computer, make me a cake computer, now eat it for me

after extensive wind tunnel testing and analysis, I've concluded that airplane mode is a complete scam. it doesn't change the phone's aerodynamics in the slightest.

graphing pizza topping locations in internet memes reveals an intriguing trend

if sat in front of an LLM chat interface for long enough, some percentage of humans (hopefully <1%) become convinced that the AI is sentient even if told otherwise. what would it mean if that % goes above 50%?

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

listening to a podcast on purpose, I'm sure the spotify algorithm will never let me live this down

If I had more spare time right now I'd build an "overlay appview", that fires queries at two or more appviews and merges their responses. That way you can have a small appview that only indexes your friends, without being isolated from the rest of the network.

don't worry, if no coherent narrative is available, one will be constructed for you shortly

I thought I'd play hollow knight before silksong and I am not very good at it. I don't think I'm cut out for gaming.

consistent hashing is such a neat technique

Hey man your TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END OF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY T-shirt is kind of bumming out everyone at the beach

I can't imagine voluntarily enabling video autoplay any day of the week tbh

a very bizarre spec rslstandard.org/guide/encryp... rslstandard.org/api#retrieve...

failure is often more interesting than success

please don't add microtransaction mechanics to HTTP

the iPhone air camera bump is ridiculous, I wonder if you could mod it make a bumpless version with no rear camera

it's always important to check your ball uniformity

one must imagine sisyphus listening to his kate bush playlist

true database durability has never been tried

multipart rar is annoying to encounter but it's also how you know you're getting the good stuff

huh, did I fumble a keyboard shortcut or did Firefox switch my search engine to Bing of its own accord?

asking my coffee beans if they have any last words

the clippy pfp thing is probably for a good cause but I can't help noticing that it correlates with people who are annoying

Why This Matters:

[accidentally entering a rap battle] I uh, I got flows like oauth

my post is intended for my audience who are already aware what atproto is and can retrace the parallel without me spelling it out. in-jokes are a common format in twitter-like mediums. the social etiquette is usually to ignore the post if the joke doesn’t make sense

the optimal amount of legacy API cruft is non-zero

macbook speakers: sounds normal thinkpad speakers: sounds like you dropped your phone down the side of the desk but it's still making sound

bad news: computer science has run out of verbs buffers must now be ensorcelled and desorcelled

bad news: computer science has run out of verbs buffers must now be ensorcelled and desorcelled

wow, matrix.org homeserver still down

people don't like my posts. here's why that's everyone else's problem 🧵 (1/?)

AI has brought about incredible advances in the field of spam

I understand the concept of political lobbying, but not the specifics of how it actually works. Is there like, a step-by-step guide to lobbying?

TIL HTML forms can have a mailto URI as the action

w3c son or ietf daughter

what if I made millipds daily-driveable. main blockers on that are a) repo imports b) oauth sync1.1 also needs doing but that's less critical, for now

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-n... 👀👀

[accidentally entering a rap battle] I uh, I got flows like oauth

going through my unpublished github repos, so much cool stuff that I never quite finished lol

hmmm

Citizen, you are being redirected to another webpage. Please do not resist.

I wish I had the confidence of a mediocre photographer who watermarks all their pics

in my posting chamber

Someone write me a hefty check and you'll see some wild atproto applications. Do I know how they would be profitable? No Would there be some crazy good atproto apps and tools for the community and you'll see the atproto developers working them get paid? Hell yes you would

which computational benchmark has improved the *least* in the last few decades? the best (worst?) I can come up with is probably pointer-chasing though a random larger-than-cache array, which is basically a measure of memory latency rather than anything else.