~ajhalili2006 (he/they)

Same thoughts, both as a dev and writer/blogger myself. (considering that I also use GenAI as virtual therapist of sorts while autistic in 🇵🇭 society is another can of worms)

@ajhalili2006's finished Typeshift #870 Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.

another @puzzmo.com game session with typeshift: puzzmo.com/play/typeshi... (🕑 1:30)

@ajhalili2006's finished Cross|word March of the Penguins

cooking at @puzzmo.com easy mode crosswords rn: puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...

🕑 14:19 (2:59 raw, 11:20 penalty for abusing hints)
👀 diabolical misspellings: DEE -> DEN

Email search results for the keyword "Germ", featuring emails for the Germ Network crew (alongside a TestFlight invite email and a LessWrong email newsletter issue), taken via the Roundcube webmail client hosted on Uberspace.

For the curious, here's le inbox (using @uberspace.de as my mailbox provider btw):

hi @germnetwork.com crew! I am currently signed up in the email newsletter for beta updates (alongside Testflight invite although I don't have an iOS device handy), so any updates for Android/desktop (especially Linux)/PWA support in the future?

i made this in like 20 seconds

#furryart

Next time you see someone braying about how AI is killing art, check their profile. It can be instructive. Do they actually repost creatives or post supportive comments?

Nothing kills art like dead silence. I burned out on music because I'm a social animal and nobody cared when I talked about it.

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LLMs are the final boss of "all models are wrong, some models are useful." You can get solid results if you embed guardrails like "link to # sources for each fact," but you still have to check the facts. You have to know their limits: math is out, but making a script to do the math usually works.

cc'ing @ap.brid.gy and @ghost.org btw

Leaflet, standard.site, and open social publishing! Lab Notes 021: launching a set of shared standards for social publishing, migrating Leaflet to use these new lexicons, and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together!

Leaflet is on @standard.site!

A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically.

Read this post for details, and let us know any q's.

Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!

thoughts on SSH pubkeys, maybe?

context: everyone probably has SSH keys for things like Git-over-SSH and now commit signing

If you think "generative AI can't do...", you're probably wrong

If you think "generative AI can do...", you're probably still wrong

If you wait three months, some things will move from can't to can.

> Blacksky didn’t begin with a pitch deck or a promise of disruption. It began with something much older and more enduring – a principle of mutual aid.

Mandatory reading for anyone that wants to work with or for @blackskyweb.xyz in the future.

Context for the confused: alpha testing @keytrace.dev as Keybase/Keyoxide user

Hey @orta.io! Tried linking my fediverse profile (@ajhalili2006.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy) but getting 401 Unauthorized errors due to my instance requiring signed HTTP requests as an anti-abuse measure from scrapping. Can you look into it?

"But here's what matters: the mechanism of alignment (genuine understanding vs. sophisticated mimicry) matters less than the outcome when we're designing systems that will share human social spaces" 💯

I find kindness is good practice for myself regardless of what I think of the entity receiving it.

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

New survey reveals how security researchers and journalists experience legal and criminal threats Over 100 security researchers and journalists answered our survey and told us how they experienced threats for doing their work. Here are some of the top takeaways.

NEW at this.weekinsecurity.com: Over 100 security researchers and journalists responded to a survey about legal and criminal threats they have faced for doing their jobs.

A key finding is that while legal and criminal threats are common, most researchers and journalists stood their ground.

More:

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

GILDEDGUY STORY #9 - The Stellapen & the Eraser YouTube video by Gildedguy

Currently tuning in at Gildedguy's Twitch stream for the Story 9 premiere (twitch.tv/gildedguy)! Catch with the YT premiere at youtu.be/4HC3TKyOW2M?...

Also follow @updates.stellapent.wiki for more Gildedguy updates on the open social web.

I think you’re totally right that it’s going to look different than it did with Twitter but I think it’s actually better for open social.

Twitter and Bluesky are mutually exclusive in a way that TikTok and Skylight are not!

This is much more of a “wherever you get your podcasts” situation

you can't hustle and grind your way out of autistic burnout

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

Help shape the future of open source in Europe Read GitHub’s position on the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy and learn how to participate.

🇪🇺 The EU wants to boost open source with better funding and a new strategy, and they're looking for your feedback.

Here's your chance to shape the future of EU tech policy. Share your opinion by February 3.

Learn more.👇

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

can you please share the link to the story? Journalists gotta eat and these big screenshots that go viral don't help. Here's a gift link.

www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

CIMD - OAuth Client ID Metadata Documents Learn about Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) - a new OAuth approach that lets clients identify themselves using URLs instead of preregistration. Presented by Stytch.

👀👀👀 Will this works with SAML and OIDC (I know it's a involved process with cimd.dev and hooking up homegrown OAuth proxy service for Authentik and friends)?

Going to be great for managing organizational Atmosphere accounts on git repos tbh :)

disclaimer: lead dev + maintainer at @recaptime.dev

Do you plan to cook up for dynamic MOTD support or does this just exist for "shits and giggles" (cue Amp Code here for those vibe coding from hell)?