remember that if you have no presence in the UK you literally don’t have to care about their terrible laws Just Say “No”

Extremely with @steveklabnik.com here. It’s been months and months of seeing people I respect say easily demonstrably false things. People who are reasonable except on this one topic. Not just a different opinions or preferences, but things that are not real. It broke me a bit.

new blog post with some rust code this time: seanbowe.com/blog/ragu-fo...

new blog post: seanbowe.com/blog/tachyon...

caught some kittens in the bush outside today!

i have great affection for bsky devs, i think this is a worthy project and im grateful to them for the kindness theyve showed us this is an open letter to them regarding what to do about Recent Complaints, offered in good faith and the spirit of friendship my advice: 黙殺

this crowd of social media police is going to be shocked when they find out what the publicly stated goals of the AT protocol are

people who feel it’s “inexcusable” for a dev team to not have implemented whatever feature are welcome to start their own instance and write their own clients and figure out all of the missing protocol level details for federation and figure out the emergent economic incentives of the protocol and

A brief list of things of value that crypto has incentivised people to produce: - Open source cryptography implementations - Efficient consensus mechanisms - Multi-party computation schemes, including threshold signatures - Zero-knowledge proving systems - Case studies of SGX failures

wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/

bottom line is nobody has the power to kick other people off the internet. but infrastructure providers can decide what is allowed on their infra and set rules there.

i do and i have but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”

I haven't even been on this site two weeks yet, and I have whiplash from how fast it is growing and changing. Kudos to the @bsky.app team for keeping up!

the bluesky timeline is called the skyline

It’s been ~two months, I think a critical mass has been hit in recent days + the Substack / Elon-Musk’s-Twitter kerfuffle

wow twitter just flat-out sucks now feels like we just killed their entire platform

I put bluesky’s app in the spot on my home screen where Twitter’s app was. it’s over everyone

Only a few days in the last several years have I been entertained by Twitter discourse nearly as much as the last 24h of bluesky discourse. bullish

didn't think it was fair that my cat is on twitter but not bluesky so here we go

I’m just glad I finally have something to do with this domain name I renew every year

“we need more invite codes for our friends”

gm