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Frank Abelbeck
@frankabelbeck.bsky.social
Codes in Python (or C, or MATLAB or whatever fits the task). Works with saw, plane and chisel, too. Does available-light photography.

Gentoo-based since 2003.

Night owl, poses as early bird to earn money.

Private Rookie Pilot (Airplane; AT01, C172).
Need to keep in shape: five traffic circuits ✅

Wind was calm, rain was drifting around the aerodrome: nice!

And I could take my selfmade Filmation Ghostbusters T-Shirt to the skies.

#aviation #wilhelmshaven #edwi #cessna #c172
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by Frank Abelbeck
Today's newsletter: I believe we're reaching peak AI, and that the industry is going to crash to Earth as enterprises and consumers realize the limits and lack of utility of ChatGPT and co.

And it's all thanks to Sam Altman's empty hype cycle. 

tinyurl.com/wyea31824
Have We Reached Peak AI?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murat...
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March 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Frank Abelbeck
Was man in Mittagspausengesprächen mit @frankabelbeck.bsky.social so alles lernt: In Christopher Nolans „Tennet“ geht es um die Südlinktrasse und Heino Ferch spielt Markus Söder, den Antagonisten der Geschichte. #grosseskino
March 19, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Due to recently being grounded by Covid-19, I found some time to rapid-develop a simple Firefox image geo-referencing addon.

It uses a flat earth approximation approach, and exports images with a filename tailored to the Enroute app.

addons.mozilla.org/de/android/a...
GeoRefImages – Holen Sie sich diese Erweiterung für 🦊 Firefox Android (de)
Laden Sie GeoRefImages für Firefox herunter. Geo-reference images interactively
addons.mozilla.org
December 23, 2023 at 7:58 AM
Earned my BZF 1, a German certificate allowing me to participate in aviation radio communications in German and English language. 💪

A small paper, but a major milestone. Now I can start my solo cross-country flights.

#aviation #traineepilots
October 13, 2023 at 10:04 AM
Post your bluesky name and bio in ai and see what it makes of it.

Seems the programmer cliché is kicking in... 🤷
October 8, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Weather was as forecast (nod to @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social), better than expected. 🙂

EDXN and back. Another first: touch-down on gras.

#aviation #trainee
October 8, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Weather's not looking good. But preparing is training, too. 🤷

First step: added AIC VFR 02/23 to the chart.

www.dfs.de/homepage/de/...
October 7, 2023 at 7:54 PM
Himmel über Deutschland, gegen Mitternacht. Altocumulus stratiformis. Im Hintergrund Wetterleuchten, also sind es wohl Randerscheinungen von Cumulonimben.

Ein Blick aus dem Küchenfenster heute früh bestätigt mir die Kaltfront.

Faszinierend, diese Laien-Meteorologie.
October 3, 2023 at 8:13 AM
New case prototype, assembly test.

Looks good considering I designed it purely in Inkscape. Three parts need to be altered since the GNSS module now blocks the Pi's USB ports. Meh.

The name "skeleton case" with all its ambiguity comes to my mind.

#avgeek #raspberry #rtlsdr #cricutmaker3 #inkscape
October 3, 2023 at 7:23 AM
FlightBox WebUI under construction.

(lorem ipsum data)

#avgeek #adsb #rtlsdr #raspberrypizero #gentoo
October 1, 2023 at 12:16 AM
Was gibt's Neues? Kartoffelgulasch...
September 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Just discovered the details element in HTML. Cool, saves me some scripting and cleans up the source, semantically. 👍
September 29, 2023 at 9:46 AM
Ambition, so wichtig!
September 17, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Diamond bit vs. random garden stone: it's a tie!

At least I got the eye installed. 👍

Oh, and my Ballistol supply is depleted. 😐

#workshop
September 16, 2023 at 9:28 AM
Greetings from my RC past. Need to charge the control so my son can try FlightGear...

#NiMH #graupner #rc
September 16, 2023 at 7:49 AM