peerchemist.bsky.social

peerchemist.bsky.social

@peerchemist.bsky.social

Work: Tech consulting. Hobbies: Open Source, Linux, Peercoin, cycling, trading.

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The number of “Poles” online who hate Ukrainians and “Ukrainians” who hate Poles has suddenly dropped This happened after the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck Yandex data centers Additionally, online support for Germany’s right-wing AfD party and Trump’s MAGA movement in the US reportedly fell by 56%

I saw a post that said roughly, "I thought computing was doomed to be 'Linux, Python, and HTTP' for the rest of my life. Now we're free". That's it. Let it sink in. We're free. We can make the computer do whatever we want.

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Another glimpse of life in Kyiv in the fifth year of war. Metro maintenance crews move quietly so they don’t wake people sheltering from Russian strikes and sleeping on the platforms.

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Belgium does not deserve the win! How is that penalty? The defender was trying to clear the ball and attacker got tangled from behind.

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More Laundry, This Time Croatia It's important to remember that people live in the places we visit. Seeing laundry brings this home to me and reminds me to think of this space as someone's neighborhood space. (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2011)

lightedscapes.comMore Laundry, This Time CroatiaIt's important to remember that people live in the places we visit. Seeing laundry brings this home to me and reminds me to think of this space as someone's neighborhood space. (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2011)

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Today, the duration of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has surpassed the length of World War I — the War has now been ongoing for 1,568 days.

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Andriy Kovalenko/1st Separate Assault Regiment: The Chonhar Bridge between the occupied Kherson region and Crimea has been DESTROYED. Ukrainian FP-2 drones hit it again overnight on June 9, after a June 7 strike. Russia used it to move equipmentand weapons.

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INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

politico.com‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s oddsThe company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

This made me realize that I do not know how to report a repo on Github. Does anyone care to teach me? #github #opensource #software

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Spotted a brand new social engineering attack on GitHub. It depends on one cloning this repo and apparently opening it with an editor. This seems to be the vector: github.com/ddz6666/x402... I did not bother checking those scripts and what they actually do, but it is probably not nice. Stay safe.

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“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

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Regrettably, there's a carve out in the law to exclude 90% of the top selling devices. As long as they're water resistant and can be charged at least 1000 times, they didn't need to make it removable. All iPhones since the 15 meet this requirement, as do most modern flagships.