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Taken from https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.bsky.social/post/3mj6j6krzm22c

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36451816

non YT link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7ktbVxsL2XI

After some digging, the designs for this device are actually open source, albeit I could only find it in portuguese here

You can still use the motorcycle as usual, as it only takes 3 bolts to secure it to the cultivator

Seen that tractors and their implements are still expensive, this seems like a good alternative for small farmers

Even though I personally prefer syntropic farming systems, at least now other folks can make use of this open source hardware

From the video description:

How It Works: The motorcycle is modified with cultivation wheels positioned to align between crop rows. As the rider drives forward, the rotating tines loosen compacted soil and uproot weeds without damaging the main crops. Adjustable spacing allows adaptation to different planting layouts, ensuring precise inter row cultivation.

Advantages:

Faster than manual hoeing  
Reduces labor intensity  
Improves soil aeration  
Low fuel consumption compared to tractors  
Suitable for small and medium farms  

Disadvantages:

Requires skilled handling to avoid crop damage  
Not ideal for very narrow spacing  
Limited to relatively flat terrain  
Engine maintenance required  

Impact on Productivity: This innovation significantly boosts efficiency in crop maintenance. By mechanizing inter row cultivation, farmers can manage larger fields in less time, improve root oxygen supply, and reduce weed competition, ultimately supporting healthier crop growth and higher yields.

Suitable For:

Small scale farmers  
Vegetable and row crop cultivation  
Rural agricultural operations  
Medium sized farms seeking cost efficient mechanization  

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non YT link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7ktbVxsL2XI

After some digging, the designs for this device are actually open source, albeit I could only find it in portuguese here

You can still use the motorcycle as usual, as it only takes 3 bolts to secure it to the cultivator

Seen that tractors and their implements are still expensive, this seems like a good alternative for small farmers

Even though I personally prefer syntropic farming systems, at least now other folks can make use of this open source hardware

From the video description:

How It Works: The motorcycle is modified with cultivation wheels positioned to align between crop rows. As the rider drives forward, the rotating tines loosen compacted soil and uproot weeds without damaging the main crops. Adjustable spacing allows adaptation to different planting layouts, ensuring precise inter row cultivation.

Advantages:

Faster than manual hoeing  
Reduces labor intensity  
Improves soil aeration  
Low fuel consumption compared to tractors  
Suitable for small and medium farms  

Disadvantages:

Requires skilled handling to avoid crop damage  
Not ideal for very narrow spacing  
Limited to relatively flat terrain  
Engine maintenance required  

Impact on Productivity: This innovation significantly boosts efficiency in crop maintenance. By mechanizing inter row cultivation, farmers can manage larger fields in less time, improve root oxygen supply, and reduce weed competition, ultimately supporting healthier crop growth and higher yields.

Suitable For:

Small scale farmers  
Vegetable and row crop cultivation  
Rural agricultural operations  
Medium sized farms seeking cost efficient mechanization  

___

Whenever a dark page or a video gets too dark, the 2nd screen is automatically dimming, which can be annoying when watching dark scenes or browsing/editing with dark mode

How to stop it?

Itś a laptop

Built-in screen does not dim in any moment
Second monitor is a TV, connected via HDMI

TV dims with every display mode (mirror, extend or only external monitor)

TV did not dim with Windows 7/10/11, so it is not the TV

Itś running latest Bazzite KDE Nvidia RTX Series | GTX 16xx Series+ (bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-live-amd64.iso) plasmashell 6.6.3

Itś not caused by accidental touches on kb brightness keys

Display configuration > color accuracy > set to prefer color accuracy
Power management > dim automatically > set to never

I can't open this link which has the exact question, as it shows:

"Failed to verify your browser
Code 11"  

:/

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36262586

I think it is paywalled. If you do not use bypass paywall, see it below:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Vladimir Putin during a phone call in October that he was willing to go to great lengths to assist the Russian president, including to help settle the war in Ukraine by hosting a summit in Budapest.

