petrescatraian

@ petrescatraian @libranet.de

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3d ago

Looking for someone to talk to
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petrescatraian @libranet.de 3d ago
Mostly collecting music on all sorts of formats, mainly vinyl and CD (besides digital). I also like photography (even though I barely had any time as of late). I do have a Canon DSLR that I'm playing around with.

3d ago

Looking for someone to talk to

@unknowablenight eh, a bit of the opposite tbh. But still annoying when you don't manage to keep track of your hangouts properly

3d ago

Looking for someone to talk to

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 3d ago

@unknowablenight hi there! Don't think it's the wrong community 🙂 how are you?

6d ago

Those who know, know

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 6d ago

Oh, wow, so another country which depicts Animals as Leaders on their currency

7d ago

Check the laws and regulations in your country (or ask others who know). In my country you pretty much don't need these, especially if you use a private tracker. But I heard that in other places you are actually getting fined if they spot you.

7d ago

Those who know, know

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 7d ago

Yeah, I posted the source of the actual meme

Memes @sopuli.xyz

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1w ago

Those who know, know

1w ago

Trump says he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 1w ago

@markz sorry, I thought it was a military hospital ship and I immediately remembered about the F35 kill switch saga

1w ago

Trump says he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 1w ago

With a firmware totally backdoors free, right?

1w ago

Traffic jams are bleeding the Romanian economy dry

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 1w ago

As an inhabitant from Bucharest, I can definitely tell you that you're not spending 6 minutes in traffic going to and from work. Take 1 hour in advance give/take. Keep in mind that you also need to find a parking spot at your destination because while the number of cars increased, the number of parking spots couldn't keep up.

Many people resort to park in the most illegal places possible, such as sidewalks or pedestrian crossings, and that's a practice that has been tolerated for a lot of time by the authorities and has only recently started being tackled through fines and bollards.

Bucharest is in a weird position of being a "car-centric-pedestrian-friendly-ish" city - because while you can easily use public transit and walk to where you need, people are using cars to go everywhere and whoever can own and drive a car, does it, sometimes even for short distances. It's crazy!

1w ago

Traffic jams are bleeding the Romanian economy dry

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 1w ago

But that's impossible! We all know that cars=economic growth and, as total idiots with internet access like Andrei Caramitru post daily on FB, that the German economy is now in recession because of the actions of ecofascists against the likes of BMW and that these ecofascists riding bikes and e-scooters are coming to our economy too!!! /s

Edit: holly hell, I just noticed the numbers presented in the article by reading the comments that were not federated to my instance. 6 minutes a day?!? That's just impossible!!!

No, it's not heaven on earth, they really got it very wrong. No, this is not village level traffic at all, and all the main arteries are congested almost all the time, even in non-working days. The only times when roads are miraculously free are when there's a big holiday like Easter or New Year's Eve, when people basically party all night long, some even back in their hometowns, so they no longer do anything the next day, at least in the first part of it. Don't believe me? Check out the traffic filter at this very hour on Google Maps (it's Saturday 11:15 PM at the moment of me editing this comment).

If you're traveling through Bucharest by car, take at least 1 hour to go from one place to another, especially if you're going from the outskirts to the city center and back. Also take in mind the time you take to find a parking spot since these are hard to find (you'll find a paid one easily though, those are like kryptonite to most of the drivers, who would rather park their car illegaly, wherever they can).

If you plan to travel by bike, don't!!! The traffic is terrible and your life is too precious. Outside the bigger parks (Tineretului, Herăstrău/Regele Mihai I, Carol etc.), the areas where it's safe to cycle are few and spread out. There's no comprehensive bike lane network like you see in Paris or in big German cities.

If you plan to travel by foot, outside the touristy areas the streets are absolutely filled to the brim by cars, puddles form on pedestrian crossings when it rains (or like now, when the snow melts) and sometimes you have to take the road in order to go through. It's better now than it was 5 years ago, but it's still a hit-or-miss. Public transit is decent though, compared to other cities (despite other people in my city hating it). English signage is lacking lots of the times, but it gets you pretty much wherever you want to go (and we even have some night lines). Use Google Maps or InfoTB to get around or, if you love open source, try Bimba or other FOSS apps using the Transitous API.

World News @beehaw.org

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2w ago

China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises

thediplomat.com /2026/02/chinas-rat-people-when-education-cant-deliver-on-its-promises/

Music @beehaw.org

petrescatraian @libranet.de

2w ago

Moon Walker - You're Next

World News @beehaw.org

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3w ago

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips

www.theregister.com /2026/02/06/romanian_rail_workers_chatgpt/

Great find! I'll check to see if there are any similar websites for restaurants/locals in my city as well

4w ago

What Trump can’t stop: Renewable energy is growing and setting world records

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petrescatraian @libranet.de 4w ago

This is a reassuring one. In the last few years, I became more and more convinced that solar and wind will be the future - as the signs were already there. This is no longer an ideal of the "tree hugging hippies" (sic), but it is actually a path to energy resilience of each state going forward. You can only source coal, gas and oil from a bunch of countries. Meanwhile, sunlight and wind is practically everywhere. Add some storage units in the mix, and you've got a system that can be very resilient and provide a constant flow of electricity to the grid. This is pretty much the most affordable and resilient system out there, and anyone that is not a total lunatic (like Trump) will see it to its true value. It's sad that a repressive state such as China takes the lead into that race, but at least it brings renewable energy on a solid path forward.