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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It really varies a lot. Here in Sweden, I lucked out by finding a good budget brand early (actually liked it more than expensive ones) whereas all other budget brands I've tried were really bad. Also imported from Germany! (Coop X-tra, made by Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee GmBH).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Inte så konstigt förutsatt bra GPS-mottagning. Mobilen kan då bestämma din position med hyfsad noggrannhet och en app kan sedan bevaka om den avvikit för mycket från en viss startposition, lämnat ett visst område, etc.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's basically a thermal printer that can apply two different levels of heat, combined with a special receipt paper that turns black or red depending on the heat applied. There seems to be orange+black and blue+black variants as well. www.zywell.net/dual-color-t...

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Dual-Color Thermal Printers | ZYWELL

Not just black and white—discover how dual-color thermal printers like the ZY-306 help businesses highlight critical info in black and red. Fast, durable, and versatile, it's thermal printing reimagin...

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You probably didn't. The quoted person blocked Bucky, and that blocks the quote (but not the quoted person) for everyone on Bluesky.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

(The illustration above is for "full" red-green color blindness. There are less severe variants where red-sensitive cells are still there, but with weaker detection "performance".)

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's not so strange when you look into how color vision works. There are three kinds of color-sensitive cells, and the kind with specific sensitivity to red light is largely absent in people with "red-green color blindness".

Illustration from the Wikipedia article on congenital red–green color blindness. Caption: Retinal mosaic in the fovea of an individual with normal color vision (left), and protanopia (right). The protanope is completely missing red cones and is therefore a dichromat.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Reminds me of www.arngren.net.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Interesting, I remember the text looking pretty crisp with the default color scheme. Maybe its CRT has drifted out of focus a bit with age?

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A local store had one when I was a kid. I remember it was pretty much a C64, but inexplicably used the VIC-20 color scheme (white background, cyan border, and blue text) on startup. Thinking about it now, I wonder if the C64 color scheme was hard to read on that monitor for some reason?

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

But it's about performing arts and popular culture, not about creating art in general. A painter, sculptor, or author would not be called an "artist" in Swedish. A closer English equivalent would be "performer".

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We do. It's not really limited to singing, but also applies more widely to performing in a show. A member of a rock/pop group would be considered an "artist" even if they don't sing. The term could also apply to dancers, comedians, and magicians who perform as part of a show.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I can't keep up with new releases at all, so they just keep piling up. Elden Ring was the first I thought of, then GTA V. But I've never had a Nintendo console, so that's probably the biggest blind spot.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It is archived here: archive.ph/XUKnH

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I see two ways to make it work: 1) "Different position and orientation" could mean "different position and different orientation" but also "different combination of position and orientation". 2) Orientation could be measured relative to a fix point, like a compass heading. Then it would change.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's Great Grey Wolf Sif from Dark Souls.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ja, han gick från att vara utpräglat marknadsliberal på "Institutet marknadsekonomiskt alternativ för Sverige" (tillsammans med Carl Bildt) till att med tiden bli alltmer socialliberal. Här kan man läsa lite om det förstnämnda: timbro.se/smedjan/nar-...

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SMEDJAN | När Folkpartiet upptäckte nyliberalismen

Caspian Rehbinder: På 1970-talet var Folkpartiet allt annat än marknadsliberalt. Partiet föreslog utvecklingsplaner, ekonomisk planering och såg tillväxten som ett medel för staten att nå sina mål. I ...

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Under en mellanperiod kallade de väl sig "Folkpartiet liberalerna". Det tycker jag gott de kunde ha fortsatt med, som en slags ärlig varudeklaration. Att försöka muta in en ideologi genom partinamnet har jag aldrig riktigt gillat, men som tillnamn är det väl rätt OK.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Detta under den rätt vänsterorienterade Ola Ullsten. Med Bengt Westerberg, som då ansågs som mer höger (p.g.a. "felprogrammerad hjärna" enligt Sten Andersson) fick partiet sedan ett uppsving.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Väljarstödet skiftade en hel del även under namnet Folkpartiet, och låg ibland under 4% enligt opinionsundersökningar mellan valen. I början av 80-talet hade jag en fysiklärare som skojade om att de nu var så små att man kunde betrakta dem som en Folkpartikel.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Do coins dropped there end up somewhere safe? I see the exposed wires at the bottom of the picture and can't help wondering if an inserted coin might short them...

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Bakom betalvägg för mig. Men artikeln är arkiverad och kan hjälpligt läsas här: archive.ph/KJVVl

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

(I believe the internal drive I had was from Conner, not Iomega. The cartridges were much narrower than the slot in your picture. Got it used with a bunch of tapes included. Better than doing backups on floppies, but pretty inconvenient to use regularly.)

