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Female founder building embryo screening to help reduce genetic disease risk. Really impactful tech

What if, an AppView that's really lazy, and only watches for events from people you follow or that are otherwise relevant to you, and that also could run in your browser.

Hey everyone! We are trying to rename an inportant part of bluesky and we need your opinions!

Got called a heathen at the ice cream shop and I’m like, fair.

From the people who brought you “meetings that could have been emails”, we present “t-shirts that could have been sweaters”

Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers. Anyways, back to work.

Note to self, when updating your computer make sure your feed server database comes back online before checking out for the day and not checking the app until Saturday 😅

So my eternal curse of going on vacation and having something break struck again. This time the wires for the cpu fan on my server were apparently rubbing against the fan, which over time was wearing through the wire and it just so happened to finally break fully the day that I left for a trip.

Heads up that the server running my feeds has had an (as of yet) unknown hardware failure and will take a little while to debug. Not sure how long its gonna be.

The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization

It’s wild when the people who control the only feed most people see accuse us of being the echo chamber. People are scared and in pain—they deserve spaces to talk without top-down interference. That’s what we’re building.

Bleusky

Claude 4.0 review so far: Its definitely the best coding model, really solid stuff there. It doesn't necessarily generate better code on a function by function level, but it stays on track for longer tasks much better, and its a lot better at spotting issues.

“Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM” Watch this.

I definitely use emdashes in my everyday posting, like any other normal real human

*nickelback voice*: Look at this mossy rock!

the people who told me that this dynamic doesn’t exist and that I’m imagining a bullying problem need to check the quotes/replies to this b

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

telling someone who is interested in things u don’t like or u find off putting to off themselves isn’t praxis btw. the ai guy u told to kys? not praxis. the trans girl u told to kys? not praxis. the “shit lib” who (admittedly!!) posts bad and u told to kys? not praxis.

I wonder why Go programmers don’t engage in large public discussions on how obtuse other languages are. Maybe they’re too busy shipping real world code to production 🤔

Clair obscur dares to ask the question: what if the apocalypse happened in france, and it was painting themed DDR?

Midjourney v7 prompt: “a small owl sitting on a branch with pedro pascals head photoshopped badly over it”

In this thread, a bunch of people with nearly zero ability to think missing the point entirely. This is easily good enough to fool *most* people, we really need to be aware what the capabilities are, or be easily fooled by them

My only qualm with that last of us episode is that it doesn’t rain like that in seattle. Immersion broken.

San Francisco residents hearing outrage about people spending $4000/mo on a nice place when they spend $4000/mo on one room in a 120 year old house with termites and holes in the walls

Here's a little something for you: ``` _.--""--._ .' `. / O O \ | \ ^^ / | \ `------' / `. _______ .' //_____\\ (( ____ )) `------' Bob Dylan ```

Technological progress is cool actually

if AI generations are slop, then so are mass produced goods which are made of cheap material — your $50 ikea chair theoretically “stole” work from a human craftsperson who in days gone by would have made the chair locally by hand with quality material that cost 10x as much

Raspberry Pi index update: About 5 million repos synced, 870GB of disk space used, and keeping up with the firehose. Syncing a bit slower than I would want because every time i turn it higher the office internet gets upset and we start getting rate limited by cloudfront.

users: "the algo sucks! i keep [seeing/hearing] things i dont want to see!!!!" company: "okay, we'll work on the algo" users: "no, don't train your algo with data!!" the majority of people sharing content on soundcloud probably want their music to be heard, and soundcloud is tying to do that...

overrated/counterproductive AI risks: - copyright - resource usage - sophistry around “inherent” limitations proven wrong a month later underrated (in order of immediacy): - surveillance acceleration - persuasion (incl delusion) acceleration - existential risk

Stop stressing about the energy and carbon footprint of ChatGPT. It’s not a big deal www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...

This machine syncs over 100 repos a second and gets our entire ip rate limited

LLMs are enough of an improvement to my workflows that i find people who call them useless really funny. Yes they make mistakes, but so do i, and the loop to fixing those mistakes is shorter with their help.

Risk of crashing into a tree be damned i want to ride the hover bike

I want to do a writeup on my raspberry pi full index, but i want it to be fully synced first, backfilling 35 million repos takes a while with limited ram right now apparently.

The relay is the supposedly centralized part of Bluesky because "too big" to run! $19/month! The bsky.app AppView is bigger but every Mastodon instance is an AppView (and PDS), and if you were ok with Mastodon-style partial views of the network, AppViews would be cheap too.

This isnt how the process works but they insisted on a fist fight with some guy named Geoffe before they would accept the badge 🤷‍♂️

we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris

i’m a very slow writer writing about relays and apparently relays hot now and the truth is relays are not that exciting. a full scale atproto relay consumes bandwidth. its costs are bandwidth. it’s a well-scoped mostly boring component. now get excited for 3000 more words that don’t add much.

Browsing 20 million dollar mansions on zillow and judging their choice of office chair

So, thing I learned today that Claude is really good at. Log Parsing. Apparently you can just shove a ton of haproxy logs into it and ask "whats going on??" and it does a great job of diagnosing issues

I hope all you self hosters had a good time during the mandatory coffee break

Theyre pretty great for writing code when you know what you need to do, and how to tell if its done a good job or not. Treating it like extra fancy autocomplete is the way (for code at least)

If i type 🤷‍♂️ on firefox then press backspace once, it just changes the little guys shirt color to 🤷 thanks firefox for giving me a simple tool to change my emojis wardrobe

Kitboga forcing scammers to play the password game is one of the best things ive ever seen

If you want to give feedback on a feature first, inform yourself on how it works, dont make dumb assumptions second, dont just spam shit on a pull request that the dev working on the project has to deal with

deer.social looks pretty cool, appears to be a fork of our open source app with more robust controls around labelers, neat!