬️️️️ Własna, niezależna strona internetowa zasilana energią słoneczną – Stefan Machura W tej prelekcji @stfn prezentuje nietypowy sposób na self-hosting strony www. PS. dziękujemy @stfn za zdubbingowane pierwszych 3 minut prelekcji, gdzie padł nam dźwięk. ;-) 👉️️️️ YouTube […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

This key chain thingy is a mystery. It has been attached to those keys as long as I remember, and I have a vague recollection of looking at it and not understanding anything, because it was before the times I knew any English. Which would put it at least at […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

A plastic thing attached to a keychain, with an advertisement for Age Concern, Carlisle & District

Back side of it, with an advertisement text, starting with "looking at all our futures" and then describing the range of services it offers, mostly concerned with taking care of elderly people

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Hey, have you heard that song about a young lady becoming an awe inspiring weather event? "Girl, you'll be a woo! monsoon"

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

This is a timelapse of a four hour long astrophotography sessions, imaging the Heart and Soul nebulas near the Cassiopeia constellation #astrophotography

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

And we are back! This instance has been updated to GoToSocial 0.22.1, and the database migrations took a bit longer than I anticipated, but as usual with GTS, everything went smooth and uneventful. #GoToSocial #FediAdmin

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

New blog post! This time it's general updates about my life, homelab, 3d printing, astrophotography, PV, all that jazz, a bit of this and that, because I do not have the energy to talk about specific things in detail. stfn.pl/blog/103-general-post-1 #blog

A closeup photo of a 3d printed spacer that I designed and printed, connecting a my Canon lens to the dovetail (a metal bar that connects to a special astronomical tripod).

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Lety Does Stuff @lety.doesstuff.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

RE: doesstuff.social/@lety/117169378281… neovim is a text editor that sounds like a pokemon, is run by someone who follows jd vance's ideaology, and endorsed by a chud who wants to kill endangered wolves and deport brown people just in case anyone else needed a tldr

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Lety Does Stuff @lety.doesstuff.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

the funnest part of being an e‐girl who dragged over a thousand of her non‐techy fans onto fedi is that i get to answer fun dms like what is a neovim and why is it run by nazis

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Is there a serious reason why, when the 3D printer is preparing, first the bed is getting up to temp, and then the hotend? Why can't they warm up at the same time? #3DPrinting

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I found another German loanword in Polish, and it's this thing: Schaufel, Szufla

It's a shovel, Schaufel, szufla, a thing to dig or carry loose stuff like earth or coal.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I pushed something like 10 amps through this wire, and the fuse did not pop, but its housing melted and broke the circuit, so task failed successfully?

I am holding a rather thin wire, with a fuse housing in the middle, the housing is partially melted and the fuse sticks out of it

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Videos like this remind me that my favourite type of country borders are just painted lines on a cycle paths, or topics of quirky Youtube videos, not something with barbed wire and border control and passports and visas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDsPE5dQcSU

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

One of those geography things that used to confuse me a lot was the Canary Islands vs the Caribbean Islands

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Today I made a quick visit to the Berlin Hauptbahnof

Photo of the Berlin Hauptbahnof, the underground train platforms. ICE high speed train is standing at the platform, in the foreground the roof a local train can also be seen.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I now have a CCTV camera for my house, a Reolink RLC-520A. It's powered from a PoE switch and mounted on my front wall. I setup Frigate as my NVR, and connected it to Home Assistant. Frigate runs on my NAS/server and uses my RTX3050 for object detection and video encoding. As for the camera […]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

FireWire ✅ GroundWire ✅ WaterWire 🚰 AirWire 🤔

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Wikipedia most metal quote of the day: _Blanets may be heated by the black hole's accretion disk, or, if sufficiently close to the black hole, may be heated by blueshifted cosmic microwave background radiation._

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

For the first time I designed my own part and now I am 3D printing it, and I have to say, it's 100 more times fun than printing ready projects. #3DPrinting

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

AAAAAA FINALLYYYY I mean, semi finally, but much more finally than before. After months of trying to figure out WHY MY ASTRO SETUP DOES NOT WANT TO GUIDE, I found a semi solution. My setup still does now want to guide through the USB cable, but I found that using the ancient way of an ST-4 […]

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