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Yeah, I had one that connected to the floppy controller(!). Slow and clunky, and the tapes it supported (QIC-40/QIC-80) didn't have the capacity to back up my hard drive on a single tape. Later got an Iomega Ditto Max to replace it, but that was external, attaching to the parallel port (EPP).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I believe there are many examples, but HDMI is a good one, with people experiencing strange intermittent problems that they think can't possibly be due to a bad cable, then get super surprised when it turned out to be due to a bad cable.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

That digital signals can be affected by problems in the analog domain, often resulting in something between "works perfectly" and "doesn't work at all". Yes, each bit is either 0 or 1, but what happens when there are billions of bits and some are wrong?

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A relative humidity of 100% refers to the maximum concentration of water in air before any of it falls out as precipitation/condensation (disregarding unstable conditions such as supersaturation). So it's sort of a natural upper bound for gaseous air. It varies with temperature and air pressure.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Font problem on Windows 10, maybe? Works for me with both Chrome and Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04.5).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Beautiful, but the 25 fps is a little unfortunate, causing judder on a 60 Hz monitor (like mine, but I would think it's still the most common refresh rate among viewers).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Did they apologize? As an occasionally scatter-brained person I can see how it could happen by mistake, simply forgetting to do the last step of the original plan. But then I would apologize profusely and explain myself.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Is that a self destruct button in the top left corner?

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Ah, då blir det nog svårt att vinna mot vargen! Och även om fighten sker i det fria och det inte räcker att få den på flykt, utan man måste springa efter för att vinna. 🙃

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Vargar är intelligenta och måna om att undvika skador. Några välriktade sparkar mot huvudet kan vara tillräckligt för att den ska ta det säkra före det osäkra och fly. Och vad var det som motiverade vargen från början? Var det människan eller vargen som startade fighten?

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Undrar om kriteriet för att "vinna" definierades på något tydligt sätt, eller om det var upp till den tillfrågade att tolka? Rätt stor skillnad på att "vinna" mot en varg genom att döda eller sätta den ur stridbart skick, och att bara få den på flykten.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They probably write in a way that doesn't require "primo writing brain" at all times. Like getting into a flow state and let the writing unfold without sweating the details, producing a first version that can then be refined (and maybe not requiring your "primo writing brain" for that either).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I don't actually mind the blur in the left picture, probably because reflections in puddles tend to be muddled in real life. I have no intuition for exactly *how* they would be muddled, so the artifice doesn't stand out. But the graininess in the right picture *does* stand out as artificial to me.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Then, the practice I've already had together with some additional tips is typically enough to beat the boss. Not ideal, but better than just skipping the fight, I think. And I often learn things that leave me better equipped to manage future boss fights without help.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My go-to compromise in recent years has been to look up boss strategies when it feels like figuring them out myself would involve too much dying. I wouldn't need to die 17 times before resorting to that, but maybe more than 3 times.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

...and this, right under it:

Partial screenshot of Google search result page, subsection "People also ask", quoting a seemingly appropriate dictionary entry from dictionary.com:

What does umbral mean?

adjective. of or like a shadow or shadowy apparition: Smoke was rising and beginning to coat the clouds a deep, umbral black. In an instant the vampire's corporeal form dematerialized into an umbral form that quickly merged with the surrounding cover of night.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Going by the alt text, I think you misinterpret Google's response. It's not explaining what "nombre" means in Spanish, but what "umbral" means in Spanish. It gives two meanings, and "Nombre masculino" is part of both (meaning "masculine noun"). If asked for the English meaning, you get this:

Screenshot showing Google's "featured snippet" when searching for "meaning of umbral in English":

shadow

Umbral is derived from the Latin word umbra, meaning "shadow". It is also the Spanish and Portuguese word for "threshold" and is sometimes used as a surname in those languages.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Only 18.01 USD. It must have forgotten about my original Half-Life 2 purchase.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's still there, just hidden in a quite baffling way: After you've searched for the thing, click "Tools". The number of hits will now show right below the "Tools" button.

Screenshot showing an example search with "About 37 600 600 results (0.28 seconds)" showing under the "Tools" button.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Also read it like that at first, but then I realized that it could be referring to the Thief sequel (i.e. Thief II) without mentioning it by name, then System Shock, etc.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yeah, on the VIC-20. I had a photocopy of all the opcodes in hex, and converted them to decimal for use in DATA statements. Unlike the PET, the VIC-20 didn't have a built-in monitor for such things. Still remember some opcodes in decimal for that reason (e.g. LDA# being 169 and JMP being 76).

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Tänkte detsamma och hittade precis samma bild, fast i sepitatoner som gjorde den ännu mer lik.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I believe it's a red wolf.

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Xenovance @vgebler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I agree that it looks a little fake. Photos are often digitally "enhanced" these days, for more vivid colors and greater contrast, to the point that it doesn't look very natural. Perhaps it's just that, or some sort of composite. The thumbnail for the video I linked to looks more natural, I think.

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