She is extremely proficient in finding shade
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@flaki@flaki.social
mastodon 4.5.5Open-source enthusiast and self-hosting masochist. JS dev, WebAssembly fan, recovering conference addict. DevRel/DevEx & OSS community consulting. Staunch flexible-async-remote work advocate.
Co-founder of #RustFest (not yet on fedi, but check out @eurorust@fosstodon.org!)
Hungarian living in Estonia 🇪🇪
Frequently has Opinions™ on #conferences, #remoteWork, #homelab, #selfhosting, #DevRel, #DevEx
For Canine Cuteness head to #pupdate or @lumi@flaki.social, @iris@flaki.social
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Fuck billionaires (and capitalism)
DO NOT BE AFRAID
I've replaced my monitor's 19V power brick with a DC voltage regulator directly hooked into the solar battery pack (avoiding a needless & inefficient round thrip through the inverter) and… I'm gonna need to get into 3D-printing now, won't I… :blobcateyesspin:
Many people talk about how age verification is bad, and that's true, but not nearly enough talk about this crap:
POV
Daily tunez if you need two hours of high-energy drum & bass from the early 2010s
Absolute bangers through and through.
https://soundcloud.com/drumsoundandbasslinesmith/drumsound-bassline-smith-radio
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@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange in Hungarian, there is a saying “úgy kezdődött, hogy ő visszaütött”, roughly translates to "it (=the fight) started by him 'punching back' (fighting back/retaliating)". Moscow seems to be a fan of the refrain, too
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Correction: the Paks nuclear power plant actually provides close to *half* of Hungary's electric generation capacity
https://atomeromu.mvm.hu/hu-HU/Rolunk/Hirek/20260730_leallas
POV: Furbutt GPU Stress Test
Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse
"Women do not need state-imposed 'undivorceable marriages'; women need the freedom to decide who they live with, when they leave and what kind of life they want to live," she said.
Lahe argued people don't have children because they're locked into legal arrangements; they have kids when they feel secure and supported, and this means economic stability, flexible work and social support systems, and voluntary relationships built on mutual trust.
"If anyone wants to be in a lifelong marriage, by all means — that option already exists today," she added.
🔥 🔥 🔥
God bless Hanah Lahe 
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@xgranade I also don't think it's just the money, I think part of the extreme push for making AI unavoidable is because they have exhausted easily extracted training sources (scraping the internet) and now need to reach for fracking (free training from your interactions using the AI).
https://flaki.social/@flaki/116477780283277638
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Apropos: I have a Victron solar charger that comes with a DSUB connector in the front where a display/controller attachment can be plugged in. The display almost certainly uses Victron's VE.Direct interface over TTL/serial and it exposes a reading (internal temperature of the charger) that is both extremely useful and not documented anywhere.
I guess the cobbled-together way of solving this would be getting plugging in two USB-to-serial/TTL dongles and scripting them to, quite literally, MITM the communication between the charger body and the display, ferrying the packets over while logging them. But it occurred to me that maybe someone has made a device that makes this easier.
RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/116860016747882777
Goose wasn't valued… but eggs don't lay eggs.
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The median salary of a software engineer at Tesla is ~£220K. Employment costs roughly 2x the salary in the US, so $200/week is about 2.5% of the total cost of an engineer.
AI, the bean counters just put a value on you.
Today's "extremely fediverse moment": a user from Brazil named "Estonian bread" (spelled in Estonian) from an LGBTQ instance with an avatar of, you guessed it, Estonian bread shares thoughtful political commentary. :blobcatchefkiss:
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@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange as in, after having been barraging Ukraine in an all-out unprovoked war with long-range drones for years, terrorizing the civil infrastructure/society they are now complaining that the west is now building capability and retaliating. Classic "it started by him punching back" situation, blaming the bad outcome not on one's own actions but the response it elicited 
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ente/116471370462011709
It is pretty frickin' incredible how Ente has been consistently handing Google/Apple Photos — products of incredible, multiple orders of magnitude of advantage in funding, available data and years if not decades of development — their asses in innovative, useful, thoughtful features.
Being a long-time city-dweller who recently moved off-grid and (self-inflictedly) "closer to nature" my days are basically just this meme on repeat 
#offgridFlaki
#offgridFlakiBut hey, it worked!
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social "People blame the institutions for their inefficiency, without noticing that the efficiency of the replacements is achieved by discarding the functions that the institutions existed to provide."
