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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 25/06/2025

time to finally hang up this banger of a poster

a poster with Hermaszewski asking WHICH SIDE WILL YOU STAND ON DURING THE WAR WITH SPACE ALIENS?

Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 23/06/2025

Usually when I’m almost-there-but-d’oh-just-yet – things worked out almost alright but I need to adjust the results and it’s easier to do that in place (e.g. because I have _that_ file open elsewhere already and want it to auto-refresh).

a screenshot of subsequent `sort` and `sponge` usages

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 19/06/2025

you may not like it, but this is what peak Corpus Christi long weekend looks like (the family is next door, at the largest indoor water park in Europe)

a weekend getaway setup of a Minisforum AI X1 Pro, Arzopa Z1RC, Keychron Q11 and Logitech M500s

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 17/06/2025

I know, I know, nothing new here. But after all these years I still love this logic to bits. 😍

a Node.js CLI screenshot showing the following logic:

> [] == false
true
> false == []
true
> [] == []
false
> [] == ![]
true

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 09/06/2025

This is a good thread, and I’m super happy that Cloudflare offers all this on their free plan:

Cloudflare’s bot traffic panel, with both fight mode, block AI bots, managing bot traffic with robots.txt and AI Labirynth enabled

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 08/06/2025

I never understood why quote posts of bad takes are better than screenshots – quoting gives them reach, potential new follows, etc., while screenshot is yours to control (and you can still link the post if you really feel like it). bsky.app/profile/cwon...

@cwonus.org

maybe its a bad thing that when someone posts something factually wrong they can just turn off quote posts and replies and vanish the disagreer and the website will make it seem like it never happened

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 05/06/2025

it’s been over twenty years since I had a desktop, but this one was too cute to pass up – plus 24 cores at 65 W, 96 GB RAM, nice semi-galvanic separation of 2 TB Windows & 4 TB Arch Linux NVMes, two 2½ Gb/s Ethernet ports & others I had to catch up on (OCuLink!) 😊 www.minisforum.com/pages/ai-x1-...

`fastfetch` output from my Arch Linux install

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 03/06/2025

given all the other context about the author I can totally believe it was accidental, but then we go back to the whole artist vs art conundrum and ‘if you can’t paint like this you’re literally worse than Hitler’

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 03/06/2025

not to sound tone-deaf to the seriousness of the discussion, but I find it deeply fascinating how the one thing the LLM totally missed is that there are human figures in the original

LLM-based ‘finished’ version of Keith Haring’s ‘Unfinished Painting’

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 02/06/2025

if my science is right then it’s only six more rounds and the 83yo Trzaskowski will finally win with a ‘PiS-supported independent candidate’ in 2055

Nawrocki vs Trzaskowski results showing the former getting 50.89% of the vote, which is 0.15% less than Duda vs Trzaskowski five years ago

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/06/2025

for a second there I thought it was Bespin 😍

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/06/2025

cast my first valid vote in a Polish presidential elections runoff in twenty years, here’s hoping I’ll get to regret it 🤞🤞🤞 (polling stations in kindergartens are the best)

me at the presidential elections polling station

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/06/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: They’ll Eat You for Breakfast chastell.net/1/125/theyll...

a poster for the Na Widelcu eatery in Mier Halls

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 30/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Thin Green Line chastell.net/1/125/thin-g...

a view at the Wicko lake, with half the picture taken by sky and half by water

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 29/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: All Tracks Lead to Warsaw, Again chastell.net/1/125/all-tr...

two people in front of a building with a simplified connection map from Warsaw Central to Warsaw Gdańsk, Warsaw Vilnius, Warsaw East (via Śródmieście, Powiśle & Stadium), Warsaw Okęcie and Warsaw West (via Ochota)

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 28/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Alice’s Adventures in Gumdropsland chastell.net/1/125/alices...

a look into the Warszawa Sweet Factory Store

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 27/05/2025

I came up with this one and it’s even a few percent faster on my i7-9750H (code in alt text)

x.report('partition') do
a_even, a_odd = a.partition(&:even?)
b_even, b_odd = b.partition(&:even?)
(a_even.product(b_odd) + a_odd.product(b_even)).uniq
end

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 27/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Koszykowa in Three Ratios chastell.net/1/125/koszyk...

Le Collet store window on Koszykowa Street

Głowy do Góry barber entrance on Koszykowa Street

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 27/05/2025

I went with a Keychron Q11 last November (assuming I’ll just keep it together if I can’t get used to the split) and to my great surprise I actually love it to bits www.keychron.com/products/key...

a Keychron Q11 split mechanical keyboard

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 26/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Landrynka in the Streets chastell.net/1/125/landry...

a green-and-pink Landrynka bike from Polka Bikes parked in a street

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 25/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Some Work by Night chastell.net/1/125/some-w...

a person putting up an advetising poster at a bus stop in late eveing

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 25/05/2025

TIL the project actually has ‘summarised settings’ – not ‘samuraised settings’ – and I’m more disappointed than when I learnt ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ is not the cute Hanukkah romcom it sounded like.

a still from ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ with three pilots in an airplane

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 25/05/2025

a Ty nie masz Pixela przypadkiem? 😉

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 24/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Synthetic Benchpark chastell.net/1/125/synthe...

