You heard it here first, people! The ESA declared Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers illegal in today's hearing on the POG Act Read more (We're recruiting!): www.reddit.com/r/StopKillin... We also have a launch for #StopKillingTheInternet: www.reddit.com/r/StopKillin... #StopKillingGames

wait... people are still copying DNS records by hand? 👋🙂‍↔️ we've partnered with @marque.at to bring domain registration directly into pckt.blog. buy a domain and we'll configure everything for you automatically. it’s like magic 🪄🎩🐰

Well, officially out before I posted it myself (forgive the unfixed grammar :P) Check out my layperson-friendly* walkthrough of "how can we build communities on ATproto that own their data and can move across services", prompted by Bluesky officially entering the Communities space.

kat@katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz · 2mo ago

everyone read @essentialrandom.bsky.social's new article on atproto and communities!!! www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/the-co...

The ease with which I got Streamplace integrated with userinput.app is such a selling point for atproto too. Half the time companies wouldn't even try to properly integrate and you'd have one account for the service and ANOTHER account entirely for the support/feedback portal. So much better!

Mosh Lee@mosh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow, @brookie.blog is just out there shipping bangers with the product and UX instincts of a saber-toothed tiger. Youandme.at Userinput.app

if theres one country who understands music as cultural power

Maaike@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The president of Korea posted his video of his visit to the EU using Joost Klein's Europapa as audio 😎

I realised I didn't have the "tech princess" dress anywhere viewable on bluesky yet, so, here's the look from 2019. Oh, also, I was like 2m (6ft) tall because I was wearing pleaser boots underneath, and the hoop skirt occupied like a 1.2m (4ft) diameter around me.

Another arbiter progress report! An attempt at a goups standard for ATProto. This week we talked to @habitat.network and it got us thinking about how we could inter-op, even with other projects that can't use the arbiter. Now we've got a draft lexicon that I'm hoping can work for both of us.

Arbiter Progress Report 2 - Zicklag's Leaflets

A new policy-based arbiter prototype and a draft of an interoperable lexicon for group servers.

zicklag.leaflet.pub

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Webmaster! It's time to serve low quality AI slop to AI company crawlers. iczelia.net/blog/webmast...

Load bearing figproto needs load bearing funding

fig (aka:[phil])@bad-example.com · 2mo ago

i'm not good at communicating it, microcosm services continue to support a significant (and growing) fraction of all atproto apps. pretty sure i (indirectly) serve one of the largest user-bases. usage keeps growing, stuff keeps getting more expensive

This video is for my geography teacher who said that I will never go anywhere in life. Haha, look at now. Eiffel Tower, Italy.

WMF spent 20 years telling donors it wasn't like other tech companies. Then in ten days it fired MediaWiki's longtime lead, dissolved the Community Tech team, and most of those let go were union organizers. Now sitting on $296M in reserves and working hard to undo years of good will and built trust.

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

medium.com

omfg did not think I’d wake up to “node_modules but make it backrooms”

Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A new way to explore your node modules folder: nesbitt.io/heap

Check out this new Streamplace overlay that shows your chatters' @rpg.actor sprites chatting in front of your stream! rpg.actor/streampets Shout-out to @flo-bit.dev, @rpg.actor, @goose.art, and others for the collab

🥚 laid an egg: Estuary. come warm it → https://fledglings.nrempel.com/c/silvernskye.bsky.social/3mmoyjso7lz2g @fledglings.nrempel.com

🥚 laid an egg: Inky Olive. come warm it → https://fledglings.nrempel.com/c/silvernskye.bsky.social/3mmoyjc3fbi2g @fledglings.nrempel.com

introducing hopper! hoping to bring FUN and JOY to the atmosphere my first of many game ideas have come to life :-) its been cooking for a while and a huge s/o to @rpg.actor for the guidance and great docs! you can play here now: protoimsg.app/games i hope it brings you joy :-)

If anyone still needs Google Search for work, etc, I always suggest tenbluelinks.org, which sets Google Search to show results from Web, no AI overview (works really well on mobile)

i wrote about japanese verbs

japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way

underreacted.leaflet.pub

1. it always comes down to the payment processor 2. good for kickstarter for doing the right thing here updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-r...

An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines

Last week, we released a set of updates to our rules around mature content. It was our first time publishing a set of detailed, specific guidelines for adult-oriented content on Kickstarter. And hones...

updates.kickstarter.com

Rickety bridges “excellent idea” say crocodiles swimming in choppy waters underneath them

IGN@ign.com · 3mo ago

"We think it’s in Take-Two's self-interest, as a publisher and partner to many developers, to raise the price point for the entire industry." says Bank of America on GTA 6's price. https://bit.ly/3PmsYgf

Chemists built a molecule whose electrons need four full laps around the ring to get back where they started. It's a half-Möbius. This is quantum computer doing chemistry, wild. (sorry for the paywall)

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

Stereoisomers of C13Cl2 exhibiting helical orbitals around a ring of carbon atoms were synthesized by atom manipulation on NaCl surfaces. We resolved the enantiomeric geometries of the singlet states ...

science.org

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

This is great & maybe my favorite use of @leaflet.pub footnotes yet?? corvidian narrative intrusions add so much to the reading experience………maybe we should bake that in as a feature for every post? 🤔 bleything.leaflet.pub/3mlejolb4ds2t

Ben Bleything@bleything.net · 3mo ago

republishing my earlier post about my adventures from the last couple of days. this one's an exploration of using the backfill tools to slorp down atproto records for local analysis. it's also long and technical and features a visit from an old friend! part one of three probably. sorry.

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

Webcomic Studio

Read & publish indie comics online

webcomic.studio

At @roomy.space we've been cooking up the design for the next, ATProto-native iteration of Roomy, and that includes private data on protocol! The first component that we're working on is a group membership service that we're calling the "arbiter". Here's full overview of the design so far!

The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

zicklag.leaflet.pub

Buddy-up! 👥

ATProto community, we're getting very close to VOD general availability! I've posted some draft versions of the following atproto lexicons: `place.stream.video` `place.stream.media.track` `place.stream.media.origin` Please roast my lexicons! What's good, what's bad, what makes you mad? Speak now!

Hmmm … so, this is absolutely not what it’s meant for, but @leaflet.pub’s math support makes it possible to do some basic ShortFormBlog-style design in KaTeX. (Wonder what else could be done with this? Maybe something like Typst could be a good fit for this?)