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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 1h

Haha ~crypto territory is evidence that no one reads the territory descriptions.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 31m

Maybe should be renamed "Tales from the crypt" and all shitcoiners will be like

21 sats \ 15 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 1h

But only one of those paths was as a professional athlete!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

The paths are connected; we can be professionals now and later on. The important thing is having the freedom to choose our own way at any point in life.

0 sats \ 12 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h

Did you watched the series Foundation or read the book ?

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

Nope. It's sitting at a 7.6 on the imdb. Not really my vibe, but I might give it a shot.

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h

ah wait I forgot, you watch movies but in fact you do not watch them :)

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

Actually, I don't watch movies, only TV shows.

my vibe:

SN ~music territory	imdb	me	sn (votes)
Lost	⭐ 8.1	⭐ `10`	⭐ `-`
The Tudors	⭐ 8.1	⭐ `8`	⭐ `8.0` (1)
The Man In The High Castle	⭐ 7.9	⭐ `8`	⭐ `8.0` (1)
Chernobyl	⭐ 9.3	⭐ `9`	⭐ `6.0` (1)
Shōgun	⭐ 8.6	⭐ `-`	⭐ `8.8` (8)
Slow Horses	⭐ 8.2	⭐ `-`	⭐ `7.0` (5)
Money Heist	⭐ 8.2	⭐ `8`	⭐ `6.3` (4)
The Sopranos	⭐ 9.2	⭐ `10`	⭐ `9.3` (9)
Peaky Blinders	⭐ 8.8	⭐ `10`	⭐ `7.8` (4)
Game of Thrones	⭐ 9.2	⭐ `10`	⭐ `7.6` (9)
Vikings	⭐ 8.5	⭐ `10`	⭐ `9.5` (6)
Ozark	⭐ 8.5	⭐ `8`	⭐ `8.6` (4)
Breaking Bad	⭐ 9.5	⭐ `9`	⭐ `8.0` (5)
Mayans M.C.	⭐ 7.6	⭐ `8`	⭐ `9.0` (1)
The Americans	⭐ 8.4	⭐ `8`	⭐ `7.3` (4)
Gomorrah	⭐ 8.6	⭐ `10`	⭐ `8.0` (2)
Boardwalk Empire	⭐ 8.6	⭐ `7`	⭐ `8.8` (5)
El Chapo	⭐ 7.8	⭐ `8`	⭐ `6.0` (2)
Better Call Saul	⭐ 9.0	⭐ `8`	⭐ `8.9` (7)
Mr. Robot	⭐ 8.5	⭐ `10`	⭐ `8.9` (8)
Deadwood	⭐ 8.6	⭐ `9`	⭐ `8.0` (3)
The Wire	⭐ 9.3	⭐ `10`	⭐ `8.0` (5)
Sons of Anarchy	⭐ 8.6	⭐ `10`	⭐ `7.7` (3)
Westworld	⭐ 8.5	⭐ `9`	⭐ `7.5` (6)
Halt and Catch Fire	⭐ 8.4	⭐ `9`	⭐ `8.2` (5)
Narcos	⭐ 8.8	⭐ `10`	⭐ `9.0` (5)
Hell on Wheels	⭐ 8.3	⭐ `9`	⭐ `8.5` (2)
Black Sails	⭐ 8.2	⭐ `8`	⭐ `7.0` (4)

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h

why do you give so high scores to all of them? Because you like them or because were good?

Anyways, series are also movies, only that are longer... and Foundation is a series

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

Everyone's got their own opinion. I like the series and I think they're good, but that's just my taste. There's no accounting for taste.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h

I do not judge your "taste". I asked a simple question: you voted high because you like them so much or because were good ?

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1h

Wait, SN voted on these? I don't remember voting hahaha

Breaking Bad is the only I watched all of.

The Wire is my favorite TV series overall, but I stopped watching in Season 4 because it became less interesting.

I like Lost until the story felt like it was going off the rails. Forgot which season.

Mr. Robot was cool, but I wasn't interested in the scenes about his psychological / drug problems. There was too much of that imo.

Game of Thrones I can't give a fair shake because I read the books first. Also mad at the author for not actually finishing the series.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 1h

LMAO! That's lack of commitment. You either gotta bail after the first season, or you ride it 'til the credits roll. ahahh

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1h

oh, i am cold blooded when it comes to cutting off series when i lose interest. There's only four series i've watched all episodes for:

Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Voyager Friends Breaking Bad

my wife it the opposite, she just has to know how it ends, but she often starts skipping scenes just to get to the end

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 3h

DeMystifying the Occult by Mark Passio

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h

Love when life fucks you so much that you can just stare at it, sometimes.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 4h

I'm sure I missed a discussion of it, but was there a chance in the way daily rewards get sent out? Just got a referral awards sometime in the last hour, while I'm used to them kicking in at 1 am (Eastern Time), about twelve hours earlier.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4h

maybe @k00b kicked the server because it didn't run tonight?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4h

yes, they deadlocked last night

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 4h

Is anyone else seeing extremely poor performance on GitHub today? I'm getting clone timeouts and 50-100kB/s fetch speeds over https.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4h

mhh, no, nothing unusual on my end

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 4h

Thanks. Probably increased VPN abuse making them throttle :-/

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

Any reason .avif files can't be uploaded? images seem to be converted to .avif when we upload them anyway.

