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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 14h

In other other news, I finally had some time and will to work on Pyriodic Backend over the weekend, I might do another release soon codeberg.org/stfn/pyriodic-backend #python #smallweb

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 14h

An idea just stroke me for a Fediverse TV show: Pimp my instance. A famous person visits your instance and gets you all sorts of upgrades, more RAM, maybe cache, SMTP, 24 inch Grafana dashboards for monitoring...

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 14h

I'll ask on this account as well: Does anyone have experience with those fans that you put on your stove and they run from the hear on the stove and a Peltier cell? Did anyone build something like that themselves? I'm wondering if getting a Peltier cell and a drone motor with a propeller would […]

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

@blotosmetek Thankfully, I have enough RAM, at least for now :)

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

I'll need at least 5-7 more hours of exposure time to reach the level of quality I will be happy with

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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 · 17/10/2026

I need to buy a new CPU for my desktop PC. The only two use cases for it are Astrophotography and Civilization V, and both could use some more processing power.

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stfn @stfn.fedi.stfn.pl.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

New blog post! In which I write about growing oyster mushrooms at home. Yes, these days I am much less into computers and more into growing stuff slomaislonce.pl/posts/11-hodowla-bo…

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Hodowla boczniaka w domu

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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

(I am a big fan of redundant pleonasms)

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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

@markhburton UK leaving the NATO would be a very bad thing

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

@mrundkvist it would be, if history happened slightly different 😅

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

it will sound like eeeeeeeee psuuuuuum

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

@mrundkvist the only thing that comes to my mind is The Guardian

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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

Now that I barely now the absolutely basics of FreeCAD, I am unstoppable

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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

in Polish we also have the word "wrak" with the same meaning, I guess it's a general Germanic loan word

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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

Also, congratulations to Die Linke for their impressive result in Berlin!

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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

@blotosmetek ha, ok, I've never played 1 and 2, that explains it :D

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

Also CtP had troop ships to which you could load other units. I haven't played all of the Sid Meier's Civilization series, but the ones I played, all lacked them.

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

I've spent so many hours playing it, I still remember most of the voices of the early units. Centurion here! Our horses must rest. For the empire!

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

I think there was also a unit that could destroy cities in the same theme?

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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

would humans be then more nocturnal? We would have much better low light vision. We would be basically walking and talking owls, minus the 270 degree neck movements

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

but then glasses would be much more expensive

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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

Anyway, I find APFSDS fascinating. 500 years after deciding that arrows are obsolete, we basically got back to using them, but slightly fancier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour-pierci…

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Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot - Wikipedia

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

those are my thoughts before I drink my first coffee

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