Notes from September 2025
2025-09-01
"Charlie Jade" turned 20 this year.
"They told us parallel worlds didn't exist. We were living in lie."
"I'm like Inception, I play with your brain."
-- Pitbull, "On The Floor" (with Jennifer Lopez)
2025-09-05
I should make a breakfast T-shirt a thing. I always end up with food on me, no matter how hard I try. (I mean I don't try, but if I did, it wouldn't change much.) Then I would switch to a T-shirt for the day.
Post from myrmepropagandist
I remember an episode of "hoarders" where most of what packed the house of a deceased elderly woman were products bought mail order from "dial 1800" commercials. Almost nothing was even opened... but even unopened and brand new all of the junk was still too worthless for the distressed children to even bother with selling. By the time the items arrived she often didn't remember what she ordered.
Their mother died in debt buried in worthless junk.
Call your mother. Call your uncle.
2025-09-06
I was in Madrid and I didn't take enough T-shirts, as it turned out upon reaching my hotel room. (And by the way, the hotel was a 4-star which is relevant later.) I found out that the hotel provides the washing service in a fairly decent price and I had a T-shirt ready for my way back. "This was probably the cheapest thing they ever washed," my wife said when I told her about it.
2025-09-07
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
To introduce the next generation, we have rewatched "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope" (or "Star Wars," as they were known back in the 1970s). Not much surprise plot-wise, but it's been some time for me and my perception has changed and I was positively surprised how snappy they were at each other. I definitely did not remember that. Princess Leia would found herself pretty well in "Veep."
However, I have also spotted all the puzzling things when looking from the perspective of the whole franchise.
- It doesn't make sense that Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't recognise C-3PO and R2-D2. He spent years with them.
- Same for droids, although their memory might have been wiped out as they knew too much.
- It is puzzling that Leia Organa is oblivious to Luke Skywalker's last name. As a politician, she must have been taught history. Unless Anakin became The One Whose Name We Don't Speak.
- Lord Vader seeing Leia and not having any second thoughts about her looking exactly like the woman he loved.
- We know now from the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" show that Leia spent significant time with Obi-Wan and yet, she doesn't seem to have much reaction when he dies. Neither she specifically recognises him. But maybe she was too little to remember well.
But this is what you get when you write the story as it goes. It's very soapy operey like that.
A lot of that boils down to how fast and far the news travel across the galaxies in Star Wars. It's possible that when you live on Tatooine, you don't give a rat's ass about what's going on in Coruscant. It wouldn't be surprising if they knew nor cared next to nothing. But neither the movies nor series truly reply to this. So it's an unknown. They are vaguely medieval when it comes to their communication, which makes sense given it's a Fairytale But With Robots.
But anyway, the points raised above are not any obstacle. After all this decades, I know very well what I'm getting into when I decide to see Star Wars.
"Dept. Q," this year's Netflix show, was a real treat. A lot of crime stories are event driven (looking at you, Harlan Coben) and it creates dull experience. But not here. We have strong characters who are utilised for a greater good because the show is initially more focused on them and this allows building the core case slower. Then the case takes over. A lot of snappy jokes. Strong lead from Matthew Goode. He has this charismatic charm that steals scenes. And now we wait for season 2.
The second season of "El Príncipe" is the last one and I'm very glad. I don't think I would continue after the first one if there were more. Like the first time, a twist chases a twist but this time even more. There is a greater scope as well, with French intelligence and an opening in Malta (shot in actual Malta) and then Granada sequence. They also used Ceuta for shooting locations more this time, so we actually could see places we visited last year. A bit downer ending, though. I mean, c'mon.
I saw the "Amsterdam" (2022) trailer a while ago and I was fascinated how chaotic it was. In the world where a trailer often tells the whole story, here nothing was clear. It's a bit of this and bit of that, there's little story-within-story and little noir detective story. And it's based on facts (to a degree, it's not strictly a historic movie). As the story was developing, I started to suspect that this might have been by the same people who gave us "American Hustle," and it was true.
I found "Spicy City" on HBO which I never heard about it before and I decided to give it a shot. It was done in 1997 and it aged nicely, like you don't do animation anymore. It's adult animation, but the result is a bit cringey at best: it seems to boil down to big-tittied girls and a lot of girl-on-girl action. As if they took second-tier noir stories (think of "Almost Human") and gave them to a 17-year-old to spice it up a bit. And that he did, that he did. Only for connoisseurs.
