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Quinn Comendant

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I live in remote places and complain about internet connectivity. Perpetual traveller, practically living out of a suitcase since 1999. Founder–engineer at Strangecode […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@com, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@streetcomplete For a more mature and advanced OpenStreetMap editor for iOS, Go Map!! is really good. apps.apple.com/app/id592990211
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Go Map!! App - App Store
Download Go Map!! by Bryce Cogswell on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Go Map!!.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Thinking a lot about these water fountains I saw in Bergama, Turkey. Does everyone just share one cup? 🤔
A kitschy plastic coffee cup tied to a spigot with a string. The spigot comes out of a low stone pillar about knee height, with a water basin below at the foot.A kitschy plastic coffee cup tied to a spigot with a string. The spigot comes out of a low stone pillar about knee height, with a water basin below at the foot.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
StreetComplete (@streetcomplete) now has a iOS beta version: testflight.apple.com/join/K1u3eUU5 > This application finds missing OpenStreetMap map data in the user's vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Users can solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Remember Hype Machine – hypem.com ? They’re working on a new version of the app, now in beta: testflight.apple.com/join/nw947RMd
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Hype Machine
The place for the best new music. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love — and it all ends up here.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
@VeroniqueB99 - The European Union created blacklists of tax havens. - Multiple countries implemented stricter financial transparency laws. - Brazil's largest organized-crime group had $26M in assets frozen. - A Mossack Fonseca partner was convicted in Germany of aiding €13M in tax losses. - […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
@VeroniqueB99 Not to detract from your point (nothing happened in the US!), but for nuance, elsewhere the Panama Papers led to: - Over 82 countries launched investigations based on the revelations. - By 2021, governments had recovered more than $1.36 billion in back taxes and penalties […]
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Some people say chat is missing in the new ChatGPT/Codex app. This is not true. There is: - New chat - Temporary chat - Quick chat - New standalone chat - Open side chat - Continue in new chat Also these masterpieces: - Switch chat... (description: “Search […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
The keyboard shortcuts settings screen from ChatGPT on macOS. It shows a list of dozens of chat-related functions and their hotkeys.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
[spider] “Person detected at 3:13 a.m.” – a nocturnal creature captured on our security camera.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
@hartificial.de URL has a stray “h”.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
I believe I’ve identified why the hotel WiFi is shit.
Close-up of an ethernet patch cable RJ45 connector that has been painted, including its metal pins.
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Doctor M. Popular @docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
Footage from the SF Yo-Yo Club, Jun 13th 2026. #SanFrancisco #yoyo
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
@glyph I think this is a chain in Japan. I saw one in Kyoto and desperately wanted to take a photo but before getting close enough the attendants of the shop overwhelmed with their obsessive dedication to service and I was too shy to continue.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
@MichalBryxi Oh wow, it looks terrible on mobile (on my small phone the map is almost completely hidden). And no way to hide the panels – yikes. 😅 FWIW, this button activates the current GPS location.
The previous screenshot with the button to activate My Location indicated with a read arrow.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
@MichalBryxi geojson.io is a free and OSS tool created by Mapbox that can be used to publish any type of GIS data by linking to it. Use the `data=<URL>` parameter, like this: geojson.io/?data=https%3A%2F%2Fs.st… I think it fulfills all your reqs. It displays […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
OH: “I like how when I’m high on caffeine it feels like someone is going to arrest me for feeling suspicious.”
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
RE: fedi.notesbylex.com/@lex/1166202427… I cried reading this story. I know that dissonant confluence of modern expectations and old-world dreamscape.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
@ElenLeFoll Unfortunately it’s impossible to test this now that the veracity of the study has been revealed.
ChatGPT GPT 5.5 on May 13, 2026:

“The term you’re looking for is bixonimania.

Important caveat: bixonimania is not a real, recognized dermatologic diagnosis. It was a fabricated condition planted in bogus papers to test whether AI systems would repeat fake medical information. Nature reported that it “doesn’t exist” outside those bogus papers, and that AI chatbots later described it as real.  

