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Szescstopni

@Szescstopni@circumstances.run

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Old white guy living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.

Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.

#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Now also learning #Meshtastic. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.

#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is our defence against belief.

I try to check facts before I toot.

Fuck nazis.

Dog and wetlands pictures on PixelFed https://pixel.pol.social/szescstopni
I sometimes toot in Polish – jebać nazistów.

Zdolny, ale leniwy.

Moved here from my first instance https://qoto.org/@szescstopni where I've been since November 2022.

I haven't deleted my Twitter, for good reasons, but I'm not using it anymore. https://twitter.com/szescstopni

Szescstopni 45m ago

Kyle Memoir 🍉2h ago

I use #hashtags here on #mastodon #socialmedia #media

	Never
	Sometimes
	Often or more than often
	Every damned post #dammit

Poll ends at Jul 22 at 8:07pm.

Szescstopni 1h ago

Bianca Kastl 4h ago

Diskussion mit Schweizern im Zug (Stimmung so 1:11 h Verspätung, Kühlung Bordbistro defekt):

Deutsche 🥔: „Ja, das ist auch nur deswegen so schlimm, weil es keine Konkurrenz gibt auf der Schiene”

Schweizer: „Haben wir auch nicht, es ist die Infrastruktur. Die Schweiz und Deutschland hatten 1930 den gleichen Grad an Elektrifizierung, wir haben halt jetzt fast vollständig”

Szescstopni 1h ago

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦3h ago

@eLearningTechie @BashStKid @sellathechemist one interesting place perhaps is https://www.safespring.com/en/ aimed at academia.

Nordic public Cloud Platform | Safespring

Safespring is the alternative that complies with laws and regulations within the EU.

Safespring

Szescstopni 1h ago

BashStKid 5h ago

@sellathechemist The only thing I can suggest is a pilot project for a European cloud, starting with the universities as we did a generation ago with the general internet, funded under Horizon, and then rapidly funded and expanded by a very slight business tax.

I don’t see any other path to shared data resources under a European data and privacy rights legal framework.

(Yes, there are plenty of stupid eu decisions, but I don’t see anything better)

Szescstopni 1h ago

SellaTheChemist 7h ago

Universities need to think pretty carefully about who gets to look at their data. I have little confidence that our bosses would be any braver than Columbia’s if they were put to the test. And to pay enormous sums - that’s a euphemism for student debt - for products that put our confidential data at risk is very worrying. Everything we do is in the US cloud. Would we put everything in the Russian or Chinese cloud? Never would I have imagined the US as hostile. But…

https://social.edu.nl/@OpenTech_AUC/114874371633650446

OpenTech(AUC) (@OpenTech_AUC@social.edu.nl)

"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access" "The Senate hearing exposed tensions between sovereignty rhetoric and practical implementation. While French officials promote digital independence, procurement decisions consistently favor non-European solutions for critical infrastructure projects." https://ppc.land/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/ Where have we seen this before? Oh yes on our own university: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2025-04-15-official-launch-of-nextcloud/ #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #usfacism

SURF Mastodon

Szescstopni 1h ago

Adam Wysokiński 1h ago

@noodlejetski @Szescstopni Let's not forget Ubuntu Satanic Edition (https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-satanic/) 🤘

Ubuntu Satanic Edition

Web site: ubuntusatanic.org Origin: USA Category: Desktop Desktop environment: GNOME Architecture: x86 Based on: Ubuntu Wikipedia: Media: Live CD The last version | Released: 666.11 | November 15…

ArchiveOS

Szescstopni 1h ago

Nick Sherman 3h ago

@letterror Linotype and others definitely used “ink trap” to refer to the problem long before it was used for the solution.

The later flip in meaning may have come from the separate idea of trapping in print production, where modifications (“chokes” and “spreads”) are used to compensate for inking and registration issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_(printing)

U&lc defined it as the solution in 1980 but that didn’t reflect a universal consensus. Walter Tracy used it for the problem at least as late as 1986.

Szescstopni 2h ago

@LoganFive for me it’s because:
- it’s quirky.
- not for profit.
- my server is actually a great community I never had in other services
- less addictive

Szescstopni 2h ago

AI6YR Ben 7h ago

Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue

Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?

The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

#hurricanes #weather #wx #satellites

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

: Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

The Register

Szescstopni 2h ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

@Szescstopni Let me put it this way. I am an official Evangelist (it's my job title at Red Hat) and have co-created a religion — https://stallmanism.com :)

Stallmanism — Stallmanism — A Religion for the 21st Century

A religion for the 21st century.

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Kingfisher 4d ago

Garlic harvest!
#gardening #zone7a

@Halcyonline this is the second picture I’ve seen today of people harvesting their garlic while the stalks are still green. That’s pretty new to me. I was always taught (and still practice) that you should wait till the stalks dry all the way down to harvest your garlic.

Kingfisher 4d ago

@punko with hardneck garlic?

@Halcyonline oh, hmmm. Right, only softneck for me!

Kingfisher 4d ago

@punko hard grows and stores better in my location. This fall I do plan on doing a half bed of soft neck …just to taste a difference. Any variety recommendations?

@Halcyonline we’ve done very well with Inchelium Red, and honestly have not tried any other varieties, lol. Found (was recommended) something that works well, and stuck with it. Been harvesting, saving, and replanting from the same first batch we bought long ago.

Pollinators 4d ago

@Halcyonline It is a very nice garlic harvest. #garlic.

@Halcyonline that's very impressive!

@Halcyonline I could not be more impressed or envious!!!! Well done!

Epistatacadam 4d ago

@Halcyonline impressive 👍