Hungarian "Twilight" from 1990 is probably the biggest slow-burner I have ever seen, to the point that I would doze off and come back within the same scene and not lose any story. So, definitely not a thing for everyone. Visually it's wonderful, with black-and-white frames, but despite nothing happening, I had issues with following the investigation. The inspector suddenly goes somewhere and talks to someone, but why? Why in the first place? I don't regret seeing it, but I cannot recommend it.
But I have to say that Salamanca has much more impressive Plaza Mayor than Madrid.
I am adorning the August's road trip notes with links and *none* of the hotels have working websites. And I'm not gonna link to Booking.com.
[edit] No, wait! One had a working website.
"If there is Markdown, then there should be also Markup, no?"
"My friend, let me introduce you to HTML."
That moment when you're reading about a movie and they unintentionally spoil you a book that you're reading because the book was inspiration for the movie. *destroys something within a reach*
Turns out that House of Leaves was "[t]he colloquial name for the headquarters of the Albanian secret police," and now is the Museum of Secret Surveillance. Which means that I can actually visit House of Leaves. If I ever visit Albania.
2025-09-08
Oh no! html-color-names.com has been replaced with some sort of SEO farm.
2025-09-09
Automatic filling for passwords sounds like a cool thing, but it tends to mix up credentials from domains and subdomains. So it sucks in the end, and I turn it off more and more.
2025-09-10
Bomfunk MC's
Let's give the Bomfunk MC's debut a shot. I suspect I might have heard it 25 years ago, but I don't remember.
I always like the guitar intro in "Freestyler," but this was an exception to their other compositions.
It was year 2000 and some of us didn't know who fly girls were. "They are," explained one of our classmates, "female version of B-boys, which stands for breakdance boys." And we listened in awe.
A post from Jonathan Schofield
This works a treat https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@futuresprog/115173069018005715
Here’s what I did for Firefox:
- Went to
about:preferences> Search Shortcuts- Added a search engine called ‘No AI DDG’ with an address of https://noai.duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s
- Dragged it to number 1 in the list of options
- Chose it as my Default Search Engine
2025-09-12
The reason why I haven't use password managers for years was due to my superstition. I believed that if I see my password written on screen, then it's a bad luck. But I was obliged to use a password manager at one work and these were not, at some level, my passwords and that made the transition possible. Over time I learned to like them, just like Dr. Strangelove learned to love the bomb.
I told a joke on a company event and it didn't land. But it was loud on the patio.
"I got a letter from the government the other day Opened it and read it, it said they were suckers"
--Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird, "Black Steel"
I just read that the incoming quote-posts on Mastodon will *not* follow the initial concept of placing the quote first and then the quoter's comment. It's a shame because there was a potential for getting this right. Will we see the surge of dunk-quoting? Personally I am most interested in quoting myself and building a web of posts, so it doesn't matter that much. But it's a shame.
A post from Michael Szell
[...] page 159: "In a typical year, more than 4.8 million Americans, or 1.5 percent of the population, are involved in a car crash serious enough to require them to seek hospital treatment. That implies that over an 80-year lifetime, the average American has a 65 percent chance of being in a car crash that puts them in a hospital."
2025-09-13
For 16 years, I've been the only driver in the family. Here's what it taught me about drinking non-alcoholic beer. 1/15
A friend asked me today if I ever made a stupid decision, and at first I wrote that not really, but then it turned out he meant something minor. So yes, that I did. Back in 2019 we were in Gibraltar and I was curious about macacs' fur, because it looked so soft, and I petted one. It was, indeed, soft in touch, but whenever I think about it, I'm asking myself what the fuck was I thinking. They can get quite aggressive and they are pretty strong. So, don't do that if you're ever in Gibraltar.
2025-09-14
On the Silver Globe
I knew about "On the Silver Globe" for a long time now, but there never was an occasion. So we made one. Due to political shenanigans, only 80% of the movie was shot up until 1977, so when the creator returned to the project in 1988 there was not much left to work with. The missing parts are simply told with voice over. It produced a rather interesting effect. But alright, what about the part that was done? It's simply amazing.
Andrzej Żuławski made an adaptation of his grand uncle or something like that, which makes it a family project. The visuals are stunning: the costumes, the colours (through filters and make-up), the scenarios (like Wieliczka salt mine). It's a shame that this ended up like that. There was enough potential for Alejandro Jodorowsky's contender. It's still watchable, but it doubles as a documentary on itself. Which is also an interesting outcome.
