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Fish in the Percolator

@imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

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Machine Learning / Software Engineer, Physicist, Hacker. Commander of a Zerg hive. Based in #Taiwan. From #Hungary. Often found with: :python: :archlinux: 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@imrehg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I'm reading an old Python essay from Guido van Rossum: Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str It's a quirky puzzle to follow, but what suddenly stood out for me, but: In the "And the Winner is..." section he goes: > The next day, I remembered […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Looks like multiple exposure, but it's just a wall with faded signs, new paint, and sharp sunset shadows casting over... Zhongli cultural park, old army barracks, in Taoyuan, Taiwan. #AnalogPhotography

Black and white photo of a white wall, with the shadows of a tree falling on it sharply. Faded Chinese characters are barely visible on the wall.

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Indoor tiger #AnalogPhotography #B&W #CatsOfMastodon

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Attempting: confit garlic 🧄

A pot on a stove, with garlic, olive oil, and a sprig rosemary cooking.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Little homelab experiment done ✅ @forgejo runs on a Pi3 on the LAN, one that also connects to WireGuard automatically. Local router gives out a custom domain name (sub of one I have, like 'git.home.<etcetera>', on the LAN. WireGuard's dnsmasq gives out the instance's wg IP for the same name […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Upstreamed a teeny-tiny `blueman` fix this afternoon (and I am shocked how much of it is written in Python -- I am mostly working in Python btw...) Let's see how long that will take to land!

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Just finished with "Build your own text editor" viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/i… It was a hoot, and I really appreciate, how something this useful can be fit into ~1k LOC / 36kb compiled (dynamic)... For extra flavour, expanded the syntax highlighting with Python.

View of the editor with the "kilo" source code open

Folder listing of the kilo editor source dode, showing that the compiled version is 36kb, plus a loit of test files alongside.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@kagihq please for the love of languagebring the Kagi Translate app on par with the web version... It is uselessly empty in the app, compared to the web, and now that the apps are spun out, the main Kagi app doesn't link to the web one, got to log in in […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Kagi Translate app with the Chinese word for taxi

Kagi translate web version with the Chinese word for Taxi

Kagi translate web version with the Chinese word for Taxi, expanded

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

*Very Mercenary from The Herbaliser* Never not a great album! And looks like I _do_ live in the 90s, unconsciously... theherbaliser.bandcamp.com/album/ve… #Bandcamp

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Very Mercenary, by The Herbaliser

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Heretics of Dune from 1983, or the world of 2026, you decide!

A photo of a quote from the book Heretics of Dune, the kinds preceding the chapter:

> Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress 'wild' research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a 'safe line of investigation' which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors. Unfortunately, a random universe full of relative variables does not ensure such a 'safe line of investigations'. -- Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Proposal by the current mayor and candidate for re-election to replace Taipei's Songshan airport with a... (checking notes) with an "AI Park"?? 🙈 www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/arc… I am speechless. Literally have no speech.

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Chiang’s proposal to remove Songshan airport sparks controversy - Taipei Times

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) yesterday proposed relocating Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) and turning the site into an artificial intelligence (AI) park, drawing opposition from politicians across party lines.Chiang’s plan would turn the 300 hectares into an AI park featuring te

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"Okay, fine, if the baby is dehydrated, I'll just set a second set of preferences!" ... I love (no /s) waking up straight from a REM phase, from the night's internal bizarro world. 😴

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Fedi photographers: would I regret getting this second hand Yashica camera? I got into carrying a physical film camera with b&w film, but the previous re-loaded single use is just falling apart. In my research this seemed like a good, and no-fuss option, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Very long shot. Do I know anyone in or near Phuket who can do me a favour? I left my wallet in a hotel earlier this year. They've just let me know they found it. Anyone over there willing to pick it up & post it back to me? Happy to pay, of course.

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I like reading `man` pages, there like boxes of presents on a Xmas morning :) Never know what you gonna get but there's always something new (knowledge). Today've opened up `yay` (an @archlinux AUR helper), and seen things like reading Archlinux news/announcements (that are usually very good to […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I've installed Forgejo forgejo.org on a local-network Raspberry Pi 3 that's my "homelab". Definitly tickles some old nerdy vibes, and that "coding is good" feeling. I haven't configured all the things, but have tried enough stuff (including actions runners on another machine), to see […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Learning Chinese because living in Taiwan and it's nice, horizon opening, and necessary. Picking up learning Korean because it's fun, resonates, and will likely visit quite a few times... Since I'm using English for my day to day, both of the above progress swith fits and starts ("2 steps […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The hardest thing to internalize as a grown-up/professional environment, is that there is no "correct answer" to most things. Few of any things are like homework that can be marked. There are only potential answers. And this is why the current (easy mode) usage of LLMs is so secretly brain […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/11736… That's me, and I am heading to the library today. Sniff...sniffetty....

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

My Taipei City Library branch visit project needs a bit of a push. Most of the easy access ones are done, and have to spread out now. And for that I need to go to town more often than I do now, too 🤔 In another 2-3 years and I should be done!

A printed map of Taipei city with the locations of library branches, some of them marked with a highlighter.

