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just realised labour are doing OSA and votes for 16y/os at the same time. surely that won’t go wrong at all
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it’s goofy but you could do softblocks via an “antifollow” record. is that a terrible idea (I get the sense that people use it as a “gentle” way to nudge an annoying person away but a record is quite visible for someone being neurotic about it)
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ill take the Epic Bacon with a side of awesomesauce s’il vous plaît
HOIY SHILT! The Epic Bacon at Tesla Diner looks amazing! Epic Bacon $12 Four strips of maple-glazed black pepper bacon. Served with choice of dip. 4 2 37
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*thinking really hard* algebraic chess notation is a blockchain
Samuel@samuel.fm· 17 Jul 2025
I mean that’d be cool, might be possible,but the nice property about chess is that you can objectively validate the board state from the move list - there’s no secrets
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you can filter jetstream by lexicon *and* DID. what if you consume that in the client
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and what if you used that to play real-time chess with someone
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if only we had someone with both atproto and internet chess knowledge
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been thinking about this. I think the best form factor for a PDS is bsky.social + a phone app that holds your PLC keys and also performs automatically repo backups. so you can just adversarially migrate with one button press while still using a big hosting provider for uptime, for free
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anyway, point is the great strength of this architecture is not in its “active” state, but in its “passive” state - you can just show up with your repo somewhere else, without asking permission. so just use bsky.social right up until the point you don’t want to
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just learnt that the USA has two Portlands. which one is the one people are always making fun of
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28 years later has the most bizarre ending to a film I’ve seen in a long time. wtf are they cooking for the next one…
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OTA fix is rolling out - now, when you tap on a push notification, they actually take you to the post/user/etc!
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how could i forget - post controls are now 1px font size smaller! possibly my favourite change
Samuel@samuel.fm· 7 Jul 2025
this also has like a billion minor things we’ve been working on, such as - threaded replies redesign (rolling out in the coming days) - upgraded React Native from like 3 versions ago to latest - upgraded navigation - @danabra.mov your PR for the back gesture shadow from last year made it in! cont.
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turning a big dial that says "references to google reader" and looking back to the audience for approval
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