I wanted to also focus on language which was very poetic, to the point of sounding like inspired gibberish. There was so much pathos at times that I scoffed. However, that is only relevant if you watch it in Polish. I happened to have English subtitles and all the poetry was gone and the words sounded normalish. It's hard to say if it's for better or worse. It definitely was adding to the overall surreality. My wife even said that they sent "poets, not astronauts."
Contact
To stay in the mood, the next day we watched "Contact" from 1997. A story by Carl Sagan about the contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The movie leans heavily on the science part of sci-fi, due to Sagan's involvement, and because of that it aged pretty well. There is some CGI which got old a bit worse, but it's merely decoration to the meat here. I liked all this picking up the pieces together from the alien transmission. And catching the transmission in the first place.
At the same time, there is a not so pretty picture of Usonian fanatics. I remember talking to Juriusz and others in 2003 and the consensus was that choosing an astronaut based on their religion was a bit of a stretch. I still think it's a weird choice to focus that much on this aspect, but now I see why would they want to lean so heavily on it. A good science-fiction tells more about the present than imaginary futures. Or other worlds even.
Back in 2000s, when I saw it for the first time, I had no idea about existence of Carl Sagan, that came only later when the Internet kept serving me bits of his programmes. I was so sure that it came from Michael Crichton. Anyway, thanks to the strong scientific background here we don't have humanoid aliens speaking English. And the final twist that it could have been a rich man's prank is somehow fitting our times better. Now that I write about it, it reminds me of Adrian Veidt's hoax.
"Contact" reminded me heavily of "3 Body Problem." Both in how they communicate with aliens as well as the part where they're on the ship (which is incidental). The other movie is "2001: A Space Odyssey," especially when the main character travels through the whole universe in a visually appealing tunnel. And then she meets something custom tailored to her instead of some alien landscape.
And finally, to round back to "On the Silver Globe," straight from the beginning, when we heard them speak, my wife said, "They're sending poets into space." In "Contact," when the main character ends on the other ends of the universe, she says that it's so beautiful that she cannot describe that and that they should have sent a poet instead. So there was a method to this madness.
In hindsight, it seems strange that I have never dived into Kraftwerk's discography. I might as well do this one, switching between them and The Residents.
It looks like my adventure with Nostr came to a sudden end, and I decided to write a couple of words about that experience.
2025-09-15
You know what built-in Hook I miss in React?
withPleasure()
Speaking of "Hackers," it reminds me of that time when I described to my friend a dream girl for my 15-year-old me and I gave a movie example and it turned out to be Angelina Jolie from "Hackers." But I didn't realise it was her and found out only later.
If right-wingers had a chance to learn anything from being "cancelled" over the years is that it didn't work on them and they kept talking their stuff even louder, so why would it suddenly work now on their opponents?
Kind of fascinating that Kraftwerk came up with this electronic sound in the 1970s. It sounds as if it should be later. But it might be my shifting perception, like these people for whom time stopped at year 2000 and they internally think that 1980 was always 20 years ago.
A post from Stephen Cornford
“The ecologist Howard Odum once quipped that the evolutionary purpose of human beings was to release all the carbon locked up under the ground back into the biosphere. If true, our mission will soon be accomplished. That it be a suicide mission in no way detracts from its heroism or grandeur”
from the entry on Fossil Fuels in Dale Pendell's Pharmako/Poiea
2025-09-16
Kraftwerk's "Radio-Activity" is amazing. It's 50 years old and didn't lose an ounce of freshness.
An interesting aspect of my not-listening to Kraftwerk in larger amounts is that I actually saw them live, back in 2008, during Sacrum Profanum festival.
The thing I remember most is, sadly, an idiot who was whistling all the melodies. For large part of the concert, I was considering punching him but I didn't, and at the end I turned around and it turned out that it's not the guy who I thought it was, so probably for better. The whistler got away. I hope all his consecutive concerts were spoilt by other idiots.
This is the dumbest thing in a while. So, I needed to change my card in Github, but there was no edit button. It would only show me the current card. Googling brought me to someone with the same issue but no solution. And then, I checked the page with DevTools. And there was the form which I could show with small DOM manipulation (you need to remove attribute hidden in one place). After that the form showed and was working.
"In order to pay us, you need to prove you're worthy."
2025-09-17
That's so cool: https://alpha.lisagui.com/
It reminds me of Amiga's Workbench, which is my earliest visual OS (before that, there was Commodore C64's blue screen where I could type the code).
