Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟

🇳🇴 Developer at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency

I tweet my own thoughs, mostly on CS, RL, Pokemon GO and webdev

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

We are here for support❤️ @jkaemGO @Renegades

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

I've been av avid user of @Spotify radio for years, but the last couple of months more and more AI music have popped up...

Never blocked artists until now.

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

RT @CounterStrike: Tomorrow the defending champions, @TeamVitalityCS, take on the most entertaining team in Counter-Strike history, @FaZeCl…

[jordi @jordienr]

🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING 🇪🇺🚨

The EU has officially passed the Tailwind Classname Regulation Act (TCRA-359.3).

According to EU bureaucrats, “each additional class emits 0.4g of CO₂” and “classnames like bg-neutral-900/70 backdrop-blur-md are environmentally unsustainable.”

Websites exceeding 30 Tailwind classes must now offset their carbon footprint by planting 1 tree per 10 classes, or face fines of up to €1000 per class.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Happy to fund your migration.

For Core customers, send your Vercel/v0 cancellation screenshot to support@replit and we’ll give you $50 of credits.

If you have an annual enterprise contract with them, we’ll wave up to $20k of equivalent contract value. Email sales@replit

[Jacob “Pimp” Winneche @PimpWinneche]

Regardless of Rain being cut from FaZe or not, he’s been impressive post summer break.

Pre-break with ELiGE on the roster he was a weak link. Not posting high enough numbers or having the impact he’s always been known to have.

Post break he’s played better, and to make that bounce back at this stage of his career is remarkable.

Last 3 months rating: 1.09
First 6 months of 2025: 1.03

I my humble opinion, I would stick with rain for the season, and then reevaluate jcobb heading into 2026.

That’s incredibly cruel to him, but in terms of getting the best performance out of FaZe short term, that’s what I’d highly consider.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. https://t.co/yToVAmwcwn

[Pokémon GO @PokemonGoApp]

Which type of Trainer are you? #PokemonGO

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

💯 GMAX Cinderace #pokemongo

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

react router 7 really slapping lately, awesome to work with

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

@m0sifer is the black one with sparkles

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

@m0sifer They have ads

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

Mesprit just spawned at home 🥹🤯
#PokemonGO

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Google Chrome ending up in the wrong hands due to DOJ intervention could be catastrophic for the open web and backfire entirely.

Few organizations in the world meet the bar of having 1️⃣ the web’s best interests in mind, 2️⃣ the technical infrastructure and know-how, and 3️⃣ the immense required funding.

Working on a browser involves two main areas: the engine and its frontend, like a car’s engine and its chassis & dashboard. Google has done a *phenomenal* job on the engine, which is one of the absolute hardest technical undertakings in the world, and curiously enough is actually fully open source.

Blink, Chrome’s engine, is BSD and LGPL licensed, developed in the open, and powers so many of Google’s competitors, including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Browser Company’s Arc/Dia, and dozens of others at no cost. It’s absolutely essential that this work stays uninterrupted, while we continue to invest as a community in engine diversity, including projects like @ladybirdbrowser of which I’m a proud backer.

And Blink is just one piece, in charge of rendering. Google has built and open sourced many other crucial engine components like the V8 JavaScript engine, Skia, PDFium, Cronet, and many others, bundled as part of the open Chromium distribution. The complexity of what makes a modern browser work is truly staggering. Thank you Google.

The DOJ is taking particular issue with the engine’s frontend, the actual thing consumers download and interact with. This is where Google has the unique privilege to package and distribute the open source engine components, and impose arbitrary rules and configurations on top, like search engine defaults, AI assistance models, telemetry capture, login / accounts integration, settings and history sync, Web Store rules (like which ad blockers can be distributed), etc. At the scale Google is operating and the power it confers, scrutiny and caution here is warranted.

I believe, however, that the best path forward will be an incremental one, maintaining the careful balance of a browser frontend that has the everyday internet citizen’s best interests in mind, while not disrupting the investment and support of such crucial open internet infrastructure that benefits us all.

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

USA i 18 daga i sommar, alt som e planlagt e 2 daga i NY og eit par i Nashville.
Noken som ha anbefalinga?

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

@m0sifer I'll gladly pay a lot for a hand made leather something - but mass produced in china and labelled as "luxury" is not it.. I like this tbh

[No Context Super Mario @SuperMarioOOC85]

THEY REALLY ARE ADDING ANYBODY LMAO

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

🥰 SHUNDO!

[Tobias "Torsken" Barsnes 🐟 @TorskenCS]

Effektiv helg i Pokemon GO

Ganske nice med Raikou