HK65

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, would you guys consider a drone made from Chinese mechanical parts, motors and motor controllers, but with a European STMicroelectronics main controller, programmed and assembled in the EU to be European?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I've a 13 and it's the best built laptop I've ever had.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't we buy from Taiwan? Or better yet, build our own devices with Taiwanese processors. It's much harder to spy if the supplied components are simpler and the device is opaque to them but transparent to us.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

It just came out recently that wealthy Americans and Russians came to the Balkans during the Yugoslav war to hunt and kill civilians for fun.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm feeling we'll end up going over it whether we row or not.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When the USSR came to Hungary, they literally exhausted the syphilis medicine supply of the country for two years with the amount of rape, and the country has had collective PTSD from it for generations.

I'm sure others can bring up other countries, I'm more familiar and am more in touch with the culture of specifically Hungary. It is widely researched and not debated actually that it was so bad, suicides and misogyny spiked in the aftermath, as the people who couldn't defend their loved ones from often repeated often gang rape either committed suicide, or just internalised that "rape is not so bad" to cope.

600 thousand people were also kidnapped (from a country of less than 10 million) and forced into labour camps for decades, with a third never coming home. This also specifically targeted the local German-Hungarian population (which had nothing to do with Germany, it was a diaspora dating back long into medieval times), so it can also qualify as genocide.

There were also examples of brutal torture, keeping people in cells small enough they couldn't even sit down, and so on. Had nothing to do with communism, some of the direst things were actually done against communists who wanted to be free from Soviet occupation. It was pure Russian imperialism.

And truth be told, we got off easy compared to some other countries.

And finally, colonialism being "western" in an inherently racist way to view the world. East Asian empires also had colonies, so did most empires around the world.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In case it's not just a joke, basically if you press the entire pedal, that's rudder, and if you push with your toes and "rotate" the pedal forwards, that's the wheel brake. If you apply the wheel brake, your ankle stays in the same spot, but your foot tilts forward.

At least that's how it is in most planes, I've never flown a 737, only small ones and an A321 simulator.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

In Hungarian, to pull a woman is in fact slang meaning to have sex with her.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Simple words are usually those that stayed with a language the longest.

Hungarian also has a very high percentage of loanwords, and a lot of those very old ancient non-compound non-calque non-loanwords are single syllable.

Like:

Horse = Ló
Road = Út
Bridge = Híd
Army = Had
Herd of horses = Mén

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We took that into Hungarian

Fog = Tooth
Kerék = Wheel
Fogaskerék = Toothywheel = Cog

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”

Doesn't the 737 have toe brakes?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I mean in the current dictatorships, where it's a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by Marxist terms, it is usually one dictator and the setup is fairly hierarchical.

Why is it called a dictatorship then?

 

So since Google and Meta banned political ads, the Hungarian government is trying different ways to get election ads to the people, since at this point they are going to lose and very possibly prosecuted for various crimes like embezzlement and child rape.

The booming disembodied voice is saying (my comments in parentheses):

Twenty years ago at Röszke (southern border town of Hungary), something happened that we can never forget. Hordes of migrants appeared on the border, not with good intentions, not with papers, not with requests, but with stones, sticks and violence. They didn't ask for admission, they tried to break through the fence. The defenders of our country opposed them, stopped those that didn't respect our laws, borders or our homeland. We didn't retreat, we defended Hungary, but the fight has not ended. Brussels is fining us 400 million forints daily because we don't want to let aliens in. But there are those that would give in to Brussels and would let migrants in. We see where this led in Western Europe...

The recording cuts away here.

We now live in security. But only one bad choice/election (the word means both in Hungarian), and there goes our peace, and our security as well. One bad choice/election, and we will also become and immigrant country. Get to know what we could lose on "rosszvalasztas.hu" (badchoice/election.hu).

 

Hey, these photos were taken in Hungary today, aerial refueling of F/A-18E Super Hornets as seen from the ground.

And here are some extra courtesy of the same guy, from his friend who works as a refueling tech.

 

The POV presented in the article is one POV in Hungary, the country is divided on the issue but mostly does not care beyond a small minority.

People cite the band shouting "Up Hamas, up Hezbollah" on this concert as justification for the ban.

 

I know it's not the best source, but all the relevant news from outlets that are not outright Russian disinfo are only in Hungarian.

These are trusted, well read and researched articles in Hungarian if you want to check:

https://hu.euronews.com/2025/07/19/a-hiresztelesekkel-ellentetben-nem-egett-le-a-karpataljai-templom-es-a-gyujtogatot-is-elfo

https://telex.hu/kulfold/2025/07/20/ukrajna-karpatalja-elozetes-letartoztatas-rongalas-templom

 

Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.

 

Edit:
Internal headline on the page:
The 'strongman' PM who inspired Trump's playbook - but now finds his power crumbling

Headline from metadata and BBC's search is the one in the title.

Edit2: Changed headline to the apparently new one.

 

Length: 1:39:20

Immigrants, populism, border fences, electoral autocracy.

If you are interested about how and why Hungary is as it is, this is a documentary just released by Partizán, the most viewed Hungarian news outlet independent from the Hungarian government.

The subtitles are not autogenerated but hand-made by the news outlet.

The outlet has a decidedly leftist slant even by European standards, but are considered mainstream in Hungary.

 

So creating a new repo on GitHub, you get a set of getting started steps. They changed the default branchname to "main" from "master" due to its connotations with slavery.

When I create a new repo now, the initial getting started steps recommend creating a branch named "master" as opposed to "main" as it was a while ago.

It's especially weird since the line git branch -M master is completely unnecessary, since git init still sets you up with a "master" branch.

Disclaimer: I have a bunch of private repos, and my default branchnames are pretty much all "master".

Is this a recent change?

Edit: Mystery solved, my default branchname is "master". Thanks bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

 

I mean, he's not wrong, but apparently saying the quiet part out loud became a faux pas in Hungary recently.

It's not as pithy as Orbán's "Rosatom will buy it for me" about RTL Hungary though.

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