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Ricardo J. Méndez

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Privacy, decentralization, freedom, the odd crypto post. Career CTO working on strategy and investments. https://numergent.com/

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The only case where I’ve seen some weirdness like that is when there’s a test battery that gets run on precommit, and Fork’s UI seem to spazz out waiting.

Never seen it on command line.

06.03.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

People here, particularly if they come from the Fediverse, severely overestimate the impact of the Dorsey connection.

I’ve been onboarding normies IRL through @winesky.app

Not one has asked “is that Jack Dorsey’s new thing?”

The question has always been “what’s a Bluesky?”

06.03.2026 14:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So what does Google sponsoring the event change?

It’s not like they will convince app devs to keep the bulk of the user data locked on Firebase, because protocol no likey.

Maybe there’s some galaxy brain play here I’m not seeing.

But “guilty by conference association” doesn’t cut it.

06.03.2026 12:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I haven’t seen the tenuous Dorsey connection brought up as an indictment by anyone other than the same rabid anti-ATProto crowd who insist that it not being a neutral standard is an unforgivable sin… while accessing their own project via a proprietary API.

You’ll never please those people. 🤷🏻‍♂️

06.03.2026 12:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

I suppose they could use the good will to try and butter up some app developers to integrate their stuff, but anyone who blindly takes Google at their word by now was going to fall for it anyway.

06.03.2026 11:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On the other hand… what’s the threat model here? Given all data is public, Google gets most of its usual value without any need to cozying up to the community.

Seems like the space gets some value from Google before they move from embrace to extend, extract, extinguish.

06.03.2026 11:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ACAB seemingly includes Switzerland.

06.03.2026 11:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Then again, you probably don't want to push the guidance up and freak people out too much, eh?

05.03.2026 08:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They do get credit for not sticking their heads in the sand, but...

Assuming that a massive, country-wide web of systems that depend on online providers for everything from payments to prescription validation to supply chain will be up within days of a wartime cyberattack seems optimistic.

05.03.2026 08:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"It's AWS, Michael, how long can it be down for?"

05.03.2026 07:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

When a central bank starts advising citizens to hold cash for war scenarios, it is quietly pricing in payment system failure and supply chain breakdown. The Riksbank is not talking about inflation hedging here. It is talking about systemic resilience. That is a very different signal.

04.03.2026 20:02 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 2

A week? 🤣

Tell me you haven’t seen systemic instability for generations without telling me you haven’t seen systemic instability for generations.

05.03.2026 06:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yes, much like hours, barely surviving at the edge of starvation. Someone should call animal protection services.

04.03.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cat looks like he knows there are snacks but is dismayed, disgusted, and disappointed that you are keeping them from him.

04.03.2026 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Back then, the evidence against Iraq was “trust me bro, there’s intelligence”.

It screams to the damage this clown has done to US credibility that an EU head of state is speaking this way.

04.03.2026 12:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any thread that mentions @baincapitalcrypto.com investing on a non-crypto company is impeccable block bait for knee-jerky virtue signalers.

04.03.2026 11:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sanchez: “We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.

We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country

04.03.2026 08:45 👍 1696 🔁 309 💬 30 📌 27

Wait I saw this joke post earlier that was hilarious - wasn't it a joke?

04.03.2026 10:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was precisely going on about that a few days ago.

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04.03.2026 10:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 10:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I didn't think to resubmit my "Freedom Footguns" proposal for @monkigras.com after Papercall collapsed, and Claude standing up to the US DoD made it seem less urgent, but... goddammit people, we need to stop enabling this kind of bullshit.

04.03.2026 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soon @greatdismal.bsky.social is going to have a harder time topping our convoluted reality than @theonion.com

03.03.2026 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The chair isn’t even European” is some seriously galaxy brained analysis of why Eurosky exists in the first place.

03.03.2026 09:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Betcha it was legal running amok. New ToS also force you into arbitration, so it's likely that lawyers went "well, OBVIOUSLY you need to be an adult to agree to arbitration, so..."

03.03.2026 09:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In that the ToS state that you're not eligible to use it unless you're 18+.

03.03.2026 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tome chichí.

03.03.2026 08:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t you see the shit Zed got up to on that basement? Jeeeez.

03.03.2026 07:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure thing, grandma.

02.03.2026 15:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No casus! Only belli!

02.03.2026 13:11 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!

02.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0