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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

At this point I'm just so fucking tired of this shit I closed the tab

Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Since there are people reviving discontinued services by building unofficial servers for them, did anyone do it for Path? It was one of those early 2010s apps when everyone was still figuring out what can be done with smartphones (and they themselves were […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Easily one of my least-favorite things about modern operating systems is how addicted they are to doing shit in the background on their own with zero feedback to you the user, but blocking things like installing apps for MINUTES while it happens. Here's me […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Heh, I half-expected this to not work, but it did work

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Oh for fuck's sake, again?! I only just got used to the previous UI, but of course software development can't be stopped, can it

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Why would anyone even consider eating one of these? What kind of person do you have to be for that to cross your mind at all 🤔🤔 Also I suppose you can eat it if you can't read English.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@dansup MastoAPI discrimination :( A better way to implement this sort of thing would've been to send an ActivityPub DM with a code or a link. I've already seen this somewhere. This way you only use a common ActivityPub feature and don't depend on each server's client API at all.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@dansup where does this come from? What are "federated timelines", Smithereen never had these

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I've somehow gotten better at seeing AI-generated readmes. It just happens to me subconsciously, I start reading it and feel like something is off, and then I notice: - things phrased the way no human would - too many damn tables - everything comes in threes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Now that Smithereen has a "fetch all replies" feature similar to Mastodon's, I get quite annoyed whenever I run into a post hosted on a server that doesn't expose the `replies` collection, like some versions of Misskey.

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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)

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

Or they'd just add some noise as a semi-transparent overlay. Or some OSD text, also as a semi-transparent overlay. But that's not how this stuff works! At least do it to luminance and chrominance separately to have any chance of it looking realistic. OSD […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@dansup I made an attempt at marketing it. It wasn't very successful. Yes, it's like VK, but it's also like Facebook, which is known worldwide.

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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 · 27/09/2026

And of course it does work now that I enabled that setting. Now, what else should I install? This obviously doesn't support MV2 extensions, so no uBO, but is uBO Lite still better than Vivaldi's built-in ad blocker? Some sort of JS toggle that doesn't […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

I got curious what the inspect link does. It does this

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

hmmmmmmmm..... Why is a user script manager not allowed to load user scripts by default

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

...I don't think it works. It's the same exact script I use on the computer, it does work there

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

"it looks like you're trying to write a userscript on your phone, do you need help"

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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 · 20/09/2026

Musk must've pivoted to making trashcans.

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

And all apps will even handle it correctly since it's the same window insets that 3-button navigation uses in landscape on phones

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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 · 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 · 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 · 04/09/2026

@andypiper btw one of the two remaining analog channels in St Petersburg still had teletext until sometime earlier this year

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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 · 28/08/2026

@Edent ah. For some reason I thought you were talking about profile descriptions, it does work in those. That hashtag syntax does appear to work for me in fields as well though (mastodon.social rewrites the URL to its own domain here)

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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 · 25/08/2026

what the fuck even is a septendecillion lmao

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@Edent I like the way it's implemented in Russia. These kinds of messages never come as "emergency alerts". I don't think our carriers even have the technical capability of sending these. They are just regular SMS messages. You can block the sender if you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

By the way they keep throwing generic troubleshooting steps at me, completely ignoring what I'm saying

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

It seems like their script simply doesn't account for the very idea of the issue being on their side. Sigh. Computers are the most predictable and most precise machines that humans have ever built, so it really rubs me the wrong way when someone says "try these things, some of them might help".

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