dust.bloo.ski
Some atoms in a trenchcoat (trenchcoat is also atoms)
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The Pantone color is P453, and it sounds like they were able to communicate with a former Apple employee with direct knowledge:
"It was hard to find official color info online at first. But then I remembered that my friend’s dad is actually the original designer who developed the colors for Apple."
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Just yesterday I was reading about a Crust bike frame with paint color matched to the original Apple greige. I expect this synchronicity must signal a larger trend.
crustbikes.com/collections/...
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Well, they do appreciate gifts. Maybe the free pizza thing backfired.
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I would expect that the money behind these services understands this to be a significant part of their value.
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Good use of singular "they" at least. I guess we can have pronouns after all.
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Very nice match between the skintones and the wall colors.
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Once you've compromised yourself to earn Trump's favor because you think it benefits you, you've lost. You've demonstrated that he has power over you. And in this case you've given him an $850B lever to encourage future compliance.
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Found this in Eagle Rock around 6 miles from western extent of fire in Altadena. About a "found fragment" of a text?!
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Ha! Just thinking there must be better ways to find money to fund social goods like communication utilities. Really interesting to get a glimpse at their costs in that article.
Signal is a nonprofit and funds about 25% of the budget through small user donations. I donated here:
signal.org/donate/
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$50 million is not a lot of money in the context of a global service. LAPD spends almost $50M annually on helicopters.
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Yeah, I didn't touch the stock Caddy config. Maybe someone with more knowledge at the PDS Admins Discord would have some insight. discord.gg/UWS6FFdhMe
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I set up a free Resend.com account and added DNS MX and TXT records to my domain according to their instructions. Then on the PDS, I edited the /pds/pds.env file to set the SMTP variables according to the instructions at the link below, and then just restarted droplet/vm:
github.com/bluesky-soci...
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This is a fun one! I've missed the blue checks as a clear block signal, but seems like there are ways to programmatically block based on other signals
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From @rahaeli.bsky.social
Yes, I would not like to see or interact with these things
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More of this from @chuddletime.bsky.social
The composability concept is great. Perhaps we need a way to delegate the composition to a trusted authority so we don't have to hunt down and follow dozens of separate moderation lists?
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Next up from @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
I would expect that there's some overlap between lists from different groups, but the sea of garbage is vast and will only grow keep growing.
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First, @skywatch.blue maintains a number of useful lists
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This excellent mega-thread about AT Protocol vs. Activity pub gets to some discussion of conflicts between protocol values and funding model:
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What does it look like when there are
⬜ multiple independent Relay services
⬜ multiple independent AppView services
What do those services look like and what are the social and financial arrangements that would support them?
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Good post here on "Progress on atproto Values and Value Proposition" by one of the AT protocol developers @bnewbold.net
Particularly the "credible exit" idea.
bnewbold.net/2024/atproto...
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Signal is an exemplar in that regard for functioning as a non-profit, and Meredith Whittaker and Brian Acton seem like amazing leaders who understand this. They cover 25% of $50M operating expenses from small user donations. Presumably the rest comes from larger donors?
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If you're designing a protocol and service that embodies certain social values, you also have to develop an organizational structure that is not orthogonal to those choices -- like so many user-hostile services that depend on the surveillance capitalism model end up with.
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How do you sustain that without heading down the road to enshittification? Here's another $15M in venture funding and "we will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames". Yeah, try some things...
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And it works largely like the centralized social media that people are familiar with because, even if you allow for distributed storage and identity management, the whole network is aggregated through a monolithic relay. You can search. You can see all the replies.
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How are the infrastructure costs for the bsky.app relay sustained? Part of the reason it's nicer over here than places like Instagram and Twitter is because it hasn't been turned into an ad delivery platform, and there's not an algorithm goosing engagement by showing me things I didn't ask to see.
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Another fine block list:
bsky.app/profile/hedg...
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Okay, why does my DID start with "alf" tho. That's wild.
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Should I watch it? Not a horror person and I got as far as "left every trans person that I know in literal tears" before deciding it was maybe not for me. But definitely cathartic to see a clear articulation of that pain...
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www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/09/03/t...
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When you click on the "Subscribe" button, you're presented with the option to mute or block all accounts in the list.
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Thanks! Yeah, seems like if you had an org and wanted to be an identity provider to signal a verified relationship to accounts, then it would be useful.
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Ha! The arrangement is also a metaphor for the NY Times anti-trans coverage. What happens when you put the mic in front of the loudspeaker? You set up a feedback loop and amplify a faint signal into a deafening screech. Then you just keep shouting into the mic about the awful sound you're hearing.
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I dithered on adding Blue Sky to my distraction regimen, but the anticipated narcotic bliss of liking some Wanda skeets was too strong.
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Definitely here for the ALF discourse, tho.
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So this account might go away if there aren't any really benefits and it's not worth the monthly cost of that server.