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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 28/09/2026

But doesn't the video perfectly shows how it's useless, because as long as my dude over there is not looking over his shoulder, we can see his super secret stuff and as soon as he looks away, the screen tells us we should pretend we were not looking

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 27/09/2026

I sometimes think the water issue is almost good PR because the water issue is relatively easy to solve compared to the CO₂ emissions and resource depletion it distracts from

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 26/09/2026

But I also noticed many shops other than Amazon suck at remember what products I want to buy. I think many would sell more if they'd just just the browser's local storage instead of relying on cookies

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 26/09/2026

if I remember correctly, shopping carts are the explicit example in the GDPR of functional website behavior that doesn't even require opt-in. (possible exception: interest in pharmaceutical products could be consider sensitive PII)

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Simon William Cree @piratesprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I will simply be the millionth person to say that an LLM is made up of a bunch of servers owned by a company. OpenAI is committing crimes in broad daylight, and we're all supposed to collectively act like we don't understand this because computer or whatever.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

❝ Tom Bombadil and the Witch-king of Angmar are the same person. 1. We never hear of Tom at all during the whole of the First Age. The Nine Rings aren't forged until the Second Age. QED. 2. You never see the two of them together. ⋯ ❞

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Tolkien Crackpot Theories

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 24/09/2026

Based on other things he said I‘m sure he never leaves the house without a car. As a billionaire he won’t be driving himself and probably had servants pick the houses he owns

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 23/09/2026

Real pipes always look like the plumbers used some left over corners that allow them to avoid cuttting a few straight pipes. Doesn't matter that these cost more, the customer pays for the material!

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 22/09/2026

Good articles that are illustrated with AI slop exist. There's also an infinite supply of good articles, so I need to decide quickly what to read and what to ignore. The probability of finding text slop with image slop is very high, so pardon me for ignoring your hard work if you taint it with slop.

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 21/09/2026

I like to tell myself that professionals just do everything digital, but holy cow, even if I'd practice 30 more years I wouldn't come close to that

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 20/09/2026

I mean I could get more markers and give my sketches better colors but I would still disappoint myself. Then again, my linework did get better thanks to Fudenosuke™️ brush pens and the COPIC® Ciao brush nibs do really complement them well.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 20/09/2026

Infinite back and forth between “Don’t make it any harder than it is and just get the best” and “capitalism wants you to believe it’s about the gear, but in reality it’s about putting the time into practice and technique”

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 20/09/2026

Time to vote, #Berlin! 🗳️ Time to decide on a future that is inhabitable, fair, and desirable. Go out and vote!

Hand holding an election letter from the state of Berlin, in front of the sign at a building, pointing towards the polling station

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 19/09/2026

If your computer does illegal things, you are responsible. If your computer does illegal things because of what your customer does with it, there’s laws for that too. That whole please regulate AI is such bullshit. Except perhaps it’s time copyright law is actually enforced

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 18/09/2026

Exactly that kind of thing initially made me think it was a bad idea to not use YouTube embeds, but our stats show that only about half of our visitors accept third party assets, so even without covering edge cases we're doing better already!

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 18/09/2026

I've updated my post about rolling my own #video widget. It now covers a few edge cases that prevented video from playing on our website. www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/respons...

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Responsive video is (almost) easy now

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 13/09/2026

If someone is asked "Are you sexist/racist/islamophobic/antisemitic" and instead of saying "No" try to phrase their believes in what they think are acceptable terms, then that's just a really long "Yes"

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 10/09/2026

The modern history of anything is barely a lifetime old. That's kind of its thing

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 09/09/2026

they used to make much stronger hinges in Apple's foldable AI phablets

Apple's "Knowledge Navigator" mock up thing from the 1990s, it's kind of art deco looking

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026

I had a "woah what is that" moment when they showed how the Duo closed and had a display on the other side too. But the price! Like, I'm not going to walk up to my flat, while watching a video, while texting, while holding a €2000 device in one hand and my keys in the other like that guy

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026

Sure, there are no black bars but is there more than one movie released at 4:3 in the last ten years?

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026

Apple: other foldables' screen aspect ratios are awkward because "movies are boxed in by oversized black bars” A few minutes later:

half-opened iPhone Duo where the bottom acts like a very expensive stand and the top half has a very awkward display ratio

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 09/09/2026

I asked Claude replace all variables with numbers, but now everything is broken I'm devastated please help how solve without fake math

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Goddammit. I was just about to move everything over to them. Thanks for that. IS THERE NO NON-EVIL TECH PROVIDER?!

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

Disabling Proton now and going to try Passwords for real for at least a week to see how it goes 👍👍

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

I can live with logging in after every restart, even if I'd prefer to that with Touch ID instead of manually typing the six digits. I understand 2FA is good, but the code could be the first?

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

Really appreciate your efforts by the way! OS-level secret management with the option to export to other systems is the way to go IMO.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

You mean the macOS Touch ID & Password settings, right? I just checked and to my surpise it worked! Because the other options allow me to skip my PW and use Touch ID instead. I'd expect 'Use Touch ID for autofilling passwords' to be the equivalent: that it would require me to type in my system PW

Screenshot of macOS Touch ID & Password system settings with black boxes to hide some of my actual settings

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

Alright, thank you for following up! I'm using both Proton Pass and 1Password and they don't require me to log in after closing Firefox (1Password used to, until a month or so ago).

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

tnx for asking 😊 They refuse to say "racism is bad, we don't sponsor that." I'd let their sponsoring of a racist YouTuber pass if it was indeed a mistake. But the only wrongdoing they admit is that this case "could distract from our message and divide our community" after it got attention.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

I did that last weekend just to see if I can move away from Proton but: 1. Every time I start Firefox, I have to log in to the iCloud extension with a 2FA code 2. For every password to fill, the iCloud extension requires Touch ID or a password. Super secure, but I don't have time for that

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Vale @vale.rocks · 08/09/2026

Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

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Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

Overviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete.

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

Ahw shit, imagine working at Calendly and announcing your redesign is going live in a week just around the time Google rolls out scheduling links right inside Google Calendar

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 08/09/2026

ooh that's one cool website! (The combo of the low contrast dark mode and my shitty display makes it a bit hard too read, though!)

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Koos Looijesteijn @kooslooijesteijn.net · 06/09/2026

If you reset it to 'default' position, western Europe is right at the point where it's least distorted, so maybe US representatives to the United Nations can admit it's not actually woke:

Equal earth projection with red ovals indicating distortion, with France right between the four least distorted ovals

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