szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

I got the wong PoE power supply – micro USB instead of USB-C. And that tiny white converter made the whole thing too large to fit. So we had to make a tiny hole for the cable to fit. But had nothing to close the hole with on hand. We did have a cable gland, which gave us enough space for the power cable. A car light bulb was lying around and it was just the right size to plug the cable gland and keep the whole thing relatively waterproof.

Packing the #LoRaWAN gateway in a waterproof enclosure. Yes, there was a good reason to attach that car lamp light bulb to the box.

Bruno is the reason why our wetlands are drying up.

#IdąPsięta #Polesia #wetlands #PolesianLies

Pietruszka destroying the forest, as usual.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #Polesia

Pietruszka checking the old #IdąPsięta Twitter account, finds nothing interesting, moves on.

Scarlet elf cups are starting to appear in the forest. Few things in #Polesia are as dangerous as drunken elves.

#fungi

There be monsters in those swamps.

#wetlands #Polesia

A bever lodge in the #wetlands of #Polesia. Beavers decided that a patch of plastic sheet used to reinforce a nearby levee would be useful to them too.

Go back to sleep, toad, it's way too early

#wetlands #Polesia

It looks like our small #RuralBroadband business will be shutting down. Not our fault – bigger players are taking over the frequencies we've been using. Now working hard on making sure our customers have a soft landing. It was fun while it lasted.

For a few years I posted lies about #Polesia on Twitter. Now I'm thinking of resurrecting them here. Many of them were puns in Polish, practically impossible to translate. Some had cultural references that need explanation, but I'm willing to explain them – I have much more space here.

This was the first lie:

Szerszenie próbujące się dostać do butelki z piwem można łatwo odstraszyć naśladując dźwięki polującego nietoperza.

Hornets trying to get inside a bottle of beer can be easily scared of by imitating the sounds of a hunting bat.

#PolesianLies

1994: Borze, daj mi cierpliwość do tepsy:

(zdjęcie się ładuje pół godziny)

2024: Borze, daj mi cierpliwość do tepsy:

#IdąPsięta

A #LoRaWAN lab in a tiny house in the #wetlands of #Polesia. #IdąPsięta don't complain, although they probably should.

No one told that chanterelle that it's still February,

Nikt nie powiedział tej kurce, ze to jeszcze luty.

#fungi #grzyby #GlobalWarming #GlobalneOcieplenie

I bought a Milesight sensor for my LoRaWAN experiments, but the way things are going now I sigh and call it Milesigh. Not easy to sensor the shit out of our wetlands for a beginner, who does not have a google account to get the app necessary to connect it to the gateway. I'll need a soldering iron. And a crash course in soldering. And glasses.

#IdąPsięta #wetlands #LoRa #LoRaWAN

I'll understand if you start yapping at me for posting AI-generated pictures because you see more than four legs and more than two ears, but please consider other explanations for this glitch in the matrix.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon

There are four dogs on this road. Two of them are running towards you, the other two are just standing, longingly looking down the road leading to the nearest butcher shop.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads