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rysiek

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Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.

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profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.

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@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

If anyone is at and would like to grab a beer/coffee, hit me up.

@onepict@chaos.social avatar onepict , to random

Oh look, another industry where Men who support the status quo, don't think politics should be part of art.

Louder for the back of the room.

"Art is political. "

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/arundhati-roy-quits-berlin-film-festival-over-stay-out-of-politics-comment

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@AubreyDeLosDestinos @onepict stratification is a form of disconnection I guess

@IveyJanette@mastodon.social avatar IveyJanette , to random

Cultural appropriation at the Olympics.

Fuck the Olympics.

Fuck NBC.


https://newsone.com/6840590/surya-bonaly-backflip-ice-skating/

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@IveyJanette

> Olympic officials reprimanded Bonaly during the 1992 Winter Olympics for doing the backflip while she practiced. They accused her of using the backflip as a way to intimidate her opponents

What the actual fsck!

Thank you for sharing this, I had no clue.

@tomash@ruby.social avatar tomash , to random

It's hard to scale your way out of shitty code.

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@tomash just one more line just one more line bro and I swear we can fix the codebase dude one more line just one more one more line

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Remembering Ukrainian athletes killed in Putin's invasion is "not compliant with the rules".

Skeleton athlete kicked out over helmet with images of Ukrainians killed in war
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/12/ukraine-vladyslav-heraskevych-disqualified-winter-olympics-skeleton-helmet-protest-war-deaths

Remembrance is not a violation.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

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@NaahraTheScaled @wall_e you joking? link?

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RE: https://ioc.exchange/@wall_e/116057744127931016

IOC bans an Ukrainian athlete from participating because his helmet has photos of Ukrainian athletes killed in Putin's war of imperial conquest…

…and at the same time the official Olympics shop happily sells the 1936 Hitler Olympics merch.

https://mstdn.social/@wall_e/116057744144736501

@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar quinn , to random

I checked and.. the discourse about catsofyore on Bluesky is exactly what you think it is.

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@quinn dare I ask

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@quinn I have completely zero context, no idea who catsofyore is, no idea who "he" is (assuming from context this is not the same person).

Anyway, I'm probably better off not knowing.

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@bituur_esztreym @quinn but who is "he" who harassed CoY off BS

Edit: nvm, got context. Jesus fuck.

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@bituur_esztreym @quinn the funny thing is if you have the Bluesky link, you can access the content ignoring all their different walls:
https://skyview.social/

This is due to how ATproto works (long story) and is not easily fixable by Bluesky without breaking certain assumptions of the protocol itself related to how PDSes work.

But yeah, ignoring is a valid strategy.

@maladictus@mastodon.com.pl avatar maladictus , to random Polish

RE: https://imagazine.pl/2026/02/12/windows-11-aktualizacja-kb5074109-problemy-nvidia-fps/

Następnym krokiem do rozwiązania tego problemu jest usunięcie Windows 11 i zastąpienie go systemem operacyjnym.

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@maladictus spokoloko Microsoft już ma "Szefa Od Jakości"! :blobcatcoffee:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/microsoft_appoints_quality_chief/

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@grymas1000lecia @maladictus nawet jakby było to by nie było.

@darnell@one.darnell.one avatar darnell , to random

All does is win, win…win‽ But honestly, this gives far more power over employees as well as a way to thwart potential strikes.

Yes, SpaceX is critical for 🇺🇸 & many other nations. But it is also a failure of meaningful competition against the private space agency—not just in the 🇺🇸, but on planet Earth.

👉🏾 US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act 🔛 @arstechnica 📰 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/victory-for-elon-musk-us-labor-board-abandons-authority-over-spacex/

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@darnell @arstechnica so, Xitter employees and xAI employees are now also outside of the Labor Relations Act protections?

Uh-huh.

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@darnell @arstechnica to me it smells like the denial of labor protections to Xitter/xAI employees was part of the play here.

@abraham@indieweb.social avatar abraham , to random

Are people finally going to figure out that Discord is not a good community platform? Probably not.

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@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Boundaries, not borders. ✊

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

Did you know that commas can change the meaning of a sentence?
For example...

Ben is in a hurry

vs

Ben is in a comma

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@doofus_canadensis he can't hear you, he's in a hurry

@TheBreadmonkey

@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar quinn , to random

I'm so confused, I am a bear of little brain, can someone explain to me, in simply words... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU COOL A DATA CENTER IN SPACE

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@frumble you need a medium for heat transfer and a huge area for radiating it away (since there is no heat transfer medium in space).

@quinn

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@quinn also, replacing faulty hardware in earthbound datacenters is trivial. Replacing faulty hardware in orbit, uhhhhh.

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@quinn ah fair. Well then we also have an answer to your question:

NOTHING IS EVER ALLOWED TO OVERHEAT!

Oof, that was simple!

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@quinn @frumble yeah. There is simply nothing out there to "engulf" anything. Space is empty.

Think of it this way:

Air is a pretty bad heat transfer medium. Water is a much better heat transfer medium. If you could put a GPU directly in water it would cool faster. That's pretty intuitive.

Space is (basically) empty, it is not even comparable as a heat transfer medium to air, because well there is no medium.

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@quinn @frumble I said "basically". Compared to air or a body of water on Earth's surface, it is negligible.

And if we're nit picking, there is also thermal radiation. That's technically a method of cooling, and one that is used by the Hubble telescope (among others)!

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@quinn @bituur_esztreym

SPIDER-MEN ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE TOO MANY!

There, I fixed it.

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@tobiaspatton @quinn @frumble yeah. These are not serious people. Nobody should be spending all this time taking their bullshit investor-targeting hype seriously.

Musk promised people on Mars "in a decade" over a decade ago. He promised robotaxis "within a decade" over a decade ago.

The guy promises people on Mars but can't get a drunken dude driven home.

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@dianea@lgbtqia.space avatar dianea , to random

Decades ago, we had to manually assign interrupt addresses for external hardware to get internet.

Inside of a vintage computer modified with the image of a telephone operator at a switchboard
ALT
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@dianea and we had to do it against wind and uphill, both ways!

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

I knew Icelanders 🇮🇸 had things Figured Out™ when I learned that Reykjavík public swimming pools (which are like spas: hot tubs, saunas, etc) are open till 22:00; ice cream parlors – till 23:00.

Including during winter.

I am visiting Finland and I just went to a neighborhood sauna. Turns out it is also a bar with some food. There was a quiz show going on in the bar area with maybe 20 people participating, a bit more than half of them only wearing sauna towels.

Finns got stuff Figured Out™. 🇫🇮

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@jameshowell Polish and Turkish.

Why?

@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online avatar billyjoebowers , to random

I seriously thought this was a joke.

They're going to stop doing Presidential approval ratings because Trump is so unpopular.

"Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years "

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

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@billyjoebowers

> The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”

🤡

Oh man you know something is complete bullshit if "thought leadership" is mentioned. :blobcatcoffee:

@soatok@furry.engineer avatar soatok , to random

@0x4d6165 Your post keeps 404ing every time I try to interact with it.

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@0x4d6165 you're making the mistake of assuming it never ever does. It does not follow those laws reliably, but it does follow them every now and then.

And encrypting everything makes it harder for them to follow these laws and do shenanigans. It forces them to blatantly disregard their own laws. Which itself has immense value because it shows other people, people who did not yet get the memo: look, they don't follow their own laws. That's how movements are built.

@soatok @SRAZKVT

@mitch@hachyderm.io avatar mitch , to random

“Wonder what happened to the dinosaurs? This is a baby Blue Heron." https://leviathan-supersystem.tumblr.com/post/149809167589/clayorey-wonder-what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs

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@mitch image description:

a small bird looking suspiciously like a angry feathered velociraptor

@cyb_detective@infosec.exchange avatar cyb_detective , to random

The Epstein Network Visualizer

Free online tool. Filter nodes by names, keywords, tags and categories.

https://epsteinvisualizer.com/

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@dzwiedziu @cyb_detective ah crap. Should have checked more closely. Useless, then.

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@przemelek@pol.social avatar przemelek ten model w żaden sposób nie chroni prywatności. Chcesz się oprzeć na Google i Microsofcie do ochrony prywatności? To żart?

