tfw you are so deep into a challenging p2p sync problem that a all of a sudden a server starts to sound like a good solution

while using ai may be somewhat dehumanizing at times, somehow talking about ai with people is a fun generally appreciated conversation. almost everyone has an opinion and interesting thoughts about it. it’s a pretty good bar conversation topic

lord however much sunk cost i may have spent on sidequests please grant me the courage to focus on whats important now

i think a lot of my interest in focusing on declarative infrastructure came from a feeling that something like mythos was coming, and i want to be able to let llms code review infrastructure configs for security without directly giving it access to machines

Iranians are forming human chains nationwide on bridges and around critical infrastructure to safeguard their country against US and Israeli strikes.

need a search for cafe function filtered by "plays music without words" and "has outlet available now"

here is the code I have been using to do this: tangled.org/notplants.bs... not in a polished state, but sharing in case the pattern is interesting to someone (README as mini blog post)

That's how I became a vim user. Opened it one day, couldn't figure out how to close it, now programming is my life.

isolated incus project space + terraform + nix + tailscale + claude in agentic loop with total isolated acces is an interesting combination of things to me something about the feeling of hard constraints and vast openness at the same time

while it is true that pirating exists on the internet (by small and large actors), ip law still makes a pragmatic difference in our society because it is sometimes enforceable, and this feels to me like an extension of that (this is addressed to critics saying this is unenforceable)

working on my novel

+1 to this. having tld in our handles is silly and counter-intuitive I am notplants.bsky.social still simply because i dont want to be myname.com unless im doing it as a bit. a tld in your handle lowkey feels like being named after a billboard

resonating with notes on "Collecting Limitations of CRDTs" worm-blossom.org/notes/crdts_cl

people talk about ai like its magical, but tbh computers were already pretty magical, and having a body in the first place was already way more magical than either of those things (this skeet is ai neutral)

critically participating in the discourse is one of my love languages

I’m so excited to see @habitat.network grow @offline.arushibandi.com killing it

enjoyed chatting with many people in random hallways

attie is cool but she doesn’t do this

would like to see pollen claims or some version of community notes on perceptual hashes widely adopted

cherry blossoms in vancouver

Amazing first day at #AtmosphereConf. You can feel the community, the hype is real. Everyone is excited

"It doesn’t feel like a product roadmap. It feels more like a city filling in. Someone opens a coffee shop, someone else opens a bookstore across the street, and suddenly there’s a neighborhood." ❤️ #AtmosphereConf

starting to post out some quotes from atmosphereconf “can atproto ecosystem be as seamless as the apple ecosystem”

the true lightweight pack would be one floral dress with leggings as all purpose tactical gear (but bringing some other things too) (packing for atmosphere conf)

the kubernetes cluster takes 20 minutes to finish starting and crashes all over the place on the way there but does eventually and reliably get there -- is a funny sort of design but i don't hate it

Just getting the chance to check this out. Moderation software that puts human moderators' wellbeing and relationships at its center. Moderation work is community-building work, and no one's building community like the Blacksky team. Congratulations y'all, this looks incredible 🌰

i got the nix brain worms, unfortunately

you can read @kevinbaker.bsky.social’s new piece if you promise to think seriously about this: “You do not have to use a language model to let it organize your attention or distort your thinking.” artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain...

also been feeling recently that people are often drawn to money as an explanation for things because its a simple explanation, even one word, and the truth is more complicated bsky.app/profile/sky....

if you use vms and tailscale too much it can dissolve your sense of being in a particular physical location (missing warning from manual)

We'll of course be demoing at #ATmosphereConf, but I'm really excited to get into the *why* of what we're building with this talk. Much of the internet sucks right now. We all know it. So what is the vision for the future? We hope you watch this talk and dream on with us.

as a system administrator, setting someone up with a cryptpad where I don't have access to their data is a good feeling

Ppl will denigrate speaking out online saying ‘posting isn’t doing anything’ & also be like ‘4chan started our current Hitlerworld’ & ‘gamer gate farmed Nazis’ & I’m just asking for consistency Any playground where thoughts are exchanged matters that’s why the fascists heavily monitor them all now

there is a sense in which making things for the internet feels like trying to make things for everyone all at once, which i appreciate

There are a lot of different paths to sustainability with atproto projects. Trying to make this open to a lot of different directions, not just investor funded startup. Many of the challenges are the same: who is the customer, who pays, how to get adoption.

claude politely asking me to readd its username to /etc/passwd in its vm from the host because it accidentally deleted itself and is now stuck

in addition to verifying journalists, feel like it would be useful (needed?) if there was an additional verification tier below that that - u are not a bot - u are not sharing or re-sharing fake ai-generated or unsourced content i imagine this list containing millions of people but being useful

went to a poetry open mic last night and its making me appreciate being online together as pretty much a weird open mic and thinking more about mutual listening and space creation online

a common critique of kubernetes is that its overly complicated and overkill, but i think another valid critique is that is also sort of mediocre and has a lot of weird naming choices

been tinkering with how to use a pds as a relay/sync-point between p2p offline-first text editors working on a directory of files have been exploring a few rabbit holes here thread ~ 1/n

there are so many things about chronic illness that most people without chronic illness do not understand and/or dont realize they don't understand, and i alternate between finding this gap annoying and recognizing thats just the way it is

one of many ways im out of step with mastodon ai discourse, is that most open source projects i've been involved with suffered in terms of code quality because of lack of time, not lack of care. so the math behind "ai reduces code quality in favor of speed" doesnt add up to me as a general claim

tfw the whole internet feels like people shouting at their straw man of choice

I remember in my first programming internship, disabling my arrow keys for a few weeks, so that I forced myself to learn vim keybindings, and I feel like the llm-era version of that for learning-mode might just be disabling the clipboard and agent-mode and trying to do something

So much this 💯 > The open question is whether the communities that form around these tools will be robust enough to sustain them, and on that front, the projects that invest as deliberately in community cultivation as in protocol architecture are the ones most likely to endure.

some parable about you add one small feature with a million infinite rabbit holes in it

"Now I have everything I need. Let me write the plan." -- winnie the pooh, looking at the stars, pondering the future

even if nix and rust had no actual technical benefit, its also true that using tools with other people who like using the tools they are using is enjoyable * which really points to the problem with real cults being coercion, not enthusiasm itself

atproto question: is there anything in atproto docs about users collaborating on a document? whose pds should it live on? how is this supposed to work? if its data that is not "personal" but shared, where is it supposed to live?