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  • I'd guess that's also how thermonuclear weapons are layers of conventional chemical, fission, and fusion material encased within each other like that. All these things come to mind.

  • Anger Management 😌

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  • No need, in a world they build nobody controls anyone. And nobody soldiers.

  • Help with starting a Hawthorne bonsai

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  • No luck with those myself; scarification or just leaving seeds in winter doesn't work for me, and I think seeds or microcloning are the only options (and I'm too out of resources to run full microcloning stunt lately). My guess always was that our semi-urban bushes are just struggling too much and seeds don'r tipen. Some day somebody will bring me fertile seeds from the south I hope. I want to grow that thing.

  • Bonsai @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Elms from seeds

  • Cat causes a 2-day flight delay

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  • When my cat's carrier just broke open randomly on a train station in winter and cat jumped under the train cart, the train operator just said "you have 10 minutes, I'm not delaying my train for a cat".

    We made it in time though, I got my hands sliced on something under the train quite badly, but found her, she is an old lady now sleeping in a chair beside me now, hopefully long forgotten about that adventure.

  • Alder moves to shallow pot

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  • Not really, we gather loads and loads of seeds from the cones (best while it's still snowy, March-April) by collecting branches that break off on their own in windy weather and drying the cones at home, and just scatter seeds in pots; sometimes something sprouts. Sometimes they just sprout from other outdoor pots if there are alder trees around.

  • Bonsai @discuss.tchncs.de
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Alder moves to shallow pot

  • Do you host your own AI?

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  • Technically, TTS/STT are mostly MLs; I'm pretty sure many people run these. I have a setup but I'm better with buttons that with spoken words, and I listen to ambient sounds or music. I think some day I'll make voice assistant for talking to while driving, but that's not a trivial task hardware-wise, even if I used cloud LLM layer, which I won't. Putting AI on baremetal sounds like an interesting project.

    I have a homemade "local agent" that can actually "code" somewhat, I use it just to figure out how this thing works on the inside practically. Mostly useless otherwise (also I have GPU that's older than AI, so it's kind of fun technical task to run this stuff on pure RAM+swap). Feels like the whole hype is greatly overrated, but I appreciate a chance to learn something new anyway.

  • PDRC Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling taking off ?

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  • I'd say, all the "remaining" areas - like edges, cracks, tiling imperfections - could be... just, you know, painted white high reflectance paint that'll be soon covered in dust anyway? This whole technology looks like a few % optimization over widespread and long adopted "white buildings are cooler in hot environment" thing for hype and whitewashing. Sure it's worth doing in punk DIY setups.

    Not that I'd adopt that, I still live in cold climate, even with all the warming, I'm going to burn black all non-greenable and non-solarable surfaces black to get some extra heat energy locally.

  • It's official: Finland approves alcohol home deliveries, Alko outlets open on Sundays

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  • Alko is overpriced, has extremely limited selection and most stuff is of very low quality, and it actively kills off all local small manufacturers. We have 2 wineries in my town, neither got into Alko. They only exist to feed government funds and corruption now (top management just happens to get bonuses, not even mentioning total lack of monitoring of bribes from industry), who cares about healthcare of population when people can import alcohol through EU, cook it at home, and until recently just smuggle extremely poisonous stuff from Russia (I know people who did it repeatedly well after the border was "closed").

  • Hello Cthulhu by FrogPlague (11/85)

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  • please moar

  • Satellite image after UAV strikes on strategic fuel reserves in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast.

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  • Rybinsk signature sweet gift

  • Moottoritie uhkaa jyrätä jääkautisen hiidenkiven Leppävirralla – koko yllätti Väyläviraston: ”Valtavan hieno lohkare”

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  • kivet on ~2.5 kg/L, 400 m^3, noin R = 4 - 5 m pallo, vain muutama kertaa ihmisen korkeampi

  • Arkisuomi @sopuli.xyz
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Moottoritie uhkaa jyrätä jääkautisen hiidenkiven Leppävirralla – koko yllätti Väyläviraston: ”Valtavan hieno lohkare”

    yle.fi /a/74-20230378
  • Bonsai @discuss.tchncs.de
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Transplanting update!

