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More people should know about @radiant.computer

05.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really misunderstood the strength of lexicons for decentralizing power in the Atmosphere. Atproto isn't an ecosystem, it's a foundation for creating parallel ecosystems.

05.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œrecord roulette” app
- OAuth with full permissions
- 5/6 chance to get a cryptographically signed record/award
- 1/6 chance to wipe everything else

04.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't like MacOS compared to what? 😬😬

There is only one correct answer lol

04.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was just thinking I needed something like this; love it!!

04.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Continue reading on Unthread I built a TwitLonger for Bluesky. Write as much as you want, it saves to your repo as a Standard.site document record, then posts a teaser to your feed with a link back. Read more about it on https://unthread.at/@aka.dad/3mg5ejw7eil23

I built a TwitLonger for Bluesky. Write as much as you want, it saves to your repo as a Standard.site document record, then posts a teaser to your feed with a link back.

Read more about it on https://unthread.at/@aka.dad/3mg5ejw7eil23

04.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8
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A.I. and the Future of Computing A new kind of personal computer

πŸͺ΅ A new log entry was posted: "A.I. and the Future of Computing"

radiant.computer/notes/ai-and...

16.02.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spectre I - Audio Privacy Device | Protect Your Conversations | Deveillance Your conversations stay yours. SPECTRE I prevents smartphones, smart speakers, and other devices from recording you. 14.4B always-on devices listening worldwide. Pre-order with a $999 refundable depos...

This is awesome. Too expensive for every day consumers (for now), but the fact people are building this is super encouraging.

www.deveillance.com

03.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shows up in docs.surf; I suspect @treethought.xyz is right that they’re only showing posts with content/textContent

03.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Standard.site Validator A friendly tool to check if a post has valid standard.site records

Shows up as valid here site-validator.fly.dev

Have you checked pub-search.waow.tech? I’ll need to also check my own indexer for docs.surf

03.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ«‚ hang in there

03.03.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I needed this πŸ”₯πŸ™πŸ»

03.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leaving Neovim for Zed A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim

For those who still write code, I actually wrote about just that a few years ago stevedylan.dev/posts/leavin...

03.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I saw someone do a fork where they took all the AI stuff out so that sound tempting, but I’m not sure how their license works.

Really does stink. I switched to Zed two years ago have been daily driving it since then, but it might be time to go back to Neovim.

03.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I could maybe get the AI features having an age requirement but the whole editor? πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

03.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Portlandia - The Knot Store
Portlandia - The Knot Store YouTube video by matOmalley

Would 100% buy www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfLu...

03.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Smash that bzzzzzzz

02.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Equally important: do you stop becoming an engineer when Anthropic’s servers go down? Or how about your access getting cut off?

It just blows my mind we’re ok with this πŸ˜…

bsky.app/profile/matt...

02.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Could be argued it’s less of an issue for problems you already know how to solve, but even then I might argue that you will lose muscle memory.

Just my two cents at least, and how I’m approaching it for my own programming practice for now Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

02.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course programming is also seeing this imo. Yes I can learn plenty about programming from AI, but if I let AI solve problems that you otherwise would have needed to research and exercise your brain, you might be missing out.

02.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately it’s becoming far too common to see Gen Z or Gen Alpha use AI to write papers that were originally intended for them to think through their own logic and get it on paper.

02.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My biggest concern is that learning β‰  critical thinking or problem solving. I love to use AI for learning and exploring subjects, but by outsourcing critical thinking and problem solving, you’re not exercising your brain to solve future problems.

02.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

@heaths.dev relatable πŸ₯²

02.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More people should know about .patch files; seriously underrated

01.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Thank you so much! πŸ™ It just so happen this showed up on HN today and it goes a bit deeper into the science which I loved tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-0... I'll likely be taking similar steps in regards to cutting back on the AI assisted coding.

01.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Government Communication When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.

Other than requiring a phone number, I really admire the Signal Protocol. So far it’s one of the more robust and battle proven chat encryption protocols. Not to mention I love the company’s transparency over gov requests signal.org/bigbrother/

28.02.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTwist my arm” lol

28.02.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Programmers on the Verge of Extinction Examining the parallels between art, AI, and the existential threat to programmers

Programmers on the Verge of Extinction

stevedylan.dev/posts/progra...

28.02.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is awesome!! πŸ”₯ Love ssh apps

26.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing this everywhere; valuing my Beelink I bought last year more than ever

26.02.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0