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Adam Nelson
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Mad computer scientist, unfinished project collector, meme enjoyer. Posts mostly tech and memes and tech memes.

I'm self-hosting now! My last account was @arnelson […]

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@leo All moves are `bind` except Bind, which is actually `mapM`.
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Now the basement smells like a dead mouse. 😔 Guess it didn't have a way to get out.
October 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@adamshostack I don't think this is as much of a problem as it looks like.

The main goal of quote boost limiting is to prevent someone's unwanted commentary on your post from going viral. You can't prevent someone from quoting you at all, but, if the _default behavior_ of standard clients is to […]
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toot.nels.onl
September 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
@light Consistency and a full feature set without optional add-ons.

Most of XMPP's features, even really basic ones like chat history, are optional enhancements that only some clients support. Different clients' views of the same server can be drastically different. And all of those accumulated […]
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toot.nels.onl
September 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@light I do wonder, though: in what context are E2EE chatrooms (not DMs or group DMs) even desirable? What's the use case that a self-hosted server wouldn't solve? Just the ability to use a potentially hostile free host (like matrix.org) to avoid the need to self-host to get a private server?
September 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@wjmaggos Yeah I've considered ActivityPub-based chat but AP is a complicated API and there wouldn't be any existing software that's compatible with it beyond DMs. (and even DMs are inconsistent! Mastodon handles them differently than Pleroma, etc.)
September 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@light In what context? After all, Fedi posts aren't E2EE. I can see the need for E2EE DMs (and there's still Signal for that), but Chatterbox would be a better fit for either semi-public chatrooms (what people use Discord or Slack or Gitter for now), or self-hosted personal chatrooms where […]
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toot.nels.onl
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@silverpill The end goal in my scenario, at least the biggest one that makes it concerning, is both "make it impossible to interact online without your every move being tied back to your IRL identity by law enforcement" and "make it impossible to circumvent DRM or ads"; owning the largest […]
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toot.nels.onl
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted by Adam Nelson
literally nothing that anyone involved with AI on any level has said in the intervening decades has shaken my ironclad conviction that we are a hundred years out from a skynet-style self-sustaining AI situation. if the alignment-bro apocalyptic scenario were to take place, where suddenly there […]
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mastodon.social
August 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM