About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

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What are your favorite drawing libraries? https://lobste.rs/s/dtnmwy #ask #visualization

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

Link: https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645176

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

Link: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648885

사실 제품 워런티 기준은 모호함이 없도록 기업이 꽤나 신경써서 작성해놓긴했음 ㅋㅋㅋ... 의외로 국회의원들이 만든 법은 그렇지 않을수도 있겠고 하니...

이번에 회사 제품 워런티 처리하는 과정을 자동화하는 플젝에 끌려들어가서 보고 있는데 해보면서 느끼는건 제품 워런티외에도 대부분 정부 행정과 사법 과정 자동화하는것도 지금 기술로 가능하겠구나 싶음 물론 온갖 사람들 이해가 걸려있는 복잡한 케이스는 사람이 하도록 하겠지만 과거 처리 기록이 있고 법안이 모호함이 없으면 가능한것 같음 아마 나만 이렇게 생각하는건 아니겠지 싶고 ㅎㅎ...

おはようございます

dying laughing here:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yc54nj2zlnqrdotewpkbrauy/post/3mckfkednza2e

Hi larger #fediverse community. I joined from the forkiverse thing and I'm seeing some posts critical of the new influx of participants. Perhaps you're worried we don't really get you or value the community so I wanted to give a little background you may not know. Before this “experiment” episode there was a much older episode that started things.

1/3

@silverpill are you part of the new ActivityPub working group thing? Will the stuff you’ve been working on with movable actors and client side signing be part of the new standard?

We've reopened registrations on #Holos. The first phase helped us identify and fix a bottleneck. All registrations now go through the app. The web version shows where to download it at https://holos.social/signup
Currently we only have our direct download link, but #FDroid/#AltStore and Google Play/App Store (if they accept) are planned.

오죽하면 제가 온갖 음악서비스 돌고 돌다가 유툽은 기능이 너무 구려서 ... 그냥 제가 시놀로지 서버 사서 돌리는 중 ㅋㅋㅋ...

I found the speaker connector! 👍

> An understanding of READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() is important for kernel developers who will be dealing with any sort of concurrent access to data. So, naturally, they are almost entirely absent from the kernel's documentation.

XD

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142/8ec93e58d5d3cc06/

Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence

Link: https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777

너무 길면 이 영상을 보면 됩니다 내부적으로 부패가 심각하고 이미 이란은 내부적으로 금융위기를 겪고 있음 ㅋㅋㅋ... 북한도 과거에 그랬고 중국도 진행중이고 보면 금융 잘못 건드리면 골로 가는것임 체제는 안무너질지 몰라도 그냥 좀비가 됨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7MS...

[여의도튜브] 수백만 예금 유치해 돈 떼먹고 도주.. ...

Very excited to hear about a new release of wild! #rustlang github.com/davidlattimo...

Release 0.8.0 · davidlattimore...

LOST: Jeep Keys
#kamloops #train #graffiti #art
#lost

Our associate members allow us to continue to be the preeminent free licensing resource for #FreeSoftware developers, protect and maintain the infrastructure for the #GNU project and other free software projects, and strengthen our advocacy campaigns that seek to secure the future of a free society. Join us today: https://www.fsf.org/join #FSF #FSFTable

싱가포르에 살 땐 음식 향수같은 건 없었는데 독일 사람들이 워낙 못 먹어서(?)

duckduckgo has a yes or no ai poll going now and lmao

https://duckduckgo.com/vote/

We're starting #PublicDomainFriday where we share one gem from the public domain at the end of every week. And how could we not start with this one??

Share your own favorite public domain image or remix this one and share with the hashtag!

"I Know a Secret" by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/54cf4cf9-ba79-48cf-9255-74160765c597/

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

My last batch of pickled nopales didn't even last a week so this time I made a full quart. #food #cooking #cactus #nopales

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan

I have been having weird headaches at the base of my skull and some brain static for over a month. I know I had a tick bite in October so I asked my doctor to check Lyme just to rule it out. Initial test came back positive. They are doing the second test to see if it is an active infection. My brain is all foggy so I am just going to hunker down and wait for it to be over.

powershot v1、起動時の焦点距離を変更出来るらしい。ファインダー要らなければこれさえあれば十分の感。
https://note.com/yuru2creative/n/n26a0970e561f

Lenovo X1 Carbon Bitlocker Key Sniffing any% Speedrun

(42.9 seconds)

Got three job rejections in one day so I'm going to ask again for your help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at https://casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

6yo: mum what’s cancer?
Me: hooboy okay, well… *goes into simple but plentiful detail about cell growth and such which he listens very patiently to*
6yo: oh okay. Thanks! *goes to play with his little brother*

Not entirely sure what brought that on… but I also don’t want to ask!

Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

Link: https://dmvaldman.github.io/rooklift/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624563

STFU

Link: https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142

Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

Link: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/16/can-you-disable-spotlight-and-siri-in-macos-tahoe/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646958

行動開始してから24時間経過してやっと休める​​

Time to get things done? 💪 Keep projects on track with Nextcloud Tasks:

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And don’t miss the Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter release for more exciting new apps

👉 https://nextcloud.com/special-event-winter26

This week we saw that with the proper skill documents, you can add iCloud synchronization *and* sharing to your code base without writing a single line of code.

See how: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep350-tour-of-sqlitedata-cloudkit

What does your capslock key do?

Die Medien sollten X.com-Zitate immer mit Formulierungen wie: „Auf der Deep-Fake-Porno-Plattform X schrieb Merz …“, einleiten.

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

https://justthebrowser.com

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@pfrazee.comPaul Frazee @alex.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy fyi search has been somewhat hosed on atproto website for a while. it matches for translations (annoying) but doesn't match for main page on the topic

RIP to everyone who didn't get what they wanted from their wish but instead something else but im different. and better. maybe even better than the genie.

I suspect the folks at FarmArt didn’t think about how their logo would look with the van doors open.

TIL (from @fanfTony Finch ) that the modern TCP RFC specifies not just the wire behavior of the protocol but also the user to TCP interface, or at least minimum requirements for it, in RFC 9293 section 3.9.1: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9293.html#name-user-tcp-interface

Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646226

"you can't put the genie back in the bottle" skill issue. just make three wishes. done