Bas and Pocus - snuggle buddies 😌

Unretouched M42 from Seestar S50 tonight.

Trying out the AI Denoise on the Seestar - pretty good! Not sure about the blemish above M1 - possibly something on the lens. Will check when I bring the scope in.

Dear me - www.threads.net/@zuck/pos…

I was hoping (probably beyond hope) that 2025 might be a better year (yes, despite Trump), but it’s not a good start.

From the comments, it appears I’m not the only one despairing.

Sorry for another of these, but I just don’t get it. This is a beautiful spot that you need to take an effort to get to, so I assume the folk that come here do so because they want to. Yet a proportion of those folk also think it’s acceptable to literally dump their shit here. Why? Take it home FFS.

First Lego build for a while. Really enjoyed making this and love “playing” with it. Going to add a Bluetooth motor.

Grey Tabby Cat by my talented SO. More at karenaveyart.com.

What’s Good for the Goose, AI Training Edition - daringfireball.net/linked/20… ;)

I’ve been experimenting with Bluesky since the exodus from X began. It’s definitely better than X (what isn’t?), but I’m not 100% sold yet. In my brief time there so far, I’ve had numerous dubious looking accounts following me, requesting follows, personal details etc. Also, a lot of crap in a similar vain as for X (I guess not surprising if there’s a lot of ex-X users coming over). I feel like Mastodon is more “me”. I still think the biggest block to big take-up is difficulty in sign up, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing in that it’ll probably discourage spammers etc. Having said that, it’s also filtering users to that subset that can be bothered to go through the process. On balance, I still prefer that subset. I find Mastodon interesting, fun and informative. With Bluesky, I’m not so sure.

Nature sure is beautiful.

Can someone wake me up in 2028? Assuming there is one.

If there’s one thing I dislike more than folk who don’t clear up after their dog, it’s those that do and then leave it in a plastic bag on the ground. That doesn’t solve the original problem and creates another one, e.g. litter. If you can’t be arsed to do it properly, don’t do it at all. The plastic bag is more harmful than the dog pooh. WTF is wrong with you?

Started rewatching Police Squad. I’d forgotten how wonderfully absurd they were. “One of those all night wicker places” 😊 Literally crying here 😊

Bas adrift in a sea of leaves

Today’s free Lego 😊

Does LinkedIn just show whatever job ads it feels like now, regardless of the search criteria added? A search for ads for “C#” often returns ads with no reference anywhere in them relating to C#. Somewhat negates the point of having search criteria.

Chilled kittens

When a room for £75 a night is actually £158 per night… How can the fees be more than the room cost lol? £60 cleaning? For that, it’d be tempting to trash the place just to make sure you got your monies worth!

Pleasant early evening observing session with my Seestar at my local dark sky site.

If the bandwidth requirements for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are accurate, I won’t be on the buyers list. My rather pathetic 37 meg line barely copes with the current version.

My second (and final) Ember mug has given up the ghost.

After a year and a half, my second Ember Mug doesn’t want to hold its charge. After a chat with their support, they’ve stated that it is “at least 6 months past our 1 year warranty - the battery may not be able to hold a charge anymore” (I’d estimate it’s around 6 months past). Now, I don’t expect batteries to last forever, but if I’d known in advance that they only expect it to last not much longer than the warranty period, then I probably wouldn’t have purchased one, never mind two. Perhaps it’s there in the small print. They’ve offered me a new mug (just the mug - no coaster or charger) for around £65, but that doesn’t seem a good deal any longer knowing it’ll likely fail again in a little over a year. Time to look for alternatives.

I really wanted a larger eInk device for reading (books, Pocket articles, Libby magazines, RSS etc) as well as a digital notebook and the Boox is proving up to the task. So much so, I have put my Remarkable 2 on eBay. Very impressed. And beautiful build quality to top it all off.

I’m going to try and post more to my Micro.Blog - I have MarsEdit as part of my Setapp subscription, so I’ve really no excuses for not doing so!

Finished reading: Fairy Tale by Stephen King 📚Definitely my favourite book of the year. Possibly also of the last decade. Absolutely loved it.

Finished reading: Fairy Tale by Stephen King 📚Definitely my favourite book of the year. Possibly also of the last decade. Absolutely loved it.