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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • Nutella can never even be inferred to be a nut butter lol. It is literally >50% sugar and palm oil. Only 13% hazelnuts. In 2017 they reduced the chocolate solids further and added more sugar and more skimmed milk powder. Almost half its calories is from sugar.

    The traditional hazelnut butter was 71.5% hazelnut paste and 19.5% chocolate, but nutella doesn’t even have enough cocoa powder to have the label of “chocolate cream” in many countries.






  • I am still doubtful of these password strength “reasoning” blog posts of which there are hundreds.

    There seems to be no real information regarding dictionary attacks and how that effects password solve times, but it seems like passphrases would be more susceptible to it. I am definitely no expert.

    I briefly talked to a friend of a friend at a dinner who is in digital cyber security and she said that AI has pretty much changed the game and can guess any word-based passwords strings like the famously quoted xkcd comic orders faster than traditional methods, and hackers are using that now but it hasn’t had as much academic research yet. Maybe that is only for unsalted passwords though.


  • I have had tons of problems with my VW ID4.

    But all of them are related to the stupid “smart” features and “entertainment” system that drive the cost up 1.5x. Android auto taking literally up to 15 minutes to connect to any phone, air conditioning glitching constantly because of extremely bad touch buttons, crashing entertainment system, false range estimation, quasi-unusable backup camera quality compared to my old 2015 Nissan Altima, the app saying the car was unlocked when it wasn’t. The car unlocking automatically when I walk past to walk the dog and then not relocking when I am gone, false tire pressure warnings, poor quality plastics and really stupid LED lighting strips that will cost 2000€ to fix when they inevitably break.

    The car part of it worked quite well and very quiet except for the complete bullshit that is the range estimation.

    Sadly most of these problems are just the auto industry bullshit and would also occur on new combustion cars also.


  • Hey there!

    This is a job for Handy. I recently started using it with the Parakeet recommended model. It works very very well. Whisper packaged with Wyoming that I run is pretty much unusable for dutch but Parakeet in Handy seems to work quite well. Direct input of text into whatever program you want. Downloads a small local model and works only on your computer. Push-to-talk or toggle, tons of customizations.

    Note that this just speech to text and the models aren’t made for post processing. So it will dictate exactly what you say, umms and everything. If you want cleanup, formatting, etc… Then you have to rely on a much more general model, but the makers are experimenting with an opt-in for that for various external AIs.



  • Personally I have only a hundred notes or so and really only the basic plugins and it still takes up to 10 seconds to load and become usable on my phone.

    It is definitely not fast loading up but it is very fast in most other use cases I have seen. At work I use it with getting more towards 1000 notes and it works fine there usually, though there is some windows+ electron weirdness





    • Domain 15€/yr
    • Music 8.50€/month (trying to convince my girlfriend to move from Spotify to Qobuz

    That is it I think. I don’t consider internet/water/electricity subscriptions as much as utilities.

    Can’t really afford anything else right now because my girlfriend as a cafe owner only brings in around 1200€/month or so working >60hr/week and we have a full renovation to pay for.

    I want to dedicate like 10-20€/month to FOSS I use once the situation is better.


  • It depends, the EU is owned by the banks instead of every corporation like America. If Deutsche Bank decides it is worth their while to implement this like capital one just did in the US, it is over and the European Parliament will immediately capitulate like they always do to the banks.

    Hell, in central Europe like here in Belgium, banks (pushed by corpos like Bancontact) are literally taking away people’s ability to use cash by silently removing all cash accepting ATMs so business owners need to travel sometimes 30-60minutes every day if they want to deposit cash and the EU and Belgian governments are sucking off bank lobbyists instead of tackling it.

    They are strict against big tech, which is why in the past year, big tech has moved to the #1 position of money spent bribing lobbying politicians, second to banks, because it works so well for the banks.





  • For this application, I am hoping reflective LCDs make a comeback or transreflective LCDs. They are much better for typing than e-ink and still easy on the eyes.

    Early apple devices were quite decent out in the sun with the glass screen and transreflective LCDs. I remember my old devices were quite usable even with the not great brightness if I angled it to reflect the sun nicely.

    Waveshare just released a fully reflective monochrome small one with an integrated ESP32 so I am hoping that catches on in the hobbyist communities and people can start building tech decks with bigger screens that aren’t 800€ and a 1Hz refresh rate.

    E-paper is amazing for static text, images (see pimorino screens with E-Ink 6color), labels, and status things, but fast typing and drawing makes them outrageously expensive for hobbyists and even very expensive at large scale like Boox and Remarkable.