Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Here we are cutting another piece of the same trunk with the sawmill. We only use one saw, because we process it further with a bandsaw. The fungi you see here caused the nice colour of the previous toot.

This piece was cut off the larger trunk to make the large trunk fit through the sawframe.

Most people use chisels for creative purposes, but we use them for destructive work.

A large trunk of beech is almost ready to be processed by sawmill De Salamander, but first we must get the iron parts out.

If we don't do this, at best the saw cuts the nails, gets blunt and starts to "wander". At worst it will tear a saw apart with a lot of violence.

The images show how we use a chisel to dig out the nails we found.

A technical question about SPI. I'm looking at a machine, that has 5 SPI peripherals and a controller. The same CS signal is connected to all of the peripherals.

Am I correct in my thinking that if I would want to reshuffle the devices without access to the firmware in the controller, I'm basically out of luck since it pushes data to all the peripherals with the expectation that the first one takes its piece, forwards the rest to the second and and so forth until everyone has had their share?

#electronics #tinkering #arduino #spi

We willen allemaal af van Amerikaanse big tech. Er zijn prachtige open (source) initiatieven, vol van prachtige technologie. Maar er is echt veel meer nodig om succesvol te worden. Hier een (pijnlijk) overzicht van wat er beter moet in de open wereld: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big-tech-alternatieven/

These are from April 2024.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #palestine

“Achtung, Zug fahrt durch Bahnsteig 2”

Ich hoffe, dass der ÖBB meint durch die Gleis, und nicht der Steig 😅

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114123308377405461

I took these in July 2024. A kid left their cute tiny toys under a large trash receptacle in a public park, and I got some shots from their smol perspective.

(I left the toys btw. They were gone the next day, so I hope a kid came back for them )

#amsterdamPhotography #photography #small #smol #quiet

Hello! I watch a lot of YouTube of the format "person with a special interest talks enthusiastically about their special interest".

I've channels for civil engineering, blade sharpening, mortality, fire ignition, knot tying, urban planning, neolithic tech, and more.

However, most of these channels are hosted by men. I would like to fix this!

Have you a favourite YouTube channel that focuses on knowledge transfer, that's not hosted by a man? Please leave a link in the comments below. Thanks!

#Bogusławki, nieopodal Sulęcinka.

Niestety, widać brak dobrego oprogramowania do mielenia HDR-ów — z tych zdjęć zdecydowanie dałoby się wycisnąć więcej.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.12756&mlon=17.33136#map=14/52.12756/17.33136

#las #wędrówki

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU

credulous liberals who entertain fascists aping semantics are fools and accomplices, plain and simple. fascists have nothing of substance to say, no reason to be heard. they should be disarmed and reeducated; persuasion is meaningless to people who do not internalize meaning.

fascists going after pronouns (eg grammar) is so demonstrative of their discursive vapidity. it doesn't matter that they already use pronouns, they don't care, they don't understand what language is anyway. it's just a vector for harm, for currying the means to harm. they are barking, frothing slimes

⚓ my ideal social encounter is a quiet intimate party where i can just lay under the floorboards and soak in the ambiance