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tante @tante.cc · 16/04/2025

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Spent 3 days at a workshop with basically only academic computer scientists and it is scary how many fundamental democratic rules and concepts are put up for debate constantly. CS won't save us. Not one bit.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

First time using Cheat Engine to change values in a game. Also thinking about how the game logic works as I play it. Good mental exercise!

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I used to play this free game more than 15 years ago. Picked it up again a few days ago, and now running it at a proper speed. Still fun and surprisingly holds a ton of replay value. The dev also made a Battle of Yavin game www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNx...

Star Wars: The Battle of Endor Playthrough

YouTube video by Daisy23

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Lee Harvey Oswald: ima shoot the president Mrs. Oswald: you better be just fucken kidding Lee Harvey Oswald: haha yeah JFK

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Please recommend me books on cults of personality! Seeing so much of it nowadays.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

As today marks five years since the start of lockdown, I remember that they that kept me company when meeting your friends was discouraged. Salute to the silly people who live on my computer!

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Feels nice when people in an online group, who live all over the world, meet up. Sadly I probably won't be one of them, since most live in the US, and why would I want to go there?

Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I don't know what recent technology has actually impressed me. Of course there's a lot of things coming out, but all with terrible social costs

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ever think about how Facebook convinced all the news outlets to pivot to video and then it turned out they were juicing the metrics so it didn't actually work but by that point lots of the media had cut all the resources for text-based news and we're still dealing with the fallout from that now?

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I also became obsessed with the 20th Century Fox logo that preceded the first six Star Wars movies. I wanted to recreate that too, and found a tool that only ran on OS X... so I learned how to build a Hackintosh just for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2n...

Type in the Star Wars or 20th Century Fox Text

YouTube video by SlickTechie

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I was obsessed with Star Wars when I was 15. I remember seeing The Phantom Menace as a child, but it was an airing of Return of the Jedi on TV that completely sucked me in. With a pirated copy of After Effects, I learned how to create lightsaber effects and recreated the famous opening crawl.

A recreation of the Star Wars opening crawl, with the following text:

Experiment LXIX

THE SOLAR MENACE

An energy crisis looms over
planet Earth. The oil fields
that were once thought to
be unlimited have finally
buckled to intense demand.

Two boys standing on two columns under a roofed walkway, each holding a baston, also known as a yantok or arnis stick. The image has been edited so that the bastons resemble lightsabers, one red and one blue.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The band - a group of accomplished musicians themselves - had some fun and managed to sneak in some of the nerdiest music around while backing the biggest thing in Pinoy pop at the moment.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Went back home to have dinner and the recent BINI concert was streaming on the TV. I'm not really a fan, but my ears perked up when the backing band was being introduced and they were playing Overture 1928 by Dream Theater. You can hear it on the fancam below. youtu.be/f08AVv0gRnU?...

youtu.be

BINIVERSE 2025

YouTube video by LENZ VLOGZ

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Nope, but for the crash a few months ago, bruised rib and sprained finger lol

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I already crashed in another part of that road months ago. I couldn't merge to another lane because of vehicles passing there, and I was unable to avoid a large, square pothole in front of me as I was going at speed. I rarely go by that route now.

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It was rush hour, on a payday Friday, which happened to be Valentine's Day. Traffic was nearly at a standstill, and so I went to the middle and filtered through the lanes. However, I found it difficult to return to the bike lane as I neared my exit, and nearly got rear ended.

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2. When I ride on Elliptical Road, I do vehicular cycling. The width of the road and the slip lanes encourage speeding and last minute exits, making it hard to cross intersections using the bike lanes. So I just ride in traffic.

Along Elliptical Road, showing its width.

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I probably should've taken a cab or hitched a ride with my friend instead of risking a crash or mugging.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Made some bad decisions last week. 1. Biked to dinner and then to my friend's house with my trifold, reasoning that I could fold it and bring it inside places. While true, the roads in the area were awful and I couldn't see too well in the dark. Then I decided to ride home at 3AM, on empty streets.

The author's trifold bicycle outside an Indian restaurant.

Inside a house, the same bicycle has been folded and parked in the living room. In the foreground, there is a slatted coffee table built by the author's friend, who is into woodworking.

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🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟧🟧🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟥🟩🟧🟧 Percentile: 95.10 datcreativity.com

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Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

A quick and objective measure of verbal creativity.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Back to MNL from Nueva Ecija

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Passed through the massive expanse of concrete that is the Bocaue Toll Plaza and noticed the billboards facing in different directions, as if to make sure that at least one of them catches a passerby's eye.

Billboards along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) at the Bocaue Toll Plaza

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I want to have the same cinematic look when I make an occasional video. But it's pretty hard to get stabilized footage unless you use a gimbal, which is impractical to carry while riding. There used to be wearable gimbals that you could attach to a chest mount but those aren't sold anymore.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is so well made. I want to document future rides like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aE...

Car-Free Ride - Ayala Ave to Tomas Morato

YouTube video by Padyak Exploration

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Most software doesn't need this level of urgency. I can tell that this is a terrible boss. I checked out his business and it's... analytics for fantasy sports lmao

Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

2. It's the ones that are in marketing and events production that are hustling. They will use AI sometimes, but reluctantly. 3. We talked a lot about how the Internet is much more worthless nowadays.

Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Caught up with my BS CS blockmates. Some things I noticed: 1. The ones who are still doing software, including myself, aren't really thinking about moving up in their careers At this point it's just a means to make money.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Want to tag someone so hard in this

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Mars as the disaster recovery site for civilization" sure is one hell of a take

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

That AZ-104 was one hell of an exam. Can't imagine having to do this without an open MS Learn Halfway through, I really had to use the bathroom. You can take a break, but you won't be able to go back to questions you've already seen. So I had to review 30+ answers while struggling to hold it in

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Though it's understandable given the technical limitations of working with the demo. With Real Love they were already stretching the tape to its limits

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In terms of being the "final" Beatles song, Real Love > Free As A Bird > Now and Then I feel like Real Love just brings everything to a close beautifully. Now and Then kinda doesn't really go anywhere, it would have been more suited as the second one

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Fuck KQL too. Why not just use SQL, Azure? Also while we're at it, I don't like the Azure UI either. And PowerShell. And... There seems to be a pattern here

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco

A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

100 years old, still walking unassisted /and/ making music! Meanwhile I don't think I'll make it to 60 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-X...