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Here's the link to the 2024 study:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/633f0603fdaa7311ba384...

Here's the 2023 study:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/633f0603fdaa7311ba384...

As much as I hate having my quiet "hidden gems" become popular, I feel its very egotistical of people to actively try to remove it from the spotlight when I'm sure the owners very much appreciate the extra business.

You didn't even read the article didn't you?

You're not supposed to stop using other peoples castle, You're just supposed to have a castle of your own to bring people to.

From the top of my head:

https://ghost.org/

https://writefreely.org/

Semi related but, googling a problem just to stumble on an 100% written by AI Medium article as the top result, is the bane of my existence.

So really, I can get behind the author.

>The PDSes are the sources of truth, and you can crawl them directly. The relay is just an optimization.

This is such a massive understatement. the relay is the single most important piece in the entire Bluesky stack.

Let me ask you this, is it possible for me to connect to a PDS directly, right now, via the bluesky app? or is this something that will be possible in the future?

>ATProto works like the web does. People publish information on their servers, and then relays crawl them and emit their crawl through a firehose.

>ActivityPub doesn't do large scale aggregated views of the activity.

So are relays really just an optimization or an integral part of how ATProtocol is supposed to work? ActivityPub doesn't require relays to function properly. This is why I say it's real federation. You can't truly be federated if you require centralization.

It doesn't change the fact that if someone were to do that, it wouldn't be supported by anyone let alone the main bluesky firehose. I think it's pretty disingenuous to just say "You can do it" when what your suggesting is so far off the intended usage of the Protocol that it might as well be a brand new implementation. As a matter of fact, people DO already do this. they use ActivityPub and talk to bluesky using a bridge.

The core of the issue is, Bluesky's current model is unsustainable. The cost of running the main relay is going to keep rising. The barrier to discovery keeps getting higher and higher. It might cost 150$/month now to mirror the relay, but what's going to happen when it's 1000$?

They may share a name, but they both work in very different ways.

>Old social media never gave full access to the firehose so there’s a pretty big difference.

That is good, but it's still a centralized source of truth.

>If you want large scale social networks, you need to work with a large scale of data. Since federated open queries aren’t feasible, you need big machines.

Thats just simply not true. ActivityPub does perfectly without the need of any bulky machine or node acting as a relay for the rest of the network. Every single ActivityPub service only ever interacts with other discovered services. Messages aren't broadcast through a central firehose, they're sent directly to who needs to receive them. This is a fundamental difference with how both protocols work. With ATProto you NEED to connect to some centralized relay that will broker your messages for you. With ActivityPub, there is no middle man, Instances just talk directly to each other. This is why ActivityPub has a discovery problem by the way, but it's just a symptom of real federation.

>and is how ActivityPub works by nature.

It's not. See Above.

>Before this new surge in activity, the firehose would produce around 24 GB/day of traffic. After the surge, this volume jumped to over 232 GB/day!

>Jetstream is a streaming service that consumes an AT Proto com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos stream and converts it into lightweight, friendly JSON.

So let me get this straight. if you did want to run Jetstream yourself you'd still need to be able to handle the 232 GB/day of bandwidth?

This always has been my issue with Bluesky/AT Protocol, For all the talk about their protocol being federated, It really doesn't seem realistic for anyone to run any of the infrastructure themselves. You're always going to be reliant on a big player that has the capital to keep everything running smoothly. At this point I don't really see how it's any different then being on any of the old centralized social media.

Is Dexed not good? https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/

I'd really like to know why they're shutting it down. Funny that they're getting a bunch of signups and traffic because of the news.

There's also: https://fedihost.co/

This is really awesome. A question for someone who knows more about this: How much harder would it be to make this work using any number of photos? I'm assuming this is the end goal for a model like this.

Imagine being able to create an accurate enough 3D rendering of any interior with just a bunch of snapshots anyone can take with their phone.

>Customers actually used Echo mostly for free apps such as setting alarms and checking the weather. “We worried we’ve hired 10,000 people and we’ve built a smart timer,” said a former senior employee.

That's actually really funny to read. Just last night I was watching my brother cook and he asked Alexa to set a timer (It's pretty much the only thing he uses it for...) I jokingly said "You know, that's a really expensive timer."

I'm particularly excited about the new house keeping scripts in this release. Peertube especially when using object storage has a tendency to create "zombie" files where it'll forget they exist. This usually happens when a transcoding job fails or when you force re-transcode a video. Before this release there wasn't any way to go look for those files and delete them but now you can.

If you're curious about Peertube. A friend and I have created an hosting service for fediverse applications. We provide fully managed hosting for Peertube which you can try free for 7 days. Check it out here https://fedihost.co

Would you say a Prius is any less safe then a Tesla because it lacks its acceleration performance?

A good way to treat CSAM is to see it as radioactive material. You always want it to be accounted for. Some people have legitimate use for it (x-ray machines, nuclear power plants, etc...) these would be the doctor example in this article. and then you have the actual illegal uses of it, like someone trying to build a bomb in their backyard. In that sense, a CSAM filter shouldn't assume anything about the content, just be able to identify that its content that needs to be accounted for.

You're literally ignoring the elephant in the room. ActivityPub based services are definitely not a ghost town. You should give mastodon a try.

>We’ve terminated accounts linked to covert influence operations; >no significant audience increase due to our services.

I can't help but find this extremely funny. you mean to tell me that massive operations trying to use your service didn't actually gain anything from using your service?

OpenAI wasting time and resources shutting them down and the bad actors wasting time and resources using chatGPT no benefit.

It just reads like a massive waste of time for everyone involved.

"premature optimization is the root of all evil"

Aseprite is also open-source and free if you compile it yourself. https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

None clickbait title: Riot Games will rollout their vanguard anti-cheat to league of legends.

for those not in the loop, Vanguard is the anti-cheat Riot Games created for Valorant, their competitive first person shooter. The issue with Vanguard is that it's quite an aggressive anti-cheat, it runs on Ring 0 as a windows kernel driver. Hence, why some people call it a "rootkit".

I think the main issue is it seems no one even bothers to check if what the LLM just spat out is factually correct. It kind astonishes me how little some people seem to doubt whatever the AI is telling them.

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I'm also quite a big fan of NewPipe. I just wish you could sort videos by views.

I loved those image2text ever since I learned about libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

I find it quite ironic that google are the biggest players in creating solutions that actively contribute in defeating their very own anti automation software.

Makes you wonder if the goal of their captcha system was ever really to stop people from botting.