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szescstopni

@szescstopni@qoto.org

Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.

Taking care of a small pack of #dogs#IdąPsięta.

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

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

Fuck nazis.

My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni

I check facts before I toot.

I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.

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simon, to random
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New release of my LLM command-line tool, adding support for the new GPT-4o model released by @OpenAI this morning:

pipx install llm
llm keys set openai

Paste API key here

llm -m 4o "Fascinate me"

To upgrade an existing installation, run this:

llm install --upgrade llm

Release notes here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-14

$ llm -m 4o 'fascinate me' Certainly! Would you like to be fascinated by science, history, art, nature, or something else? Here's a little taste of each: Science: Did you know that the concept of a multiverse suggests that there might be infinite universes coexisting with ours? Each one could have different physical laws and constants. One of the mind-boggling interpretations of quantum mechanics, the "many-worlds" hypothesis, proposes that every possible outcome of a quantum event actually occurs, but in separate, parallel universes History: In the ancient Library of Alexandria, scholars produced a device known as the Antikythera mechanism, often called the world's first analog computer. Dating back to around 100 BC, this complex device was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes. It had over 30 meshing bronze gears Art: The Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted by Michelangelo, is one of the most renowned artistic achievements in history. Michelangelo spent about four years (1508-1512) on scaffolding to complete this masterpiece. Remarkably, he considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter Nature: The mantis shrimp is a small marine crustacean with the most complex visual system known. It has 16 color-receptive cones (humans have only three), allowing it to see a spectrum of color unimaginable to us. Moreover, it has specialized appendages that can strike with the speed of a bullet, making them formidable predators

szescstopni,
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@simon @willmcgugan The mantis shrimp story has been challenged, they indeed have more types of color receptors than humans, but https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578. As for the Antikythera mechanism – it has been linked to Corinth, not Egypt, but the jump to the Library of Alexandria seems to traceable: Corinth -> Pergamon -> Library of Pergamon -> yeah, that famous ancient library, there was only one. Both those subjects are fascinating, putting them through the word-grinder makes them flat and tasteless.

szescstopni, to random
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Running away from the sun.

mrundkvist, to random
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Just saw a guy on an electric motocross bike drive 40 kmph on a hiking path in the woods. It sounded like a hand mixer. 🙄

szescstopni,
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@mrundkvist No warning?

szescstopni, to random Polish
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Lata temu na Twitterze była ciekawa rozmowa o słowiańskich imionach dla piesków. Ciekaw jestem, czy od tego czasu coś się zmieniło. Znacie jakieś?

Zostawtosław.

szescstopni,
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Śpiopełk

szescstopni,
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Błotomił?
Lubobłot?
Mazisław?

szescstopni,
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Jakieś propozycje?

szescstopni,
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Kończymy na dziś, czy ktoś ma coś fajnego w głowie?

szescstopni,
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Wszemiła i Pchłomiła

szescstopni, to random Polish
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arkd, to random Polish
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Czy korzysta ktoś z Was z powerbanka solarnego? Czy to faktycznie działa, czy raczej pic na wodę? Szukam jakichś rzetelnych recenzji, ale chyba nie cieszą się zbytnią popularnością?

szescstopni,
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@arkd Pewnie warto zapytać @m0bi13

szescstopni, to random
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This stork lives in the largest nest in my area. He didn't build it himself – he inherited most of it. Some like living in huge homes built from sticks and shit by their ancestors. Enshittification is not unique to humans.

A stork in a huge nest on top of a power pole.

szescstopni, to random
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Found this weird plaster disk going through old junk and it brought memories of really bad times. I bought it over 20 years ago for something like a quarter of my monthly income, but my partner insisted. It was supposed to cure her cancer. Of course it didn't, but it gave her a bit hope. The things that helped were surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. She lived four or five years longer than the doctors initially expected. I was going to throw the disk out, but it turns out it helps to prevent diseases. We keep in on a small table on our porch. When we come home with , our dogs, from a walk through meadows and forests we sit at the table, smoke cigarettes, and pick ticks from the dogs. We put the ticks on the table and crush them with the disk. So it prevents boreliosis, babesiosis, and a number of other tick-carried diseases. A bit expensive device – we used cheap plastic lighter to crush ticks, but somehow this is more satisfying. And it's a good reminder – fuck quacks who make money on useless magical cures.

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@kravietz Auć :)

szescstopni, to random
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A short thread about Barbie, drills, and . This is our basic drill with an attachment to make standard size holes in plastic. Today we decided to put the second LoRaWAN gateway up – signals from some sensors didn't get through when the gataway and the antenna lied on the dogs' favorite couch in our tiny house.

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In order to put the gateway high up we needed a couple of things. A mast – no problem, there were 6m (about 20ft) of aluminium lying around in the garden for some reason. The hermetic box was a problem though. When you live in the forest of Eastern Poland you just don't walk into a store and buy what you need. You buy what they have. We needed a hermetic box for the Raspberry Pi. Our store had Barbie raspberry ice cream. A perfect fit.

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Our 1000 litre water tank holds water for gardening and power emergencies. It's also useful to put things on it. And its metal cage is often used for attaching things that go high up. That moose bone is very useful when you need something to jam the mast in a plastic pipe attached to the tank cage to keep the whole thing stable.

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Duct tapes and zip ties hold the gateway and the antenna together on the mast, ready to go up. It's getting dark and it's hard to get focus. Will continue tomorrow.

szescstopni, to random Polish
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Jakoś wcześniej nie dotarło do mnie, że dzisiaj jest dzień bibliotekarek i bibliotek. A przecież sam tłumaczę ludziom, którzy dzwonią błagając by im na wakacje zamontować internet bo dzieci youtube jezusmaria, w miejscach, w których tanio nie da się, jak trafić do najbliższej biblioteki publicznej.

https://bibliog3.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/drzwi-do-szczescia/?utm_source=Mastodon

szescstopni, to random
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Testing a sensor in the surrounding forests. If you don't know why the cover is open, please don't ask. If you know why, please don't laugh.

wetlands

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Vuko emerging from the watering hole.

piotrsikora, to random Polish
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Jak ktoś wie czym dobrze przyprawić rosół wege to dajcie znać ;)

https://pol.social/@piotrsikora/112388351072829325

szescstopni,
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@kalisz79 @piotrsikora Kostka jest OK, jest też bulion w płynie (ok, mazi) w słoiczku łatwiej dawkować. A czego rosołowi brakuje? Dobra jest sól, dobry jest MGS. Jak masz pod ręką miso to dawaj. Płatki drożdżowe też są super. No i oczywiście kozieradka :)

szescstopni,
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@piotrsikora @kalisz79 Hhe. Zawsze warto jest mieć w zapasie trochę miso.

kaia, to random
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I'm a "fuck around and find out" person

szescstopni,
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@kaia With fucking comes wisdom.

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Hot day. Might not survive till the next

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