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New toy, "residence graphs": tracking the compilation level for top method in the stack. On the left, normal JIT mode: compilers are busy, intp -> T2 -> T3 code is hot; T4 code slowly takes over. On the right, normal AOT+JIT (Leyden) mode: AOT code carries most of it, JIT happens to plug the holes.

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Extremely well said!

"Bad news: The proposal is going forward to be voted on on October 14th, and there's still no blocking minority achieved, as Germany reverted its position to undecided. Good news: There is still time to fight back!" Shut this monstrosity down NOW

I really wish apps and sites would not auto replay videos after they finish. Yes, Bluesky included. It is designing for addiction rather than humanity.

I think @peergos.org is a 4th category? It's not hosted arena or mail scheme. It is closer to synced-arena but different again. We are structure-signed using a CHAMP (the unordered sister of MSTs) and at the moment the PDS does everything. However appviews could act as caches to reduce PDS load.

Lovely message from a Peergos fan over the weekend, "enjoy your weekend sir, thank you again, peergos is an amazing invention"

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

What's the plan when a certain president compels Bluesky PBC to start arbitrarily blocking/taking down accounts that upset him, from PLC? I would recommend accelerating that plan.

I know it’s been said again and again, but what does it say about ChatControl that its backers keep explicitly *exempting* law enforcement and national security accounts from content scanning?

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Browser constructed feeds. That's what we do in @peergos.org because of E2EE and, you know, user agency.

How do we fix this mess?

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I was disappointed when jack Dorsey set this frame for bluesky of public conversation. Such a missed opportunity. We could instead be building on a private foundation like we've been building in @peergos.org since 2013, or the similar work from @dustyweb.bsky.social

There;s a new version of peergos out folks! HTTP proxy support, lots of fixes and some optimisations. github.com/Peergos/web-...

We've already solved these problems in Peergos. Apps can be given permission to store app private data, read private user data, or write private user data, on a per file/dir granularity. Everything is stored E2EE on your PDS in Peergos. We treat your PDS *and* apps as current adversaries.

The best devops advice I ever heard was this: when you start a new server create a few 1 GB files and leave them. Then when inevitably something goes wrong and you run out of space you and easily buy yourself some time to fix the problem.

The best comment I've read on hacker news in a long time. Super fun. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521...

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Pixels have provided hardware memory tagging (MTE) support since the Pixel 8. GrapheneOS deployed it in production around a month after the launch of the Pixel 8 and we use it for the kernel and nearly the entire base OS. We use it for some third party apps and users can opt-in to using it for all.

Being able to leak data via side channels is a known issue with modern CPUs with many rounds of issues being discovered and addressed. ARM has been working on fully resolving it for MTE itself. Apple CPUs have had much more severe issues with side channels than Cortex, so it's a strange jab by them.

The defences we have against this kind of attack include: 1) We don't use npm (we manually review the few JS dependencies we have when updating) 2) We only have a handful of JS deps 3) We vendor our dependencies in git 4) We use strong CSP that blocks any external communication to other domains

Of course it was mutable state...

Nothing like sitting in a cafe reading an excellent book like Invisible Rulers by @noupside.bsky.social (So far, it is awesome).

Great opportunity for an excellent hire here.

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Don't outsource your sovereignty. Use end-to-end encryption.

Congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social !

OMG, I get a book launch! And not just any old book launch - this one is hosted by @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social. I have therefore challenged myself to find a *single fun fact linking ecology, maths and communication* for the event - show up, in person or online, to find out what it is. 🧪 #scicomm

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Yeah, my blog post talks about this a bit: soatok.blog/2025/08/09/i... The basic idea is: If a hostile government says "you must sign this release that contains a backdoor", you can say "I cannot release software without [people outside that government's borders] cooperating".

I really want system where I set a price for unknown phone numbers to pay (me) to call me. So anyone not in my address book has to pay for my time.

To me this is just a typed filesystem. Files have mine types. You can render different types if you understand them.

Java's incredible pace continues.

but I would love to see someone jump on this and push the protocol forward in parallel. the protocol changes for private data aren't going to write themselves and will be much better with one or more driving use cases.

i think part of the reason this hasn't been done yet on atproto is because there's no means for private data yet so anything someone in a group would post would be public

Hey @bmann.ca is anything happening with the atproto private data working group yet?

Is the ai bubble already starting to pop? Maybe we can start channeling money into something good for humanity now..

No better feeling in open source: when your OSS project upstreams an improvement to another OSS project (which in this case has nearly 200k repos depending on it) github.com/rustls/rustl... Great stuff Diva.

Apparently it was "non-profit day" a few days ago. We are proud to be a non-profit and not have any investors. We think the future of the web is too important to leave to venture capitalists. We were reading this the other day - wedontagree.net/technically-... - and this section jumped out at us:

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#academicsky 🧪 #scicomm

We've got a new release out folks! This enables sync from any drive in Windows and Linux, and includes a 3X faster GC on large blockstores. github.com/Peergos/web-...

🧵Excerpts from Cleaner Air Collective productivity sub many brilliant members of CAC have been busy working on submissions, consultations, inquiries, FOI requests etc, raising voices on behalf of us all on everything from IAQ productivity gains to masks in healthcare & transparency re vaccines🙌

We've been using Ed25519 in browsers for over 10 years now (every identity and writer is an Ed25519 pair in Peergos), so we really appreciate this and how much work it has been. The size of nacl.js is 30KB so not a significant benefit, but the web-crypto version is 10x faster!

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Reading the sqlite db into the bloom filter is also super fast, taking only 10s.