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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

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

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

@ask current version of Smithereen

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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 · 19/10/2026

@Edent as an always-online person who would really like to eventually wean myself off of that, this sort of thing is creepy af. It's disrespectful towards people you talk to. It's the kind of tech that would be better off just not existing.

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Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

If flying cars were real, they'd have to have two extra turn signals, "up" and "down". Traffic rules would have to be extended into the third dimension as well, you'd yield to anyone coming not only from the right but also from the top.

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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 · 08/10/2026

[the fediverse gay agenda] @dansup of course I did

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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

And of course, if you're adding noise, it should also affect the sync, so the lines themselves should also jitter a bit.

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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 · 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

@bagder I'm impressed with your politeness replying to such a blatantly disrespectful person :D

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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 · 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 · 04/10/2026

@dansup that's impressively poor for a project that started in 2019

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

@dansup and there are only like 3 Smithereen servers out there...

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

@andypiper I suppose it's possible make one by adding a ESP32 to a non-wifi one

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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

@dansup many people add them to highlights tho

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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 · 30/09/2026

@dansup on more tokens to flood the internet with more slop

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

@Edent modern-ish C++ is somewhat good tho. I wrote a small one-off project in Objective-C++ recently (it's a macOS app so it had to have an ObjC part to it)

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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

Of course I didn't enable the developer mode on the phone. It must've carried over through sync.

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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 · 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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