[ML] the new nvidia gb200 machines look so painful and actually dangerous to work with Like dam, watercooling is fine, but to put quick disconnects at the BACK of the rack NEXT TO the power backplane which is providing 100kw+ (which by itself is insane too) to the 36 GPUs that are connected to […]

[incredibly cursed dirty frying pan] Oh my f, PLEASE, people, clean your frying pan, or fricking trash it and buy a new one, I don't care, just DON'T DO THIS, you'll literally kill yourself 😭😭😭 I just took this away from a friend's place, we bought a new […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

The kubers gently neeting on a cold misty autumn morning

The kubers gently neeting on a cold misty autumn morning

[AI, that "AI coding overhyped study"] look I know everyone is eager to use any excuse to throw out AI but this 'report' is not scientific or even verified, and it's also actually pretty hyped about AI in general. What it does say is that people overhyped […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

petition to rename yellow-orange cats to 'catmium'

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Someone (european) should buy something like a bunch of snickers and peel them to get the peanuts out while complaining about the weirdness of the sticky packaging It would be the perfect rebuttal to all those "trying european snacks" things where they e.g stick a hand full of unpeeled […]

Realized a bunch of my mugs might be vintage collectors items? :dragneyes: No idea how this Tommy's Coffee mug even got here from 90s California, but those Melk cups are from the 60-70s Dutch milk ad campaigns and seem to be impossible to find for sale […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

pro tip: ffmpeg is really easy to just use yourself in the CLI You really do not need some ad-laden website or GUI to use it for 99% of the use cases examples: ffmpeg -i somevideo.mp4 someaudio.mp3 or ffmpeg -i music.wav music.flac etc (converts files) ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-1:720 […]

Bought some stuff to practice welding, making a big beam-reinforced box seems like a good way to do this, I do wonder if the thin aluminium sheets will hold up though, somewhat suspect they'll grow holes, but it's the best they had at the local hw store

Went to the farmers market, bought way more than I should, again, but I'm sure none of it will be wasted :aburgnom: They had some really big pears, 0.76kg is their biggest one this year, absolute unit

[LLMs, AI, intelligence] #llms are bad at Persian Taarof. This is probably one of the best examples of the hurdles LLMs have to overcome to actually understand human interactions, rather than just following human language as if it were code. To illustrate: If you offer someone food and they […]

I fixed my boiler myself yesterday! I'm unstoppable now I can fix anything :drgn_sparkle: Had to take it apart pretty far to get to the NTC thermistor hot water sensor, which is all the way in the back in the base of the machine, behind the hot water heat […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

In the Netherlands it seems like they've started calling gardens where people put down a big patio and there's no more green "versteend". Which is logical in dutch as it means "stonified" basically, but it also translates to "petrified", and I kinda love that? I'm definitely going to start […]

[ph] I was told the heavy clavulanic acid-augmented antibiotics would make me feel more sick, but I'm actually feeling pretty good compared to the recent while I guess that's how you can tell the antibiotics are working, and that apparently whatever bacteria it was, was resistant to […]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/bcachefs_dkms_modules/ Besides the bcachefs news here ..why is there a patch to remove the "write_cache_pages" API from the Linux kernel? Why would you do this aside to be asinine? OpenZFS uses that too lol, you'd alienate basically all of the enterprise […]

I woke up at 4am because of the fire alarm right outside my bedroom going off. No idea what set it off; no smells or smoke or anything that points to fire, and no other alarms went off. A tiny spider was walking around nearby the device though, wondering if maybe it crawled inside and set it off […]

e x c u s e m e #rimworld

The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

I've been seeing this "Geekzero" on AliE which appears to be a square chonky #flipperzero knockoff, with some extra bits and pieces (, and an external antenna connector. Out of pure curiosity, I ordered one, let's see if it even arrives, and if it does, if it is any good at all.

I appreciate how a lot of people right now, rather than once again bowing to the demands of Microsoft changing Windows again for the worse, actually consider the Windows 10 EOL the 'Linux switchover date' rather than the 'Windows 11 switchover date'. I can only say thank you, and I hope you'll […]

I don't know that I've ever heard it better said. #life #philosophy

I find that troubling

Omg squee, a farmer put up a trailer full of pumpkins near my village! some of these are absolutely massive, yet only 5€ somehow, so I sent some extra Can't wait to make soups and dishes out of these and carve some pumpkins :drgn_sparkle:

Hm, Just Eat / Thuisbezorgd has fired hundreds of people here, even though they're doing fine financially. I'm unsure if this is allowed, to me it seems like it wouldn't be under european labor rights, but I haven't seen any sign of protest/pushback on it? #nederland

