Devin Gaffney

@devingaffney.com

Nuisance and shitposter CEO @graze.social - talk to me about building on ATProto / Bluesky!

current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit

Reddit post from r/localllama of a user "Setting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster

Preparing this to be able to run locally frontier level open models.

It's 16 boxes stacked around a widescreen monitor. There is no art on the walls

Seventh in the atproto permissioned-data series: notifications. One self-keyed space per identity, every app writing through a create-only grant, and a reader you choose doing the triage. The self shape returns, direction flipped.

Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications

A self-keyed space gives notifications a home you control: every app gets an append-only sink to write into, you pick the reader that turns them into pushes and emails, and allowing or revoking an app is an access control you already have.

ngerakines.leaflet.pub

Oh, this is wild, LMAO. Everyone, listen to this episode! The tl;dr for the peeps in academia: Remove the comments from your TeX files before uploading them to the arXiv. And don't put any sensitive data in there in the first place.

Mike Rugnetta@mikerugnetta.com · 6d ago

Hey! You! We made a @neverpo.st and put it out. Today! It's about people accidentally publishing gossip, API tokens, SSNs and CC #'s with their physics and math research papers. Also news about Max Shorts, France banning social media for teens, the Delhi Jantar Mantar protests and more.

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

This feels like a possible story someone might want to pick up on: a Meta AI-Auto ban with no human review for saying “cocaine” @caseynewton.bsky.social, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social?

Devin Gaffney@devingaffney.com · 2w ago

Insanely, @cousinronnie.bsky.social's company did an instagram live selling antiques and they said something had the word "cocaine" on it and now their small business is banned from instagram live for a year because an AI tool flagged it and there's no human customer support - and no recourse!

One of the worst features of modern life is the ability of social media companies to destroy users by whim, with no recourse, no accountability, and no expectation of any type of adjudication process whatsoever. It's extra gross when it's an AI doing it, but it's also totally fucked if it's a human

Devin Gaffney@devingaffney.com · 2w ago

Insanely, @cousinronnie.bsky.social's company did an instagram live selling antiques and they said something had the word "cocaine" on it and now their small business is banned from instagram live for a year because an AI tool flagged it and there's no human customer support - and no recourse!