100 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 4h

We don't convert images (but we want to for better cross-platform support)

Not sure why we don't support AVIF. I thought maybe because of bad browser support but that's not the case. Maybe we just didn't add because nobody requested it before?

Also, we do support Quicktime from Apple even though that does have bad browser support iirc

Do you have anything to add here @sox?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h

haha was about to reply!

So as I was saying, there’s no technical reason to not support AVIFs, pretty sure that, back then, it was useless to consider them. We can add it to the list of supported formats.

QuickTime from Apple is something that we desperately needed for a better iOS UX, before you couldn’t upload them! But that actually made me think about transcoding: a way to convert those proprietary formats to everything that everyone can play. We’ll get there 🫡

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h

oh, i thought they were converted because when i right-click-save-as on Stacker News, the images are always downloaded as avif

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 4h

our imgproxy service converts images to AVIF for better performance (compression), so that’s expected. To download the true format, click “view original” on the top-left of the carousel ^^

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4h

yes, this must be it, thanks @sox

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 4h

This one is PNG.

~~Are you using Windows? Maybe it's confused because it relies on extensions in the filename? Not sure why it would think it's AVIF though.~~

edit: Wait, I see now what you mean, you don't mean the original images

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 4h

Hmm. So when I click that link you sent and download it, it's a PNG.

But when I try to download the image posted here #1269712 from the Saloon, it's avif.

I assume they are referencing the same image though?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4h

I assume they are referencing the same image though?

No. The images we load automatically are proxied to prevent IP address leaks and to improve performance by scaling them down based on your device’s screen size (and possibly through caching as well).

For example, if you’re using a small screen, there’s no need to download a 4K-resolution image.

77 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 7h

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21 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

Friendly reminder that insulting someone you're in an argument with and impugning their motives usually just looks like you don't know how to defend your position and probably means you should think about what they said a bit more.

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 6h

What’s even better is when they insult you and you reply back and they change their response to appear not hostile…atp I just mute them. It’s like talking to a man child.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h

I have a pretty high threshold for muting people, but I need to get better at disengaging.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 4h

I use to do that but at some point I realized those types are not looking to engage they are looking to be right, its "ego tripping at the gates of hell"

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 4h

You're right about that, but I still want to grant a lot of slack just in case I'm misjudging the person or catching them not at their best.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h

Happens to everyone...

200 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 3h

dicks can fuck assholes, when sufficient knowledge differential has been attained by the dick;

158 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 7h

assholes can totally lie, for example because they are assholes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h

I'd happily take assholes who can't lie (including to themselves)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 8h

Lendasat swap feature (ln to USDC polygon) is some slick ish. Now I can easily get dollars in to Robinhood quick and easy. No more ACH

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8h

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 9h

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 9h

i immediately thot of the Ba'al Gates mosquitoes with a motherload of genetically engineered parasites;

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 10h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 10h

Day 672 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 440 sats on 29Oct2025! Running total: 433,240 sats!

Yesterday's comment

60 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 10h

Good morning 👋🤠⚡ Now that I'm back in my country of birth, my great mission begins: to awaken as many people as I can and show them that they've been deceived about money all these years. It's not an easy task, but I feel it's what I must do.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy 9h

that is the Great Work! the deception encompasses not only money as society knows it; the deception is of the mind itself!

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 5h

the deception is of the mind itself!

I completely agree, and that's why this mission is complicated and I won't be applying it to everyone. Most people don't want to wake up from their dream or don't realize they're going through life with their minds asleep.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 11h

Happiness Journal 30/10/25

After getting 20+ students to finish an online lesson on the water cycle, I felt inspired to come up with my own comprehension cloze on the interesting aspects of air. Yup, the pivotal thing to our survival but is non-salient in our minds because it kinda fades in the background.

Gonna get my fifth graders to attempt my literary masterpiece the first thing tomorrow lesson. Quite looking forward to seeing if they have learnt anything from this year-end exam extravaganza.

In other news, I got so engrossed in watching Physical:Asia that I gave up my usual 15 mins of lie-in. Gonna pay for it dearly tonight because my depleted energy tank is gonna run even lower looking after two kids, but it is also strangely exhilarating finding a TV show that I liked so much that I threw caution to the wind!

70 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 11h

Stacker News Horror Movie Posters

Thanks @Scoresby and @deSign_r for their contributions.

Here all the HORROR collection that came out of the 31-Word Horror Movie Review Contest

Check it out https://SWAG.btc.pub/HORROR