Jack Platten

Jack Platten

@jack.is

I come up with new and innovative ways to fix computers. j.k. i yell at them until they work Thoughts and opinions my own. You can borrow them though if you want.

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It was a bold cinematic choice for Nathan Fielder to use Sensual Alf narrating as a framing device for You Can See Everything, but after reflecting on it, I think I see what he was doing with it.

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Replying to @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip

your private key is a pos

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web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

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business is fundamentally about keeping as much business juice flowing through the business pipe as possible

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Hi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.

vlpds.jazco.devOverview · vlpds docsAn atproto PDS whose only durable storage is an object store. Any node serves any request, one node can run a personal server for free, and a few nodes can carry all of Bluesky's write load.

Name things carefully or your placeholder name becomes your real name

Jake Gold@jacob.gold

"nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" personified as a Swiss legal entity

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I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

blog.plcred.orgFirst steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials OrganizationOne year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

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If you had to host PDS, Relay, labeler, CDN, client, and an AppView just to run an Atmosphere application, I would never recommend AT Protocol and tell you to find a better stack. But like the Atmosphere solves the cold start problem for having users, it does the same for devs.

it's like domino's is eh, but somehow the chocolate lava crunch cakes are better than most chocolate lava cakes you get at real restaurants

SungWon Cho@prozdishere.bsky.social

i am completely indifferent to domino’s pizza but their chocolate lava crunch cakes are an all-timer dessert, doesn’t matter if you have them hot or cold, they are so damn good

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Quick reminder, if you're working on a SaaS product that requires a login, please check if you've defined the well-known URL to change passwords. Password managers will check `/.well-known/change-password` to offer a quick way to change passwords. https://www.w3.org/TR/ch...

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downvotes should be core infrastructure for any social app that implements upvotes or likes, otherwise you will always create an unbalanced environment

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This is why we need a universal sign in, and I wager that @thisismissem.social — and her work on #FedCM — will be the thing to save us. It's such an *easy* win for us to start talking about Atmosphere accounts. wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mlv5oijn5s2q

wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pubThe Atmosphere needs a front doorThe Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.

i didnt realise there was a whole segment of users who assumed the oauth screen was stealing ur passwords thats actually awesome lol

Hi Adam I'm subskeeting you. I know you have your differences on this ecosystem but this is a fun place on the internet too. no rule that says you can't exist and post on both mastodon and bluesky the real everything app

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

I continue to be a huge fan of omg.lol from afar. would love it if PDS hosting had that vibe in the future: positive aesthetic, bundled services, not a huge corporation

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I continue to be a huge fan of omg.lol from afar. would love it if PDS hosting had that vibe in the future: positive aesthetic, bundled services, not a huge corporation

this is the most @northerniion.bsky.social coded website in existence thank you cee for your efforts

cee@cee.wtf

egg.cee.wtf i spent like 4 hours trying to get fable to tune this algorithm in a way that feels good (it kind of doesnt but some of the results are funny)

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A lotta yall still dont get it. People can use multiple informal second person pronouns on a single group. So if you have 1 yall and 3 yinz-es you can create 3 informal second person pronouns.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

Posts are now yalls

I don't give Bluesky permission to use my pictures, my information or my publications, both of the past and the future, mine or those where I show up.

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The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308-1 1 308-103 and the Rome statute). Note: Bluesky is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version.

If you do not publish a statement at least once, you have given the tacit agreement allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the updates of the state of the profile. Do not share. You have to copy.

I don't give Bluesky permission to use my pictures, my information or my publications, both of the past and the future, mine or those where I show up.

By this statement, I give my notice to Bluesky it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, give, sell my information, photos or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information.

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aturi.toAtmosphere MCP · aturi.toA keyless, read-only MCP server for atproto, in beta: 38 tools that let an AI agent resolve any Atmosphere link, read any repository, trace backlinks across every app, and sample Jetstream, the live e...

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my employer has asked me to stop telling PMs "suffice it to say, it is out of my hands and into god's" when asked for project status updates

henry ✷@strange.website

my employer has asked me to stop responding to requests with “light work for a beast like me”

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"Is this loss?" but aella birthday sankay

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social

no, these are both weird metrics to record at your birthday party.

I can't share it, but a signal chat I'm in has a few people who have set their tag to be burger related measurements: "is 22 burgers tall" "is east of the burgers"

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net

I think it's kinda weird if you're a dude and your display name is something like "Name [6'5"]" and you're clearly referring to your height

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raising $50,000 for a company - $2k for hosting costs - $12k for salaries - $6k for marketing / ads - $30k for 2 mac studios please help me my company is starving

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Thanks to everyone for covering the weekend posting shift. Monday posters, as we discussed in the standup, this week's focus is "weird dogs." Eyes on the prize everybody have a great week

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The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."