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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-30 at 23:08

Interrail not believing in Ghent

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-30 at 22:45

[#]elisaoyj (elisa.fi) opining on #Tor exit nodes

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-30 at 21:52

Interrail app also doesn't believe in Ghent

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-30 at 21:28

Interrail is smoked

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-27 at 08:43

Last night the guy on the line told me it's "the Finnish law" they don't plug you into the grid unless the switch is off or there's somebody home. I said "ok call you in the morning", and in the morning I come back to the electrically lit flat and the buzzing of the freezer? Bruh I almost believed you for a moment

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-26 at 21:49

Just noticed that firmware (American Megatrends) on one of the machines goes into some kind of limbo state when powered on without a monitor connected, maybe doesn't even reach the bootloader

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-26 at 20:57

Now I'm hosting my nextcloud and email from a friend's place a 15 minutes' walk away

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-26 at 20:55

Done moving 😩 Didn't get a chance to check the place during the week, so when I arrived I found out I'm not plugged into the grid...

My contract with Fortum.fi was valid from early last week, so this took me by surprise. Fortum, naturally, doesn't accept calls on Sundays, and it took some help to figure out that I should have been calling Helen.fi instead. Apparently they don't activate the contract automatically unless the main switch in the apartment is in OFF

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-24 at 11:56

RE: BrightData*

We need a FOSS and decentralized BrightData so that we can all scrape facebook, and airlines, and other data monopolists. We need a FOSS and decentralized BrightData alternative like... TOR

• https://highlysuspect.agency/posts/who_is_bright_data/

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-23 at 15:07

Catboost: I heard you like build system generators, so I prepared a build-system-generator generator (yatool) for your build-system generator (cmake)

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-21 at 22:30

A discussion spawned from understanding the word "materialism" differently, and I discovered that the definitions given by dictionaries (wiktionary, M-W) are... vacuous. At best, they very remotely relate to any usage that I'd consider useful

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-20 at 15:27

Why, again, does tailscale have to claim "~." in systemd-resolved?..

❯ host github.com

;; communications error to 127.0.0.53#53: timed out

;; communications error to 127.0.0.53#53: timed out

;; no servers could be reached

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-20 at 15:22

Aalto, and Finland in general, feature very active student communities, especially in the MSc and BSc programs. There are notorious groups raiding Helsinki-Stockholm Viking and Silja Line ferries, there are clubs teaching sailing, and there are groups promoting Lean or PL research.

OtaNix Ry, a non-profit run by inspired students, is organizing a Nix Workshop this Wednesday at the Aalto University. Join! https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-meetup-helsinki/48211/10

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 17:26

Other delayed news: not so long ago I didn't even know what "free diving" means. I didn't plan it, I didn't expect it, but in just one week I've reached twenty two meters and learned that "it's all about relaxation". I feel like a cultist writing this, but this might have been a life changing experience and I crave more...

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 17:15

Upon return I was pleased to find that Rams Roastery in Eira is finally open again and serves their korvapuustit: crisp surface, moist inside, as things should be 🙏

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 17:12

Meantime, I'm in Helsinki and packing stuff (most of which is the kitchen, but also a few books and the e-waste I use for homeservers) for moving from Jatkasaari to Herttoniemi

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 17:09

I perhaps fail to emphasize the weight of this "good pay" attitude. I feel that all tissues of Academia are oversaturated with anti-materialist values and unhealthy heroic ethos.

Approaching a certain intermediary, advised they can help resolve a conflict, I was met with the "you must first prove (again) you are capable" rhetoric. Prove yourself every step of the journey, for one tenth of what other masters offer. Fellow students adopt this self-harm "it's an honour" rhetoric almost universally

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 16:50

Now I'll rather work directly with people I trust, people showing the capacity for mutual respect and empathy. Breakthroughs and ambitions can wait: I don't mind starting low and small, but on my own schedule and my own terms. I'll rather that than keep trying to manage an assortment of unbounded egos for the sake of being able to say "I tried, I survived, I get to rightfully call it out"

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 16:37

The value of a university is the community: the opportunity to teach and be taught, the opportunity to collaborate.

Full time employment, vulnerability to a professor's whims, perpetual need to approve attendance of every networking event and to beg for each penny; the proliferation of bureaucrats and intermediaries; the metrics and expectations incentivizing meaningless grind for incremental improvements; these all but hinder one's personal development and poison the academic environment

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Written by Else, Someone on 2025-01-19 at 16:28

Today in "casual reminders": #Academia is not an appropriate place to conduct research. It's corporate environment without corporate benefits. PhD salaries tend to be at least 10x below the market, easily worse.

Example at hand: after four years at the Computer Science department of Aalto.fi, the university prices an hour of my work at EUR18.24 gross or EUR14.00 net, which many consider "a good pay"

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