Also, the broader claim is weak: a JAAD paper found that short-term blue-light exposure from electronic devices did not worsen melasma, and a later consensus source states there is no evidence that long-term exposure to very low-intensity blue light from screens stimulates pigmentation. “
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
[Deceptive California ballot initiative] I see people being misled by the deceptively named “Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act” (A.G. file 25-0041A1). It will have zero benefit for normies. It doesn’t cut current taxes, and there is no pending new tax aimed at ordinary-income […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Bullshit website blocks copy/cut/paste? This is the bookmarklet to unblock it (works everywhere except <iframe>): ``` javascript:void(['copy','cut','paste'].forEach(e=>document.addEventListener(e,e=>{e.stopImmediatePropagation()},!0))) ```
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
The NASA Artemis II launch is T-minus three hours! The livestream is playing now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
@gedankenstuecke @richlv In Mexico, there are very few products that have five seals. They're very esoteric! and unhealthy!
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
@gedankenstuecke @richlv I think it needs a fifth seal, “🛑 It's a huge fucking bucket of Nutella.”
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
@MonaApp Can we have an option to use VIM-style movement hotkeys (H, J, K, L)?
Screenshot of Mona’s *Move Focus* menu with the four directions bound to hotkeys W S A D.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
@cdf1982 I use the hosted GLM from Z.ai. My MBP only has 32 GB, the models it can run are toys – they can write working code and do simple refactors, but are dumb af and slow.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
@cdf1982 Claude Code already has built-in web fetch and web search tools. I don’t think Brave Search would provide much value. (Unless you’re using CC with non-Claude models that don’t provide search tools.) I’m using GLM-4.7 with Pi agent and added `brave-search` (with LLM Context retrieval) […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
Deleting a couple node_modules …
Trash can emptying progress bar showing 421,739 items deleted.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
Bike touring, in a nutshell. This gloriously unhinged soul bikepacked 1,409 km across Lapland in winter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2zen58w6M… #bikePacking
A sill frame from the documentary film by Joffrey Maluski, “The Kaamos Road.” They are taking a selfie video while riding their bike in the snow. The subtitles say, “Every day, all day long, it hurts so much.”
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
@chrastecky Oops, I misread you – you don’t know anyone who *hasn’t* switched to Valkey. Ok, yeah, must be a bubble. 🤷‍♂️
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
@chrastecky Exactly – hardly anyone! Only 5% of respondents used it in 2025 (and 65% of them want to continue doing so).
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
Here’s the previous list from 2024: mastodon.social/@com/11285560221807…
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Filtering the survey results for admired but unpopular #tech #tools reveals hidden gems: Phoenix (84% admire, 2% use) Ruff (84%, 3%) Elixir (77%, 2%) Bun (76%, 4%) Hetzner (75%, 5%) Roslyn (74%, 2%) Tauri (74%, 2%) Godot (74%, 4%) Zig (74%, 1%) Signal (74%, 11%) Htmx (73%, 3%) Nix (73%, 3%) DataGrip (73%, 5%) Hugging Face (73%, 5%) Pacman (73%, 5%) Rider (73%, 6%) Svelte (73%, 7%) Astro (72%, 3%) Datomic (71%, 0.4%) ZMK (71%, 1%) Matrix (71%, 3%) DuckDB (70%, 1%) Ktor (70%, 1%) Linear (70%, 3%)
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
19. Neovim (74%, 13%) – Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor. 20. Svelte (62%, 11%) – Compiler-based UI framework. 21. C++23 (65%, 12%) – ISO C++ language standard (2023). 22. Cargo (71%, 14%) – Rust build tool and package manager. 23. Obsidian (67%, 14%) – Markdown-based knowledge base app. 24 […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
3. Gleam (71%, 3%) – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM (and JS). 4. Phoenix (79%, 4%) – Web dev framework for Elixir. 5. Axum (76%, 4%) – HTTP routing and request library for Rust. 6. RustRover (63%, 4%) – JetBrains IDE for Rust. 7. Valkey (65%, 5%) – Open-source in-memory key-value datastore […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/ai_p… #ai
Survey of almost 6,000 corporate executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia shows over 80% see no AI impact on employment or productivity.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” —James Gleick, The Information (2011)
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
I propose *SnaS* (software, not a service) as the initialism for software that is owned rather than rented (i.e., the opposite of *SaaS*). #rfc
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
#TIL: Phrogging brinkshome.com/smartcenter/how-to-t… PS: You can’t just make up “PH…” words for every crime; it has to involve a PHone (or the internet). 🤦‍♂️
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How to Know If Someone is Phrogging My Home
Phrogging is when someone secretly lives in another person's home without their knowledge. Here are a few signs of a Phrogger in your home.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
Seen in a bathroom in Mexico City. #cdmx
A sign on a door that says:

