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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 11h

… and the increasingly horrible piles of JavaScript they need to run

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 11h

it solves the problem only half-way, because browsers

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 17h

"hardware improvements" have been consumed by the bloat of operating systems and apps quite evenly for the last few years I wonder if that will change

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 17h

who gave them (both) such horrible-presenting chairs though?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

well, they've been advocating for "disrupting" things as their ultimate goal, so that's very much in line

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

techpolicy.press

Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm somewhat lazily staying on Debian (for ages), is Arch worth taking a look from the perspective of a person with not much time on their hands and wanting things just to work well? (Debian does work well for me)

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

but why? I mean, I always wear one side of the heel first, but how does that connect to being autistic?

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol.

A photo of my dog photo-bombing Devil's Tower. My dog, a husky/malamute/wolf with black and tan fur is sitting in front of the towering rocky pillar with a large smile and tongue hanging out.

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Though neither HIMARS launchers nor its GMLRS-system rockets were used to strike Iran.

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what's going on what did I miss this time

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, whole ediacaran biota story is so fascinating - arguably even more so

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

also full of mold that gave you cancer quicker than anything in food today

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, it's not even a photo, but a still from a rendered "birds eye view" short film, isn't it?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ivana is dead though, this is some spooky business

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

how does one tell those apart?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

regrettably not regrettably

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

scryfall.com/card/mir/258...

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it bothers me more than it should, but which genre of philosophy uses directional acyclic graphs? neoplatonism of some kind?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

how do we know it's ancestral? some common gene all mammals shere, but inactive for therians?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

well, platypus exists, things can get insanely weird at times

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

how settled is the amniote phylogenetic tree these days? I mean, it seems that it's full of conflicting information whether turtles/anapsids were first to branch or snakes/lizards, or even that anapsid branching from the basal amniote was before synapsid/diapsid branching

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

being able to look things up quickly is an ability that existed for like 20 years already and is not a problem

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Ivy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wanna see a scenario when one wants to buy a ticket for one of those, but gets the one for the other instead

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

but you don't have the 666 bus line pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linia_a... (they cancelled it, but has been brought back by Flixbus)

pl.wikipedia.org

Linia autobusowa nr 666 – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you Finns have just an airport we have a whole peninsula en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Pen...

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien sees you from the netherworld

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we're at the stage when the correct baseline assumption for any bigtech harmful action should be active malice, unless proven otherwise (reversing the Hanlon's razor rule of "do not attribute to malice something that can be explained as stupidity")

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

let me guess: this will change nothing for workers elsewhere, but they will run a NYC-dedicated payment "corrector" post-processor active only for NYC workers

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what's the point of having ANY gas generation during solar peak? battery charging?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when the fundamentalists are winning, that's what we get

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

like having six fingers on one hand all of a sudden?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry, but this is an alligator

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

also, another time, no less but three full-size real army depot bayonettes (they are big and heavy!) I remember so many silly things people (including myself) doing in their 20s

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OTOH, people sometimes bring really weird stuff hiking like, once, despite being otherwise heavy with all the ad-hoc outdoor gear, a guy we went up with took a pair of large, battery powered speakers, putting them on backpack sidepockets, to play them while walking with good stereo effect ...

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

pbfcomics.com/comics/carol...

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would object to that sentence (though I expect you don't mean it) Brexit was caused solely by British nincompoopery and nothing else

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

:facepalm: (to non-Polish speakers: "detektyw" is a commonly used Polish word, any Pole will recognize English "detective" as such)

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

she later wrote her crime story (or whatever that was) with a Polish woman named "Lechsinka" famously, there were absolutely no Polish people in the UK in 2010s to ask around whether such name exists and how utterly stupid it sounds

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

all Andor has from George Lucas is the appealing and familiar retrofuturistic aesthetics it could have been made into other aesthetics and be equally as good (think: Andor in Verne's universe)

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one can say many bad things about the post-war communist period, but the change it brought to the lower society classes was immense - prewar Poland had extreme social inequality

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there were parts of Poland still in 1960s that you could have snapped a photo like that in

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what year was the photo taken, if it's OK to ask?

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

looks quite awesome and it's actually way easier to build it now, electrics are much less shape-constrained

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vriesk (..) @vriesk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

which Christian denomination are they mostly associated with? Lutheran? Catholic?

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