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Credible exit was popularized by the co-author of ActivityPub.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

Some of the bits in there are out of date, but still good reads.

A system where people derive a mistaken sense of privacy seems more dangerous. AT is getting something in permissioned data that's closer to what people think they get on AP.

Kyeon How the AI Bubble Bursts

Z.ai is at least owned by a public company, so there might be something in the financials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.ai

>> "On 8 January 2026, Z.ai held its initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to become a listed company.[24][25][26] It is considered to be China's first major LLM company that went through an IPO.[26] In February 2026, JPMorgan Chase recommended to investors of purchasing stocks of the company alongside MiniMax.[27]"

https://www.zhipuai.cn/investor_relations/

But I haven't looked into it.

Kyeon I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

This is an interface, not an LLM. Do they say which LLM they use? Many of these are interfaces to one of the big three model providers. Others run through OpenRouter to use one of the better open models, all of which have their own quirks.

Kyeon About the Atmosphere

Wide C2S and ActivityPods support would address most of what led to the creation of AT. Lacking that, they made AT.

The rest is revealed in the developer community. AT and AP followed similar timelines for the first year or so, then diverged.

The main thing I heard from AP devs is that it's hard even before dealing with Mastodon quirks for any meaningful connection to the AP network. AP's early developer energy looks like AT's now, except AT's has been sustained for years and is only growing.

AP hasn't even managed a second conference, and that's where all the big AT stuff started at its first one. For example: Streamplace was new and awkward to use last year. This year, it was the official streaming platform with three simultaneous streams and had integration with the official ticketing system. I can't even list all the AT platforms people used to coordinate, trade info, etc during the conference. None of them had to deal with a clunky API since it's all JSON in a standard format on your PDS through a standard interface.

VODs are coming soon: https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li/post/3miahg7vlgs2w

Kyeon About the Atmosphere

Since this re-surfaced from the second chance queue, this is a good place to say they just announced the first and very important steps to an independent PLC directory: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116314877708269740

From the alt text:

Initial board

- Bryan Newbold - Bluesky, protocol engineer

- Richard Barnes - Co-founder Let's Encrypt, Co-author MLS, ACME, HPKE, etc

- Wendy Seltzer - Internet Lawyer & open standards advocate

- Filippo Valsorda - Cryptographer, Go cryptography maintainer, transparency log aficionado

- Thyla van der Merwe - Cryptographer, security & privacy engineer at Google

This is on top of the IETF working group news: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

Kyeon The case for becoming a manager

>> "Encouraging everyone around you to do trivial things like bringing the shopping cart back is actually a big deal."

Got three shopping carts launched at me while doing this once by confused people who revealed how they behave toward people socially expected to endure abuse and low pay. The problem often goes deeper than responsibility.

Kyeon Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

This is neat. I could easily see this being the rapid prototyping step before building a Graze feed.

For example: there's already a ceramics feed. But I want to see ceramics by people in the furry cluster. There's a lot of people making little ceramic critters. There's no way to focus a pre-made list like that. I would have to build my own.

Kyeon rpg.actor Game Jam

There's also: https://dndx.dev/

I don't know if they use the same lexicons for it.

Kyeon A leak reveals that Anthropic is testing a more capable AI model "Claude Mythos"

Yeah I'm confused by the comments here.

"a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture" (Merriam-Webster)

This doesn't seem obscure to me. It's what a model encodes in its weights. Am I falling into the xkcd 2501 trap?

Kyeon “Disregard That” Attacks

https://bsky.app/profile/theophite.bsky.social/post/3mhjxtxr...

>> "claude costs $20/mo but attaching an agent harness to the chipotle customer service endpoint is free"

>> "BurritoBypass: An agentic coding harness for extracting Python from customer-service LLMs that would really rather talk about guacamole."

Kyeon Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music

Without the login wall: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

Kyeon I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

This is the basis of the virtual kidnapping scam/grandparent scam, or panic manipulation more generally. The manufactured urgency keeps them from doubting: the voice on the phone being off is just fear, or a bad connection, for example.