Gringos
please stop flushing toilet paper
it is fucking up our system royally
I Beg You
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
RE: swecyb.com/@anderseknert/1160569502… crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-…
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2024
How to watch the Olympic Games and get Peacock Premium for free: 1. Use a USA VPN. 2. Sign up for the free 2-week trial of Instacart+ at www.instacart.com/instacart-plus (no credit card required; use any USA address). It includes Peacock Premium. 3 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A screenshot of the Peacock offer from Instacart+. It says:

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Your Instacart+ membership unlocks Peacock at no extra cost

Benefits include:

- Hit movies
- Exclusive originals
- Live sports
- And so much more

By clicking, you will be redirected to Peacock to activate your included Peacock Premium Subscription. Use of the Peacock Service is governed by its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Instacart may remove or modify the Peacock offer at any time, and redemptions of this offer by Instacart+ trial members may be subject to a daily limit. Additional terms apply.

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There are two buttons: `Activate Peacock now` and `Not now`.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2024
Normalize good digital privacy as a high-status trait. #privacy #PrivacyMatters
Harper Stern, a character in the HBO television series “Industry,” is apartment hunting. She enters a flat and the landlady comments, “You've got very good privacy settings.”
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
Colima v0.10.0 just released with support for local AI models, via Krunkit and Ramalama. I chose colima because it's a minimalist alternative to Docker Desktop for running containers, so not pleased that it is growing in scope. But, it might be useful as running local models becomes more useful […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
OpenAI is silently routing GPT‑5.3‑Codex calls to 5.2 for some users if their systems think you’re doing “cyber” work. github.com/openai/codex/issues/1118… They’re gating access to 5.3-Codex for security-related tasks through a verification process: ⁃ […]
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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason. I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found. In particular I'm looking for stuff like: * Data sovereignty * Strong moderation tools […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
@mdiluz Do people like Discourse? github.com/discourse/discourse As a forum, it always seemed nice.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
@xjki I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote by Herbert Simon. Discussing the new abundance of information that printing, mass media and computers begat, he noted that “wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.” He was […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
Vouch is a tiny trust management layer for open source by @mitchellh. Contributors must be explicitly vouched or denounced before their PRs are taken seriously. It treats trust like code: a flat file, diffable, sharable as a web of trust across projects for the dead-internet era […]
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026
@arroz @stroughtonsmith 💯 The only reason AI coding agents are making progress is because they have compilers, linters, LSP diagnostics, and tests as guardrails to enforce tunable code.
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
Evergreen business model? Identify niche subculture → make board game (doesn't have to be good) → profit
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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
Created by artist and writer Jody Barton, Dirty Filthy Bikepacking is the world’s first bikepacking-themed board game to “capture the fun, filth, and freaky times of bikepacking.” shop.jodybarton.co.uk/product/dirty… #bikepacking #games
A colorful board game box titled "Dirty Filthy Bikepacking" featuring six diverse cartoon characters on mountain bikes loaded with gear, standing on a forest trail. The box indicates one hundred twenty crazy game cards, for three to ten players, and describes it as a cooperative bikepacking touring game with added dirt. The design uses bright neon colors including orange, cyan, magenta, and lime green against a dark background.
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