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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jul 12, 2026

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So a couple of weeks ago I tried seeing what I would miss if I replaced it with this thing. Good old basic Casio, it tells the time, tracks the date, and has a light! I did not even have to buy it, I got it on one of my trips to have a watch I could run and swim with without worrying about damage. Turns out that not only I don’t miss much, but also really appreciate and enjoy a watch that is lighter, does not require daily charging, and is likely to survive a drop with terminal velocity.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jul 12, 2026

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It has been 10 years of having to remember to take the charging cable with me, even on weekend trips. 10 years of increasingly limited value — the weather widget is so slow that it’s faster to take my phone out. The sports functionality has been useless to me. The occasional Shazam without pulling my phone out, lower friction on purchases, that’s about it. Even in its broken state I can’t see a reason to buy another smart watch as a replacement.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jul 12, 2026

I bought this watch as my first smart watch as soon as this model came out in 2015. It has seen a lot of places since, done fairly serious kilometers. A couple of years ago I dropped it and it fell flat on its face, chipping off part of it and leaving a couple of cracks, I fixed it with a dab of uv resin. A year later I dropped it again, had to use more resin and start using screen protectors to protect me from the screen (a sharp edge here, a shard there). It still works just fine.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek@mstdn.social Also: “I have nothing to hide” “Cool, can I quickly go through your phone then?”

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jun 10, 2026

Replying to @jonny@neuromatch.social

@jonny@neuromatch.social I think I liked it better when breaking out of sandboxes required more than just asking nicely.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · May 08, 2026

Replying to @narf@vis.social

@narf@vis.social I have been wondering what might be the level of interest in strictly no-AI dev meetings.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · May 06, 2026

Replying to @paco@infosec.exchange

@paco @rysiek The only thing that stops a bad kid with a gun is a good kid with a gun. (btw this is how I learned that my swipe keyboard tries hard not to use the word gun)

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · May 01, 2026

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(and money. and power. and water)

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · May 01, 2026

The trouble with AI is that eventually you run out of other people’s data.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 30, 2026

Happy root exploit day to all who celebrate!

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 29, 2026

Living in France means a lot of “this phone conversation could have been an email”.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @girlonthenet@mastodon.social

@girlonthenet@mastodon.social This should be criminal, or at the very least a lifelong chain-wide ban for that person.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 20, 2026

The Vercel/context.ai security issue: I am more than a little peeved that people tend to point to AI only where it sounds useful. “The attacker must have used AI to breach us so badly and quickly” sure sure, could someone ask about the software delivery process at context.ai? To what degree it depends on LLMs, what is their review process, how do they manage risk?

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 18, 2026

The more I interact with people who use LLMs to work on codebases which I know and they don’t the more I empathize with doctors facing patients who use the Internet for the diagnosis and treatment ideas.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @narf@vis.social

@narf @spiralganglion Same. I cofounded a hackerspace once to get that kind of space but it did not quite work out the way I hoped.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

@spiralganglion Same. I had to tell myself that of all the things to start looking into now, pen plotting is Most Likely Not It for me. Thanks for sharing, @narf!

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek Maybe other countries could join in, it could turn out to be the infinite money glitch. (the Oprah meme: “you get $2M! And you get $2M! And…”) @ohir

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @igorkulman@hachyderm.io

@igorkulman That TP/BP theme is some serious nostalgia hit.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek I’m feeling somewhat motivated to make the 10th anniversary a party.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek If there is any silver lining to this LLM bubble is that it will provide way more than enough material for a sequel.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 04, 2026

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@rysiek But between this being openclaw and the insufferably LLM-ish tone of the blog post (pictured below) we can at least rest assured that there is a chance that no human being had to be involved in writing, editing, or reviewing these.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek I love how this landed right after the trive/litellm/axios thing where the take out is the exact opposite of “upgrade as soon as there is a new version”.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @sue@glasgow.social

@sue @onepict It is good advice but I don’t get why people make this distinction between junior and senior programmers. As if at some point, relatively early during one’s career, one gets to the point where they know good code and they can stop learning. I am three decades into it and I am still learning to control complexity at various levels and keep updating my trade off estimates. LLMs are as dangerous for seniors as they are for juniors, you just get stuck or regress from a higher level.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place

@jzillw In Poland we don’t say “as even banks and insurers finally catch up to the reality that OpenAI has been wildly overselling what it can deliver and the AGI that was its only plan to ever become profitable is not coming any time soon, we are heading towards seeing the bubble burst and trigger a global financial crisis”, we say “to jebnie” and I think that’s beautiful.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Feb 08, 2026

Replying to @nina_kali_nina__dup_39315@tech.lgbt

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt Of course, when you dump a truckload of shit somewhere you can’t expect it to flow predictably in the direction you want to go, but if you dump dozens of truckloads flowing in different directions and piling on top of each other one of them will eventually touch the other side. You just need to keep dumping.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jun 27, 2025

Replying to @quillmatiq@mastodon.social

@quillmatiq@mastodon.social At least they’re shaping up to be well-paid hell: difficult, urgent, unavoidable, in many cases security- or safety-critical. Back to the employee’s market for the lucky group who gained experience before companies decided it’s cheaper to rent LLMs than to build skills and relationships with juniors.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Jan 11, 2025

Replying to @pandorablake@mstdn.party

@pandorablake @srtcd424 Another sad part is that I remember that, way back when I was working on implementing GDPR in one of my previous jobs, UK's ICO had hands down THE best materials on that regulation I've seen. Human-readable and edited down to what's needed to understand it.

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marcink @marcink@stolat.town · Dec 06, 2022

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@marcink@mstdn.social So that was a nice surprise, the process finished correctly ~20 minutes later. :blobcatsurprised: I guess moving between smaller instances and not during the spike in the twitter migration really makes a difference.

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