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Diti commented on ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use biometricupdate.com/20260... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

AlecSchueler · 4 days ago

> With the sorry state the software industry is currently in, I’m not surprised that developers would sell their soul in exchange for the peace of mind of being able to pay rent and food

You really think adtech is the way to avoid starving on the street? There are a hell of a lot of jobs between entry level and adtech dev that could give you the same basic peace of mind.

Diti · 2 days ago

No, there are ways to avoid working for adtech or tech support if you still have family or friends (I’m currently moving back to my parents’ place). But not everyone has this luck.

Diti commented on ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use biometricupdate.com/20260... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

testfrequency · 4 days ago

If you’re not awake already, you support what’s happening.

Blind, which I realize is a bit of the wild west, is full of racist anti-immigration/pro ICE hatred. Obviously, you can see where users work/worked, and it’s every company you could imagine.

The sad reality is that a lot of people will do what they can to support racist agendas, possibly even motivate them to work at certain companies as it feels moralizing to their hateful beliefs.

Diti · 4 days ago

With the sorry state the software industry is currently in, I’m not surprised that developers would sell their soul in exchange for the peace of mind of being able to pay rent and food. Working for those companies does not make people “do what they can to support racist agendas”.

Diti commented on Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report bsky.social/about/blog/01... · Posted by u/emschwartz

dmos62 · 9 days ago

You're complaining about the banning of illustrations featuring furries being raped? That's what non-consentual means here? I must be misreading this.

Diti · 9 days ago

Yes, that’s what non-consensual could mean here (it also encompasses consensual non-consent, to be accurate). This kind of content (illustrated & fictional) isn’t illegal in most jurisdictions, as far as I know.

Small aside, consent also depends on the jurisdiction – in mine, it must be verbal, so it means that if I were to draw a situation which involves a character being forced to do something but showing their consent non-verbally, it would still be non-consensual, and thus, forbidden by Bluesky’s terms of service if the PDS was hosted in my jurisdiction.

Anyway, my point is that all those illustrations should be properly labeled, but not necessarily forbidden by Bluesky’s ToS. As I understand it, fictional non-con content being banned by Bluesky means that even hosting it on one’s PDS is a no-go.

Diti commented on Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report bsky.social/about/blog/01... · Posted by u/emschwartz

riffraff · 9 days ago

FWIW, you don't need to join questionable communities to have your content on mastodon, e.g. Wordpress blogs can meaningfully participate on activitypub (people con repost, like, reply) so that may be an alternative for your friends, without the need to host a complex app, so long as they can get any Wordpress hosting. Discovery suffers tho.

Diti · 9 days ago

Oh, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll tell them that’s an option – provided the hosting provider accepts the content too.

Diti commented on Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report bsky.social/about/blog/01... · Posted by u/emschwartz

Diti · 9 days ago

Their ban of “non-consensual sexual imagery” made several acquaintances of mine – furry art illustrators – move to harmful communities on questionable Mastodon servers.

I’m growing tired of those bans on legal content that isn’t inherently harmful (we are talking about fictional humanized animals here) but considered “icky” by platforms and payment processors.

So I don’t care if the AT protocol is technologically superior to ActivityPub (?) – the Mastodon community has a healthier moderation and mindset than Bluesky, in my opinion.

Diti commented on The new era of browsing: Putting Gemini to work in Chrome blog.google/products-and-... · Posted by u/xnx

Diti · 11 days ago

Is “agentic browsing” really what the main population is asking for, or is it yet another push for LLM use similar to Microsoft putting “Copilot” in every single product of theirs?

(I am guessing most of the HN crowd is not using Chrome because of the Manifest v3 debacle.)

Diti commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

varenc · 13 days ago

There's an inherent conflict between use as a theft tracking device, and use as a stalking device. Both situations are pretty indistinguishable. Apple is prioritizing reducing the AirTag's utility to stalkers.

Diti · 13 days ago

> Apple is prioritizing reducing the AirTag's utility to stalkers.

No, Apple is prioritizing good publicity. A motivated stalker will just be using another product, which is a net financial negative for Apple. They just don’t want the possibility of the news talking about how someone got assaulted thanks to an Apple device.

Diti commented on I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes/atproto-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

culi · 14 days ago

ATProto can be used be used for a lot more than just microblogs

https://tangled.org/

Diti · 13 days ago

So can ActivityPub, as far as I know. Most of the social coding projects agreed upon a shared vocabulary: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experien...

Diti commented on Show HN: LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the web without the web github.com/skorotkiewicz/... · Posted by u/modinfo

ugh123 · 14 days ago

Is there something like this that operates just on Wikipedia data?

Diti · 14 days ago

Yes, the search keywords you are looking for are “LLM Zim”.

Diti commented on A Social Filesystem overreacted.io/a-social-f... · Posted by u/icy

danabramov · 21 days ago

I'm using filesystem more as a metaphor than literally.

I picked this metaphor because "apps" are many-to-many to "file formats". I found "file format" to be a very powerful analogy for lexicons so I kind of built everything else in the explanation around that.

You can read https://atproto.com/specs/repository for more technical details about the repository data structure:

The repository data structure is content-addressed (a Merkle-tree), and every mutation of repository contents (eg, addition, removal, and updates to records) results in a new commit data hash value (CID). Commits are cryptographically signed, with rotatable signing keys, which allows recursive validation of content as a whole or in part. Repositories and their contents are canonically stored in binary DAG-CBOR format, as a graph of data objects referencing each other by content hash (CID Links). Large binary blobs are not stored directly in repositories, though they are referenced by hash (CID).

Re: apps, I'd say AT is actually post-app to some extent because Lexicons aren't 1:1 to apps. You can share Lexicons between apps and I totally can see a future where the boundaries are blurring and it's something closer to what you're describing.

Diti · 20 days ago

But you don’t need the AT protocol and lexicons to describe semantics. Ontologies have been a thing for decades, and search engines (the “rich results”) and ActivityPub use them.

Why use the lexicons you described, instead of the more supported https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams ontology that ActivityPub uses, for example?

If you allow me to, I would be interested in re-writing your article but by using ActivityPub concepts instead. Maybe I will learn about a fatal flaw in one of the protocols during that process.