“Yesterday our friendship rose to such a high level that I can help in any way,” Orban said, according to a Hungarian government transcript of the call reviewed by Bloomberg. “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”

To underline the point, Orban recalled a children’s story he said was popular in Hungary. The Aesop fable involves a mouse freeing a lion caught in a net after it had earlier spared the rodent’s life. The remark drew a laugh from Putin, the transcript shows. Spokespeople for Orban and Putin didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

The relationship between Orban’s government and the Kremlin is coming under increasing scrutiny as Hungarians prepare to vote in an election this weekend, with opinion polls indicating that Putin’s closest ally in the European Union could be ousted after 16 years. Hungary opposes aid to Ukraine, while Orban’s campaign is portraying President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as an enemy of the state.

The brief call between Orban and Putin, which took place around noon on Oct. 17 and whose content is being reported for the first time, provides further evidence to suggest that helping Russia is a policy that comes from the very top of government.

The two men spent much of the discussion sharing their appreciation for each other, and also for Donald Trump. Both had spoken to the US president the previous day about the potential summit in Budapest, which ultimately didn’t happen.

Trump has endorsed Orban and US Vice President JD Vance will visit Budapest Tuesday as the election campaign enters the final stretch.

In the call, Orban described the friendship with Putin as having strengthened since it first began in the Russian leader’s home city of St. Petersburg in 2009.

“The more friends we make, the more possibilities we have to resist our adversaries,” said Orban, according to the transcript, which was corroborated by a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified discussing confidential talks. The Hungarian premier lamented that he and Putin hadn’t been able to meet regularly in person as they had before the Covid pandemic.

Putin was then effusive over Hungary’s “independent and flexible” stance on his war against Ukraine. “It is incomprehensible to us that such a balanced, middle-ground position only generates counter arguments,” said the Russian president, according to the transcript. An anti-Ukraine campaign poster in Budapest.Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

Some European leaders hit out at Hungary last week after a consortium of investigative news outlets, including The Insider and VSquare, published a leaked recording of a call between Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, involving removing a Russian billionaire’s sister from the EU’s sanctions list. Szijjarto dismissed the story as the work of foreign intelligence services tapping his calls and said that it’s no secret that he opposes the EU’s sanctions policy.

That report followed one in the Washington Post, citing a European security official, that Szijjarto would regularly brief Lavrov on private discussions in Brussels between EU foreign ministers.

Revelations of just how closely Hungary keeps Russia informed and works to advance its interests comes at a critical time.

Opposition leader Peter Magyar, a former insider in Hungary’s ruling elite, has vowed to steer Hungary back toward the European mainstream and away from Moscow should he prevail in Sunday’s election. Orban, meanwhile, has made anti-Ukraine messages the central theme of his campaign.

His government is obstructing a critical €90 billion ($104 billion) loan to Kyiv and last month authorities seized currency that was being transferred from Austria to Ukraine overland via Hungary. The country also continues to import Russian energy while the EU phases it out.

Orban and Putin spoke by phone as recently as March 3, where the Russian leader hailed “Hungary’s principled stance” on Ukraine, according to a Kremlin transcript. They also exchanged views on progress in agreements reached when Orban visited Putin in Moscow on Nov. 28. Orban noted then that it was their 14th meeting.

The main purpose of the October call, according to the transcript reviewed by Bloomberg, was to discuss the possibility of Hungary hosting a US-Russia meeting that had been floated at the time.

“Orban expressed willingness to lay the groundwork for holding a possible Russia–United States summit in Budapest,” according to an official readout released by the Kremlin after the call, which was in Hungarian and Russian, and lasted less than 15 minutes with translation.

According to the transcript of the call reviewed by Bloomberg, Putin walked Orban through the steps that could lead to the event, starting with a potential meeting between Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio before deciding the “appropriate level of representation.”

The president suggested involving Szijjarto in the discussions, according to the transcript. The Rubio-Lavrov meeting didn’t happen in the end.

Hungary was one of the few, “perhaps the only,” European country that was an acceptable venue for the meeting under discussion, Putin said, adding that he agreed with Trump’s assessment that it was an appropriate location because Orban was a friend to both presidents.

The summit in Budapest didn’t take place as the US and Russia failed to agree on Moscow’s maximalist demands over Ukraine. It would have followed a meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, in August.

