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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lokigwyn@vintagepropagand.art ("Loki Gwynbleidd 😷🏴🎨") wrote:

La bataille bat son plein mais...

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

I think of ActivityPub and ATProto as optimized for different scales and full-network searchability. For something small to medium (up to hundreds of users, maybe low thousands), ActivityPub is in general a lot cheaper than an ATProto AppView (which is what gives you the full-network searchability) -- especially if you're using something like GoToSocial or snac. There's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, though, because ActivityPub doesn't get you full-network searchability.

[If you're willing to give up on full-network searchability -- or rely on an external service like the microscosm -- you can have a partial appview, which makes the cost structure more ActivityPub-like, and I see a lot of that happening with formats other than micro-blogging. But that's not what Blacksky's trying to do.

On the other hand once you get up to tens of thousands of users, ActivityPub gets expensive too. And if you're actually treating moderation time as a cost (as opposed to viewing it as unpaid labor, which most AcitivityPub instances do), it's likely to outweigh the storage/compute/networking costs. Blacksky's invested a lot in moderation tech and processes, which gives them a big advantage over most larger fedi instances., Then again most larger fedi instances don't moderate well so it's another apples-to-oranges comparison.

@fromjason @ohmu

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
webstandards_dev ("Web Standards") wrote:

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden. @db digs into the two-decade history of the visually-hidden CSS pattern, examining whether just `position: absolute` and `clip-path: circle(0)` suffice in 2026. The article explains why the platform still lacks a native alternative and why standardizing the hack might encourage misuse rather than address underlying design problems. #a11y #css

https://dbushell.com/2026/02/20/visually-hidden/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

is `/apple-touch-icon.png` still a thing in [current year]?

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: SvelteKit Internationalization and FOWL

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/11/sveltekit-internationalization-flash-of-wrong-locale/

— with a bonus WebKit bug/feature :)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”: https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review-isnt-the-bottleneck/

[My prediction: A lot of orgs will *not* do smart things about this and will suffer disastrous consequences in the near future.]

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, no AI

♫ we told you so ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB415dkRsYI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260310-uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-no-ai - podcast

time: 5 min 51 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/ - blog post

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The LLM debate today:

“They blew their feet off using shotguns for stilts! Do you believe me now?”

“I think with some sort of review process, we can keep using the versatile tool that is the shotgun to enhance height. We’ve spent a fortune on them.”

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The LLMs in coding debate over the past few years:

“They’re taping shotguns to their feet and attempting to use them as stilts! That’s a recipe for disaster”

“IDK. My friends say they’re the perfect length to get the height they need. They say it’s a good idea and my friends are smart.”

Boosted by jwz:
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Finally something about this war that is truly amazing…

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VoiceofDuum@mindly.social ("Cromley") wrote:

One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for NSA Director. They are:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

I really don’t know what needs to happen for corporate democrats to remember they’re supposed to be the opposition party, not the fascism appeasement party. Smh.

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

It's like finding out the open source community's got black mold

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moralrecordings@digipres.club wrote:

@mcc It's telling that the one "big" success story in the years of slop has been computer programming, an industry where a lot of people have no professional standards and are allergic to solidarity.

Boosted by jwz:
chillybot@infosec.exchange ("Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :fedora:") wrote:

#DS9 #StarTrek

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mdx@hachyderm.io ("Xtrand") wrote:

@chillybot another favorite of mine.

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BoredomFestival@sfba.social wrote:

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Opening DebConf 26 registration, improvements to #Debian CI and many more contributions to Debian were made by #Freexian collaborators in February.

Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-02-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#debianci #debconf26 #openssh

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Some art forms are not to be crossed

https://youtu.be/6-Xa%5F23rhFw

Boosted by jwz:
flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

Wipeout on #IRIX 💎
now with textures and sound effects

Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is entering its twelfth day after 264 hours with connectivity still at 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, the regime's spokesperson has confirmed observations pointing to a whitelisting system, stating that only the approved are given a voice.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

get in! i guess Apple makes good laptops

What's My JND? 0.0022
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=ANkgKP%5F%5F89fU

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m not a huge believer in “use Emacs for everything possible,” but a modern Gopher/Gemini client seems entirely appropriate in it somehow.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
joshuagrochow@mathstodon.xyz ("Joshua Grochow") wrote:

@df @Gargron Academics may study LLMs out in the open, but I don't think academia has been able to produce LLMs whose outputs are sufficiently marketable compared to the current commercially available ones. Because the first "L" ("large") is - in our current, limited understanding - crucial for the verisimilitude of the synthetic text, and only corporations (and governments, but they mostly haven't gotten to this yet) have the scale to get large enough for that so far.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
babadookspinoza ("they/them might be giants ☭") wrote:

Poverty is like quicksand: once you’re in, struggling only sinks you faster. Late fees, overdraft fees, higher priced smaller quantities, high interest rates… being broke becomes your biggest expense and full-time job. Always paying for yesterday, never able to build a future.

Boosted by jwz:
anderson_jon@hachyderm.io ("Jon Anderson") wrote:

If George Floyd was the catalyzing event that finally radicalized me against police, AI is the event that has truly radicalized me against capitalism.

Before: "yeah it's bad and sucks and hurts us, but like...idk"
Me now: "jesus christ burn it to the ground, it is simply a parasite on even the ECONOMY let alone the people."

AI truly feels like a pinnacle of extraction of workers and environment. To turn the world into a theme park for the wealthy. It makes me think of a...post somewhere online that's like "If you want to live in a walkable city but all the people working at restaurants and coffee shops can't afford to live there, you're living in a theme park." It's what they want. Because service industry jobs WILL still exist, but everything that makes us human will be extracted and sold. I might feel differently if that money were, i don't know, given back to us. But it never would be, never could be.

And it is ever more painful because I nearly feel like I *must* use it or be fired in short time if it comes to light I haven't been. If I don't, I will be unable to pay rent and they will hire someone else (IF ANYBODY?) to extract more from. And it'll be me and many people (so many more qualified than me, at that) competing for the scraps of not-all-in-on AI companies of which there will be increasingly few. Where are my morals except given away to the dollar for survival. Or competing for trade schools or whatever husks remain.

Boosted by jwz:
chriswarcraft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Chris Kluwe") wrote:

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3mgqlddag2k25

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

You see, social media is like chocolate banana bread. It-- lol jk.

No but for real. I'm BS skeptical to put it mildly. And I really hope I get to be embarrassed about that one day.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Bluesky is as-tech. They may lead with subscriptions first. But the ads are coming.

What does an ad network with a public firehose of user data look like?

No really, I'm asking. What does that look like because we've never seen that before.

For one, I think, the concept of privacy is completely dead. The Cambridge Analytica-style of psychological targeting is now democratized. So that's fun. We don't make a big enough deal about that firehose.

Anyway, I just made chocolate banana bread.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Rudy, the founder of Blacksky was cool enough to share expenses.

What immediately sticks out to me is the AppView expense. Blacksky must index the entirety of Bluesky's posts.

That means ATProtocol is designed to favor the largest node. The small nodes must cary an uncontrollable, unpredictable expense. That's a pretty unattractive aspect of this decentralized ecosystem.

You could be breaking even one day, then overnight in the red after a big migration that you may or may not benefit from.