I saw my first quote post here on the default and I didn't realise at first. It's very visual when compared to Twitter or Bluesky. And yeah, it's at the bottom. Once again, a lost shot.
We are twelve billion light years from the edge.
That's a guess.
No one can ever say it's true.
The official app for Mastodon got better since I was using it like 2 years ago, but there are still missing features. I couldn't find my likes here and it's not possible to share the image if I open it (or copy to the clipboard); I can only save it. And somehow, ProtonPass suggests to autocomplete the post textfield with login that I have saved for Mastodon. But visually, it's sleek. At least Quiet Public is an option now when creating a new post.
But actually, that's not true. I did listen to a Kraftwerk album. It must have been back in the mid-1990s. We were driving in Fiat 126p to a vacation destination, my dad, my uncle (my mother's brother), and me. And the radio sucked or we couldn't catch any station, so I checked the gloves compartment and there it was, either "Autobahn" or "Trans-Europa Express," on a cassette. And I said to my uncle, "You have this and we don't listen to that?" And so we did.
2025-09-18
It would seem that after many years of physical suffering, I have found a solution to my neck pain: I placed my monitor higher. Though, this was the last step after getting a better chair and adjusting their heights too, but still. The solution was there, one day away from getting better, if not good. I did this to myself.
A post from ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
It would seem that after many years of physical suffering, I have found a solution to my neck pain: I placed my monitor higher. Though, this was the last step after getting a better chair and adjusting their heights too, but still. The solution was there, one day away from getting better, if not good. I did this to myself.
2025-09-19
[EmuELEC's clone of] R36S arrived today and so I'll be posting about it in the coming days. As well as about old games.
I wasn't going to listen to the newest TRON's soundtrack, but holy fuck, the Nine Inch Nails.
A post from mcc
Social media was one step in de-democratizing the web because if you made something on your website, and posted it on your social media, the social media companies could bury those links in favor of posts that keep users corralled on a site they control. The meaning of the new "Agentic AI" browsers is that even if you can get people to visit your website, a corporation will be removing whatever you wrote or created and constructing in its place something else that suits their interests better
2025-09-20
Limbo
I found 2023's "Limbo" after checking Simon Baker's filmography after finishing "Boy Swollows Universe." So, we're back into deep Australian outback and it's visually stunning, reminding me heavily of "Ripley," due to black and white colours, and at the same time "Mad Max" (the game) which made it very familiar (80 hours spent in game). Plot-wise, it's a slow burner about a burnt-out cop reviewing a 20-year-old cold case.
I have spent many hours with Simon Baker as The Mentalist, so it's really refreshing to see him playing someone else.
The plot and the colours combined reminded me distantly of 1990's "Twilight." The inspector is driving between places and talking to people, but here it serves something and shows the lives of the family killed and how incompetent the original investigation was. At the same time, it's a bit idle review and only due to the detective's broken car.
It might sound nihilistic, and it certainly sounded like that when I re-read the previous post now, but all in all there's a lot of humanity here. It's very close to the original concept of "Twin Peaks," which was meant to never be resolved and instead act as a vehicle to show the town through the eyes of Agent Cooper. Well, that's what we get here. There are hints as to what happened with the murder but the review gets cancelled before end.
A while ago, I read that the police doesn't do all the forensic and detective work like they show in TV shows (also called "cop propaganda" by some), and instead most of the cases are solved by someone either outright admitting to the crime or someone telling on that person. And the detective in "Limbo" gets quite far with the case, even after 20 years, by simply talking to people. He doesn't even take the gun with him most of the times.
I mentioned Bulgarian "Twilight," and for a good reason: the movie has pacing and camera work as taken straight out of Easter European cinema. I need to see more Ivan Sen's movies to check if it's a running thing with him, but that's definitely a plus here.
So, to summarise, I can definitely recommend the film.
The levels of my autism are growing to the comic levels as I inhale mercury from vaccines.
In order to discourage the right-wing people from AI, we should spread rumours that on of the Ls in LLM stands for leftism.
Yesterday I saw a video analysis of a "debate" that Charlie Kirk had at Oxford with one of their students. A female student, which adds insult to the injury, by the way. But it's not about Charlie Kirk but debate practices he used.
Fuck debate. Debate is stupid.
2025-09-22
On that day, in 1998 Apocalyptica released their second album, "Inquisition Symphony." Album had only a couple of covers, and not all from Metallica, with the rest being their own compositions. It is how my adventure with heavy metal started. When you choose your listening by the cover, you are up for surprises.