I have personally intervened in one of those when I heard someone reading off a 6 digit number.

Kyeon We’re saying goodbye to Sora

The only video generation tools showing any real progress or promise are world model-based. That's probably why they did this: either to refocus on coding/cowork type tools (less likely) or to devote that money and compute to building their answer to stuff like Project Genie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkGdX4WIBE

Kyeon Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

This is completely normal when a new thing is in the third section of the technology adoption curve.[0] AI will either go away (unlikely) or become a footnote in posts about what people are doing with it in the next stage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

Alternately: the trough of disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

Kyeon So where are all the AI apps?

Cool data. What do I do with it? None of my use cases involve writing software, so I don't think this is _for_ me since my extensive AI use wouldn't show up in git commits, but I'm not sure who it's for. When I'm talking to artist friends, musician friends, academic friends, etc data is nice to have but I'm talking in stories: the real thing I did and how it made me better at the thing.

Kyeon Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

Some hope for ESI, maybe: https://kb.esi-audio.com/?goto=KB00337EN

If it's one of those and class compliant, you might be able to access all of it through alsamixer or one of the many frontends (maybe too many, maybe one for you): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsamixer

The Audient situation appears to be a proper nightmare realm with non-class compliant stuff, but there is a tool with a list of caveats longer than you might want to deal with: https://github.com/TheOnlyJoey/MixiD

It's more best case scenario as an escape hatch and less problem solved, but it's something.

Kyeon Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

Not to address/counter your comment, but because it might be helpful: if that's a Focusrite interface, the company itself points to an open source project in its support documentation.

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/208530735-Is...

I haven't actually tested it, but it seems like it works for people, and it's solid enough to have the kernel component in the kernel. I found it while researching a possible move with my Vocaster One.

Kyeon Chuck Norris has died

Fortunately Godwin's law was only an observation of a tendency and, as Godwin himself clarified, not a proscription against an apt comparison.

Kyeon Chuck Norris has died

He kicked it, but the consequences of his long-standing support of the march toward hatred and division linger on.

The section on his Wikipedia page is helpfully succinct if you want to understand the basis of my not joining in the japes and jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Political_views

Kyeon “Your frustration is the product”

I spent a long time thinking CATV on the back mean Cable TV, not Community Antenna TV.

Kyeon Nvidia NemoClaw

Okay. You have sensible escape prevention.

Now this tool spreads. You help everyone get it set up. Someone hacks the site, injects a prompt lying about some event, maybe Drag Queen Story Hour in a place with lots of people enraged about it. Now there's chaos and confusion. Corrections chase the spread of misinformation.

Kyeon Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

This isn't presented anywhere on signup.

Kyeon Nvidia NemoClaw

Container security is an entire subfield of infosec. For example: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w235-x559-36mg

People on both sides are just getting started finding all the ways to abuse or protect you from security assumptions with these tools. RSS is the right tool for this problem and I would be surprised if their CMS doesn't produce a feed on its own.

Kyeon Nvidia NemoClaw

Scripts fail. Agents exfiltrate your data because someone hacked the school's website with prompt injections. Make sure it's a choice and not ignorance of the risks.

Kyeon Nvidia NemoClaw

It increasingly seems like most people make a different decision after thinking through the security implications of something like this. This is me being charitable.

Kyeon Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

As always, xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1205/

https://xkcd.com/974/

Kyeon Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-in...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08989

Kyeon GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano

If it does and works well then it seems like mission accomplished and time for a new benchmark.

Kyeon Kagi Small Web

The implicit criteria (tech/business and adjacent) is an issue with all these lists for me. But it's also a personal list, which is great. I just wish literally anyone in these had a personal interest on anything else reflected in their lists because I keep checking them and being disappointed.

A topic that's come up before on here with others doing the complaining about a list I liked for this reason but wasn't top-loaded with tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015676