Rob Ricci

I decided to give @pckt.blog a try, by unrolling my Mastodon thread about datacenters into a proper longform article. ricci.pckt.blog/datacenters-...

I think the main criticism I have of Bluesky PBC is that it (a) thinks and acts like a company that makes money (b) makes no money Kind of the worst of both worlds, really

Are you or your company working on anything related to OAuth/OIDC or building anything that needs trust & safety (moderation)? If so you can currently hire me: emelia@brandedcode.com I'm a freelancer on US eastern time. #oauth #oidc #hireme

So I wrote another thing in my @pckt.blog - I'm not really sure how to describe it, except: What a terrible day to have a computer

The way you can tell that Bluesky is very normie is that there is only ONE of today's RCEs in the trending topics

biblically accurate PHP server, October 21, 2026

Every sysadmin tonight

📢 Applications for the 2027 CyberPowder Fellows Program are now being accepted! Applications are due by Friday, November 13, 2026. Program info and application form: www.powderwireless.net/cyberpowder2... Summary in thread. 🧵

Our friends at the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation have turned our work on tele-operated driving with trajectory-driven network optimization into a case study for the OCUDU Project! The case study is available here: ocudu.org/wp-content/u...

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.

Dead serious I think Atmosphere in a Box might be one of the best DevEX things I've ever created. Dropped it in to remove a railway dependency on one product already. Released 0.7.0 last night adding dynamic network allocation, wildcard domains, jwks secret generation, and stronger CI examples.

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

*sky & Hutch

Hmm. Just noticed that reposts from accounts with a label don't get treated the same as posts from accounts with that label. Seems maybe not ideal, for example when the label in question is 'spreads misinformation'?

I find it amusing that in Aaron's latest Moderation Discourse Thread his replies to himself end hidden behind the 'show more replies' gate. I honestly still don't know how that thing works - is it because his account has a label that I have set to 'warn'?

Every time I log in to this site lately it's a mistake

Guy working on AI: "yes, we really believe the thing we are doing has a 10% chance of killing us all" Average AI user: "I don't understand why people get so upset by AI 🤷" y'all, don't go after individual people for using AI, but I am tired of hearing surprise about why it might not be popular

This is a story about men harassing women. It's being sold to the public as a story about conservatives protecting women, but it's the opposite of that.

Yeah a lot of that will get removed once we finish moving to OAuth on the bsky app - proxying everything through the PDS, read after write in the PDS, etc. They were early decisions that are no longer needed, but require us to do a suite of updates on our app

Maybe you know of a website or app that's been a target of DDoS 😉? Here's what that means, and why it's hard to recover from: pckt.blog/b/ricci/ddos...

August 2026 update for the atproto implementations tables. ➡️ github.com/threddyrex/a... There are 27 PDSs, 6 AppViews, and 5 Relays. Out of 38 total projects, 24 were updated in August.

I would like to make the case that it is long past time to support edits because the current Bluesky appview behavior is *already* enabling one of the worst-case scenarios: edit a popular post to be some vile racist shit (plenty of ways to do this already), people on the Bluesky app have no way of

fwiw

Bluesky app show me a complete thread challenge: level impossible, apparently

Will start naming AT protocol projects this way - cool atmosphere project - very cool atmosphere project - extremely cool atmosphere project - kinda ok atmosphere project - overwhelmingly cool atmosphere project

the Bee Movie (2007) but it fits within bsky's new video constraints (max 10 mins, 300 MB)

"They should come here legally!" Coming here legally:

I learned some things about atproto and Bluesky that I didn't know before. Maybe you did know them. I write them down, just in case you didn't.

Once in a command line.

I want to add "intermodal" to atmosphere jargon. intermodal groups intermodal social graph intermodal notifcations intermodal moderation and trust signals

I learned some things about atproto and Bluesky that I didn't know before. Maybe you did know them. I write them down, just in case you didn't.

Yesss, it's official @toni.bsky.team "I'm on team edit button" ❤️

What is Bluesky PBC doing to try to keep bad internet bills like KOSA from passing and actively harming your users -- as well as degrading the experience here? And, relatedly, why is Bluesky PBC enforcing age verification in Texas, whose law doesn't require apps to verify ages (just app stores)?

Independent Atmosphere keeps growing - last week's stat is that we've reached 1.3% of total active users / 16k blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekl...

Lately, the atproto feed just swings back and forth between really cool and fun stuff and people saying mind-bendingly incorrect stuff. I miss how it was a few months ago 😦