Chimera Facility

You talking to me?

2026-09-24 08:15:41

Sometimes I read a bit too much just before bed and try to sleep, while the voices in my head are arguing about what I've just read. In the middle of the night I woke up - they were still arguing. I overheard the argument, got out of bed, and now my desktop runs Linux.

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Numeric inputs

2026-09-17 18:43:56

I saw a site with an age gate that was set to 2009 by default. A cool trap, I thought at first, unenthusiastically. But then I've clicked it, and a long scrollable lust has drooped down starting with 1876. And a numpad input wasn't working with it.

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Twitter Experiments

2026-08-20 16:07:19

I used to get mad at the artists on X about doing the stupid things, like slicing art in 4 pieces. But now I feel stupid for getting mad at them for experimenting with the available formats.

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Introversion fee

2026-07-08 16:48:22

Sometimes the actions done by a customer instead of the paid staff are reffered as a "shadow work". Furniture assembly, self-service at the gas-station, *self-checkout*, etc. Doesn't matter. I love the self-checkout terminals. The store in my reach has the discounts on the goods that are running out of time, like yesterday's pastry and stuff. But you can't punch these discounts at the self-checkout because they're just the slapped-on stickers with the date written on, so I mostly leave these goods to someone who would care more. But when there no fresh goods left, I have to take the discounted ones and I still bring these to the self-checkout paying the full price so I can skip the cashier. It feels like an introvesrion fee.

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Private networks

2026-07-03 14:18:43

Which one has no-logs policy? Which one doesn't sell your data? Which one has a cheaper Netflix pricing? These are the questions for the first world countries.

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