Both Orban and Putin were full of praise for Trump. The Hungarian premier, who has been feted by the US administration and the MAGA movement, said he admired the American president’s “tornado”-style business approach.

“As they say, he moves forward like a tank,” Putin said. “It works for him, and you can only feel joy about it.” He praised Trump’s ability to deal with various crises at the same time, including in the Middle East. The US president had recently concluded a peace agreement in Gaza. More recently, Moscow has criticized the US for attacking Iran.

The call began with Orban wishing Putin a happy birthday after he’d turned 73 earlier in October. It ended with the two leaders inquiring about their respective health.

“I exercise, I also ski. I know you play football,” the Russian president said, according to the transcript. “I try,” Orban replied, to the laughter of both men. The Hungarian premier then thanked Putin and said good-bye in Russian.

I think it is paywalled. If you do not use bypass paywall, see it below:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Vladimir Putin during a phone call in October that he was willing to go to great lengths to assist the Russian president, including to help settle the war in Ukraine by hosting a summit in Budapest.

“Yesterday our friendship rose to such a high level that I can help in any way,” Orban said, according to a Hungarian government transcript of the call reviewed by Bloomberg. “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”

To underline the point, Orban recalled a children’s story he said was popular in Hungary. The Aesop fable involves a mouse freeing a lion caught in a net after it had earlier spared the rodent’s life. The remark drew a laugh from Putin, the transcript shows. Spokespeople for Orban and Putin didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

The relationship between Orban’s government and the Kremlin is coming under increasing scrutiny as Hungarians prepare to vote in an election this weekend, with opinion polls indicating that Putin’s closest ally in the European Union could be ousted after 16 years. Hungary opposes aid to Ukraine, while Orban’s campaign is portraying President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as an enemy of the state.

The brief call between Orban and Putin, which took place around noon on Oct. 17 and whose content is being reported for the first time, provides further evidence to suggest that helping Russia is a policy that comes from the very top of government.

The two men spent much of the discussion sharing their appreciation for each other, and also for Donald Trump. Both had spoken to the US president the previous day about the potential summit in Budapest, which ultimately didn’t happen.

Trump has endorsed Orban and US Vice President JD Vance will visit Budapest Tuesday as the election campaign enters the final stretch.

In the call, Orban described the friendship with Putin as having strengthened since it first began in the Russian leader’s home city of St. Petersburg in 2009.

“The more friends we make, the more possibilities we have to resist our adversaries,” said Orban, according to the transcript, which was corroborated by a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified discussing confidential talks. The Hungarian premier lamented that he and Putin hadn’t been able to meet regularly in person as they had before the Covid pandemic.

Putin was then effusive over Hungary’s “independent and flexible” stance on his war against Ukraine. “It is incomprehensible to us that such a balanced, middle-ground position only generates counter arguments,” said the Russian president, according to the transcript. An anti-Ukraine campaign poster in Budapest.Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

Some European leaders hit out at Hungary last week after a consortium of investigative news outlets, including The Insider and VSquare, published a leaked recording of a call between Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, involving removing a Russian billionaire’s sister from the EU’s sanctions list. Szijjarto dismissed the story as the work of foreign intelligence services tapping his calls and said that it’s no secret that he opposes the EU’s sanctions policy.

That report followed one in the Washington Post, citing a European security official, that Szijjarto would regularly brief Lavrov on private discussions in Brussels between EU foreign ministers.

Revelations of just how closely Hungary keeps Russia informed and works to advance its interests comes at a critical time.

Opposition leader Peter Magyar, a former insider in Hungary’s ruling elite, has vowed to steer Hungary back toward the European mainstream and away from Moscow should he prevail in Sunday’s election. Orban, meanwhile, has made anti-Ukraine messages the central theme of his campaign.

His government is obstructing a critical €90 billion ($104 billion) loan to Kyiv and last month authorities seized currency that was being transferred from Austria to Ukraine overland via Hungary. The country also continues to import Russian energy while the EU phases it out.