[AI] i think people should focus less on wishfully thinking the AI bubble to burst and more on requesting targeted legislation and addressing specific issues, as specific and clear as possible. being 'against AI' is useless for the same reason being 'against crime' is useless, we need specific […]

I wonder if they have tylenol vaccines so I can level up my autisms :dragn_thinkflare:

[pol] "why do you make disclaimers for political posts, it looks weird" I'm good at dumping my thoughts, and if I'm at it I might as well cover my ass in case someone comes flapping something I said in my face pretending that I said something I didn't say, and having a post that debunks those […]

[Pol] Every time a politician adds a new stupid claim, it becomes easier to argue against the political party as a whole, especially with polarized people that can only see the party as whole. At this point you can literally be like "haha Trump? You mean the aspirin autism guy? The 100k […]

It’s very likely that RFK Jr. will announce that vaccines are the cause of autism. As someone in the medical field I cannot stress this enough: VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. They also don’t “trigger” autism and they don’t “make it worse”. The vaccine regime for kids is perfectly safe, and should […]

Sodium acetate heat packs are so weirdly alien and cozy at the same time

Made some Hummus-inspired dish with rehydrated + boiled dried chick peas I still had laying around, half a lemon that had to be finished, and a few scoops of peanut butter, some garlic powder, pepper, and salt. Actually kind of amazing, especially with how […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

we should tell those 'xyz causes autism' people that - secluding away from society - distrusting authorities - Spending 12 hours a day consuming every single piece of information, video, and personal anecdote related to the supposed dangers of vaccines/5G/almond milk. - Reciting specific (and […]

post/article claiming Samsung phones have Israelian spyware: https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/115247931359757973 kinda feels obvious though, as Israel has been contracted by many govts to do exactly that for many years: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) - […]

it's beautiful to see people talk about torrents and sharing files and things again, nature is healing

My new (degoogled) phone's battery lasted for days on a charge, until I enabled constant GPS tracking to my Owntracks server, and then suddenly the battery life perfectly matched that of my Pixel phone :blobcatthinkingsmirk:

AAAAAAAAAA MONDAY

@volpeon (to the tune of the lion king intro) :wvrnScream: :wvrnScream: :wvrnScream: :wvrnScream: AAAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S MONDAAAAAAAAY A NEW WEEEK HAS BEGUUUN

How is the weekend already ending, this is extremely drgnphobic tbh I'm barely even done napping :drgn_drowsy:

[uspol,] I don't care to boost all the usa politics bits and I'll stop again after this, but I do think it's important to show just how badly the extreme right wing appear to be trying to play it dirty by e.g influencing social media. It's crazy how little attention there is to this stuff in […]

[Pol, Disclaimer] Just to be absolutely clear given what I believe politically can be confusing to those who aren't used to that much nuance: - trans rights are human rights - black lives matter - fuck nazis - fascism (and extremism in general) is not the goddamn way to help an already […]

[politics, human rights] I really really wish that "human rights" weren't considered "only for the good people". Everyone has human rights. No exceptions, no matter how vile they are. Otherwise they are void, they stop existing as rights, they're just a suggestion if someone's nice enough […]

[politics, threading on the dead] I hope this isn't a hot take: folks I know the guy was a terrible guy but literally nobody deserves to have their memorial or grave vandalized. That's not a matter of "they deserved it though", that's a matter of respecting the dead, universal human rights […]

this derg incense holder I got at the year market in August is kinda presh

My old Miele washing machine's springs and shocks are worn out and whenever I wash something big it'll literally start dancing around, it's slowly wrecking the shelves it's standing in. To its credit though, it's literally a Miele Nouveau Stella from the […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

You may be cool but are you 7.99 reduced price Hyundai garden scissors cool

[uspol, trump roast, lubach] https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3Q7wD4woL8 Lubach just made an amazingly on point trump roast where he just spits some facts and then shows a bunch of disney materials "edited to comply with trump's regime". I think it has English subtitles available if you enable […]

[food, vegetarian, milk based, confectionery/sweets] A bowl of incredibly dutch stroopwafelvla (stroopwafel custard), which was regretfully heated up in the microwave for 20 seconds (it was literally TOO good, 6 dead 3 injured :pensive_blob: )

I went to get some groceries at the farmer's market, turns out today is "pluck your own fruits day", so I'm in the orchard getting some extremely fresh, super ripe, (stewing and normal) pears and apples :drgn_sparkle: The trees here are beautiful too, some […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]