The printed list of Taipei City Library branches, some addresses marked with a highlighter.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

PyCon Taiwan is coming up in less than two weeks. Any Fedi-friends who plan to come that way? :python: tw.pycon.org/2026/en-us #Taiwan #PyCon #PyConTW #PyConTW2026

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Watching various sports on this holiday day, as they happen at the Asian Games in Japan. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they have eSports too! But those don't seem to be broadcast on the TV over here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports_at_th… I'm old school, would […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Lil' bugfix today... I've set up a WireGuard network a while back, the central node being on a cloud server & all my other "machines" as clients/peers. I was flummoxed why an always on client cannot usually be reached, but none of the central server network digging helped. Turns out, the […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I have such a fondness for the university campuses I've encountered so far. Maybe I'm forever a "student" in a way... The universities of Miskolc and Debrecen back in Hungary, the National Taiwan University, the National Tsing Hua University, and the Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Robert Pattinson > Q: Do you have any expectations for awards season? > > A: I hope to be named Wirecutter ’s best air purifier of 2026. Chef's kiss! theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Robert Pattinson

Primetime star Robert Pattinson is receiving widespread acclaim for his portrayal of To Catch A Predator host Chris Hansen. The Onion sat down with the actor to discuss his craft, his career, and what’s next. The Onion : What creative liberties did you take with the role of Chris Hansen? Pattinson: Instead of “Why don’t you […] The post The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Robert Pattinson appeared first on The Onion.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: m.prettyshiny.org/@jacel/1173284883… This is what useful automation looks like!

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117327853895… This is beautiful! And all little me can think about is the very handy training programme "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away," on television from 1969.... "No 1., the larch. The larch."

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Sign at the Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen Street North:

"Dinosaurs didn't read. Now they are EXTINCT."

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Drills keep a-coming... Interesting that one drill comes as "Presidential Alert", the other as "just" Alert message... Can it be a mess in the software backend they have these sent out from? 🤔

Screenshot of a Taiwanese Earthquake disaster drill message received on a phone.

Screenshot of a Taiwanese Tsunami disaster drill message received on a phone.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I new milestone: my first ever traffic fine (a speeding ticket), in Taiwan! 🚗 Why am I so happy about it? Every day I feel like people are driving here, not as rules are just suggestions, but as there are no rules! So much bad, inconsiderate, dangerous driving, so much temper. The fact that I […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Design and usability meets! Maybe this way I can dial in the right 🥑 ripeness!

An avocado held in a hand with a banner that shows cute little avocados drawn at different ripeness, doing a thug-of-war, with the best ripeness in the centre.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Xfce now has a new Matrix channel to support translators, communication between language teams, and the onboarding of new translators. If you are an existing translator, or would like to become one, join matrix.to/#/#xfce-translation:matri… Please see […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I like browsing the magazine aisle of our local bookstore, and picking up something unusual & interesting. Today's haul is F, the food documentary magazine, and their 1st issue on Salt. 🧂 www.reading-f.com/magazine-f-salt Yum, yum! Though I also […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Front cover of the F magazine, issue 1: salt

View of the interior pages, on salt production in Italy, Peru, and other countries, with maps and photos of the locations.

A Japanese salted vegetables production article with large photos and text.

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Of course I've spent my Saturday evening debugging a Raspberry Pi Linux system update issue (ArchlinuxARM -- a much more unstable, ARM-device focused, downstream sibling of Archlinux....) Looks like a kernel update shipped before the matching uboot update did, that would would have handled the […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Last weekend I was trying out keeping SSH keys in my Framework's TPM secure enclave with ssh-tpm-agent. When you generate a key like "ssh-keygen", instead if a randomart, it says" > "The key's randomart image is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

All this work since the Big Bang, towards having a little cup of light roast coffee. ✅

Wooden table top in a coffee shop, with a coffee cup in the front, a carafe in the back with more coffee and the rest of the room behind in bokeh.

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I'm currently reading a biography of John von Neumann, that has loads and loads of looks at mathematics of different kinds, and the research that goes into that, since he was prolific and created a lot of new knowledge. Hence it is very interesting to tie in with that some parts of the current […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: aus.social/@dgar/117215678133122850 Check the follow ups too, what a load of chuckles!

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Seems like it is a COVID day, but much milder than my wife who didn't get the refresher shot last year. For me it's like a mild flu and a bit of cough. But still can think, and ☕ smells ☕. For her, it's so far 3rd day of knockout, ache, cough, no taste or smell... Our congee and chicken soup […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Ah, a hermit! Hm, don't mind me, I just glanced into the mirror...

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

“*YOU* Are the Chosen One?!” “Hahaha no.” “I thou—“ “I’m just *a* chosen girl. There’s hundreds of us, you know. Big planet; takes a lot of saving” “Where’s your enchanted sword, then?” “Melted it” “You *what*!” “Swords are flashy, but impractical. So I made an enchanted multitool” “You […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Weather forecast: better get cover soon.

Blue sky with dark clouds floating in from the right

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/11718… Some habits of our ancestors live steadily on! 📮

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Watching classic movies is a great pasttime. Just finished Persona by Ingmar Bergman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(1966… My review is: "huh?"

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Persona (1966 film) - Wikipedia

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"Taiwan Railway showcases color-coded direction at new Tainan Station" Colours are hard, I know that, but the chosen ones here (blue for north, green for south) is a bit too much on the nose for Taiwan :D (from politics, the north the KMT stronghold and their colour is blue, and the south is […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "Surviving Purely Out Of Spite" Shirt. Considering all of our food now is infected with salmonella and causes debilitating diarrhea, spite is actually the healthiest thing you can survive on. collabs.shop/or2ku3

A black t-shirt with a white outlined heart on the chest containing the text "SURVIVING PURELY OUT OF SPITE."

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Just finished Ulysses (for the first and only time so far). While a lot of it was a woosh over my head on this first readin, it is a challenging, interesting puzzle (sometimes a bit too much on the nose, that this is intended to be a puzzle). It also got me close to interesting characters, and […]

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@paninid/11714128279… I am definitely a citizenship hoarder!

Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Test--driven our new Staub cast iron pot with coq au vin... Now sipping French pinot noir that was left over, I guess that's fine... (first time in years?) 🍷

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Fish in the Percolator @imrehg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I had read a few good books this evening... in Book of Hours. 😬 Time to disconnect and read some good books on the sofa... 🛋️

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