Notices by Flaki (flaki@flaki.social)

@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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