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luciedigitalni, 1 day ago to random

Anyone out there prepared to recommend a business that sells custom-made curtains online (in Australia)?

cafuego, 2 days ago to random

Is your lunch a cheese toastie?

vicgrinberg, 3 days ago to animals

Being an adult means realizing that while you love cat-sitting, having an actual cat will not work for you, because OMG, a week and there is so much cat hair! Everywhere!

#AboutToday #CatsOfMastodon

A black and white cat licking my hand.

phs, 6 days ago to linux

Is there a #linux command that can do timezone conversion on timestamps? Ideally through a pipe?

I want to convert syslogs in UTC to localtime (based on $TZ env).

cat /var/log/syslog | tz2local

cafuego, 12 days ago to Astro

One of the 10 second snaps from the time lapse with the DSLR. Will process tomorrow.

It was so bright it cast a shadow at this stage.

#aurora #auroraaustralis #astrodon

jpm, 14 days ago to random

Oh dear, old UPS battery is VERY shagged (that’s the technical term for it)

vicgrinberg, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Today I'll be introducing X-ray astronomy (in German!) to a bunch of medical doctors at the RöKo (Röntgenkongress https://www.roentgenkongress.de/roeko-wiesbaden/) Wiesbaden as an invited highlight talk. Kinda a fun audience and very different from a normal one 😳

jpm, 20 days ago to random

If I wanted a traumatic brain injury, I’d simply run Kubernetes at home

jpm, 1 month ago to random

I do not need to buy the “holy trinity” of f2.8 Nikon zoom lenses

cafuego, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Stayed up a little later than planned last night to wait until galaxy NGC3621 was low enough in the sky that my telescope could point at it without breaking the camera.

Marked out in the second image is supernova SN2024ggi. A star that blew up about 22 million years ago, it was discovered a few days ago when the light from that explosion finally reached us.

With thanks to @CosmicRami for pointing this out 🙂

#Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography

cafuego, 1 month ago to random

The weekly web log spikes are now just a proxy for whoever is working on their GenAI product. This week apparently it's Alibaba.

Get in the firewall, mate.

cafuego, 1 month ago to random

One day o m’n my walk I will not have to lift and throw a rental e-scooter off the footpath. Today is not that day.

Wtf is wrong with the people that use these.

cafuego, 2 months ago to random

And this is Galileo. He likes catnip.

#caturday

cafuego, 2 months ago to astrophotography

The big telescope did point well, but tracking with the Alt-Az mount isn’t accurate enough to do long exposures. So unfortunately that means noisy images.

Guess I will be saving up for a new GEM huh?

Here’s the weekend haul; the horse head nebula, the sombrero galaxy, the crab nebula and thors helmet / the wild duck nebula.

:meade_lx200: Meade LX200 ACF / 20cm
:zwo_294mc: ZWO ASI 294MC

#astrophotography #Astrodon #space

An elongated bright blob with a a thin dark dust lane running across the length.

cafuego, 2 months ago to astrophotography

Despite the accidental self-sabotage, 70 of so 30 second photos of the Eta Carinae nebula (NGC 3372) still contain enough data to bring out faint details. I don’t think I’ve photographed the background dust in this area before (other than the coal sack and doodad). I can only imagine what 300 exposures would’ve shown. Oh well, next time.

:nikon_d750: Nikon D750 @ ISO1600
:sigma_200_lens: Sigma 70-200 @ 200mm f/4
💻 Siril and Photoshop

#astrophotography #Astrodon #space

uastronomer, 2 months ago to random

I just remembered how Microsoft tried to take ownership of Email by having Outlook encode the entire message (text, body, attachments, all of it) into their own proprietary format that other software couldn't read.

So you would get an email and it would have headers, a subject line, but no text and a single attachment called "winmail.dat"

And the only way to open it was to save the message as a .eml file, install Microsoft Outlook, and open it there. Or (if you were a quitter who likes to let bullies tell you what to do) you could just switch to Outlook and never have that problem again but instead BE the problem because now YOUR friends have to deal with it.

uastronomer, 3 months ago to random

My solar panels have taught me some basic astronomy.

I'd noticed that, in summer, I was getting a lot less power than I'd expected. I had expected Summer to be a power bonanza, because the sun is higher in the sky and so much brighter, and also because it rises earlier and sets later, meaning more sunlight on the panels.

But instead I found there was a period of about an hour after sunrise and before sunset where I got very little power indeed.

Why? Because in Summer, the sun describes an arc of more than 180º across the sky! So even if you had the most carefully aimed array, on a mast to be above all trees and buildings, the Sun would actually shine on the BACK of the panels when it first rises, before moving around to the other side for most of the day, and then again moving behind them before setting.

uastronomer, 3 months ago to random

Somebody in the neighbourhood just got a new alarm system. They're still in the "False alarms are a small price to pay, better safe than sorry" honeymooon phase, which usually lasts a few months before they decide "Feckit, we'll only arm it when we go on holiday so that we don't have to hear the *&#$ thing every 2 hours while we're trying to sleep."

Really rooting for the neighbourhood baddies to steal their alarm.

jpm, 3 months ago to random

I was wondering why the other pot wasn’t heating up, and wtf that smell was…

mattcen, 3 months ago to random

It kinda blows my mind that macOS's Contacts.app still has so many ancient contact methods in its dropdown. I acknowledge I'm still running macOS Ventura (13.6.4), but even so, ICQ, MSN, and probably several others are, if not obsolete, definitely out of favour. Ideally Matrix and some other newer protocols (Discord?) should be added.