Gergely Polonkai @gergely@polonkai.eu

Today my trustworthy Wacom Bamboo tablet broke. It served me for some 10+ years and despite its limitations i will miss it a lot. I couldn’t find anyone who can repair it, nor i can fix it myself. If anyone needs it for spare parts, i’m happy to send it, just DM me.

My daughterʼs (7) meets copyright law for the first time:

“There are so many things you canʼt copy nowadays. Like my multiplication table.”
“How come? Your teacher doesnʼt allow it?”
“No, because itʼs protected by copyright law [itʼs printed on the pre-printed table we bought, with tiny little letters on the side]. Copying it is a crime.”

In Hungary one of the words we have for potatoes is “pityóka”, and something that is made with potatoes is “pityókás”. However, “pityókás” also means tipsy. We often have fun of this with bakers when i buy potato bread.

Back when i started using Linux, i never thought that one day iʼll be able to natively run Microsoftʼs browser and shell on my Linux desktop. Now i can have Edge and PowerShell. Itʼs a mad world.

@evelyn @urusan thanks, thatʼs a lot to take in. Iʼll read that webmd thing and some other articles, but you were more than helpful! 🤗

Our parents used to say that drinking flavoured water (from lemonade to different sodas) and eating soups donʼt count as water intake. That became my stance as a parent, but somehow even i donʼt believe it. Do you guys know any good source on this?

I just read an article that states „We Are Now One Step Closer to Limitless Energy From Nuclear Fusion”, but it doesnʼt say if there are 10 ár 10million steps remaining. I think iʼll just dismiss it as Just Another Clickbait.

Thereʼs a Hell Energy Drink factory in Hungary near Miskolc. Right at the other side of the road is a petrol station called Angel Petrol. Genius marketing… 😁 👿😇

As if natural disasters are not enough, some vandals riding motorcycles threw a bunch of Molotov cocktails to forests in South-Western Turkey. As far as weʼre aware no news outlet has reported it yet, the info is from a friend living there.

Thereʼs no climate change. Itʼs just a hotter than average summer, so hold my beer while i jump in this conveniently overflowing river to cool myself.

Fun Fact: you can add an Emoji to your projectʼs name on GitLab, but you canʼt add a comma…

@emacsen
It wouldnʼt be too hard if Big Tech would support OAuth2 properly. In that case even Google/Facebook auth would be as simple as setting up a generic OAuth2 provider with specific, publicly known endpoints.

@emacsen
I still believe that good authentication consists of something you know (like a password) and something you have (like a FIDO2 device). Unless you enforce that the given FIDO2 device is protected with a “something you have” method (like a PIN; fingerprint and face recognition is not a good method in this case), you only have a “what you have” part, which can easily be stolen.

@grin
Essence of the whole world, really.

Most cryptocoins has a rule that every transaction costs some coins (usually a small fraction of a coin, actually). Where do those coins go? Is it possible to deplete all coins just by doing a *lot* of transactions?