Ricardo J. Méndez

Maybe, but you can't drag someone in to participate nor force them to engage - so unless they're being actively or passively excluded, whatchagonnado.

Anyone else feeling the same way should check out @xblock.aendra.dev - you can configure it to warn or hide suspected Twitter screenshots.

Could it be the “other” isn’t that interested in the core topic of building peace?

While we were complaining about windmills. 🤡

I’m not sure that’s correct.

I understand bookmarking is a service from Bsky PBC, backed by some DB they host. There are no PDS records for bookmarks that I can see. Therefore bookmarks wouldn’t be public.

Likes on the other hand are an ATProto event, so anyone could aggregate and display them.

I am an amateur astronomer. I volunteer at a planetarium and teach people about solar science. I am well-versed on a layman's level of all kinds of science.

I am STILL halfway convinced that red sprites, which appear for THOUSANDTHS of a second, are some kind of supernatural/alien manifestation.

Seems to imply “potentially at some point”.

Say… they could already do it on search, or when someone is perusing results for a tag, but if not enough people do “context” actions then it might not be worth the work / potential backlash.

Eh, complainers are always the loudest voices, and will always find a reason to moan and feel slighted.

End of the day, anyone who has my data and shares their contact list with Bluesky I have to assume is also sharing it with Google and WhatsApp, and I'd be more concerned about *them*. 🤷‍♂️

An undersold aspect of being a societal actor and engendering outcomes, is signaling. And somehow computers obscure that, despite people being behind them. No, it's all fucking people. The telegraph line does not change that.

Signal you are not a victim. Do the basics no one applauds but they do.

Caveat: don't take my word for any of this. I'm just an online rando reading a blog post in his spare time. Very possible I might be missing something.

In that case it would be "pinky promise privacy", since you need to trust that's what's going on and that there's no nefarious use.

Which may cause some to hyperventilate and finger-point Bluesky - assuming they even get the approach - when the real blame is on the contact sharing your info.

2/2

OK, so not salted but peppered - that takes care of the concern I mentioned.

Seems like a sane approach. It doesn't mention this happening on device, though (and it likely couldn't, since there is an HSM-stored secret you wouldn't want to broadcast).

If so, the address book upload remains.

1/2

> It also does so having been post-trained on a budget of merely $7800 USD for compute resources (3900 GPU hours on Nvidia H800s)

Race to the bottom continues.

I don't recall how many details there were. iirc Paul did mention hashes, but unless a hash is salted, it's trivial to enumerate if you limit the possible space (which phone numbers do); and if it's got a random salt, then it's non-indexable (you couldn't find it quickly among millions).

In the end, it’s an even older problem: if you share something with someone - name, address, phone number, anything - they may share it with someone else.

People need to be mindful of who they share globally unique identifiers with.

(Yet another reason why I like @germnetwork.com cards)

(Half-assed idea) I wonder if you could do some sort of local bloom filter building, then merge them remotely while still evaluating locally.

It’d probably be hard to figure out the moots, only that you have some though.

I’m taking that as a phrasing issue, but… it seems what they’re objecting is the WhatsApp case: I may not share my contacts with them, but people in my network do, so they get my phone and name regardless.

That wouldn’t be a Bluesky problem, though - it’s a “people in your network” problem.

Actually, I’d be kind of excited if @kagi.com could automatically run these in a scheduled fashion, and mail me link to the results, potentially with an agent that surfaces important issues on a topic out of schedule.

Kind of like creating my own custom, summarized Flipboard.

Every time a company decides they’re going to shove something down your throat, and makes it hard to escape, you know it’s not something you’d use willingly.

I went over an example where I do think it can add value (if done right) here:

bsky.app/profile/rica...

I end up using the assistant when I am in exploratory mode, and good ol’ search when I have a very clear target in mind.

So not “excited”, but I see where it adds value when done right - like not shoving it down my throat.

I wouldn’t say “excited”, but I think I @kagi.com’s assistant does it right:

- uses your question to generate a series of search strings (and shows them to you);
- runs a good old fashioned search;
- summarizes those pages, providing links to the sources for each part of the summary.

I'm sure the potential for raising stupid amounts of money on the back of (in most cases) fairly little substance is enough to explain that.

Maybe the reason why great artists steal is because once you're considered a great artist you can get away with this kind of thing.

Have they been known for their plots? My impression was people were into them because of the visuals and the lithe furries.

Welcome home! I guess.

Things are getting spicier in the IDE space.

Can’t wait to read @redmonk.com’s team take on this.

From my understanding that is a beta identity validation thing, and you can create and share any arbitrary cards with anyone.

Isn’t that the case @germnetwork.com?

So far I’ve only exchanged non-Bluesky-id cards in person, but I expect it’s only an issue of adding a share mechanism later.

1-panel SMBC comic update where a man tries to pick up a woman with the following line : "Wanna come back to my place and perceive the twisted menace and suspense lurking leeringly in the crazily elusive angles of carved rock where a second glance shows concavity after the first shows convexity?" The woman is intrigued. The caption below the panel reads : The Lovecraft Pickup Line Technique: low success rate, unspeakably high rewards.

This isn't the only high risk high reward pickup line, but it is the one that involves the most tentacles.

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Seems like we are getting a massive influx of mass-following suspiciously bot-like rabidly US-Dem accounts.

I wonder if the end game is pro-Dem bot spam or bait-and-switch.