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Cake day: August 11th, 2024

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  • I like to do astrophotography in my freetime and I can recommend tools like light pollution maps and the Bortle scale to check out your surrounding area.

    It gives a good idea where better skies might be not too far away. For where I live in Germany, there are bortle 4 skies (scale goes up to 9, the lower the less pollution).

    I can see the Milkyway in the southern sky during summer from the driveway, but as soon as you get to a “bigger” city that starts to become harder/impossible.

    I visited LaPalma (Canary Islands) a few years ago and that was one of the best experiences I ever had:

    Up at the highest peak (> 2400 m) watching the sun set and having the night take over. Milkyway as clear as you can imagine! LaPalma is doing a lot to keep it that way, and I hope more cities would care for our beautiful nightsky the way they do.

    Italy also has great skies, especially the more rural areas, here is one example from 2023:



  • I can kind of relate to that last part, with my SO complaining about not being able to click the first few links on google results - and my inner self is screaming ‘why google in the first place?!’ 😄

    On a sidenote, its so crazy to see what all the “free” mobile games are phoning home once you check the Pihole statistics.


  • This reminds me of a video where a girl was like “yeah so you know all that streaming stuff is so expensive? Thanks to AI I coded my own Netflix streaming site…”

    And there was this one comment like “Backend???” and she was like “Yeah I dont know what that is, but if you want a part 2 I can do that later” 😂