"Blackthorne": the thread.
"Goya's Ghosts" (2006) is Miloš Forman's movie about Spain the most than anything else, I think. Could be about history and human condition. Anyway. While there is Francisco Goya himself here, he's a deuteragonist to Natalie Portman's and Javier Bardem's characters, both fictional. Seeing Goya's paintings in May was helpful. But of course our main highlight was recognising that one scene was shot in Segovia and we saw it ourselves during our road trip.
2025-09-23
His Dark Materials
"His Dark Materials" (season 1) is a fantasy show about a 12-year-old Lyra who's-- well, let's say there's a lot going on here, including animalistic representation of one's soul and armoured polar bears. At first, I thought it's gotta be steampunk, but it's closer to the 1960s, so that would make it dieselpunk. But as I said, it's primarily fantasy. In the beginning I had second thoughts if it's not for children mainly but adults can take something out of it too.
One of the reasons for watching this show was to see how drastic a story for 12-year-olds can be because I'm writing one myself and I was wondering. So, it looks like I still have some room to wiggle in my book.
Around episode 3 or 4 I realised that I've seen it somewhere: in "The Golden Compass," which I saw in cinema. We had a laugh back then when an alcoholic polar bear showed up, due to the sense of over-the-topness of this idea. Here, Iorek is a more tragic character. Or I have changed.
It was also interesting to see Lin-Manuel Miranda, whom I saw in one season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" where he played himself and he was a big deal.there, but I haven't seen anything with him. Well, now I have.
One more thing that the show reminded me of is not even forgotten but outright unknown series "Charlie Jade." They would travel between worlds that would be similar but different (also in sense of time/technology). While multiverse is not the main aspect here, it remains to be seen how much of "Charlie Jade" we'll get here. As a huge fun of the aforementioned, I am cautiously curious.
What could be interesting for those older games is a joystick. It wouldn't even require any special interface to programme it: it would simply be the D-pad. Having 2 fire buttons is easy and we could possibly design it to have 4; further it gets tricky. That click was so satisfying. Mortal Kombat felt great on Amiga.
There is something like that: COMPETITION PRO EXTRA USB Joystick. Other than that, there are mainly analog flight joysticks.
"Amiga" A500 Mini looks interesting, but I'm not really that much of a player to consider such a specialised item. But I saw a video review and I was impressed. I would need, however, a proper joystick for a complete experience.
I need to explore some Pico-8 games. This retro console of mine supports it out of the box. Well, more like Rocknix.
Wait. When did they start saying membership for Netflix subscription? What's this word sorcery?
A post from Iran Man Records
Get a job? Artists already have a job. You’re just not willing to pay for their work. You want their work for free. But you’ll pay £4 for a cup of coffee or £4.50 for a Sandwich
I think everyone whose response to the financial struggles of an artist is, "well, you should have gone into tech or something useful" should have to go 30 days with no reading, not TV, no movies, no museum visits, no video games, no theatre, and have arts stripped from all their other experiences... no music in restaurants, at sporting events, bars, stores, nothing. No audio books or podcasts or music on their commute. After 30 days deprived of all contributions of artists, I would be interested to know if anyone would still say artists were drains on society and unworthy of life.
2025-09-24
"Baby Reindeer" is a 7-episode miniseries about-- well, about a lot of things. It starts as a story of a young bartender being stalked by a middle-aged woman, but then plots begin to pile up: there is living with his ex's mother and a relationship with a trans woman and some past traumas and then the stalker turns out to be good at her game while the police is a bit useless. And it's based on real events at that! I liked how there were many twists introduced but all skilfully.
Props for hiring an actual trans actress for the role of the transgender girlfriend (Nava Mau). I still remember shenanigans like Lisa Edelstein playing a trans woman in "Ally McBeal," so this is nice to see.
We had training at work today and one of the tasks was to take a piece of paper and a pen. Then we were asked to draw a house, which I did, but as soon as I had details, the coach said that she had changed her mind and she wanted a boat now. I laughed, seeing where it was going and playing "Waterworld" just yesterday, I added two hulls and made it a house like Suttree had. Then she changed her mind again and wanted a castle, so I added battlements. After all, I added a harpoon-wielding Mariner.
2025-09-25
There is no cringe bigger than your own post from at least six months ago.
I found this in pre-loaded games and I started it out of curiosity and I think I'll give it a shot at some point.
