Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"

Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala) github.com/shazow/wifitui

+1000 hope this gets more attention, subcommunities is the way forward, one global feed (even with varying moderation and timeline algorithms) can't replace everything.

They say there is no free lunch, but what they don't tell you is that there is also no paid lunch. The whole concept of lunch is a lie.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Nix, is in fact, NixOS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Nix plus OS. Nix is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning operating system made useful by the kernel, systemd, …

anyone use an alternative bluesky client exclusively? which one? anything you miss from the official client?

keep/delete? wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.

arewedecentralizedyet.online is a great reminder that the word "decentralization" is useless without talking about what kinds of power participants have over each other. I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:

robots.txt was the original claude․md

Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche? I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by. Consultant recommendations welcome too!

I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses. If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances! shazow.net/posts/permis...

I'm happy to announce that #urllib3 has a new lead maintainer: Illia Volochii 👏 I'll continue to maintain the project alongside my other co-maintainers @quentin.pradet.me and @shazow.net github.com/urllib3/urll...

there's this thing called man pages, it's like llmstxt but from the 70s

urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month. very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.

I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...

How can open social protocols fail us? I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly! shazow.net/posts/open-s...

urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads PER MONTH (a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain) I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.

Thank you @americanexpress.bsky.social for sponsoring urllib3 and helping improve critical Python internet infrastructure. I know it takes a lot of activation energy for a large company to sponsor an amount like this, so I extra appreciate whoever did the leg work on this. 🙏

The #ATmosphereConf last weekend was 🔥🔥🔥 One amazing breakout was on E2EE Messaging—a topic I’m passionate about bringing to life on ATproto. To align the community, I wrote a vision paper on E2EE Messaging for ATproto. Check it out and let’s push this forward together!👇 whtwnd.com/boscolo.co/3...

Is the lack of a credible alternative AppView still the main criticism of BlueSky? What if another social network launched as an alternate AppView, is that something people would be excited about? (Assuming it would be fully compatible and federate.)

when i was a teen, i used to draw *a lot* of stickfigures. i remember why: someone commented how they were jelly of my drawing talents while they could only draw stickfigures, and i insisted that you can totally make cool art with just stickfigures... and thus began my stickfigure era:

Recently rewatched the old Gladiator (from 2000!) and it still slaps. I can't stop thinking about this scene:

Applications for our next batch of TinySeed are now open 🔥🔥

There's only two kinds of GraphQL deployments: Ones without any users, and ones that slowly become an RPC API.

It's here! The 2024 annual report for #urllib3, a relatively quiet year that included work on HTTP/2 and Web Assembly (WASM). $3,300 worth of bounty issues exist today! quentin.pradet.me/blog/urllib3...

As a final project one of my students implemented water rendering with absolutely stunning caustics

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Are there any Bluesky meetups? I went to a monthly Toronto Farcaster lunch, 11 people, was really nice. I miss the days of meeting our online communities regularly, feels less like we're just here to scream into the void.

Blocking seems like such a core part of the Bluesky culture that is developing here, I'm half-expecting to see that count added to our profiles. Imagine? 556 followers, 307 following, 190 blockers, 12 blocking (I don't love this, but I guess it is distinct.)

Update: After some drama, got my USB DVDRW I bought with Dell points. Didn't think anything I ordered at the end of the year 2024 would come with a Compact Disc (even if the thing is a DVD drive), but here we are. Copyrighted 1999-2022.

High-level takeaway: Optimizing regulation for "lower consumer prices" (in the short term) directly results in "harm to small businesses" (in the medium term) and inevitably leads to lower quality products and finally higher prices in the long term.

New chonky addition to the family. @aranethome.bsky.social is a purveyor of the finest anxieties.

Once upon a time, I wrote a fairly convincing essay about why some kinds of code boilerplate is good. Particularly, making the case for Go's err != nil and some other design decisions of the language. If you're into that kind of thing, have a read: shazow.net/posts/code-b...

We need a lofi airport simulator game where we design the airport building itself. Start small and beautiful. Then new regulations and security requirements start coming in, forcing us to do weird bypasses and segmentation. Airlines break leases. Next thing we know, it's a byzantine factorio maze.

1. What works in smaller groups/social networks may not work in larger ones (and vice versa). 2. What seems to work at first might not work forever (it takes time to converge to optimas, including bad ones). Bluesky has a thoughtful design but let's not abandon it in favour of early victory laps.

@support.bsky.team Can I report a big? This incorrectly detects a link on Android: (E.g. blah blah for example)

*rolling the discourse dice* golang has increased my productivity by at a minimum 2x, maybe 3x. writing some of this stuff is just so much easier than doing it in typescript. golang best lang change my view.

What are we calling one who skeets? Skeeters?

This is such a convoluted way to bookmark things here, I love it. Sub to a bookmarking labeler, "report" posts to a labeler, and set up a feed of all your reported posts. Boom, private bookmarks 😂

Happy "unsubscribe from this mailing list" to those who celebrate.

Spending a few days in Phoenix AZ.

wish there was a /r/SubredditDrama for bluesky

Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it. The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.

looks like graze.social makes it extremely easy to emulate the following feed of any other user on the network — see through someone else's "eyes" instantly! super cool

"RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards" is a great read: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9518/ Just stumbled on it via @bnewbold.net latest: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... Tons of excellent quotes in there, but I'm tickled by this echo of my earlier important reminder.

Bluesky question: I like that moderation is supposed to be opt-in. I stumbled on a pile-on thread with thousands of replies, many of them blocked by the Bluesky Moderation Service. I went to my settings and turned everything to "warn" instead of "hide", but the replies are still blocked. Sup?

Fun story: There's a 2022 paper which found that using my name in LLM code prompts resulted in the highest quality code! This is one of my great prides. I hope to continue to contribute to the quality for Machine Intelligence and Organic Intelligence alike. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

Looking for management book recommendations! In particular, ones that cover hierarchy — when to set up your organization for multiple levels of management vs keeping the structure more flat.

I wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org, this guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...

This message alone just made Bluesky my favorite social network for the day. Where else do you have the creators of two popular decentralized protocols (Ethereum, Mastodon) discussing the behavior of a third (Spritely) on a platform running a fourth (ATProto)?