Notices by Flaki (flaki@flaki.social)

@killyourfm https://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.html is a good start if you are thinking of building your own, which is generally a great idea, in a post-AI-capitalist-manufactured-scarcity world (this one) buying new will be 💰 and going TinyMiniMicro will serve you well. It's better to start off somewhere and improve from there, than not start at all (that's what I did just a couple years back).

I went full SSD on my server (you could buy fairly cheap Samsung QVO quad level cell flash at some point which is good for "bulk" archival storage but is not a speed champion) for the power and noise advantage, but spinning metal is still cheaper and better if you have a lot of storage need (e.g. for video), ofc. a mix is nice and throwing in an NVMe or two will get your VMs blazing.

RE: OS I wenth through many of the usual suspects, Proxmox, TrueNAS and just ended up with vanilla Debian & containers. It works.

I like https://www.hardwarehaven.media 's content, very down-to-earth homelabbing stuff

@jessie despite the overflowing doggie toybox, @iris is adventurous and likes to occasionally steal random things like rolls of electrical tape or other appetizing gadgetry (lying around in the boxes waiting to be unpacked) to gently nibble on them (which usually end up intact but just profoundly unsuitable for their originally intended purpose following the encounter)

Google has been doing it for years…
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-dad-takes-photos-of-his-naked-toddler-for-the-doctor-google-flags-him-as-criminal

Microsoft has been doing it since forever…
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

Amazon is, of course, doing it…
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

Yet every single time it happens, people are surprised, outraged and—most of all—helpless. It keeps happening because we allow it to happen, over and over again.

I'm proud of you Budapest :rainbow_heart:

Photo Source: Huszti István / Telex https://telex.hu/belfold/2025/06/28/csordultig-tele-az-erzsebet-hid

"The situation for Tesla in Canada is even worse than in Europe right now. It’s not the largest market in terms of size, but it has a significantly higher EV adoption rate than the US and has helped Tesla in North America." love to see it :burning_poop:

https://electrek.co/2025/05/28/teslas-sales-fall-quebec-market-gets-wiped-out/

@babe "juuust five mooore minutes moooom"

The Super Printendo deserves a place on the fediverse. :SonicRunning:

Image credit: @jamhamster.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jamhamster.bsky.social/post/3lj3sjr2qa227

General mood:

#pupdate

There is *so much* ugly shit happening in the world right now… and then, there's @lumi :blobdogheart:

@Remittancegirl I am a white affluent Hungarian living in Estonia. When (and ever since) I decided to leave my increasingly autocratic and repressive home country I have pondered the same: am I coward, for leaving, when I should be staying and fighting the regime? Ultimately, no satisfying conclusions here, either. On the one hand, when I left it was clear I was powerless to do anything more than showing up to vote every four years — why the regime had an outsized power over me, if I stayed (and I did not want to further legitimize and support it through my taxes paid on well-paying international tech jobs). I also didn't feel the rising tide of disenfranchised Hungarians rising up against the system; it feels like a sort of prisoners dilemma: it's hard to justify staying and fighting if you feel alone in that determination, which of course weakens the resistance even further.

Pls send gud vibes to @lumi on Friday, her new vet is doing a cytoscopy to try to learn more about what could be causing her recurrent bacterial infections. :collieBlueMerleSad:

On the positive side of things, she is *currently* okay, she has been well since her last antibiotics round in December 🦠

#pupdate

Doggies Vs The Floating Mountain

#DoggyTrip #pupdate

"Enshittification" is selling people on VC garbage that's just as easy & convenient as bittorrent «but legal!», up until they stop using bittorrent, at which point you just turn the thing precisely as annoying and expensive as the one that made people start using bittorrent to begin with.

:pika:

I was today years old to learn about https://unifiedpush.org/ (thanks to @nlnet!) and holy wow!

Since switching to CalyxOS, private, reliable, but battery-efficient push notifications has been a "choose one, at best" sort of situation and this changes *everything*!!

Matrix (Element), Mastodon (Pachli), Telegram (Mercurygram) works, there are even forks for Signal! 🚀
#degooglification

Holy shit this is sooo incredibly cool!! :blobaww:
I always cite @phanpy as the most exciting #UX experiment social media ever seen and @cheeaun keeps doubling down on it and adding all the features I wish Twitter ever had (or I had time to implement for Mastodon now that Twitter is no longer the gatekeeper of this data)

@aral wait finally they re-enabled spacebar-heating?? About friggen time!!!1
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