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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I am making an experiment with the image I am working on. I've been shooting this part of the sky for three nights so far, and I wanted to compare the results. The image on the left is stacked from material from the first night only, 1 hour of integration time […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

Screenshot of two images of the night sky side by side, they look almost identical

Screenshot of two zoomed in parts of the images from the previous attachment, this time the small red clouds surrounding the Gamma Cas star are more pronounced on the right photo.

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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 · 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 · 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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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

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 · 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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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 · 23/08/2026

One more, close to the Botanischer Garten S-Bahn station

A red and yellow S-Bahn train is coming towards the photographer, the photo is taken from a viaduct above the tracks. The railway is surrounded by trees and bushes.

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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 · 01/08/2026

Hello all you awesome, awesome people (The graphic is made by nicolium.app)

A circle of avatars of Fediverse users I interact most often.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Ah, so here Trent Reznor found inspiration for his famous song "I HORTMASZ elf today"

Advertisement for the HORTMASZ shop, selling powered garden equipment

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

I used to run octoprint on a Raspberry Pi, and there everything worked fine. I moved to a Wyse 5070 and there the printing also works, but most times the webcam feed looks like this. The deployment has been the same on both platform, through Docker. Any […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

Screenshot of Octoprint UI showing the webcam feed which looks like an old tv without an antenna, just a mix of white and black pixels.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

CPU temperature not great, not terrible

A very large and complicated dial, showing, I think, 600 degrees C

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Another episode of working in my homelab

Frame from a black and white movie from the 60s, showing the control room of a large factory, with a full wall of dials and buttons.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I love it when a project comes together

A graph with a single line, mostly flat with periodic spikes. The X axis shows hours from 16:00 to 17:45, and the y axis shows numbers from 0 to 20.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I could use more space, or at least clean my desk before working with electronics.

A mess on my desk, raspberry pi zero connected to a small PCB and a breadboard, pushed between keyboard and a Bluetooth speaker

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

It may be a tiny thing, but it shows the beauty of Linux. The "Never show again" button. It means that the people who created this popup actually respect users' decisions. It's not like the other apps or systems, where the only options are "ok" or "remind me later", which is no choice at all.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The part for my next project has arrived

A sealed INA219 current and voltage sensor on a small PCB

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

I've been to an airshow today. My solarpunk degrowth environmental side was not amused. My avgeek side was screaming with joy.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

This is peak polish culture. This is what defines us.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

that's cool, the ship that transfers the rocket components from Europe to French Guiana has sails to reduce fuel usage <3

Screenshot of the Youtube stream, showing a large white cargo vessel with four masts for hoisting sails.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

New blog post! In which I write about my first big problem with my 3D printer, and how the Fediverse hive mind helped me debug, and eventually fix it. The problem was moist filament, and the solution was to dry it. Now that I think about it, I could probably […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

Photo showing two bottom of test print placed on some cardboard. The left print has messy lines of differing size, while the right one looks much better, the print lines are much narrower and neatly parallel.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

And also this epic kitchen scale

A plastic kitchen scale made to look like a red apple with the green stem being the plate for the weighted object

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

We've been at the antique market and I bought this small pot with precise information how it can be used

Bottom of a small white pot with precise information, in German, with what kind of stoves it can be used

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

I made a timelapse video of a thunderstorm cloud, and it turned out much better than I hoped for. Wow.

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

Today I've been in the only fan business. Yes, I've been waiting a long time to do that joke.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

New blog post, and this is a special one! This is the 100th post on my blog, and I am using this occasion to do some nostalgic musing about my previous blogs and my Internet presence in general. Also this blog post contains a surprising amount of the Welsh […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

[Kinda dirty nsfw] Now that is something I would not expect at a data camping.

Cropped notification:
"Datacamp Recommended for Stefan: Data Anal"

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

When you have heightened emotions when seeing a human male move: MANGO EXCITEMENT

a pack of liquid soap, with text:

enrich your daily routine with the moment of

MANGO EXCITEMENT

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

New blog post! In which I do alliteration and inform that version 0.3.0 of my project, Pyriodic Backend has been released to PyPi! Pyriodic Backend, The Backend for the Static Web, is a a framework to, well, periodically, update content and styling of static […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

My black cat stretching on a blanket and doing a Big Yawn, with all teeth visible.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I must be broken by the spirit of Fedi, because that sounds kinky

DELL BIOS menu with options to toggle

Front port top
Front port bottom medium
Front port top medium
Front port bottom

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

New blog post! I bought my first 3D printer and I am amazed how easy it is now to start printing in all three dimensions, It Just Works. Also a few words why I wanted to have a printer in the first place, some examples of what I printed so far, and plans for […] [Original post on fedi.stfn.pl]

Photo of my storage rack shelf with Gridfinity containers organized in an ordered grid.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

When a person with 33k followers retoots a toot on your small selfhosted instance

Grafana graph showing the connections per second coming to nginx on my instance. The graph is almost flat, and then jumps to a massive spike of around 600 connections.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

@homelab And Immich reminded me that exactly a year ago I took this photo, it was shortly after I bought the RB3011.

POV, I am sitting on the floor next to a book case. The Mikrotik RB3011 rack router is mounted to the bookshelf with some zip ties, and I am holding a ThinkPad laptop on my knees. The laptop is connected to the router with a cable, and on the screen there's the speedtest.net website.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

My dad's rainwater collecting system. Simple but it works #solarunk #allotmentGardens

Three large plastic buckets, the water from the gutter flows into the largest one, and then through overflow pipes flows into two other buckets.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

This is my newest invention. I call it the Dog Cooler 2137 Pro. It may not look like it, but I built it mostly from parts I had lying around 😅

Two 120mm computer fans connected together with zip ties, and hanged between the front seats of a car with more zip ties. The fans are powered from the lighter socket

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I have to be cautious, the Gestapo might be close.

A large bulk carrying vessel, named Helga

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