Unexpected Engineer
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Infrastructure Engineer, Maker, Electronics, Amateur Radio, LoRa, IoT, Satellite, Raspberry Pi, GoLang, ADHD, Autism.
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Playing with the 8x8x8 LED Cube, creating new patterns using the built-in #Pixelblaze by @bhencke.bsky.social.
Get your own cube: lectronz.com/products/led...
Get your own cube: lectronz.com/products/led...
August 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Playing with the 8x8x8 LED Cube, creating new patterns using the built-in #Pixelblaze by @bhencke.bsky.social.
Get your own cube: lectronz.com/products/led...
Get your own cube: lectronz.com/products/led...
I've setup my own ATproto PDS to (hopefully) avoid the Bluesky checks coming in. I just don't want to give a random company that I don't have a choice of dealing with some personal information for pointless reasons.
July 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I've setup my own ATproto PDS to (hopefully) avoid the Bluesky checks coming in. I just don't want to give a random company that I don't have a choice of dealing with some personal information for pointless reasons.
Yeah, that is a good feature!
July 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yeah, that is a good feature!
Migration of accounts between PDSes seem to be risky at the moment, so re-follow and delete seems the safer option.
July 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Migration of accounts between PDSes seem to be risky at the moment, so re-follow and delete seems the safer option.
I wonder whether making PDSs even easier and better for self-hosting or community-hosting would have a negative effect on Bluesky as a company. E.g. in terms of funding and investment.
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I wonder whether making PDSs even easier and better for self-hosting or community-hosting would have a negative effect on Bluesky as a company. E.g. in terms of funding and investment.
Whilst troubleshooting, I noticed outgoing connections going to Bluesky from the server. I came across this Github issue 😔 It's probably not high priority.
github.com/bluesky-soci...
I'm going to delete my Bluesky based account, the requirement to verify my age in the UK was the deciding factor.
github.com/bluesky-soci...
I'm going to delete my Bluesky based account, the requirement to verify my age in the UK was the deciding factor.
Enabling IPv6 support by default, as well as on bsky.social since it's the most popular instance · Issue #80 · bluesky-social/pds
I believe that it's quite useful overall for simplifying overall networks hosting a PDS or at least reducing bottlenecks caused by translation methods (which while they will be needed for IPv4 only...
github.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Whilst troubleshooting, I noticed outgoing connections going to Bluesky from the server. I came across this Github issue 😔 It's probably not high priority.
github.com/bluesky-soci...
I'm going to delete my Bluesky based account, the requirement to verify my age in the UK was the deciding factor.
github.com/bluesky-soci...
I'm going to delete my Bluesky based account, the requirement to verify my age in the UK was the deciding factor.
It's a relatively simple setup for one user. Just needs a VPS hosted somewhere with IPv4 networking and some DNS entries. The only thing that has tripped me up (so far) is the IPv4 requirement, as I was running an IPv6 only server.
atproto.com/guides/self-...
atproto.com/guides/self-...
Self-hosting - AT Protocol
Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network.
atproto.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It's a relatively simple setup for one user. Just needs a VPS hosted somewhere with IPv4 networking and some DNS entries. The only thing that has tripped me up (so far) is the IPv4 requirement, as I was running an IPv6 only server.
atproto.com/guides/self-...
atproto.com/guides/self-...