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Fondor Haulcraft @dayuan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Saw a photo of a BART operator from the 70s and incredible energy

BART operator in a jumpsuit and a big 70s haircut, looking like he’s out of a modestly-budgeted 70s sci-fi movie since the interior’s all white with an orange floor

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

GOG: www.gog.com/en/games?dev...

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Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 05/10/2026

DOOM... on a Vectrex.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our poster "A Spatio-Temporal Acceleration Framework for Order-Independent Transparency" will be presented at Pacific Graphics 2026 in Singapore. www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All my life I had to argue with people that computer games do not cause violence and you should not conflate games with reality, because computer simulations are not real and never will be. But of course that discussion can always get more stupid. www.404media.co/someone-tort...

404media.co

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

About those weird XML comments and GUID entries in my page and RSS feed: A blog post about cryptographically securing my website against tampering, with EdDSA signatures and GnuPG. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...

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Signed, Tob

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I never owned a TV because all of them have tech-aids, but holy shit this needs a really nice GDPR investigation!

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The scraping will continue until Corpo-AI-morale improves!

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian has now arrived at Version Two, a much improved state compared to the last release. Read my post to see what is new and how to write custom extraction for enshittified pages into beautiful RSS/Atom feeds! www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...

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The RSS Librarian - Version Two

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LMAO Use Redirector and forward *x.com/* to xxcancel.com/$2 to load balance across them, or similarly with Tzeentch at alternator.hstn.me#nitter

codeberg.org

Instances

Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Amazing, feels like living in Germany in the 90s again. Unlike movies, games were not considered art and therefore not exempt from displaying certain symbols. Good US corporations are catching up LMAO retro-replay.com/wolfenstein-...

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crazy scenery from my hike to the #Morteratsch glacier yesterday: I go up, there's a cave I visited not too long ago. I come back 2.5 hours later, the front collapsed.

A view from the top showing the Morteratsch glacier and a cave opening.

The same cave opening collapsed 2.5 hours later.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some troglodyte sent a cease-and-desist to the #Nitter maintainers because muh scraping LMAO yet I can still follow accounts via #RSSBridge. Good luck to Elon fighting a gazillion instances. Also, stay free in the Fediverse: graphics.social/@thefranke

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Tobias A. Franke (@thefranke@graphics.social)

529 Posts, 158 Following, 344 Followers · Principal Game Engine Architect at Huawei. Previously: Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity, Research Scientist at Fraunhofer, Tech-Priest at Cult Mechanicus.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Apple and Google will be sanctioned to continue this farce everywhere because without full control over third-party sources, ChatControl and Age Verification will not work. reclaimthenet.org/google-start...

reclaimthenet.org

Google Starts Asking for Developers' Papers on September 30

The thing that made Android worth choosing is now a setting you have to search for.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Taking away your consumer rights is a business decision, NOT a technical necessity." www.youtube.com/shorts/7os0q... Exhibit A: Thick as Thieves from Otherside Entertainment will eventually shut down their servers, so they added a peer-to-peer play option store.steampowered.com/news/app/334...

youtube.com

Don't let them gaslight you.

YouTube video by Stop Killing Games

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

**Canonical profile reminder** The Fediverse is the only place I have meaningful engagement. Add me here: graphics.social/@thefranke Hellhole corporate traps I copy posts to: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thef... Xitter: x.com/thefranke LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thefranke

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm excited to announce a first development release of nanobind 3.0. It introduces *split mode*, a new distribution model where a single Python wheel runs across all Python versions, while achieving outstanding performance and gaining rather than losing features! 🧵

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sad news: farside.link, the alternative frontend redirector, has shut down. However, you can roll your own! Use Tzeentch and update in a cronjob with the merge tool. Source: github.com/thefranke/tz... Read more: www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...

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Redirect everything

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm kind of stumped: He's clearly technically versed, and clearly able to debug the issue with a dead-simple test (i.e. run it on another OS) that doesn't even take that long to do. Looks like rage in the moment got the better of him.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After running de-bloaters and privacy scripts and tools that prevent default overrides and turning off telemetry everywhere and installing low-latency enhancements (LOL) maybe, just maybe, the spaghettified OS is at fault. VLC launches in 0.42 seconds on my M4.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lots of blogs I read use Mathjax for equations, which however do not get rendered in many feed-readers due to <script> being invalid in RSS. In this post I describe how to setup Latex-to-MathML pre-baking for a webpages and RSS feeds using Jekyll. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/08/...

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Pre-baked MathML in Jekyll

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The solution is simple: Do not trust governments nor corporations. Encrypt locally before uploading it anywhere, or simply don't upload at all.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Running a @gog.com Library on Linux wasn't a big issue with clients like Minigalaxy, but I look so forward to having Galaxy for Linux. I like my achievements! Also, I will never have to touch a Windows installation again. That OS is unsalvageable. www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-...

gamingonlinux.com

GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux

GOG previously said they planned to look closer at Linux, and that it was the next major frontier - and they're now working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Or... 1856 LOL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eu...

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know this is not a healthy way to deal with tech, but I'll never give up my existing, dumb hardware after reading this. Holy shit! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895...

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LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent | Hacker News

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don't solve the problem at the predators, just monitor everyone without a clear suspect. #ChatControl @eppgroup.bsky.social are morons of the highest order, and subverted agents if I am forgiving. Also, LOOK AT THOSE CORPORATE PARTNERS FROM THEIR SOURCE LMAO: missingkids.org/supportus/ou...

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Good call from the European Peeping Party @eppgroup.bsky.social! Let's name it for what it is: - Reading someone's mail like disgusting Stasi pigs - Spying without prior cause - Violating GDPR - Guilty until proven innocent - Protecting big tech shareholder value - Wanna have some EU user data?

EPP posting nonsense on Chat Control again

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Very cool project to turn a GrapheneOS phone into a laptop. I've been toying around with a setup like this as well, only with a dedicated monitor instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxX4...

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My Phone Is Now a Laptop!

YouTube video by Macro USB

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Remember the faces of the @eppgroup.bsky.social in your local elections. These are the so called "representatives" that voted to put EVERYONE under the radar with the assumption of "guilty until proven innocent". Everyone in the EPP should loose their seat immediately just for the suggestion.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey Fidias Panayiotou, perhaps you can file a motion that instead of trying to ban the ESN we can instead pivot to @eppgroup.bsky.social and adjacent EU "representative lawmakers" for: - not representing citizens - violating the presumption of innocence - SELLING EU DATA TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@president.europarl.europa.eu Roberta Metsola and @eppgroup.bsky.social, just like @ylvajohansson.se, are handing sovereign EU data to foreign big tech companies and intelligence services. You won't get child safety, but more ads! Re-read this article: balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/w...

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Diese Personen haben für die #ChatKontrolle und gegen die Unschuldsvermutung gestimmt. Zum Schutz des Grundgesetz muss jedem sofort das Amt entzogen werden.

All MEPs from Germany who voted to extend ChatControl 1.0

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"We will keep voting until we get the correct result" @eppgroup.bsky.social and Roberta Metsola are morons and traitors sponsored by foreign powers to directly hand EU data to big tech, and of course they will scan those messages to insert ads. EPP must not be allowed to exist anymore!

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

CachyOS baby! Works like a charm for gaming

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We will present our latest work today at CGl 2026! STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering 📅 Tuesday 7 July, 12:30-12:45 BST (online) www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...

The cover slide for "STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering"

https://www.tobias-franke.eu/publications/tsopouridis26starnt/index.html

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

LOL amazing. I am too old school because I only look at "people I follow, in chronological order". To me it feels like that those who cry censorship because recommendation algorithm got tweaked seem to suffer from some really bad version of Stockholm syndrome.

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My timeline is full of dimwitted posts like "resist UK taking over Youtube algorithm", or "US platforms are free bc they refuse EU mandates". If you hand over your feed to a centralized entity/algorithm, then IT'S NOT YOUR FEED and that will be abused either way!

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The best kind of problems are those you'll never run into. Install #LineageOS today, start using F-Droid and never turn back. lineageos.org/Developer-Ve...

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