Maya Posch
@hackkitten.bsky.social
Just a hax0ring kitten. H4x0ring stuff at https://github.com/MayaPosch for giggles. Writes nerdy things for Hackaday. Cat/Meow.
Known to post randomly in English, Nederlands, Deutsch and 日本語
Known to post randomly in English, Nederlands, Deutsch and 日本語
Interpreting Trump's statements for him is journalistic malpractice. He didn't take anything 'off the table'.
Trump merely made another statement that contradicts earlier statements, which merely reduces the meaning of any future statements he'll make.
Very well put by Vlad Vexler.
Trump merely made another statement that contradicts earlier statements, which merely reduces the meaning of any future statements he'll make.
Very well put by Vlad Vexler.
January 22, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Interpreting Trump's statements for him is journalistic malpractice. He didn't take anything 'off the table'.
Trump merely made another statement that contradicts earlier statements, which merely reduces the meaning of any future statements he'll make.
Very well put by Vlad Vexler.
Trump merely made another statement that contradicts earlier statements, which merely reduces the meaning of any future statements he'll make.
Very well put by Vlad Vexler.
Controversial take: 50% cacao chocolate is effectively milk chocolate.
Pure chocolate ought to be 70% or more.
Pure chocolate ought to be 70% or more.
January 22, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Controversial take: 50% cacao chocolate is effectively milk chocolate.
Pure chocolate ought to be 70% or more.
Pure chocolate ought to be 70% or more.
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The brilliance of Carney's "Sign in the Window" speech was that he was not attacking totalitarianism, but the hypocrisy of liberal democracies. It's about how we pretended to believe the fiction of a rules-based international order because it was convenient—and that time has come to be honest.
“The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true.”
Mark Carney explains how totalitarianism works.
The lesson couldn’t be more clear: do not obey in advance. That is how freedom erodes and dignity disappears.
Mark Carney explains how totalitarianism works.
The lesson couldn’t be more clear: do not obey in advance. That is how freedom erodes and dignity disappears.
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 AM
The brilliance of Carney's "Sign in the Window" speech was that he was not attacking totalitarianism, but the hypocrisy of liberal democracies. It's about how we pretended to believe the fiction of a rules-based international order because it was convenient—and that time has come to be honest.
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youtu.be/XZykU9vsC74?...
Please take the time to listen. Repost if you agree.
Please take the time to listen. Repost if you agree.
Rep. Stansbury: Release the Epstein files
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 11:32 PM
youtu.be/XZykU9vsC74?...
Please take the time to listen. Repost if you agree.
Please take the time to listen. Repost if you agree.
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#hourly #fox https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/HourlyFoxes/photo_2079@19-05-2019_05-15-10.jpg
January 22, 2026 at 2:00 AM
#hourly #fox https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/HourlyFoxes/photo_2079@19-05-2019_05-15-10.jpg
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‼️ Russia: “Russians are being lured into war with offers to work at the non-existent "Luhansk Nuclear Power Plant"”
Classic scheme.
Remember in 2022 when construction workers were lured to Russian Occupied territory then suddenly
🇷🇺: This is for you 👉🪖
ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/21/r...
Classic scheme.
Remember in 2022 when construction workers were lured to Russian Occupied territory then suddenly
🇷🇺: This is for you 👉🪖
ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/21/r...
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 AM
‼️ Russia: “Russians are being lured into war with offers to work at the non-existent "Luhansk Nuclear Power Plant"”
Classic scheme.
Remember in 2022 when construction workers were lured to Russian Occupied territory then suddenly
🇷🇺: This is for you 👉🪖
ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/21/r...
Classic scheme.
Remember in 2022 when construction workers were lured to Russian Occupied territory then suddenly
🇷🇺: This is for you 👉🪖
ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/21/r...
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If this happened in another country, what would you call it?
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 PM
If this happened in another country, what would you call it?
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Repair and Reverse-Engineering of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines
Repair and Reverse-Engineering of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Repair and Reverse-Engineering of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines
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ICE-land, formerly known as United States (of America)
January 21, 2026 at 7:06 PM
ICE-land, formerly known as United States (of America)
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Inspire people.
January 21, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Inspire people.
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Espressif Introduces the ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth Co-Processor
Espressif Introduces the ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth Co-Processor
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Espressif Introduces the ESP32-E22 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth Co-Processor
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Reposted by Maya Posch
OTD in 2021 European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in 2008 war & widespread, deliberate
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
OTD in 2021 European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in 2008 war & widespread, deliberate
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
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what's wild is this will somehow get 10% of the news coverage of any one of Trump's baseless election theft claims
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 21, 2026 at 10:58 AM
what's wild is this will somehow get 10% of the news coverage of any one of Trump's baseless election theft claims
It's kinda crazy how we went from 1960/1970s feminism advocating tearing down the very concept of gender roles, to today's world in which gender roles are considered to be so fundamental that if you feel that you do not fit into your assigned gender role, you are called 'gay' or recommended surgery.
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
It's kinda crazy how we went from 1960/1970s feminism advocating tearing down the very concept of gender roles, to today's world in which gender roles are considered to be so fundamental that if you feel that you do not fit into your assigned gender role, you are called 'gay' or recommended surgery.
