mnot, 1 day ago to random

The thing is, if you asked ANYONE outside Australia ‘who is Gina Rinehart’ last week, you would have got a blank stare. This portrait is now how she will be known and remembered.

szescstopni, 3 days ago to random

I'm not going to stay up till dawn, like I did yesterday.

#Polesia #wetlands

mrundkvist, 3 days ago to academia

I was asked to #peerreview a manuscript today. It will be the thirteenth journal I review for.

#academia

szescstopni, 3 days ago to animals

Vuko cosplaying Hieronymus Bosch in the #wetlands of #Polesia

#IdaPsięta #DogsOfMastodon

szescstopni, 3 days ago to random

Walked into a forest with four dogs, came out with only three.
– 25% packet loss – said one of us
After a while the fourth dog appeared.
– Horrible ping.
Internet fucks with our minds.

#IdaPsięta

szescstopni, 4 days ago to random

Dozens of kilometres of the banks of Bug, the border river between Poland and Belarus, are covered with concertina wire. It didn't prevent many immigrants from crossing, but wildlife suffers. I have seen photographs you wouldn't want to see, I don't know how many context warnings I'd have add here before posting them.

szescstopni, 4 days ago to random Polish

@piotrsikora @m0bi13 Chyba czas się poddać. Jeszcze tylko mi poradźcie jak skasować konto na chat.pol.social, bo nie mogę znaleźć

szescstopni, 5 days ago to random

Pietruszka, Conqueror of Trees

#IdąPsięta #wetlands #Polesia

The same tree seen from the other side of a large ditch.

szescstopni, 5 days ago to animals

#IdąPsięta don't just go for a walk, they run for an adventure.

#DogsOfMastodon

simon, 5 days ago to random

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, 6 days ago to random

Running away from the sun.

#IdąPsięta #wetlands #Polesia

mrundkvist, 6 days ago to random

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, 8 days ago to random Polish

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

Zostawtosław.

#IdąPsięta #PsiesłowiańskieImiona

szescstopni, 8 days ago to random Polish

wijkaj

#ZJakiejToPiosenki

arkd, 8 days ago to random Polish

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, 9 days ago to random

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.

#Polesia

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

szescstopni, 9 days ago to random

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 #IdąPsięta, 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.

szescstopni, 10 days ago to random

A short thread about Barbie, drills, and #LoRaWAN. 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.