The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that some people think that any use of generative AI represents such an egregious failure of ethics and/or risk assessment that anyone who does so can no longer be trusted. I was in a convo (on Mastodon) where someone pretty much said that.

Thinking about forking @nolanlawson.com's Pinafore browser-based client for Mastodon, or maybe one of its descendants (Semaphore or Enafore), and adding Bluesky support, so I can access Bluesky using the same UI I've already gotten comfortable with. Might even try agentic coding for this project.

Question about #ATProto: I know about the recent post about running a whole-network relay on a server that costs ~$35/month. How much does it cost to run a usable whole-network _AppView_?

"Civility" Is a Fantasy

Roxane Gay is right: “Civility is a fantasy.”

Civility has always been optional for those who benefit from the systems, institutions, and policies upheld by the myth of white supremacy, but required from everyone else.

I've been thinking about how this hacker News comment applies to the way we feel about tech, regardless of our positions on broader political issues: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539... I'm politically a progressive, but prone to being a tech reactionary. But I know the past wasn't all better.

Just starting to play with Bluesky and #ATProto. Decided to establish my presence here the hard way: self-hosted PDS on my existing server with did:web rather than the de-facto centralized did:plc. For the latter, had help from atproto-did-web.lukeacl.com