diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -3,10 +3,23 @@
   rev: v2.4.0
   hooks:
   - id: trailing-whitespace
-  - id: flake8
   - id: check-json
   - id: check-yaml
 
+# we need the master of pyflakes to have support for @overload on methods,
+# so we use a local config for now
+# - repo: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8
+#   hooks:
+#   - id: flake8
+- repo: local
+  hooks:
+  - id: flake8
+    name: flake8
+    entry: flake8
+    pass_filenames: true
+    language: system
+    types: [python]
+
 - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
   rev: v1.16.0
   hooks:
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 [testenv:flake8]
 skip_install = true
 deps =
+  git+https://github.com/PyCQA/pyflakes.git
   flake8
 commands =
   {envpython} -m flake8