Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 22/09/2026when you're willing to use millions of dollars worth of compute towards a single proof, you probably don't even need to be that clever to brute force a useful improvement out of the search space (complimentary) 130
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 23/01/2026but if you're importing into sqlite then everything is text so it all works out 😉 110
Reposted by Bob IppolitoCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2025I am going to become the Sqlite Joker, what the fuck??? 17955
Reposted by Bob IppolitoVicki @vickiboykis.com · 10/09/2025One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...vickiboykis.comWalking around the appYou gotta check stuff out 78115
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 27/05/2025The M:N threading model with process isolation (all the way up to memory allocation and GC) is Erlang's true differentiator. It really just can't be done anywhere else… hard to bolt something like that on. 132
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 27/05/2025you'd be surprised at how efficient the beam vm is, even when you're not using the jit it's a direct threaded model. there's a lot of technical details on the erlang blog over the years www.erlang.org/blog 130
Reposted by Bob IppolitoJason Scott @textfiles.com · 22/04/2025Update: A goodly pile of BBS Documentaries have gone out the door at the increased price, with a little less than a couple dozen still in the box. If you want to pay too much for physical media, this is the time. ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755ascii.textfiles.comBBS Documentary 20th Anniversary Fundraise SaleThis post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of th… 0235
Reposted by Bob IppolitoMatt Collins @mattkicks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Most successful designer & hater of all time 🐐🏆 @fwmj.bsky.socialgothamist.comMadison Square Garden bans T-shirt designer over 'Ban Dolan' shirt — years after he made itFrank Miller Jr. says he was stunned to learn he’s barred from all Madison Square Garden venues, years after mocking the Knicks' owner with a satirical shirt. 1145
Reposted by Bob IppolitoSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 27/03/2025What an achievement: * All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...lists.reproducible-builds.org Irregular status update about reproducible Debian live ISO images 720747
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 27/03/2025of course there’s still the risk of a successful supply chain attack that passed review and is in the source code, huge accomplishment nonetheless! 220
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 20/01/2025What sort of person wants to report something as spam but not also block the sender? 100
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 10/01/2025The Ex-Facebook groups are absolutely popping off in response to Meta’s policy changes 🍿 (for the record, these changes are shit) 290
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 31/12/2024Is CBOR popular enough to warrant platform inclusion? I haven’t run across it much 100
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 27/12/2024media.tenor.coma video game screen that says i command you to riseALT: a video game screen that says i command you to rise 000
Reposted by Bob IppolitoAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com 1241220058488
Reposted by Bob IppolitoAllison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Who wants to be next? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...therecord.comAccused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman onlineKitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221... 37747125
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 22/11/2024I think at this point I'm almost unrecognizable to people that haven't seen me in a few years. Got fit riding bikes, decided to grow some facial hair after crashing a bike in a race a few months ago, and I even bought a tux to wear at the first @missionbit.org gala since I become board chair. 4110
Reposted by Bob Ippolitomattdesl @mattdesl.bsky.social · 02/08/2024First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/co... 1334
Reposted by Bob Ippolitoweb3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 27/02/2024tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects February 26, 2024 www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz… 37917
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 02/02/2024I saw someone wearing one of these at dolores park the other day, had to hold back the laughter so I didn't look like a maniac 050
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 23/12/2023Apparently LG HU80KA projectors get a fatal blue screen of death even if you don’t use them very much… but you can find replacement “lg chassis assembly” boards for ~$20 (discontinued EBT65116402) or ~$510 (replacement EBT66594301). The $20 board worked! Probably should order a backup 😬 010
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 21/11/2023me too, had a good run up through the hermit period… trying to get back there 010
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 13/11/2023Seems like the floodgates are starting to open, just got a bluesky invite in the mail and a few new followers to block 020
Reposted by Bob IppolitoRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/09/2023Just phenomenal how quickly the streaming service suits went from “go live under a bridge writers, AI can do your jobs!” to “sooooo we tried to write a script with ChatGPT ourselves and, um, yes we swear we won’t do it again please give us the humans back” 10682210
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 30/08/2023Buying cycling kit is probably the closest I'll get to experiencing the joys of shopping for women's clothing. Does this jersey fit loose in M or tight in XL? Why don't most bibs come with pockets? 010
Reposted by Bob IppolitoChris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 28/08/2023RIP to the sentence “Here, let me Google that for you,” the single most useful clapback of the 00s and 10s, killed by Google becoming absolutely useless for discovering any correct information whatsoever 16266401746
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 26/08/2023Shout out to Instagram for having an option to "stop getting these emails for 60 days" when some clown is trying to jack your account and spamming password reset emails. 010
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 25/08/2023Feels good to be blissfully unaware of this episode’s plot 010
Reposted by Bob Ippolitodrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23/07/2023dr octagon sighs, turns off the lamp, and leaves the red telephone behind in the darkness as he walks out the door. no one has called 1-800-PP5-1-DOO-DOO in years 2466
Reposted by Bob IppolitoSarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 15/07/2023The Black community on BlueSky is owed an apology. We all see this. I sincerely hope it comes. 29322
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 12/07/2023That’s exactly what I was using, the L size since Raz is 42lbs 000
Bob Ippolito @bob.ippoli.to · 11/07/2023I wish raz was sir willie sized, 42lbs is a lot for a backpack 😅 010
Reposted by Bob IppolitoDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/07/2023Threads may not kill twitter, but it does seem to have temporarily replaced “all I do is complain about twitter” Bluesky with “all I do is complain about Threads” Bluesky 1151
Reposted by Bob IppolitoJames Tynion IV @jamesthefourth.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Seriously considering putting this on my car. But for now it’ll live on my fridge. 19531104
![tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
This crypto skeptic I've heard of once said "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
A project called tea.xyz promised people they could "get rewards for [their] open-source contributions", complete with a flashy website describing how it would "enhance the sustainability of open-source software". So far, it's achieved the exact opposite. Promising to reward open source contributors with crypto tokens, the project asked users to verify their access to open source projects by merging in a YAML file containing their crypto wallet address. This kicked off a flood of pull requests to prominent, often non-crypto-related open source projects by people who had never contributed to the project (or, often, any open source project), but who wished to merge in a file describing them as a "code owner".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreifvlhhljzleeftjriozwgfwjpjhjf5lwqv5qxlxiefdc4d7k7jthu)
![Particularly impacted by this project was the open source blogging platform Ghost, which was used as an example in the demo video released by tea.xyz, and which received several PRs of this kind. A somewhat flummoxed maintainer of the repository replied to one PR: "[I]n practice the TEA project is not helping to support the Ghost project, but is instead causing a rush of self-serving PRs to be submitted to cash-in on other people's work. ... This why people hate on crypto." A maintainer of another unrelated open source project called "ghost" also reported receiving an influx of spam PRs. This is not the first time crypto has generated massive Github spam, although another recent incident was (blessedly) mostly limited to open-source crypto projects and didn't waste the time of non-crypto-related projects as this one has.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreidyawvaxye75ujzfgro65zvcpslcfwhtrigy7jxilcnun7o6qicju)
