xormetric

xormetric

@tentacle.expert

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zvinwh7vy4tjegch2hxvopdd/feed/piracy with the exception of infrequent piracy feed updates, this account is discontinued

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does anyone still use the piracy feed there are still some users clearly but idk if it justifies the infra cost & the experience probably sucked cause ive been doing moderation like once every 2 weeks will gladly hand over the src and the db (posts + ban list) if anyone cares to take it from me

probably gonna be banning more news outlets so that in conjunction with the above, we can hopefully get rid of the 100s of identical posts that go "did you know vpn torrent?????" every single time a streaming service raises their pricing

(sorry for not actively moderating the feed nowadays, that stuff is just so uninteresting and annoying to see that it killed the interest i had in reading through the feed. hopefully this helps)

posts quoting feed-banned users, and replies in threads originally started by feed-banned users, are now ignored by the feed. n.b. this was already the case for posts directly replying to banned users. these restrictions do not apply to replies/quotes by certified pirates.

why are people so obsessed with vpns as the single default censorship circumvention measure. this shit is bypassable with a ublock filter don't go paying some other random company just so they mitm your social media

perhaps if you think "everyone else is just an extremist" or "politics just divides people" consider instead that it might be that your positions are so extreme and make you so unlikable that people want to keep you as divided as they can from them

everyone is free to look at the source code and fork or build and host it, and inherit all its brokenness and shit but im sure other people have built apps that provide the same features but aren't built on 2 year old libraries and the shittiest personal microframework in existance, go use those

the fact one can run a ~full bluesky appview, becoming entirely independant from bluesky the company, for a fraction of what the big mastodon instances pay for hosting seems notable

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Someone just told me that Widevine DRM acknowledges the existence of DeCENC in their API responses. Neat! Presumably some of their CDMs ship mitigations now. I haven't looked.

it's still so weird to me that RED is in all other aspects the better music tracker yet OPS is the one of the two that sanely handles overloaded artist names like what is this joke

i joined OPS first and only later RED and now i only use RED cause things download faster, there's a lot more stuff, etc, but goddamn was it jarring the first time i ran into one of these. instant realization that nope RED isn't better in *every* way

consuming all the "here's how to tell writing is ai" slop and intentionally implementing all their solutions. that writing style was the result of rlhf, after all, it's optimized for clarity and agreeability!

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Uuuuh, using the news app as cover for an anonymous tip line makes so much sense!

Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com

Congratulations @lambda.bsky.social! Today @theguardian.com is launching a new way for whistleblowers to anonymously contact journalists, based on years-long research by Daniel and other colleagues. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

used to post the updates on discord but i think i'm the only one checking that nowadays lol anyways this hopefully will reduce the amount of posts by anime release groups about every single one of their releases (which, it's cool that those are a thing here now but the piracy feed isn't a predb)

did:fast ≈ authorities A each keep  weights W: A↦0..1  state S: addr↦op  pending P: addr↦nil|op you can ask A  get(a) → S[a]  submit(a,op) { P[a] = op } → sign(A, op)   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ ¬P[a]  finalize(a,op,{cert}) { S,P [a] = op,nil }   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ (2/3)>ΣW[cert.A] where cert: sig(op)

the more time goes on the more bored i get of discourse it's fun once in a while but i don't know how yall have the mental stamina to continue doing this shit all day all year

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Replying to @ponder.ooo

also cursed and fucked is the flattening out of "material analysis" to the point where people exercise no agency in embracing fascism. more or less "they just happen to face that special blend of circumstances that makes u a fascist, they can't help it, it could have happened to anyone"

oh fun. posts that quote accounts you've muted don't usually show up on your timeline... until the quote gets detached, at which point you get the worst possible combination: contextless discourse you dislike involving you dislike

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the demotion of service proxying in favor of app-first optimistic writes to make writing an atproto app easier feels like ulysses going "dude cut just a couple of the coils of rope bro itll make it easier for me to hear the song if i can move a bit"

to reiterate on this, an AppView server should NOT be interposed between the user and the PDS: the client and PDS are in the user sphere of trust, but the service is adversarial. the PDS is the most important write sink and should be primary, since an app can't be trusted to not shut off PDS writes