warpfork
@warpfork.bsky.social
still working with computers. to my frustration.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
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"if you CAN tinker, it's empowering, if you MUST tinker, it's discouraging" @robin.berjon.com at #decidimfest on the difficulties of decentralized social media systems
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"if you CAN tinker, it's empowering, if you MUST tinker, it's discouraging" @robin.berjon.com at #decidimfest on the difficulties of decentralized social media systems
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I simply do not believe that I need to get angry in order to want safety and security for all; nor do I believe that my anger helps attain those goals
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I simply do not believe that I need to get angry in order to want safety and security for all; nor do I believe that my anger helps attain those goals
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I really dislike when people act as though the only correct way to respond to injustice is with anger, because in my personal life anger has been a pretty exclusively destructive force
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I really dislike when people act as though the only correct way to respond to injustice is with anger, because in my personal life anger has been a pretty exclusively destructive force
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
zed contains some really nice things, but desperately needs to get a grip on its plugin ecosystem's relationship to the network.
Realized today that my typo checking plugin doesn't work when I'm on an airplane because it's absolutely desperate to check the network for... something.
like wtf mate
Realized today that my typo checking plugin doesn't work when I'm on an airplane because it's absolutely desperate to check the network for... something.
like wtf mate
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
zed contains some really nice things, but desperately needs to get a grip on its plugin ecosystem's relationship to the network.
Realized today that my typo checking plugin doesn't work when I'm on an airplane because it's absolutely desperate to check the network for... something.
like wtf mate
Realized today that my typo checking plugin doesn't work when I'm on an airplane because it's absolutely desperate to check the network for... something.
like wtf mate
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“Given the severity of the threats social media companies pose to democracy and fundamental rights, policy responses cannot merely tinker around the edges,” writes Christine Galvagna. The EU must act now—fund decentralized, public service social media to protect democracy and digital rights.
Public Service Social Media as a Democratic Safeguard | TechPolicy.Press
Christine Galvagna proposes an EU fund to support decentralized, public service focused social media networks to protect digital rights and democracy.
www.techpolicy.press
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Given the severity of the threats social media companies pose to democracy and fundamental rights, policy responses cannot merely tinker around the edges,” writes Christine Galvagna. The EU must act now—fund decentralized, public service social media to protect democracy and digital rights.
Baudrillard was kiki
Wittgenstein was bouba
Wittgenstein was bouba
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Baudrillard was kiki
Wittgenstein was bouba
Wittgenstein was bouba
If anyone wonders why I'm behind bluesky: it's because of the [cornbread](bsky.app/profile/did:...) feed.
This is what brings joy. This is what brings life.
Make spaces and places and zones that bring you joy! This is what social media Should Do!
This is what brings joy. This is what brings life.
Make spaces and places and zones that bring you joy! This is what social media Should Do!
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If anyone wonders why I'm behind bluesky: it's because of the [cornbread](bsky.app/profile/did:...) feed.
This is what brings joy. This is what brings life.
Make spaces and places and zones that bring you joy! This is what social media Should Do!
This is what brings joy. This is what brings life.
Make spaces and places and zones that bring you joy! This is what social media Should Do!
I assume this was in a place where the work actually needed to be done, but also, another lesson to take from such numbers:
Don't do advanced encoding shenanigans on strings *at all*, if you can help it.
If you're really operating on characters, fine, do it. But if you're not: passthru the bytes.
Don't do advanced encoding shenanigans on strings *at all*, if you can help it.
If you're really operating on characters, fine, do it. But if you're not: passthru the bytes.
So we found another performance regression in V8... specifically in the code for WriteUtf8V2 (the code to write a string out as UTF8)... the fix is in... and get this... it results in a 4000%+ performance increase in one of the benchmarks. Not a typo... 4000% improvement.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I assume this was in a place where the work actually needed to be done, but also, another lesson to take from such numbers:
Don't do advanced encoding shenanigans on strings *at all*, if you can help it.
If you're really operating on characters, fine, do it. But if you're not: passthru the bytes.
Don't do advanced encoding shenanigans on strings *at all*, if you can help it.
If you're really operating on characters, fine, do it. But if you're not: passthru the bytes.
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A lot of folks equate the work output of AI as equivalent to interns while missing the point that productive output is the waste heat of an internship. It’s nice if they are a net positive on work output for the time you put into it, but that’s not the calculus!
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A lot of folks equate the work output of AI as equivalent to interns while missing the point that productive output is the waste heat of an internship. It’s nice if they are a net positive on work output for the time you put into it, but that’s not the calculus!
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ok first release of this! atmap.j4ck.xyz
feel free to share if you enjoy it, i think it's a pretty cool visualisation of the network :)
* IF YOU WANT YOUR PDS REMOVED, DM ME AND I CAN DO IT!!
feel free to share if you enjoy it, i think it's a pretty cool visualisation of the network :)
* IF YOU WANT YOUR PDS REMOVED, DM ME AND I CAN DO IT!!
