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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Why 4 in particular? Why not 1, or 5, or 10, or 204? (Instagram DMs)

Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

One cursed thing after having messed with analog video too much is that I now see how unrealistic all those "VHS" effects are that some youtubers love so much. For example, they'd just overlay some horizontal stripes of noise on the image to show "fast forward". But, when fast forwarding a real […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

When it comes to modern software, where is the line between a backdoor and automatic updates?

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Apple's threat model for macOS is... interesting. You need permissions for damn near everything, but somehow, directly communicating with a USB device isn't one of those things. Record audio? Gonna need a permission for that, and a bright orange badge will appear in the menu bar the whole time […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I think I know why people on Instagram post more stories than every other type of content. Stories are the only type of content there that isn't subject to the algorithm. You only see stories from people you follow. They are sorted somewhat algorithmically, but I believe it's just based on how […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Wow, Vivaldi on Android has extensions now. That's very cool, I didn't expect that. I mean, I browse HN from my phone for the most part, so the simple AI-deemphasizing userscript I made for it a while ago is gonna be quite useful there for example. I have a bunch of other extensions installed […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@TechConnectify giving a bit of a rant about most software being perpetually unfinished was entirely unexpected but very welcome. youtu.be/0KoeY54M5VA?t=2735

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

#Smithereen update: fetching all replies like Mastodon does it. Smithereen was one of the first fediverse projects to implement reply fetching, if not *the* first one, but so far it has only happened when you loaded a post using the search. Now remote […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Early CRTs have circular screens. Video messages in modern messaging apps are circles. What if...

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Musk must've pivoted to making trashcans.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Just spent a few hours looking for a very specific Finnish TV commercial I vaguely remember seeing as a kid. I'm still not sure if I found it. I even tried AI. The only thing it meaningfully helped with was the correct spelling of the name of that drink. I remembered it as "мяукатти", it's […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Seemingly all iOS developers are excited about their apps breaking on the iPhone Duo. Android development is so boring in this regard. We've had folding devices for years now but every Android device that came out in the last 10 years has the status bar at the top of the screen. The API allows […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

An idea: a Mac app called iTrustMyself. It runs in the background and listens for file system changes. When a new file is created, if it has the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute, the app removes it, effectively defeating what Apple calls "security".

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm somewhat surprised that in macOS Sequoia, the WindowServer process doesn't leak memory. Also surprised that they didn't backport that fix to Sonoma.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Someone at Apple looked at this transition and said: yeah, looks good to me, let's ship it

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

There's hardly anything that can make a piece of text feel more non-human to me than the non-ironic use of ™ and ®. Somehow even AI slop feels slightly less alienating than this.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

AGI any moment now. And if that's version 1.1, I'm afraid to think what did 1.0 look like. Not shown: it adds a mutation observer to document.body and calls that focusChatInput() function from it. The selector for the text input is at least correct, I checked.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

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Poople - The Official Daily Word Game

The game where you turn words into poop! New game every day. Can you find the shortest path?

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Now that there's an iPhone with the status bar on the side of the screen, I imagine Chinese Android phone manufacturers looking at that, thinking "you could do THAT?!", and already contemplating doing very unholy things to SystemUI in their next foldables and maybe even tablets

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

It's not just a crease, it's a Liquid Retina XDR Crease™

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@akareilly/11724270759… I mostly agree but I don't want updates. I want software that's finished and bug-free.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Is the folding iPhone as impractical as the folding Samsung phones?

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Today is the last day of nice weather this year.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/11723… Copyright *might* work if we make it drastically shorter (5 years at most), non-transferable, and maybe even only assignable to individuals. But I largely agree with the sentiment.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

For once, a good use of AI: an Android keyboard app that uses a small on-device language model to analyze what you write and tells you what you will be charged with according to Russian law. github.com/MShverdiakov/souchastnik

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Why are there no modchips for jailbreaking iPhones the same way there are for game consoles?

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I'm amazed by the creativity of Telegram spammers. Recently, Telegram added this feature for bots, intended for one-off AI invocations, where you can mention a bot in a message, and the bot gets to reply to you in the same chat despite not being its member […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I'm honestly surprised by how well modern Macs run modern Windows games, with decent settings too

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Why does macOS not have a GUI tool to make symlinks?!

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Why do so many websites with articles assume that you have a continuous internet connection for the entire duration of you reading the article?

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Here's a cursed idea. So, many modern screens can display colors that are brighter than the regular #FFFFFF white. I know that these color codes are simply 3 bytes in hex, but hear me out... what if we use the next letters in the alphabet for those HDR values. #ZZ00ZZ would be a retina-searing […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Every time I go outside when it's a slight drizzle, I don't take my umbrella and it almost always turns into a full rain and I get soaked. But when I do take it, it never rains.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

A tiny bit envious to those who had heat waves this year. This summer must be the coldest one I've ever experienced. August isn't even over yet but I already wish they'd turn on central heating.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I removed these a few times from my classmates' computers. The worst ones displayed an uncloseable window over everything, containing some 18+ imagery and saying "thank you for installing this banner for quick access to our porn site" lmao. No proof on that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Oh for fuck's sake. Wasn't getting the complete list of installed apps put behind a permission to prevent this exact thing happening? Isn't there a Google Play policy that you only get this permission if your app legitimately needs to get the list of all […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

It turns out Russian children's songs are BRUTAL sometimes. There's one about a grasshopper, that had a nice life, was friendly to flies, but got eaten by a frog.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Another realization how us millennials are a weird generation: the older generations have close to zero moving pictures of them, while the younger ones have had their entire lives filmed. For us, it's in the middle, and that's something that will never happen again. Video cameras were expensive […]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

A recurring theme in my conversations with people trying to get me to use AI is that it would "improve my workflow". But what if I'm already completely satisfied with my workflow, and am not looking to "improve" it any way whatsoever? To that, seemingly no one has an answer.

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