2025-09-26
I rewrote a function from O(n) to O(1) today. It was a good day.
I hope European Union will call bluff on Apple. Worst case (best case?), they will stop selling their stuff in EU. Some of my family members would not be pleased.
I started Nintendo 64's "Duke Nukem 3D" which, unlike Sega Mega Drive's version*, is the Duke I know from PC, but the controls are mapped so differently to the modern take that I just cannot play. I couldn't even jump on a crate. I might look into remapping it in the emulator's settings, but I didn't have a head for that. Other than that it looks kind of sleek. Too bad that textures are blurred; that's not kosher.
*The game looks more like "Wolfenstein 3D" with assets swapped.
2025-09-27
A post from mcc
Personal observation: The game "Getting Over It" could not be made today; "clipart", or the idea of a shovelware asset archive, has been displaced in market position and cultural role, as well as literally having its content poisoned by, "generative AI". Something beautiful and human, "ugly" in a campy way, has been lost from the world, replaced with something "ugly" in a capitalist way
2025-09-28
The Card Counter
I decided to watch "The Card Counter" from Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver's" script) after seeing a short bit on Netflix where the main character explains how does the card-counting in question work. I never looked into details of it and it seems to be based on a simple principle. But that's not what the movie is about. If I had to point to the main aspect it's the titular character who wants to live anonymous live. Very much like Driver from "Drive" (the book, not the movie).
"Taxi Driver" is not merely a random reference on my end. Both characters are veterans who have problems with what they went through. William Tell here, though, ended up in an overly organised life, in no small thanks to 10 years in prison. The movie also shows how traumatic in general was what the US did in places like Abu Ghraib. I guess enough time has passed to be able to say more.
But going back to Driver. Both characters crave anonymity: Driver by renting places and not keeping anything personal and being able to just vanish, and William Tell by living in hotel rooms which he re-arranges to visually resemble a prison cell where he keeps writing his journal.
But then he begins to care and it opens him to his old trauma. You can escape from your demons only as far.
Definitely a strange movie, but I liked it.
Y Tú Mamá También
I must have seen "Y Tú Mamá También" (2001), like, twenty years ago. I thought I remembered it well enough and it turned that the gist was there but it looked completely differently, and a huge role played the fact that I've seen more world now. The action is set in Mexico and there is a lot of social turmoil shown in the background of coming-of-age story but nothing is explained. I found this interesting. Plus impassioned narrator.
While watching this movie, I fully realised that I used to like coming-of-age movies when I was actually coming of age. I suspect they were helpful in getting a perspective on all the potential forks that my life could take (plus even more ones that my life would never take, for variety of reasons). However, once I was done with it, the movies lost its utility to me. Additionally, I don't get any trips down the memory lane. I have a generally good memory and movies don't trigger anything extra.
But "Y Tú Mamá También" is different because the two characters who are coming of age are not the only participants of their trip through Mexico (which, a side note, reminded me heavily of our road trip in August). There is also Luisa who joins them and she's in her late 20s and has a different reasons, reasons that might resonate better with an older viewer. And that's the movie's strength in my opinion. If not, then it's interesting visually. Like a documentary.
A movie that comes to my mind, mostly due to how this one was shot and the overall scenery, is Argentinian "Too Late To Die Young" which I saw last year.
Season 2 of "1670" brings a change of tone a little, I think. I realised I don't remember the first season that much in these regards, but it feels different. Less humour aimed at Polishness and more commentary? Like when Zofia says she prefers to be burned as a witch than to be categorised as "an old hag." That's bitter-funny. But it's a subtle shift and it's still a ruthless comedy show. There is even a nod to the Witcher here.
Now we wait for season 3.
2025-09-29
As an areligious person, I can spot all the religious talking in tech areas. It's pretty clear to me that what Bitcoiners or even AI people need in large amounts is some sort of religion in their lives. This godlessness is not for everyone.
Google becomes de facto a regulator when they limit apps installation through APK; something they call "sideloading," probably to obscure the matter.
On the other hand, we're much more forgiving to, say, Nintendo which behaves exactly the same way. No alternative stores? No direct installation? Nintendo is also a regulator. And pretty bad at it when you look at all the shovelware thriving in their store.
I'm glad I started exploring the world of retro consoles.
2025-09-30
I am generally flexible when it comes to coding styles and conventions, but I simply cannot stand !important in CSS. If there's anything I can do to prevent that, I shall. I fucking shall. It's my hill to die on.