Ran into a major snag with Waterfox, that seems to pertain to Firefox as well: hardware acceleration of videos isn't working.
Feature is set to 'on', but I can clearly see in Task Manager that it's all software decoding on the CPU.
Even disabled software fallback in about:config, but no bueno.
Feature is set to 'on', but I can clearly see in Task Manager that it's all software decoding on the CPU.
Even disabled software fallback in about:config, but no bueno.
January 21, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Ran into a major snag with Waterfox, that seems to pertain to Firefox as well: hardware acceleration of videos isn't working.
Feature is set to 'on', but I can clearly see in Task Manager that it's all software decoding on the CPU.
Even disabled software fallback in about:config, but no bueno.
Feature is set to 'on', but I can clearly see in Task Manager that it's all software decoding on the CPU.
Even disabled software fallback in about:config, but no bueno.
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Switched yesterday from running Discord in a browser tab to the Discord Messenger application which I wrote about last year: hackaday.com/2025/06/17/h...
Unlike the 1+ GB RAM browser tab or Electron version, it runs in <10 MB of RAM and does everything except video/audio.
Good enough for me.
Unlike the 1+ GB RAM browser tab or Electron version, it runs in <10 MB of RAM and does everything except video/audio.
Good enough for me.
How Discord Was Ported To Windows 95 And NT 3.1
On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way to use a…
hackaday.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Switched yesterday from running Discord in a browser tab to the Discord Messenger application which I wrote about last year: hackaday.com/2025/06/17/h...
Unlike the 1+ GB RAM browser tab or Electron version, it runs in <10 MB of RAM and does everything except video/audio.
Good enough for me.
Unlike the 1+ GB RAM browser tab or Electron version, it runs in <10 MB of RAM and does everything except video/audio.
Good enough for me.
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The Trump administration's brutality is on graphic display in Minneapolis and its vulgar stupidity in the Greenland fiasco, but just as harmful, though less splashy, is the way they are destroying US science.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The Trump administration's brutality is on graphic display in Minneapolis and its vulgar stupidity in the Greenland fiasco, but just as harmful, though less splashy, is the way they are destroying US science.
Mark Critch is a gem. Few manage to really capture the crazy that well in their Trump impressions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c0...
Donald Trump would like to accept all the awards! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Mark Critch is a gem. Few manage to really capture the crazy that well in their Trump impressions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c0...
I think it's totally normal that having just the YouTube Subscriptions tab open uses 400+ MB RAM.
This is absolutely fine.
This is absolutely fine.
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I think it's totally normal that having just the YouTube Subscriptions tab open uses 400+ MB RAM.
This is absolutely fine.
This is absolutely fine.
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This Thursday, the House Natural Resources Committee will consider a bill that would remove ESA protections for Mexican gray wolves.
H.R. 4255 relies on incorrect data and misinformation. Urge your Rep to OPPOSE this bill and prevent it from passing out of the committee. 📣: https://bit.ly/4pZHDdK
H.R. 4255 relies on incorrect data and misinformation. Urge your Rep to OPPOSE this bill and prevent it from passing out of the committee. 📣: https://bit.ly/4pZHDdK
Federal Protections for Mexican Gray Wolves Under Attack | Wolf Conservation Center
Mexican gray wolves are the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America, with just 286 known to live in the wild in the United States. Yet despite their tenuous status, Republican members of Congress are leading an all-out attack on the species. H.R. 4255, misleadingly named the "Enhancing Safety for Animals Act" and introduced
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 8:22 PM
This Thursday, the House Natural Resources Committee will consider a bill that would remove ESA protections for Mexican gray wolves.
H.R. 4255 relies on incorrect data and misinformation. Urge your Rep to OPPOSE this bill and prevent it from passing out of the committee. 📣: https://bit.ly/4pZHDdK
H.R. 4255 relies on incorrect data and misinformation. Urge your Rep to OPPOSE this bill and prevent it from passing out of the committee. 📣: https://bit.ly/4pZHDdK
What braindead UX pattern is Discord using that 'Log In' pushes you into creating a new account, which you have to log out of before you get tipped into the actual log in screen?
Are the Discord developers huffing extra-strength glue?
The last one was a rhetorical question, natch.
Are the Discord developers huffing extra-strength glue?
The last one was a rhetorical question, natch.
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM
What braindead UX pattern is Discord using that 'Log In' pushes you into creating a new account, which you have to log out of before you get tipped into the actual log in screen?
Are the Discord developers huffing extra-strength glue?
The last one was a rhetorical question, natch.
Are the Discord developers huffing extra-strength glue?
The last one was a rhetorical question, natch.
Finally got fed up enough with Microsoft Edge to switch to a different browser. Picked Waterfox as it's not Chromium-based, doesn't intend to kill off normal extensions or add 'AI' BS, and generally feels less... corporate.
UI also feels far more familiar, as an old-school NS/Mozilla user.
UI also feels far more familiar, as an old-school NS/Mozilla user.
January 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Finally got fed up enough with Microsoft Edge to switch to a different browser. Picked Waterfox as it's not Chromium-based, doesn't intend to kill off normal extensions or add 'AI' BS, and generally feels less... corporate.
UI also feels far more familiar, as an old-school NS/Mozilla user.
UI also feels far more familiar, as an old-school NS/Mozilla user.