Highlight of today's conversation with AT&T

Me: "we currently have an internet service with you, but I'm calling about a different service."

Them: "ok, do you have it with you now?"

Me: "have what?"

Them: "the internet service."

Me: "I have the account number yes."

Them: "No, not the account number, the internet."

Me: "Do I have the internet with me now?"

Them: "yes."

Me: "I don't understand."

Them, frustrated: "Can you physically touch the internet right now?"

Me: "What?"

Weezer live in Zürich (CH) - what a fantastic SHOW!😍
Rivers is so sympathetic!

#weezer #livemusic #concert

Millions of degrees hot off the press – first results from ESA's PROBA-3 mission, using two spacecraft separated by 150 metres to create artificial solar eclipses.

This makes it possible to trace the solar corona close to the surface of the Sun on a routine basis, not just during actual eclipses.

Congratulations to the PROBA-3 team 👍

Image taken on 23 May 2025:
Inner yellow: PROBA-2 SWAP
Middle green: PROBA-3 ASPIICS
Outer red: SOHO LASCO C2

#SpaceScience

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

Orionid Meteors from Orion
Credits: Lu Shupei
#nature #space #astrophotography

Menschen die gerne Reisen und diese "sammeln" möchten, sollten sich mal #AdventureLog angucken. Sehr interessante Software.

Installation mit Docker nicht extrem einfach, aber für die meisten ohne Probleme machbar.

Ich werde meine Instanz die nächste Zeit mal ein wenig füllen. Schön ist auch die #Immich Integration für Bilder.

https://adventurelog.app

#selfhosted #homelab

Tetons and Snake River, Planet Earth
Credits: Babak Tafreshi, TWAN
#nature #space #astrophotography

Saturday Sunset in South West Scotland looks otherworldly as smoky layers from wildfires in Canada, filter the skies.

#Astrophotography skill goals, in order of exponentially increasing difficulty:

- Get a photo of the stars
- The above, but through small telescope
- Same, but with a 30 second exposure and no star trails
- No star trails on an exposure longer than 1 minute
- Do the above, but have it run all night without an issue
- The above, but on a telescope with a focal length longer than 500 mm
- Same, but on a >1000 mm focal length telescope
- Same, but with 5 minute exposures

@malcircuit Final frontier: Have two seperate rigs (or piggyback) running simultaneously without any issues.

Was troubleshooting the upgrade/ OTA flash process of the firmware of some of my #tasmota devices.
TIL: Its important to use the lite binaries first if the difference in versions is too big.
Starting from 8.1 I had to flash in the following order:
7.2.0 lite (downgrade) > 8.5.1 lite > 9.1 lite > most recent.

*the more you know*

#smarthome

This is an open star cluster that somehow escaped my notice until now. It's IC 4665 in the constellation Ophiuchus. There's really nothing else (besides bright stars) that I can successfully image under this much moon.

Direstraits broadcasts from 1978, love that era around the first and second album. Such a clean playing and tight arrangements!
Made me get myself a red Strat initially when I started playing in 2016 :D

Me looking at the recent music release updates:

#queen #direstraits #tidal #nowplaying

Guten Morgen ☀️ Zum ersten Mal überhaupt hat die Solarenergie weltweit mehr Strom erzeugt als die Atomenergie. Solarenergie ist nun die viertgrößte Stromquelle weltweit geworden.

@malcircuit Great album choice🤘
'Figure 8' and 'You first' are my favorites, good luck with the voice training🙌🏻

@admin As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.. :D

An interesting article of the European Southern Observatory @eso.org to detect fake Astro pictures. www.eso.org/public/blog/... #ESO #AstroPhotography #FakeAstro #AstroPictues

ESOblog: CSI: Astronomy Learn ...

CoMaps Android preview release is out! 🎉
Powered by the community ❤️

For now as a downloadable apk only, get it at https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases

The release will be available on F-Droid @fdroidorg soon :fdroid:

And we're working on Google Play and AppStore releases 🛠️

Oh and I need to have a look at a suitable UPS (ger: USV). Usually the powergrid in Germany is quite stable, but the database of my Pi suffered a few times after a hard blackout with corrupted files.