andrybak
@andrybak.dev
I like interesting facts, podcasts, and anime. I'm most interested in software development, cosmology, and sciences in general. he/him
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As I’ve said before with similar games: I stand with the weirdos on this stuff. Don’t take my vanilla output as quiet complicity with censorship of interesting work, take it as a sign of how inherently boring I am as a person.
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As I’ve said before with similar games: I stand with the weirdos on this stuff. Don’t take my vanilla output as quiet complicity with censorship of interesting work, take it as a sign of how inherently boring I am as a person.
@techconnectify.bsky.social what do you think of Google's Doodle Christmas lights?
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@techconnectify.bsky.social what do you think of Google's Doodle Christmas lights?
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I don't remember when I started reading xkcd, probably around 14 years ago. Every now and then while reading the regular strips, this topic pops into my head. It's not a big part of the comic, but it's definitely the heaviest.
This time, it made me cry.
This time, it made me cry.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I don't remember when I started reading xkcd, probably around 14 years ago. Every now and then while reading the regular strips, this topic pops into my head. It's not a big part of the comic, but it's definitely the heaviest.
This time, it made me cry.
This time, it made me cry.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
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every large institution and public sector organisation needs to do this
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
every large institution and public sector organisation needs to do this
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Re-posting out of a thread:
It is a weird phenomenon for me to find myself having to argue this point as I thought it was self-evident but apparently not.
Big corporations would rather you buy more of their product and they found a perfect way to make sure you buy more.
It is a weird phenomenon for me to find myself having to argue this point as I thought it was self-evident but apparently not.
Big corporations would rather you buy more of their product and they found a perfect way to make sure you buy more.
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Re-posting out of a thread:
It is a weird phenomenon for me to find myself having to argue this point as I thought it was self-evident but apparently not.
Big corporations would rather you buy more of their product and they found a perfect way to make sure you buy more.
It is a weird phenomenon for me to find myself having to argue this point as I thought it was self-evident but apparently not.
Big corporations would rather you buy more of their product and they found a perfect way to make sure you buy more.
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As someone who grew up with parents who both lived in poverty at some point in their lives, it was instilled in me that you should get the best value out of the things you buy as you can.
You don't need a prescription for how much detergent to use. You just need to try and see what happens.
You don't need a prescription for how much detergent to use. You just need to try and see what happens.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As someone who grew up with parents who both lived in poverty at some point in their lives, it was instilled in me that you should get the best value out of the things you buy as you can.
You don't need a prescription for how much detergent to use. You just need to try and see what happens.
You don't need a prescription for how much detergent to use. You just need to try and see what happens.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.
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new paradigm
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
new paradigm
1. No Such Thing As A Fish
2. @llepodcast.bsky.social
3. @playwatchlisten.bsky.social
4. Supermassive Podcast
5. The Happiness Lab @lauriesantos.bsky.social
2. @llepodcast.bsky.social
3. @playwatchlisten.bsky.social
4. Supermassive Podcast
5. The Happiness Lab @lauriesantos.bsky.social
dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts
September 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
1. No Such Thing As A Fish
2. @llepodcast.bsky.social
3. @playwatchlisten.bsky.social
4. Supermassive Podcast
5. The Happiness Lab @lauriesantos.bsky.social
2. @llepodcast.bsky.social
3. @playwatchlisten.bsky.social
4. Supermassive Podcast
5. The Happiness Lab @lauriesantos.bsky.social
New userscript for Bluesky to prevent losing unsent posts
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#userscript #violentmonkey
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5...
#userscript #violentmonkey
Bluesky: prevent closing with unsent text
Prevents closing browser tabs with Bluesky, when there is an open text editor with some text.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New userscript for Bluesky to prevent losing unsent posts
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5...
#userscript #violentmonkey
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5...
#userscript #violentmonkey
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Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!
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the car brain cannot comprehend that I pay less than €1/day for unlimited public transport in Vienna - a city with dozens of tram & bus lines, five metro lines, and all of them come no less regularly than once every few minutes, AND I can even hire a car if I still need one from the city. 💁♀️
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the car brain cannot comprehend that I pay less than €1/day for unlimited public transport in Vienna - a city with dozens of tram & bus lines, five metro lines, and all of them come no less regularly than once every few minutes, AND I can even hire a car if I still need one from the city. 💁♀️
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Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
Low-cost flights up to 26 times cheaper than trains - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels, 21 August 2025 – A new Europe-wide Greenpeace study shows that climate-damaging flying is still cheaper than taking the train on a majority of cross-border routes – even though…
www.greenpeace.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
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Also please play our game it's short and sweet! nozomu57.itch.io/love-letters
Love Letters by Nozomu Games
Help shy student talk to their crush
nozomu57.itch.io
August 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Also please play our game it's short and sweet! nozomu57.itch.io/love-letters
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@firefox.com send tab to device feature is so very useful.
For example: get a text message on phone with link to "follow my delivery" UPS tracking. Open link on mobile firefox, hit share, and send to desktop instance of firefox.
Kudos to firefox team for that one!
For example: get a text message on phone with link to "follow my delivery" UPS tracking. Open link on mobile firefox, hit share, and send to desktop instance of firefox.
Kudos to firefox team for that one!
August 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
@firefox.com send tab to device feature is so very useful.
For example: get a text message on phone with link to "follow my delivery" UPS tracking. Open link on mobile firefox, hit share, and send to desktop instance of firefox.
Kudos to firefox team for that one!
For example: get a text message on phone with link to "follow my delivery" UPS tracking. Open link on mobile firefox, hit share, and send to desktop instance of firefox.
Kudos to firefox team for that one!
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Word of the Day: DYSANIA – the state of finding it really difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
August 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Word of the Day: DYSANIA – the state of finding it really difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
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Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting.
youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4
youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4
The Censorship "Hit Squad" attacking Video Games.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
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August 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting.
youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4
youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4
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Remote workers are 40% more productive than those same workers in the office. And most of us spend those in-office days on Zoom ANYWAY, talking to people in other offices.
But it makes managers sad that they can't physically see their peasants toiling in the fields, so out you go!
But it makes managers sad that they can't physically see their peasants toiling in the fields, so out you go!
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remote workers are 40% more productive than those same workers in the office. And most of us spend those in-office days on Zoom ANYWAY, talking to people in other offices.
But it makes managers sad that they can't physically see their peasants toiling in the fields, so out you go!
But it makes managers sad that they can't physically see their peasants toiling in the fields, so out you go!
YouTube is rolling out new UI, therefore new userstyle to remove blur from some of the UI elements: userstyles.world/style/23378/...
#youtube #userstyle
#youtube #userstyle
July 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
YouTube is rolling out new UI, therefore new userstyle to remove blur from some of the UI elements: userstyles.world/style/23378/...
#youtube #userstyle
#youtube #userstyle