brian

happy to answer any questions! or to spin it up again for a while

hello! I'm no longer running it but I still have the source code somewhere and could probably share it, it requires a very stable Internet connection (needs to consume the entire firehose) but it's a single binary which writes to sqlite

I would love a version of this! I also wonder which model you're using / how much compute it is per tweet, would be excited to collaborate on scaling it up, I was also playing around with custom feeds earlier and had something running over the entire firehose, it's not a _huge_ volume tweets

custom feeds are exposed through a simple interface: the client asks for n items (w optional cursor) and the server returns n items in sorted order. there's definitely room in there to apply a ranking step!

the three kinds of gaming streamer:
- entertaining: come and laugh with me
- educational: learn how to get better at this game
- competent: watch someone who's incredible at this game

oh, damn, this would 100% work on me

a feed which gives you one hour of fun each day, a 5 minute warning, and then mixes in a 1% chance of returning body horror to each served post

same with airbnb: when you book credentials are passed to your device (which syncs them to all your other devices), when you walk into your airbnb the wifi announces which kind of credentials it's looking for and your devices send them over. From your perspective you just walk in and you're on wifi!

as in: there's some global maximum timeline length and during mergesorts (compactions and queries) it only keeps the most recent n entries for each timeline

I'm very curious about the rationale, LSM seems like it should work pretty fine here. The circular bufferarity means every insert also inserts a tombstone so there's some unfortunate write amplification, but it doesn't seem outrageous to add a max keyrange length while sticking to the LSM model

it is truly great; and pairs nicely with this follow-up paper: blog.acolyer.org/2020/10/19/t...

a "small world" custom feed which throws you into a cohort with ~20 other small accounts. the cohorts slowly change over time as it learns from who you interact well with and tries to match you with the perfect little community

key engagement metric: how many users eventually become irl friends?

the paradigm of running `sudo apt install calibre` seems wrong

every tool in the apt repositories should be "installed"; it is downloaded into a local cache when I first try to use it and automatically removed from the cache if I haven't used it in a while.

nix, uv, bun, docker approximate this

eternal september always arrives, eventually

absolutely, a combination PDS and smol AppView

the PDS saves your records and publishes when it can, the smol AppView has a local cache you can browse down in the subway until you come back up for air (content)

on the PR front, I don't expect that he's trying to "distract" from anything. I expect he genuinely cares about global warming

strongly disagree 🙃

we _could_ hit carbon negative tomorrow if we really wanted to. IPCC warned about 1.5°C back in 2018 and we have now hit that threshold. We will keep blowing through thresholds until we try an actually feasible solution, geoengineering is much easier than restructuring society

What makes this a stupid PR move? At this point geoengineering is almost certainly going to be required

maximum highway throughput causes traffic to flow at ~70% of the posted speed limit

a cool visualization from the washington DOT, the optimal amount of traffic is a lot higher than you might prefer it to be (ht www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-li...)

when you visit your friend's corporate office your visit is already known ahead of time by envoy. your public keys are also known ahead of time, when you walk in your device automatically connects and is given guest access

there's a wifi QR code on your airline boarding pass. By scanning that code you associate your device with your payment information and can simply hit "approve" to the charge it shows you in the payment portal

when you walk into the cafe your device gets a notification: each MB will cost $0.10, once you hit approve you're immediately connected, your device handles the payments and shows you a running tally of how much you've spent

a setting on my phone which pre-approves any of my starred contacts to connect to my wifi, when they walk into my house my wifi recognizes their public key and simply works without them doing anything

when you walk into someone's house their device is immediately notified, once they tap yes your device is allowed to connect to their wifi networks

when you take a picture of the wifi credentials your phone automatically saves them and connects without you needing to do anything else

the piece of paper with the wifi password is instead an NFC tag to which you bump your device in order to perform the key exchange

some proposals for passwordless wifi. All of these are possible, and have been possible for many years, but standards are hard to bootstrap:

this tweet made me look up the source, I'm in shock, it's such a beautiful phrase 😮

the most impactful thing one could do is make a great alternative client, probably

the more people who actually use your client the more your vote matters in terms of pushing for decentralization

love it,

- did:plc, you trust bsky not to censor your account, otherwise have full control
- did:web (typically), you trust your registrar to control your identity
- did:web (this monstrosity), you trust your ISP and their dynamic DNS, famously very trustworthy and stable (!), to host your identity