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Romio

@romiojoseph.github.io

Designer. Hoping for decentralized platforms. Prefer open source whenever possible. Loves the beach, sky, space, movies, philosophies, plants, and cats. https://romiojoseph.github.io/

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dax@thdxr.com · 3w ago

the last 20% to get a product shipped and successful is as difficult as ever this is where 99% of programmers have always fallen off the first 80% is a lot easier and so we're seeing more abandoned projects than ever

dax@thdxr.com · 4w ago

be careful in your pursuit of cheap tokens we've come across so many sketchy things that are out there with tons of usage remember you're hooking up your harness to these inference providers. they can and do crazy things like send fake tool calls to steal your info 1/2

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · last mo.

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
Alex@alex.bsky.team · last mo.

1 reason I try not to opt into AI discourse is because I’m pretty sure the group of people who find it empowering for software/productivity is inevitably smaller than the group of people who find it marginalizing for other kinds of labor/creativity and yet for better and worse I’m in the first group

johanna@jola.dev · last mo.

The cool thing on Bluesky is that you can use follows, labelers, blocks, and mutes to curate your experience and find the stuff that you're interested in, and hide what you're not. You can read about AI generated popularity contests if you want. You can also not. Make Bluesky what you want it to be.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · last mo.

Creating a windows installer from anything other than windows necessitates using a third-party USB tool that you download from somebody random, because of course it does I pulled relatively popular a git repo, and had an agent run an audit of the code before building. I want that power more.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · last mo.

Perhaps we ought to be building everything from source now so we can do this kind of thing. Distributing binaries becomes considered bad practice.

DuckDB@duckdb.org · 2mo ago

.@ducklabs.com is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept. This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS Read the full announcement here:

DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source

DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

ducklabs.com

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu · 2mo ago

FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐

Mike Masnick @masnick.com: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule. I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X." I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie). I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI. I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comfortable here because a main area of their interest is... ... considered worthy of being mocked and attacked. And even as I've explained that I've been able to have positive conversations about productive AI usage here with many of you, the reputation of the community here as insisting their own lived experience can't possibly be real has driven them away. And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI
Romio@romiojoseph.github.io · 2mo ago

This is one of my concerns too.. some platforms ask you to sign in via your bluesky account, but before signing in, i have to make sure the url and everything seem correct, and then wait for the verification code even then, it doesn't seem to remember the login for the long term ...

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a reasonable concern. Thanks for sharing off-band. Note, during signin foryou.club does not request any permissions to your account. It cannot read your private data or post on your behalf. It only validates that you control that account.

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu · 2mo ago

Every time I feel like I somewhat caught up with how things are done these days, it turns out that actually since June this is all completely outdated and everyone is five layers above me already…

Romio@romiojoseph.github.io · 2mo ago

All my apps are like this. I build them for myself, and if I use them, I keep updating them. And now I'm down to three, and I regularly use them for different purposes. It's a great feeling to use social media the way you want to use it.

Boris@bmann.ca · 2mo ago

There are many things being built on atproto. Many of them won’t get adopted or thrive. And yes, many are built without user research. It’s OK? Don’t use things you don’t want to. Promote things you like. And build something yourself if you feel like it. Do it the way YOU want it to be.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 3mo ago

Interesting trend: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break And they have v good reasons

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance Interview by Mishal Hussain The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance

The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

bloomberg.com