there so may things I want to do and fix on Roomy atm but I am stuck with a very slow, flaky internet connection 😮💨 appreciate ur patience!
Meri
@meri.garden
https://meri.garden pure-hearted baddie building @roomy.space
Great post on adversarial interop for atproto, with detail on a bunch of potential ideas/approaches!
Adversarial internecting
How to move data to the Atmosphere and screw over someone else's valuation in the process
permadeath.com
“To the the extent that the business takes place in software, designing the software is designing the business. Designers either need to participate in defining the business model or they will simply be its tool.”
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 4w agoFor any new followers, here is why I avoid "UX". hashtag vonnegutmaxxing www.muledesign.com/blog/triple-...
hahaha @meri.garden literally traveled from Australia to the other side of the world (making one stop in norway among many in europe), lived under my roof, and we completely forget to do a selfie! (which we could've peer pressured @warpfork.bsky.social into as well) these dang nerds
Meri@meri.garden · 4d agostill can’t believe I went to visit @erlend.sh in Oslo and these are the only photos I took while there 😭😭😭😭
still can’t believe I went to visit @erlend.sh in Oslo and these are the only photos I took while there 😭😭😭😭
🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU
the risk I think we're sleeping on is that we wirehead ourselves into a "La Belle Dame" state by using coding agents to build increasingly addictive videogames, or inventing conversational partners that people genuinely prefer to other humans
dame@dame.is · last wk.real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?
Hello friends, we made a space on @roomy.space for next month's community day in Brooklyn, Sat 8/22! 🔶🗽🔹 So far: channels to say hello, propose workshops or unconf sessions, scheme on hackathon ideas, & talk travel logistics Join here ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ roomy.space/join?space=d...
atproto.nyc@atproto.nyc · 2w agowe've shared previously that we were planning another community day for August 22nd at @recurse.com, here are the details! more to come soon on talks and workshops 👀
ATProto for socialist planning
Tynan Purdy ⁂@tynanpurdy.com · last wk.Atproto for transportation logistics
The sun came out again and now for all these same things I’m like: God I love my life
Meri@meri.garden · 2w agofull time parenting this week while gf does an online course, trying to keep up Roomy workload, and trying to maintain Polish language immersion and I’m like why am I so exhausted lol
tfw you show up to the bar and there’s a Dominican monk DJing but he keeps interrupting to talk about God
full time parenting this week while gf does an online course, trying to keep up Roomy workload, and trying to maintain Polish language immersion and I’m like why am I so exhausted lol
📃🐝✨ Excited to share a preprint about BeeKEM, a decentralized / local-first variant of MLS's TreeKEM (group E2EE) that we designed at @inkandswitch.com. Huge thanks to our coauthors for the writeup and empirical analysis — even we were pleasantly surprised by the performance results 📊
eprint.iacr.org
so with LTHash replacing MST, ATProto permissioned space ops are commutative and order-agnostic… i wonder if this means we could have a PDS acting as relay to your local devices for storage and just returning the sum of whatever is available. Local first PDS
🚨 stage 4 is live! 🚨
Meri@meri.garden · 4mo agoMy @roomy.space roadmap for next few weeks: 1. Private spaces + invites 2. Permissioned channels + roles 3. Big refactor to AppView + XRPC interface / thin client 4. Push notifications all parallel to @zicklag.dev speccing and implementing an ‘arbiter’ RBAC service for ATProto permissioned spaces
I’m fully on board with techno-optimism so long as it goes hand in hand with stronger unions and worker coops. Without organized labor, technological advancement benefits empire and its oligarchs far more than the average Joey; just look at what the internet without organizing got us.
Val Potter@wordwrangler.bsky.social · 3w agoTech workers, are you ready to unionize? If not now, when? Here's valuable info from those who have done it: how to get started and what to expect. (Yes, your employer WILL try to shut you down.) #TechUnion #TechWorkers www.computerworld.com/article/4192...
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
managed to explain in (very broken, nervous) Polish to the cloak room guy that the library staff said I can work there without a library card ! there is hope yet for a bilingual Meri!
last day of camp is always bittersweet but i'm so grateful for the perfect sendoff
gorgeous first day of DWeb camp had so many illuminating conversations with smart & genuine people. made new friends, ate amazing food, mapped all the bins on camp, saw tech demos, bartended, danced hard
