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  I realised that the art of programming is going away. Unless the AI bubble bursts soon, software becomes commodity and stays like that. The change of the paradigm is so big that it's hard to say what happens next. I have my concerns. Now, I know that programming was not perfect but it still saddens me to see the art part going away. Luckily, I didn't treat it as my defining thing, so I'll move on.

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  There are a couple of movies that I saw in just the right moment of my life to like them more than their quality would justify this. Kind of fascinating. We know there is no objective way to rank movies, because a lot depends on the viewer, but it's not only person-dependent but also time.

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  For reasons that are not important now, I have avoided Spider-Man movies for years. Decades even. I made an exception for 2012 and 2014 movies. And then there were MCU movies where he guest-starred. But generally, I was in the dark. This changed this week, because my daughter asked me to take her for the newest one to cinema, and I decided that I don't wanna go blindly. Hence, the thread.

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  GOG is coming to Linux, and I might try it on my work laptop.

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  I read that the AI companies buy old books and scan them while destroying in the process. So, rare books are now disappearing irreversibly, because they will be accessible only through AI slop that was produced with them. This saddens me gravely. At the same time, I cannot do anything about it. Which further overwhelms me. (They destroy books because it's faster like that. There is no intent, but this doesn't change how I feel. On some levels, it's even worse. But on oth...

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  As IT support at my company, I am often a password manager to the people I support. They keep losing them all the time.

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  We went for sushi today, and one of the TVs in the restaurant played Japanese commercials; at first I thought it was a commercial break, but no, that was all that. One of the ads was for Snickers, of the "hungry, you're not yourself" slogan. An angry older woman was shouting at young people, so they gave her a Snickers, and she turned into a young, polite man. I don't think an ad like that would fly in the West in 2026; it would be ageism and sexism and what not...

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  "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." #Dune

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  "Sliver" is an erotic thriller from 1993, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger. As all the erotic thrillers from that time, it got old specifically. I read that it was not a good movie back in the days, but perhaps, time worked in its favour. It's campy but also unpredictable, because the modern pattern matching fails at time. The ending was surprising, but I learned it was changed from the one we were expecting. I dug the trip-hoppy soundtrack, thou...

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  "Demolition Man" is a SNES game from 1996, loosely based on the movie with the same title, starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes (for some reason, I remembered it was Dennis Rodman; mayhap due to the hair colour, no clue). It's generally a side-scrolling shooter, with two top-down levels. I found it accidentally while browsing the SNES catalogue on my R36S. I played the first level for a bit, and it fell to my liking, so I returned to it this week. #DemolitionM...

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  I think a Polish saying "choćby skały srały i pierdziały" ("even if rocks were shitting and farting," meaning it's not gonna happen, no matter what) could catch up in other languages.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Krazov/116431806744705605 And now I'm learning that the song is not originally from Leonard Cohen; he merely covered it, albeit good.

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  April 2026 notes. https://krazov.com/meditations/notes-2026-04/

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  I started "DoroHedoro" from the scratch, and now, six years later, after seeing many animes in the meantime, I am enamoured with the visual style. #DoroHedoro

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  @harriorrihar What game is it?

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  @peter CORS failed. :D

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  @peter We can send a basket of flowers to Jack, as a token of gratitude for his experiment.

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  From Sociopath World, I remember something that really stuck with me: when someone close to you dies (including a pet), it is a horrible feeling, but over time, it tones down and — as I remembered it — "it feels a bit cruel and unfair" to that person. But life moves on. Either this or you get locked into this grief, which is never good. I guess the trick is to, as someone presented it to me visually once, "REMEMBER, Remember, remember, but — differently, Differently,...

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  I find funny stuff helpful in my state.

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  "This book is still in development. Ordering now will give you access to the current state of the book. See below for current status. Estimated date of completion is October 2018." Oh well.

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  @stux@mstdn.social @ahltorp@mastodon.nu True, but Bluesky the company knew that, and Attie — the "AI feed composer" in question — is a separate app, to not piss off Blueskyans. Also, it's not really AI, apparently, but more of an algorithm, which led someone to a hypothesis that the whole ruse was to satisfy (mostly crypto) investors. I'm still rather observing it, so we'll see, but BS devs started vibe-coding Bluesky, so this can take a sudden turn any time now.

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  @stux@mstdn.social However, the majority of comments under Jay's announcement were not amused, to say the least.