Matt Terenzio

What good is a decentralized blob if you need a domain to reference it

Twitter's former Trust & Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms | TechCrunch Yoel Roth shares concerns about the open social web's ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content.

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Saddened to hear that Nectar's of Burlington VT is closing permanently. Aside from the music, the gravy fries will be missed

It is officially BLT season

Navigating the UK Online Safety Act What Fediverse Service Providers Need to Know The Online Safety Act (OSA) is now in force in the United Kingdom. Enforced by Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, the Act introduces a new set o…

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1 in 3 adults in the U.S. has a criminal record. Any comparison starts with that. So if 70% of the arrests do not have a criminal record, it's akin to randomly arresting people.

If I hear AI say "You're absolutely right!" one more time . . .

I need one of these on my wall

I'm planning to publish a standalone client soon. Who wants to beta test?

at://giveaways 🎉 Host a giveaway from a Bluesky post.

I wrote a mini atproto project today. Meet at://giveaways! Host a giveaway from a post and choose winners from likes, reposts, or both!

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At Connecticut DMV they do permit testing in the bathroom

Great talk. Need to get these on my calendar

Calling all Ancients, Elders, power users, #ATProto Devs, and generally curious people

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Moots please boost

Georgia Peaches have arrived. Eat a Peach Bluesky!

I love when signing in and the error is "Incorrect username, email or password" and you are 33.3% sure you know which one it is

Love the attitude on Mastodon that Ruby on Rails is just an outdated Web 2.0 technology. On Mastodon . . .

He is out of pocket

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what a beauty

As a developer my experience isn't mainstream, but when you get incredible value from AI on a daily basis and then read an article that says it's all BS, you have to laugh, and that journalist has lost all credibility. Is it a bubble? Sure. So was dot-com. Nothing came of that either, right?

Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data : Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

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“tech guy” is a little broad but I know what they mean

One challenge for newspapers in the early web years was to stop looking at technology as a cost and start looking at it as a strategic advantage

First Giambotta of the season

If you have clients that use your API, you've probably had to help debug someone else's software. Now get ready to help the vibe coders debug their software

_Can_ decentralize is ad importamt as being decentralized

I just take comfort in the fact I _can_ but know I won’t

I wonder what percentage of lawyers have cheated to graduate and get licensed

I can understand frustration with the government. In my local town alone there seems to be hundreds of people being paid to do absolutely nothing

I'm getting tired AI telling me I'm approaching things in a thoughtful way. It either wants me to like them or doesn't know me very well