merry christmas

why are people so obsessed with vpns as the single default censorship circumvention measure. this shit is bypassable with a ublock filter don't go paying some other random company just so they mitm your social media

github.com/bluesky-social… added a new field to ipcc so you need another ublock filter `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="countryCode":").+?(?=")/US/` `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="isAgeRestrictedGeo":").+?(?=")/false/`

In general the goal of moderation enforcement in the atmosphere should always be to use the application view layer for enforcement

yes, the censorship resistance relies on you making the bare minimum of effort to use the infra that does not censor

you cannot derive conclusions on any piece of action by "Bluesky" before knowing where it is enforced it could be any combination of the bsky.app, api.bsky.app, the bsky.network relay, the bsky.network PDSes, or bluesky-social/pds and you especially should not *doom* before knowing which it is

would anything even be lost if i deleted this account

perhaps if you think "everyone else is just an extremist" or "politics just divides people" consider instead that it might be that your positions are so extreme and make you so unlikable that people want to keep you as divided as they can from them

blockenheimer domain expires in a month i might just let it expire and finally kill it for real

the fact one can run a ~full bluesky appview, becoming entirely independant from bluesky the company, for a fraction of what the big mastodon instances pay for hosting seems notable

it's only a bluesky appview if it comes from the Bluesky PBC, otherwise it's just sparkling xrpc

appviewappviewappview - after 6 months, I'm running what is, afaik, the first full-network bluesky appview - you can use it at zeppelin.social, query it at bsky.zeppelin.social, read about it at whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3..., & help me keep it up for more than a few weeks at github.com/sponsors/fut...

Someone just told me that Widevine DRM acknowledges the existence of DeCENC in their API responses. Neat! Presumably some of their CDMs ship mitigations now. I haven't looked.

is there anyone as obsessed with searchability as hentai readers. is there a single website with namespaced tagging of content other than e-hentai

it's still so weird to me that RED is in all other aspects the better music tracker yet OPS is the one of the two that sanely handles overloaded artist names like what is this joke

consuming all the "here's how to tell writing is ai" slop and intentionally implementing all their solutions. that writing style was the result of rlhf, after all, it's optimized for clarity and agreeability!

Uuuuh, using the news app as cover for an anonymous tip line makes so much sense!

Haskell loves you too, little lesbian!

if you pirate your media you're never gonna have to feel bad that you supported someone that turned out to be evil

piracy feed changelog thread

did:fast ≈ authorities A each keep  weights W: A↦0..1  state S: addr↦op  pending P: addr↦nil|op you can ask A  get(a) → S[a]  submit(a,op) { P[a] = op } → sign(A, op)   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ ¬P[a]  finalize(a,op,{cert}) { S,P [a] = op,nil }   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ (2/3)>ΣW[cert.A] where cert: sig(op)

let a hundred did implementations bloom

there are too many things that make atproto interesting for any statement that atproto is an iteration on some single protocol to be truthful

the more time goes on the more bored i get of discourse it's fun once in a while but i don't know how yall have the mental stamina to continue doing this shit all day all year

also cursed and fucked is the flattening out of "material analysis" to the point where people exercise no agency in embracing fascism. more or less "they just happen to face that special blend of circumstances that makes u a fascist, they can't help it, it could have happened to anyone"

uploading on trackers is only scary for like, your first 100 uploads

oh fun. posts that quote accounts you've muted don't usually show up on your timeline... until the quote gets detached, at which point you get the worst possible combination: contextless discourse you dislike involving you dislike

the demotion of service proxying in favor of app-first optimistic writes to make writing an atproto app easier feels like ulysses going "dude cut just a couple of the coils of rope bro itll make it easier for me to hear the song if i can move a bit"

"forces me to go through the browser before going to the app for the link I clicked" is the highest level of evil a mobile app can be

deer on android when

I'd really appreciate an "unbreak the app" setting (disable go.bsky.app which breaks deeplinks on mobile) it would be pretty cool of PBC to consider user needs above the analytics of corporations and just not do this shit in the first place but like, at least let me restore correct behavior?

yes, i ended up taking over devops for… a private cryptocurrency network. how i kept the important stuff on me while nomading: made USB earrings. one booted into Tails, the other was encrypted and held the master signing key.

monero power usage is approximately equivalent to a few minutes of playing a video game per transaction (and using monero more makes that number go down, not up) i think trans people losing access to healthcare would be much more destructive than this higher-than-optimal energy cost

crypto enthusiasts' criticisms of bitcoin are consistently more incisive than the criticism from so-called crypto critics

apparently not everyone knows you can just google this shit so might as well just. here you go here's where you start diyhrt.market hrtcafe.net

piracy feed is finally fixed

moderation lists as implemented on bluesky currently have some real bad incentives i gotta say

it blows my mind that the mistake of using string templating for structured data is literally such a big one it's mutliple of the most common classes of vulnerabilities (sql injection, xss) and yet now the big industry trend is doing string templating TO DEFINE YOUR WHOLE INFRASTRUCTURE

society moves forwards one software patent expiration at a time

firmly believe that "no technical solutions to social problems" has had a social cost higher than leaded petrol

thanks quad9 there's a reason why i don't use you as dns

unexpected side effect of the new update: com.atproto.moderation.createReport requests are now sent without `.report` at all instead of an empty string, which broke my feed server since it was written in python and i just did req["reason"] to get it

the crypto hate in transdiy spaces is honestly baffling. you want to buy drugs from illegal sellers, is it really the time to go "no i will not use 'fake' money for criminals"

Cool new statistical attack on Monero, with a fix. duke.hush.is/memos/6/

"remember to always support indie artists by buying your music. but if your financial situation is bad then piracy is okay" stop regurgitating the justification capitalists give for exploiting you. i make money and i pirate the music of my irl friends and that's fine and good

please cloudflare it's all i want

im not a chaser actually i may be cis but im an egg so that makes it t4t

well, on one hand, we can massively reduce the amount of people we traumatize, but on the other hand, those people would have to get a different job that doesn't traumatize them. so who can tell whether it's a good thing

the discourse just keeps repeating itself