Orban and Putin spoke by phone as recently as March 3, where the Russian leader hailed “Hungary’s principled stance” on Ukraine, according to a Kremlin transcript. They also exchanged views on progress in agreements reached when Orban visited Putin in Moscow on Nov. 28. Orban noted then that it was their 14th meeting.

The main purpose of the October call, according to the transcript reviewed by Bloomberg, was to discuss the possibility of Hungary hosting a US-Russia meeting that had been floated at the time.

“Orban expressed willingness to lay the groundwork for holding a possible Russia–United States summit in Budapest,” according to an official readout released by the Kremlin after the call, which was in Hungarian and Russian, and lasted less than 15 minutes with translation.

According to the transcript of the call reviewed by Bloomberg, Putin walked Orban through the steps that could lead to the event, starting with a potential meeting between Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio before deciding the “appropriate level of representation.”

The president suggested involving Szijjarto in the discussions, according to the transcript. The Rubio-Lavrov meeting didn’t happen in the end.

Hungary was one of the few, “perhaps the only,” European country that was an acceptable venue for the meeting under discussion, Putin said, adding that he agreed with Trump’s assessment that it was an appropriate location because Orban was a friend to both presidents.

The summit in Budapest didn’t take place as the US and Russia failed to agree on Moscow’s maximalist demands over Ukraine. It would have followed a meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, in August.

Both Orban and Putin were full of praise for Trump. The Hungarian premier, who has been feted by the US administration and the MAGA movement, said he admired the American president’s “tornado”-style business approach.

“As they say, he moves forward like a tank,” Putin said. “It works for him, and you can only feel joy about it.” He praised Trump’s ability to deal with various crises at the same time, including in the Middle East. The US president had recently concluded a peace agreement in Gaza. More recently, Moscow has criticized the US for attacking Iran.

The call began with Orban wishing Putin a happy birthday after he’d turned 73 earlier in October. It ended with the two leaders inquiring about their respective health.

“I exercise, I also ski. I know you play football,” the Russian president said, according to the transcript. “I try,” Orban replied, to the laughter of both men. The Hungarian premier then thanked Putin and said good-bye in Russian.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62008821

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The ecology of pollination has always had classic protagonists: insects, birds, and bats. However, a recent scientific discovery in Brazil is forcing biology to rewrite its books. Researchers have recorded, for the first time in the history of science, an amphibian acting as a potential pollinator.

Until very recently, conservation biology had already expanded the range of unconventional pollinators to include small marsupials, rodents, and reptiles. The inclusion of amphibians in this select ecological group raises the level of complexity of mutualistic relationships in our ecosystems.

This finding reinforces a critical warning: the global population decline of amphibians (one of the most sensitive and threatened classes of vertebrates on the planet due to climate change) may have direct, silent and as yet unmeasured cascading effects on the reproduction of species of our native flora.

doi: 10.1126/science.adi5190 and doi: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00281

Example shown by Goldifarms, located in a zone 9 in California, on this video from almost three years ago:

"How I designed my permaculture food forest: A step by step guide"

• Grapes climb up Acacia
• Calendulas, poppies for chop and drop
• Apricot and persimmon trees
• Ceanothus riseus for nitrogen and ground cover
• Mexican bird of paradise for chop and drop and nitrogen
• Artichoke for biomass and food
• Strawberry tree to attract pollinators and provide some shade

This is the guild they started with, but they also mention they've been experimenting with consortiums related to syntropic agriculture, which they mention as having a focus on maximizing the area you plant, so you can be harvesting a continuous yield and if your goal is to grow most of your food in a small backyard

What about their water bill? Well, they also designed it with water retention in mind:

By capturing and storing as much water as possible and building soil rich in organic matter, which can hold up to 20 times its weight in water, you ensure that moisture is available right where plants need it. With good design, water is stored within reach of plant roots, so once your trees are established, you won’t need to irrigate

Dilemma Orchid Bee (Euglossa dilemma)

The other day, a friend said they really liked playing uno stacko at someone else’s place. I just half assedly painted mine, but yellow marker was barely visible for the numbers, so I had to use another color

However, uno stacko has 45 pieces and I ended up with an extra blank piece for each color, and two completely blank ones, as seen on the top. Which house rules would you suggest for these extra blocks?