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 24/05/2025

It’s been 7 months since I started using Arch as my daily driver, and despite updating packages every day noting ever broke & it’s by far the most stable Linux I ever used. The docs are first class, systemd-boot is absurdly fast, GNOME & KDE on Wayland are a joy to use & I wish I switched earlier. 😇

`fastfetch` result showing my laptop’s configuration

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 24/05/2025

they are an eyebleed from huge concrete slabs, cf. these random and probably as cheap ones from around here 🫠

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 23/05/2025

copium but also they didn’t fuck up ‘Cruella’, so there’s that 🤞

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 23/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Mirów in Build chastell.net/1/125/mirow-...

Tower cranes changing Mirów day in, day out.

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 22/05/2025

THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, @github.com first selecting a page of notifications and then filtering out the ones I have no access to at the moment, showing me in the end five notifications out of 230 🔥

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 22/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Mirów in Acros chastell.net/1/125/mirow-...

an evening-shift worker taking a break in one of Warsaw’s Mirów new buildings

a courier on a scooter in front of one of Warsaw’s Mirów old tenement houses

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 21/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Mirów in Chrome chastell.net/1/125/mirow-...

cyclists in front of a mural with the Norblin Factory

an abstract detail made of metal pieces floating in the wind on a Mirów skyscraper

a view down Prosta Street at the Warsaw Unit skyscraper

a derelict tenement house on Łucka Street with a newly-build apartment building behind it

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 20/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Metropolitan Inside-Out chastell.net/1/125/metrop...

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 20/05/2025

guilty pleasure: got myself a Withings ScanWatch 2 (mostly for health reasons) and couldn’t be happier – works great, looks nice, highly recommended www.withings.com/eu/en/scanwa...

Withings ScanWatch 2 showing SpO₂ level of 98%

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 20/05/2025

I still have two episodes left¹ (watching with my wife as time allows), but around ‘one year later – BBY 1’ I realised there might not be enough time left for a third season. 🥲 ¹ K-2SO is not fully rebuilt yet – and I was never into figurines – but I might just make an exception this one time. 😊

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 19/05/2025

This and ‘Andor’ are a total fan service while also being good. Plus K-2SO, the best of SW droids.

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 19/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Sky Hunter Fifteen Years Later chastell.net/1/125/sky-hu...

Chazme’s and Sepe’s Sky Hunter mural from 2010

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 18/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Cancer Culture chastell.net/1/125/cancer... Please chip in to kya’s cancer meds fundraiser: • Polish: dobropowraca.pl/podopieczny/... • PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/evi...

me in kya’s ‘I’m a small, sad packet’ T-shirt

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 17/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Security and Immaturity chastell.net/1/125/securi...

kids’ drawings on the walls of Warsaw Hospital for Children

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 17/05/2025

ceterum censeo ‘frankly, I think I prefer John Wick to Indiana Jones…’ should be a thing you disclose _before_ getting married

John Wick with Indiana Jones looking from behind him

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 16/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Old Town in Chrome chastell.net/1/125/old-to...

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 15/05/2025

¹⁄₁₂₅: Old Town in Acros chastell.net/1/125/old-to...

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 14/05/2025

I love how – whenever there’s a new Ruby version – `ruby-install --jobs 12 3.4` makes it fewer than three minutes away (including the source download). Everlasting kudos, @postmodern-mod3.bsky.social!

a screenshot showing the last line of `ruby-install --jobs 12 3.4` output and a time of 2m47s

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/05/2025

not really (when you use the only reasonable theme) 😘

the purple fade showing on a crude white background cutout

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 23/04/2025

on one hand: I do understand that for LLMs words don’t mean anything, never did, never will on the other: do words in spreadsheet software don’t mean anything anymore? 😄

a chat with Gemini inside Google Sheets where I ask it to round a number to two most significant digits and it mixes up significant digits with decimal places without batting an eye 😙👌

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 22/04/2025

It’s the other way around, Sage – only pervs should want see them, hence the naming.

the sickos meme but with a pirate saying ‘yar… ha ha ha… yar!’

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 21/04/2025

‘are we doing the web of trust thing again’, he asked, teary-eyed, his mind wandering back to FOSDEM’s traditional key-signing double-queues 🥹

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 21/04/2025

‘czerstwe’ also means ‘fresh’ in some southern Polish dialects, as well as in the widely-used ‘czerstwa staruszka’ (‘fresh / vigorous old lady’) meaning

the ‘czerstwy’ entry in the ‘Great Polish Dictionary’ with the ‘human’ meaning expanded

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 18/04/2025

I bet you love debugging over badly compressed screenshots on Bluesky, so I can open a proper issue, but maybe this is something trivial? Current `main` (b448539) on phlex-validator:

a Bundler Quickdraw loading error with a Zeitwerk stacktrace

bundler: failed to load command: qt (/home/chastell/.gem/ruby/3.4.3/bin/qt)
/home/chastell/.gem/ruby/3.4.3/gems/zeitwerk-2.7.2/lib/zeitwerk/loader/helpers.rb:130:in 'Zeitwerk::Loader::Helpers#cname_for': wrong constant name validator inferred by Zeitwerk::NullInflector from directory (Zeitwerk::NameError)

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