  • New User Monitoring

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  • Well, auto-remove feature looks like a bit too much for me, especially with no clear write-up on rules it follows - getting unexpected automated false positive bans often sucks a lot emotionally; good thing you've announced it at least.

    I have an opinion (just a personal vision on the big picture, I have no desire to instill it in others) that whenever we start needing automated tools like these in Fediverse, it's a sign that decentralization concept starts failing locally and it's time to federate more: make more servers with smaller governance.

  • Something strange happened with my cat last night. Something terrified him and I'm trying to figure out what happened

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  • It's nesting season now. Keeping cats outside pretty much means easy and fun hunting on fledgelings.

    Now, altruistic feelings aside, in addition to somewhat endangered tits and not really endangered sparrows, there are birds that are totally lethal for cats. Some of those, like owls, are often really hard to spot for an untrained human, for they are very fast and make no noise. Others, like crows and seagulls, are just very fast and devious. And they would totally try to do anything in their power to prevent the hunting for their babies, from instilling fear, to physical damage of various severity (that they could also inflict onto humans, I guess rarely lethal in Europe, but eye traumas happen; I know of conflicts between humans and crows where government had to resort to inviting professional military sniper to settle it. Hunters know not to mess with owls lest they are fine losing their face, literally.).

    So this is just another theory that does not require cat predators and quite fits the setup described.

    My neighbors keep cats outside; those look scared to death most of time this season - for a good reason, there is an extremely hungry owl family learning to fly here (that only I and people on Fediverse who saw my shitty smartphone pictures know about). Those are an addition to everpresent lynxes, a bear, and at least one wolverine, yet it's never this scary for them as now, it seems.

  • Rehabbing shallow tomatoes

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  • Whoa, thanks for information, this is a bit I was missing about the tomatoes! This deep-planting move is the opposite of what I usually do with bonsai, I was thinking that planting anything deeper is always inviting stem rot.

    Now, would you by any chance have any suggestions on how could I determine which plants could be deep-planted, and which should never be?

  • DIY magnetic induction water heater

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  • No it's not, I'm saying kinda the opposite.

  • DIY magnetic induction water heater

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  • Yeah, I just compare every lowtech to it, it's like a baseline anyone can make. Anything simpler is awesome, anything harder is useless usually.

  • DIY magnetic induction water heater

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  • A Stirling engine is symmetric device that could work both ways.

    But I admit, after staring at this for a bit longer, it doesn't even really need any kind of special or even similar magnets. It is simpler indeed.

  • DIY magnetic induction water heater

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  • nice, but seems more complicated than Stirling, unless you have no pistons and lots of copper wire magnets. (edit: distracted writing, I'm watching it lol)

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    rsync is being vibe coded now. We are so cooked.

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  • Yeah, like, let's improve the super reliable stuff that works perfectly with gambleware!

    Also, this irresponsible behavior is now heresy or something? Like non-opensource code, too.

  • Arkisuomi @sopuli.xyz
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Walk the walk

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Walk the walk

  • Arkisuomi @sopuli.xyz
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Owl update

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Owl update

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Floating IP challenge

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Floating IP challenge

  • Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider @sopuli.xyz
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    Capsicumel

  • Arkisuomi @sopuli.xyz
    Alexander @sopuli.xyz

    Owls are just like cats

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Owls are just like cats

  • Geopolitics @sopuli.xyz
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    Sweep the Strait!

    sweepthestrait.com
  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume

  • Sopuli's Default Community @sopuli.xyz
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    Trade offer prototyping test

  • Arkisuomi @sopuli.xyz
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    Goooogle!

  • Flippanarchy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Good cop bad cop

  • Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider @sopuli.xyz
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    Vesuvius

  • Anarchism and Social Ecology @slrpnk.net
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    Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

    pluralistic.net /2026/01/01/39c3/