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Samo Korošec

@samokorosec.bsky.social

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Product designer living and working in Vienna. Kicked PDF SDK UI standards up a notch, improved regulated software development tools, helped friends create Audio Plugins and Synths and drew hundreds and hundreds of icons in the process.

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Europe keeps talking big game about becoming independent from the US, focusing on arms production and other industries, and it all seems like an attempt to fix problems from 20 years ago.

The big industrial differentiator in the next 10-20 years will be software enabling integrated industries:

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 3h

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 1d

T-shirt saying

y i need do all things?!

? 😬

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 2d

Discover a selection of projects set in PS Fournier, excellent text and titling typeface, which reflects the perfect French elegance.
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts-in-use...
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#fontsinuse #typefaces #fonts #branding

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

Better play it safe and not do anything! 🫡

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

After careful investigation we came to the conclusion that reason no one picked up the phone is that the phone line was dead.

100% Engineering Mindset 💪

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

The funny part is that if it were up to me, I’d have a hard time not taking the Chinese analysts over really badly educated Americans. Because chances are they will still do halfway decent work simply due do at least some professional pride and not wanting to let their education go to waste. 😬

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing weathering there. Really neat work! 👌

(Reminds me of some of the stuff shown in the books of rinaldi studio press that I got a few years back.)

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

Wär nur zu wünschen, dass man sich mehr dort abschauen würde, wie z.B. wie lange der nationalistische Chauvinismus dort noch bestehen blieb, weil man Serbien nicht tatsächlich besiegt hat sondern sie in Ruhe ließ.

Alles unliebsame Theman, die man auf eigene Gefahr ignoriert.

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

Wenn nicht mehr ist unsere Zeit ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie lange solche Lektionen brauchen, um bei den Leuten anzukommen.

10 Jahre, mehr oder minder. Was ja beim Jugoslawien-Krieg ja im Grunde eh ähnlich war (ca 8 Jahre vom Slowenien-Krieg bis NATO in Serbien mal auf die Bremse stieg).

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 2d

Eine große Freude und Ehre! Mein Buch „Die Rückkehr des Krieges: Warum wir wieder lernen müssen, mit Krieg umzugehen“ wurde für den NDR Sachbuchpreis 2025 nominiert. www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/...

"Die Rückkehr des Krieges": Wichtiges Buch - auch für Pazifisten

Wenn russische Drohnen und Kampfflugzeuge in den Luftraum der Nato eindringen, spätestens dann sollte man sich "Die Rückkehr des Krieges" zu Gemüte führen. Damit will der Autor uns aus dem "sicherheit...

www.ndr.de

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Maurice is a bold rebranding of Maurice Meilleur+ @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 6d

Hear me out what if antisemites are the real antisemites

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 2d

i think the coolest feat of engineering of the 21st century is that every food product now comes in a bag with a tear-off top, and when you throw away the top part it somehow always flutters away from the trash can and lands on the floor

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 2d

Field you say?

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I wonder if a data center could be built there…

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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing to see here. Move along please.

A cow, peering over a fence with a prominent sign saying “warning: sheep“

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

(Not that I disagree that the capabilities to not even need shotguns are needed, and quick.)

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

Autonomous drones can be dropped to lie in wait at quite some distance. Wouldn’t even produce much of a heat signature. The kind of firepower to destroy those kind of “teams” is reserved for the US and China.

Until Europe can confidently claim those capabilities, shotguns will be needed. 🤷‍♂️

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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 6d

Back in April I described for the US Homeland Defense Institute whether, when, and why, Russia's "mayhem" campaigns could target the US as well as Europe.

That report is now public. Much has happened since April - but all of it seems to confirm its key points.

www.thepresidency.org/all-publicat...

Risk of Contagion: Will Russian “Mayhem” Campaigns Spread to U.S. INfrastructure? — Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress

www.thepresidency.org

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

I mean it’s not npm and 10000 transient dependencies with _some_ having critical vulnerabilities but being required by parts of your project.

(I had to design a UI that helps resolve/risk manage such pickles, but I think it _still_ hasn’t shipped completely, 2 years later… 😬)

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely. And hopefully Ukraine _will_ earn a _lot_ of money helping Europe out, from drones to modern defense software to industrial expertise.

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

In a sane world this would put a pause on using AI for at least a year or two (or until regulations and internal processes catch up).

Was/will the system be re-evaluated?

Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely wild.

Makes Austria’s “Type your question here to get an answer from the government agency. Anawers might be incorrect because computers make errors.” use of chatbots look good in comparison!

Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 6d

Wild #AI in gov’t story ahead:

A citizen received a letter from the revenue office about paying property tax on a plot of land in Bavaria.

The problem was that she didn’t own a property in Bavaria, and neither did anyone in her family.

She refused. The revenue office insisted.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 6d

Shotguns are part of the answer, as astounding this may sound

defence-blog.com/french-army-...

French army adopts hard-kill tactics for drone threats

As Western armies adapt to lessons from the war in Ukraine, France’s 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment has begun training its soldiers to use shotguns against small aerial threats, including low-cost FPV d...

defence-blog.com

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

(And the next step, obviously, being head-mounted lasers. On sharks, too, when used against naval drones.)

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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 6d

Cost-per-kill is a major factor for drones, right?

The interesting part will be how quickly someone develops an automated system that has a guided little baby barrel with a couple shells mounted atop the helmets and is picking off attacking drones all on its own. 😬

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Lynn @lynn.zone · 9d

I really have to wonder if we'd even be in an AI bubble right now if journalism wasn't all but dead as a profession.

The media has always been biased in favor of the ruling class, of course, but not like this

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 9d

It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles

Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"

It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now

But this is how they get front pages

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