Tu kiedyś nurkowałem w temat tego, jak można myśleć o "chroniącym prywatność" systemie weryfikacji wieku:
https://rys.io/pl/178.html

Ale nawet to, nawet jeśli dodamy dowody o wiedzy zerowej i inne fajerwerki, tak naprawdę działa tylko w świecie "idealnie sferycznej krowy w idealnej próżni". Linkuję tam do wątków, które to wyjaśniają.

@kontrabanda_blog@kontrabanda.net avatar kontrabanda_blog @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

Every project that uses Discord for their community thingy is now effectively saying: papers please, or you are not welcome in our community.

Every. Single. One.

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@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Surely I am not the only person out there who finds it funny that like all spam, male-insecurities-related spam often ends up in the "Junk" folder?

:blobcatpeek:

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random

Good news from Portugal

Landslide win for centre-left candidate António José Seguro in Portugal’s presidential runoff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/08/portugal-election-seguro-ventura-presidential-runoff

> Moderate socialist defeats far-right populist André Ventura, with exit polls putting him comfortably above two-thirds of vote

@foone@digipres.club avatar foone , to random

nightmare scenario:
you're halfway through decoding a laserdisc and the ld-decode project rewrites all their docs to no longer tell you how to do that, because they want you to use a completely different decoding program instead

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@foone what a clown show

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , (edited ) to random Polish

@djvdq a jakbyś przeczytał tekst, to byś być może zauważył, że wspominam o Francji i Niemczech, i sugeruję połączenie sił.

Nawet w samym wątku wspominam o współpracy z innymi podmiotami.

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , to random Polish

> Facebook, Youtube, TikTok blokują na przykład informacje o wojnie w Palestynie.

Aha.

> Korporacyjne społecznościówki ukrywają lewicowe treści, budujemy więc niezależny system ich promowania.

O, doskonale, świetny pomysł!

> Dołącz do nas na Discordzie…

:facepalm:

Borze mój Tucholski, ludzie się nigdy nie ogarną.

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@mkljczk wiesz, nawet nie chce mi się sprawdzać i ustalać.

@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar rysiek , (edited ) to random

Wczoraj w pisałem o pomyśle, by Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki ogarnął pakiet biurowy dla polskiej administracji:
https://oko.press/czy-instytucje-polskiego-panstwa-zdolamy-uwolnic-od-googla-i-microsoftu

Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki chce budować rozwiązania dla polskiej administracji w oparciu o otwarte oprogramowanie. Projekt ma mieć poparcie ministra cyfryzacji.

Świetnie! Czas najwyższy na uniezależnienie od usług i produktów monopolistów z USA.

Zadanie nie będzie jednak łatwe.

🧵

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Interoperacyjność – a raczej jej brak – również wydatnie wspiera monopole w oprogramowaniu.

Microsoft ustawił się w Polsce w uprzywilejowanej pozycji, dzięki wpisaniu ponad dekadę temu jego zamkniętych formatów biurowych do Krajowych Ram Interoperacyjności. Dalej w nich są.

Konieczne jest, by otwarty format OpenDocument ten został uznany za podstawowy format wymiany dokumentów w polskiej administracji, jednoznacznie preferowany wobec zamkniętych formatów Microsoftu.

🧵

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Piszę też o edukacji informatycznej w polskich szkołach – która nie może wciąż skupiać się na zamkniętych produktach Microsoftu – oraz o chmurze, która jest kolejnym sposobem utrudniania osobom korzystającym z produktów giganta przejście na inne rozwiązania.

Zachęcam do lektury.

🧵/koniec

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@gwenh no masz rację, nie ma co nawet próbować, szkoda zachodu. Bez sensu marnować czas i energię.

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@gwenh jeśli "wszyscy" tak to odbierają, może warto zastanowić się nad tym, jak wygląda Twój przekaz? 🤔

Odpowiedziałeś na wiadomość dotyczącą tekstu, w którym mocno popieram pomysł zastępowania zamkniętego oprogramowania oprogramowaniem wolnym i otwartym. Piszesz, że wątpisz, że cokolwiek się zmieni.

Autentycznie nie wiem, jak to można było odebrać inaczej, niż jako wyraz "niedasizmu"?..