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by vvpan 7mo ago
The "big" central relay servers are not big at all and are actually quiet cheap: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l
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by vvpan 7mo ago
Probably? How do you deploy?
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by vvpan 7mo ago
"Department of War" - I suppose one could give them credit for being honest but what bastards...
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by vvpan 7mo ago
Fastmail user for a decade. Does the job.
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by vvpan 7mo ago
What ever happened to that?
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by vvpan 7mo ago
> At every layer, the answer is "anyone can run their own." At every layer, almost nobody does. But people do and it is reportedly fairly easy so the majority of people are on Bluesky's layers while all is well. But also I
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by vvpan 7mo ago
Atproto identity is going in the right direction but I hope they go in that direction harder. For example plc.directory (maps DID to public keys I think?) is heavily centralizing force.
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by vvpan 7mo ago
The underlying problem to both protocols and non-protocols is identity. Gmail works because Google owns the identity and acts effectively as a proof of humanity. To go on a tangent - I think that more people having personal public key pairs
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by vvpan 7mo ago
In my opinion decentralization and protocols is really the final frontier in software. Sure, we've got AI, but from what I've seen so far it does not alter the scales of power towards individuals. Protocols do. Everything else fee
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by vvpan 8mo ago
My father worked on PHOENIX for over a decade and I got to watch all the equipment being assembled as a teen, unforgettable to have spent time so close to "big science". During budget cuts Jim Simons paid to keep the accelerator r
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by vvpan 8mo ago
So there is a chance the situation is improving you think? I sure hope so.
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by vvpan 8mo ago
Stablecoins work quiet fine as exchange medium for millions of people around the world, including myself, so they are different from vouchers and ramen.
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by vvpan 8mo ago
Which is largely why presidencies do not mess with the order they inherit too much (subjective statement I know). Most institutions and projects are not stressed and the government branches just keep doing what they always did. The current
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by vvpan 8mo ago
You are a genius.
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by vvpan 8mo ago
It is so easy and cheap to run your own aggregator that people run their own. If Bluesky goes down it'd be trivial to use something else.
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by vvpan 8mo ago
You and this person should hang out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748560
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by vvpan 8mo ago
I disagree. I think ATProtocol found a pretty good balance for de/centralization. Yes most people are on Bluesky PDSs but the data is easy to backup and move and Mastodon does not improve on that afaik.
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by vvpan 8mo ago
That is very cool. How do you aggregate the data, listening to public bluesky firehose?
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by vvpan 8mo ago
And a favorite Phrack article on the same topic - Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream [1] [1] https://phrack.org/issues/69/11
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by vvpan 9mo ago
All that energy will surely translate into quality of life for the rest of us.
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by vvpan 9mo ago
Some places derive their identity and tourism income largely from how they look. Building could be slaying the goose that lays the golden egg.
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by vvpan 9mo ago
I will gladly pay for services that help me defeat ads.
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by vvpan 10mo ago
I think Stellarium got its mobile start on N900 as well.
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by vvpan 10mo ago
How far has the migration away from TNR to Calibri progressed? Is it redoing everything or is it just abandoning an incomplete ongoing migration that mostly just started?
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by vvpan 10mo ago
Can you elaborate? What role does Tailscale play? I selfhost and have heard about Tailscale but couldn't figure out how it's used.
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by vvpan 10mo ago
Minor errors stop juniors and people not used to the shell - they have no idea why something failed or really want to bother looking into it.
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by vvpan 10mo ago
All of that said the most interesting experiments in currency/tokenization/etc are happening on the blockchain. Are they successful? It's mixed but I think blockchain allows people to easily try new things and it's been
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by vvpan 10mo ago
I recommended fish to some my younger coworkers recently only for somebody very senior to point out that they will be very confused copy-pasting commands meant for bash from the internet and them not working. He is right, I will hold off re
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by vvpan 11mo ago
Haven't heard about cDc in about 20 years. Are they still active as a collective in any way?
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by vvpan 11mo ago
If it was not a guy who regularly engages with and thus gives platform to neo-Nazi accounts on X I might've considered giving him the benefit of doubt. It is very easy to find specific accounts that Musk brings readers to (or you can j

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