Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
blotosmetek@circumstances.run
<p>Yet another G+ orphan and Twitter refugee, staunchly rejecting Facebook. Pole 🇵🇱 by birth, Cracovian by residence, computer scientist by education, sysadmin by trade, Linux user by preference (though I also occasionally use Windows), sometimes Perl/Python programmer (with experience in more than a dozen other programming languages), fan of SciFi, fantasy, computer games; married, 58 yo, social democrat, anti-totalitarian, green, pro-nuclear; interested in subjects like STEM, history, politics, literature and music, but not sports, fashion, celebrities, conspiracy theories.</p>
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Leszek_Karlik@circumstances.run we'll see; first we need to win the bid (2035, because allegedly there are already countries going to bid for the whole 2029-2034 period). One thing is almost certain: if there's a Worldcon in Poland, it's going to be in Katowice. Kraków has a nice facility that can host 15k spectators, more than enough for Hugo ceremony, but practically in the middle of nowhere; Warsaw has a similar problem plus higher prices; Poznań has PIF (...
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social Is that the same guy who opposed confiscating Russian assets, because he was afraid of Putin's assassins? Apparently he thinks more of GRU/FSB than of CIA…
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To ja się odwołam do zbiorowej mądrości Fedi, bo mnie to męczy, a wyszukiwarki nie były pomocne. Jest taka rosyjska piosenka "Смуглянка": https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuglanka Na YT jest mnóstwo jej wykonań po polsku, ale wszystkie oparte o jeden przekład - Roberta Stillera (pod pseudonimem "Edmund Hauke"), który można znaleźć np. tu: https://www.tekstowo.pl/krzysztof-bajdor-wladyslaw-michalowski/moldawianka Tymczasem istnieje też inny przekład, którego tylko fragment uda...
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@astrid@infosec.exchange ♥ A version I heard years ago: AA - Anonymous Alcoholics AAA - American Automobile Association AAAAA - an organization for those who drive while drunk
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@agturcz wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility (co ciekawe, ta strona nie ma polskiej wersji).
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@cstross@wandering.shop @isaackuo@spacey.space A couple of days ago I saw someone claiming that it is closer (in straight line) from Poland to Iran than from the NW corner of Iran to the SE corner. Turns out it's true - the latter distance is ~2270 km, while the former is only ~2000 km.