Sometimes I really wish I'd spelled out my surname in full on here...

If somebody blocks "USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST", will it repost the post that got it blocked?

But if you try to make everyone who should use this stuff—your dental hygienist, your Sports Uncle, teenagers who are much cooler than you—buy and maintain a domain name, or even *think about doing that* to use atproto services, I will walk into the sea (retire from online) and haunt your dreams.

It's definitely a snail. See, I have proof.

oh no no sir no i was not "procrastinating" no most definitely not. i am, err, "practicing hammock driven development". yeah. there we go. look it up

I vote for the right hand one because I'm entirely on board with renaming the symbol to "snail". ;)

Nah. Keep it as it is, but start calling it "snail" instead.

Atlassian should add this to JIRA and Confluence.

Years ago in the UK they had him promoting petrol, too.

I think you were supposed to put it on your cornflakes if you'd run out of milk.

If these capabilities are stored as normal PDS records, doesn't that mean that anyone can read them?

What If I want to give someone a capability without broadcasting to the whole world that they have it?

Updated #middleearth Census of the Dark Lord's Armies

🗡️ Orcs: 15
🗡️ Uruk-hai: 9
🪨 Trolls & Half-trolls: 17
🐘 Haradrim: 13
🏴 Easterlings: 13
🏴 Variags: 3
🐺 Warg-riders: 5
⚔️ Black Númenóreans: 2
👑 Mouth of Sauron: 1
👁️ Nazgûl: 7

👁️ Total Forces of Sauron: 85

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It's odd not to see brid.gy on the "largest PDSes" list. At one point I think they were the largest non-Bluesky PDS of the lot.

I've been interested in understanding the distribution of PDSes and general 'ecosystem resilience' for a little bit now, and inspired by @billwpierce.co's talk at #ATmosphereConf I made a dashboard I hope can add to the conversation

link: atproto.barn.city (served by my macmini so bear with me)

I thought rigor mortis would make you smile?

Or, at least, make you look like you're smiling.

Yes! Ubiquitous TLS (honestly @letsencrypt.bsky.social alone) is another strong candidate. And Postel Was Wrong is a banger

Also, at a somewhat lower level - we've very much moved from hardware to software (I'm counting intermediates like FPGAs as software here) for fast path processing.

A couple that I noticed:

* from Postel's Law ("be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept") to paranoid verification of every single input parameter

* from everything being in plaintext, to everything being encrypted and signed

In my 25+ yr career in (systems) software engineering, I can count on one hand the number of real paradigm shifts I've lived through:

* Automated testing
* Modern intra-DC network routing fabrics
* SSDs
* Cloud infrastructure
* AI coding

Why does this post remind me of Motörhead so strongly?

"I see it in your eyes
Take one look and die
The only thing you see
You know it's gonna be
The OXFORD COMMA!
The OXFORD COMMA!"

In the southern hemisphere, April Fools day is observed on October 1st, because of the Coriolis effect.

At least you're supporting customers.

Sometimes it seems like 1% of my colleagues need 99% of the support work.

There's another Black Númenórean?

Noooooo!

;)

That list of scopes is ... truly inspired.

"Yes, I need to grant this app the 'activitypub:write:flag:sameorigin' scope, so it can report its own posts automatically!"

"Will you have service endpoints in your DID doc?" question posited to @oyster.cafe (didn't fully recognise the voice who asked)

I would LOVE to see this, but we need a much better way to add services to DID documents.

If the unallied forces go to war ... does that mean that they fight both the good guys and the bad guys, at the same time?

;)

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I'm sure Sauron has other body parts too. ;)

I've Just discovered FizzBee and I think it might be the TLA+ alternative I've been looking for.

It's really nice so far!

I've wanted something for a while that would make it easier to formalize protocols and validate my thinking on them.

I think could be a huge boost. 🚀

It's only a "cold" if it's from the cold region of the Northern Arctic. Otherwise it's just a sparkling rhinovirus.

And now I bear the legendary Battered Helm Of Elethiomel! The one helm to rule them all! HAHAHA! ;)