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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 03/09/2026

McDonald's needs to activate Windows

A McDonald's order machine showing the "Activate Windows" message

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 09/08/2026

I slightly spooked this fox mum while she was playing with her two cubs.

A fox looking attentively at the viewer.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 04/08/2026

Applied for @hackmd.io's free plan for non-profits, they came back with a request for us to do a bunch of free labour for them. No thanks :/

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 19/07/2026

your contributions section errors out

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 16/07/2026

I hope interested folks can attend my @europython.eu talk today, happening in S2 at 16:00. I'll be talking about binary dependencies, why they are so hard to detect, and why this poses a problem for our global tech infrastructure.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 15/07/2026

I'm at @europython.eu in Kraków, here to talk about binary dependencies, the @stewardshiplab.org and the @opensourcepledge.com. Come say hi!

Vlad holding his badge, with EuroPython attendees in the background

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 11/07/2026

Here is a friend I met the other day

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 03/07/2026

@eurosky.social folks, would you consider a @mu.social feature allowing users to quickly switch between accounts? I regularly use 3 accounts, and switching currently involves 3 clicks using the settings menu — a bit clunky. elk.zone has this switcher at the bottom of the sidebar.

A screenshot of elk.zone showing three avatars at the bottom of the sidebar, which can be clicked to switch to each respective account.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 29/06/2026

Here's a picture I took of the male

A male Pallas's cat looking a bit grumpy

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 23/06/2026

tfw you do the biggest nap ever

A fox splayed out on the grass with its tongue out, napping.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 15/05/2026

FYI your post is showing this banner lol. aber wenn du willst, antworte ich gerne auch auf Deutsch!

“The post you're replying to was marked as being written in German by its author. Would you like to reply in German?”

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 12/05/2026

@patak.cat Here's an up-to-date chart! And there's more info here: discover.opencollective.com/opensource We need to get these numbers up 💪

A chart of payments made to maintainers via Open Source Collective. There's no big increase over the period of 2022–2025.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 22/04/2026

From Hailey at social.hails.org/@hailey/1164... “With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0.” codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

Windows 95 running a Linux terminal among other apps.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 21/04/2026

Thanks for the heads up, see you there! 😊

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 19/02/2026

My OP shows a machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines, from Luxembourg's Öewersauer Cloth Factory Museum. www.naturpark-sure.lu/en/offer/mus... Here is a better look at one of the punchcards.

A very long punchcard on a spool, attached to a wool weaving machine.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 19/02/2026

thinking of switching from vim to this

An old machine used to create punchcards to be used with wool weaving machines. It has a peculiar 50-key keyboard, and a very long punchcard is emerging from it.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 04/01/2026

can confirm, my train just spent 3 hours stranded in the snow

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 31/12/2025

Great Tit at Blackford Pond, Edinburgh

A Great Tit, a light green and dark blue bird, on a branch. The background swirls with green bokeh.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 12/12/2025

Christmas came early in the form of @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social's new book 🎉

Vlad holds up a copy of “Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction” by Aidan McGlynn.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 19/09/2025

Punchcards weren't only used for code. These Department of Defense punchcards from 1966 have a microfilm window used for technical drawings — in this case, a rotary telephone switch, and a font!

A red punchcard marked "Dual Purpose Engineering Document Card", bearing various numbers and letters, as well as a microfilm window.

A schematic titled "Switch, Telephone, Rotary", with various technical drawings.

A schematic with two large letters "A" and "B", and tables of numbers underneath.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 30/08/2025

An operator uses the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 05/06/2025

Hi from #WCEU in Basel! I want to interview Open Source contributors/maintainers. If you are one, let me know. 😊

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 31/01/2025

On my way to FOSDEM — come see my talk about how to make the Open Source ecosystem more sustainable on Sunday at 11:10 in K.3.601 🍃 fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

Me pointing at a train station screen showing info on the next train to Brussels

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 20/12/2024

@opensourcepledge.com members just reached almost $2.5 million paid to maintainers over the past year thanks to @posit.co joining 💚

“Our members have paid maintainers $2,489,246 over the last year.”

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 21/11/2024

MSFS 2024 is looking gorgeous today despite the buggy launch. ☺️ (cc @cra.mr)

A flight simulation setup, consisting of a monitor showing MSFS 2024, a yoke, and a throttle quadrant.

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 07/11/2024

Braid Burn, Edinburgh — Medium format film — Sierra error diffusion matrix, 000 666 aaa fff.

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