:doge:
I'm looking for my jaw that dropped… and dropped… and kept dropping until it hit the solid ice of hell that just froze over and the imps & demons are now using it as a hockey puck.
Outgoing Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó (yep, that Szijjártó!) gave an interview to Telex, an independent news portal famously embargoed by any FIDESZ politician basically ever since it has existed :ablobfoxexplode:
If you are able to tune out the rage, helplessness and anger that gives the video its apropos, this is a fun one
Making RAM at Home
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is having spent a considerable amount of time lately on "designing" my "dream" kitchen (both for the apartment and the (tiny) house), I have been increasingly baffled by how bad most kitchens are*. Also same goes for bathrooms and particularly showers.
(also is there a "tiny houses, but kitchen" design youtube you know of? asking for a...me)
- even for "general" use, while, customizing your own kitchen to suit your own circumstances/needs is a whole another story
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@LJ@zirk.us (ah my instance loaded the replies after writing mine, I'm happy to see I'm in good company 🥰)
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@LJ@zirk.us back when I was still doing conferences and looked for alternatives to the ubiquitous Stickermule who came out as full-on fash at the time many of us, devrels from various companies landed with https://stickerapp.com/about-us — haven't ordered from them in years, and in any case always recommend ordering test prints before committing to a manufacturer to see for yourself, but worth checking them out!
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@cavyherd built-in induction cookers with 2-4 hobs range between 3.5kW-11kW in general, but generally they have an option in their menu to be limited down to any wattage ~1kW and up. So using two hobs to cook dinner for an hour, running them mostly full blast throughout will use something like that 2-4kWh.
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@timixretroplays@digipres.club yeah ground source heat pump (with pipes, as opposed to an air-source one with an fan box) is always a better option if you have any significant cold ambient temperatures (but it's pricier and you need *some* extra room on your plot)
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@outdoorsbeth she is gorgeous 💙
Out of curiosity, what, if anything do you usually put in her rucksack?
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if it feels backwards, it's because it is
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116458015396609091
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@alicetragedy yeah I sent her response to my Hungarian friends saying "perhaps Orbán should have considered not destroying the economy and making it perilous to even consider having children, then maybe they wouldn't have needed all these 'incentives' to counter dwindling birth rates" 🤡
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@hailey I have a very similar setup and has been meaning to configure caching for years… I guess as long as I carefully avoid being dropped on the orange site front page I can continue this blissful procrastination indefinitely 🤓
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@moritz@social.heiber.im something something "sufficiently advanced incompetence is virtually distinguishable from divine intervention" 🫣
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@hi gcam is absolutely worth it, especially on a Pixel phone, you basically get the original camera features back without the faff.
(I'm on a Fairphone 6 now which has its own streamlined camera app so I don't need Gcam anywhere but on my Pixel 5 it was one of the flagship things that made me feel like I'm not trading off much for running a "degoogled" OS in terms of being able to use the hardware I have paid for...)
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(yes yes I know supply chains are screwed if we lose air cargo, don't start explaining my shitposts to me please)
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RE: https://mastodon.cc/@dtm/116819215875373863
Crucially (hehe), it is also technology that is no longer available to consumers given that Micron has decided to shutter its consumer-facing business, the “Crucial” brand to be able to shovel more hardware into AI datacenters…
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
Yes, I'm angry at capitalists. Yes you'll get your fluffy content.
https://electrek.co/2026/04/27/tesla-files-deliver-elon-musk-56-billion-pay-package-shares/
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(I mean they are not cheap at all, for sure!)
To simplify, this means that some companies are spending as much as 10% of the cost of their employees on generative AI services, all without appearing to provide any stability, quality or efficiency gains, or (not that I want this) justification to lay people off. [...] A flat 10% bump on the cost of software engineering is the direct opposite of what AI was meant to do, and in the event that costs continue to rise, I’m not sure how anybody justifies the expense much further.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116529312922102436
»Russia received from us a clear proposal on the silence of the guns and diplomacy — and knows how to contact Ukraine or our partners in order to coordinate the details.
If the one person in Moscow who cannot live without war cares only about one parade and nothing else, that's a different story.«
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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@fj@mastodon.social this is the "create computer viruses, then start an anti-virus company coming out as the Good Guy"-manufactured-crisis-pipeline all over again, isn't it
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Yupp, well, in the last couple days the package crossed Kazakhstan, Russia and is now in Belarus. Utterly fascinating.
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net Oh god I miss this so much. (used to skate a bunch a while back, never were *this* good, or half as good, but did get to skate NYC one time, and that was awesome)