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ok first release of this! atmap.j4ck.xyz
feel free to share if you enjoy it, i think it's a pretty cool visualisation of the network :)
* IF YOU WANT YOUR PDS REMOVED, DM ME AND I CAN DO IT!!
feel free to share if you enjoy it, i think it's a pretty cool visualisation of the network :)
* IF YOU WANT YOUR PDS REMOVED, DM ME AND I CAN DO IT!!
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Every app that uses an url shortener for their share button is hurting their users and the world. When I send or receive a URL, I want to be able to see what it is before I click. We aren't paying by the byte here.
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Every app that uses an url shortener for their share button is hurting their users and the world. When I send or receive a URL, I want to be able to see what it is before I click. We aren't paying by the byte here.
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I went as an AI hallucination this year. I actually felt very dated because I was trying to get the LLMs to build the messed up text characteristic of a year or so ago and they won’t do it anymore!
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I went as an AI hallucination this year. I actually felt very dated because I was trying to get the LLMs to build the messed up text characteristic of a year or so ago and they won’t do it anymore!
What exactly is the point of money?
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What exactly is the point of money?
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All our cultural items like the internet, music, movies etc would disappear tomorrow due to an IT crisis. Yet we can still see the work of some dude who used his finger to create art on a cave wall 4,000 years ago. I don't think we've come as far as we think we have.
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
All our cultural items like the internet, music, movies etc would disappear tomorrow due to an IT crisis. Yet we can still see the work of some dude who used his finger to create art on a cave wall 4,000 years ago. I don't think we've come as far as we think we have.
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First flight of the Skunk Works X-59 QueSST by NASA.
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
First flight of the Skunk Works X-59 QueSST by NASA.
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Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships. https://cfl.re/43HH6EG
Keeping the Internet fast and secure- introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
cfl.re
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships. https://cfl.re/43HH6EG
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One day something is going to make me snap, close my computer, and walk into the wilderness to be never seen again. And there's a very high chance that event will be a service forcing me to enable two-factor authentification.
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
One day something is going to make me snap, close my computer, and walk into the wilderness to be never seen again. And there's a very high chance that event will be a service forcing me to enable two-factor authentification.
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language is a technology
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
language is a technology
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I'm from the part of math where we're comfortable saying there are *types of math* where you can't use numbers. What if utils are real but they aren't normable. What if ethical decisions admit a partial order but it isn't useful because decisions combine and the triangle inequality does not hold
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I'm from the part of math where we're comfortable saying there are *types of math* where you can't use numbers. What if utils are real but they aren't normable. What if ethical decisions admit a partial order but it isn't useful because decisions combine and the triangle inequality does not hold
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If the phrase `open source` means nothing to you
imagine if your favorite app worked like Wikipedia and anyone could come along and edit it
that's how the code for Blacksky works
anyone can edit it
it's also how our docs work; if you think something's missing or could be improved, change it
imagine if your favorite app worked like Wikipedia and anyone could come along and edit it
that's how the code for Blacksky works
anyone can edit it
it's also how our docs work; if you think something's missing or could be improved, change it
GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/Documentation: Documentation of the tools maintained by Blacksky Algorithms
Documentation of the tools maintained by Blacksky Algorithms - blacksky-algorithms/Documentation
github.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If the phrase `open source` means nothing to you
imagine if your favorite app worked like Wikipedia and anyone could come along and edit it
that's how the code for Blacksky works
anyone can edit it
it's also how our docs work; if you think something's missing or could be improved, change it
imagine if your favorite app worked like Wikipedia and anyone could come along and edit it
that's how the code for Blacksky works
anyone can edit it
it's also how our docs work; if you think something's missing or could be improved, change it
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I love this.
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
Space is a lot closer than most people realise
by u/Many-Excitement3246
by u/Many-Excitement3246
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I love this.
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪
+1.
I am always incredibly impressed and happy when a project can openly say what it is *not*. It's a breath of fresh air, it's clear, and it bodes well for their focus.
I am always incredibly impressed and happy when a project can openly say what it is *not*. It's a breath of fresh air, it's clear, and it bodes well for their focus.
I often give matrix shit because I've had bad experiences having to use it; but this is extremely good project governance. It's very hard to say what you're about, and even harder to say what you're not about
icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
+1.
I am always incredibly impressed and happy when a project can openly say what it is *not*. It's a breath of fresh air, it's clear, and it bodes well for their focus.
I am always incredibly impressed and happy when a project can openly say what it is *not*. It's a breath of fresh air, it's clear, and it bodes well for their focus.
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I've built Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky app with Community Notes. Phase 1 beta is live.
bluenotes.social
Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.
bluenotes.social
Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.
Bluenotes
Bluesky with Community Notes. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
bluenotes.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I've built Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky app with Community Notes. Phase 1 beta is live.
bluenotes.social
Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.
bluenotes.social
Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.
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