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Daniel Fernandes

@danielfernand.es
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Software Engineer interested in chip design, compchem/bio, crypto & DWeb tech. B4: Illinois ECE / Stanford EE Also on Farcaster! (farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth)

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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 24/09/2026
clippy with a dialog bubble encompassing the quoted post
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 16/09/2026
i keep being impressed by how incredibly broken passkeys are. the passkeys are in my vault, the vault is unlocked, its for the right browser, has the right extension, but if the website cant access those for whatever reason, youre just stuck with no way to progress and locked out of your account
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chrisb @boscolo.co · 10/09/2026
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On trial for causing FOMO? Making teens fear missing out is one of the accusations states have hurled at Meta in a case going to trial this week. I did an explainer of sorts @reason.com reason.com/2026/08/12/a...
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Another social media 'addiction' trial starts today. Its claims are weak—but dangerous
Meta is on trial for fomenting "FOMO," among other things. It sounds silly, but the playbook used here could work against religious groups, fast food, and much more.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 03/08/2026
I write about how the Coldcard bungling was predictable (fixed URL): paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/h...
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Hardware Wallets Still Aren't a Silver Bullet — Now the Vendor Is the Attack Vector Too
In late 2021, I wrote about how hardware wallets give crypto users a false sense of security. The argument was simple: a hardware wallet protects your keys from malware and side-channel memory scrapin...
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 28/07/2026
I write about the Base app (and other ETH key opinion leaders) giving up on social: paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/e...
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Enshittification Still Matters
Decentralized social infrastructure is not a sidequest to DeFi. It is essential for protecting online identities and relationships from the inevitable enshittification of centralized platforms.
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Adrienne @adriennetenger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I built a vocabulary game where after learning a new word, you have to use it on social media to prove you actually learned it. It works on Farcaster and X so far, and I’m thinking about bringing it to bluesky next. Wonder if people here would like that type of game?
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Grace @gracekind.net · 30/06/2026
They swap out a single apostrophe character in your messages, based on your domain. Very sneaky!
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chrisb @boscolo.co · 23/06/2026
The cryptographers on this app will talk about how awesome RCS is because it is standards-based E2EE without acknowledging that the underlying standards are a recipe for centralizing the operators. We need a different way forward.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 17/06/2026
Ideas to improve soccer: 1. Shot clock 2. Icing 3. The power play
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 10/06/2026
False dichotomy. You can call your friend and use Generative AI at the same time. Skill (dot md) issue.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 21/05/2026
introduce yourself with 11 bands / musicians you've seen live Odesza American Football Tycho Floating Points Kishi Bashi Death Cab for Cutie Max Cooper Sylvan Esso Tune-Yards Little Dragon Droeloe
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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 17/05/2026
I think I get why the US environmental movement went so wrong. It's really hard to get people to support local solutions to global problems, the only way is to ally with dumb reactionaries. But if your movement is full of dumb reactionaries, after a while your solutions will be reactionary and dumb
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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
who the heck decided to call it the cerebellum and not "skill tissue"
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 14/04/2026
This is wild, the .fi TLD registrar is compromised apparently. Domain names & DNS are not—and never will be—a secure DID method. x.com/i/status/204...
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androolloyd.hl on X: "Heads up everyone. Seems the .fi registrar is likely compromised. The .fi name servers were updated overnight to point back to the attacker. While we still have access to the account it appears someone internally is coordinating. the dns has been moved away from the parking" / X
Heads up everyone. Seems the .fi registrar is likely compromised. The .fi name servers were updated overnight to point back to the attacker. While we still have access to the account it appears someone internally is coordinating. the dns has been moved away from the parking
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JCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I know it's difficult but you gotta channel the deepest, most intense neurodivergent hyperfixation into the subject. Then haters will bounce off you for the same reason 'video games are for nerds' was pure background noise to the kids who were trying to take their consoles apart to see how they work
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
kiki and bouba
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 08/03/2026
Another braindump brought to you by Claude. Why San Jose Doesn't Look Like Shenzhen paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/w...
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Why San Jose Doesn't Look Like Shenzhen
Every few months, someone posts a Google Maps screenshot of Nvidia's campus in Santa Clara next to a skyline photo of Shenzhen, and the replies fill up with the same hot take: Silicon Valley, the econ...
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 24/02/2026
Qualified Reservations
An XKCD-style webcomic featuring a horizontal line with several stick figures representing different decentralized social protocols, labeled from left to right in order of increasing "purity."
​The title at the top reads: "PROTOCOLS ARRANGED BY PURITY" with an arrow pointing right labeled "MORE PURE."
​From left to right, the protocols and their accompanying dialogue are:
​ActivityPub: A stick figure stands at the start of the line.
​ATProto: A figure with glasses says, "ActivityPub is just federated ATProto."
​DSNP: A figure holding a small octopus says, "ATProto is just federated DSNP."
​Farcaster: A figure holding a bubbling flask says, "DSNP is just Polkadot-parachain Farcaster."
​Nostr: A figure looking back toward the others says, "Which still requires BFT consensus. It's nice to be on top."
​Urbit: Located far to the right, separated by a large gap, a figure waves and says, "Oh, Hey, I didn't see you guys all the way over there."
​The comic satirizes the "purity testing" and elitism within decentralized tech communities, ending with Urbit positioned as the most extreme and isolated outlier.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/02/2026
Can I run @pds.ls to browse a dev-env PDS? I can see a list of dids on the localhost PDS, but I can't actually inspect any of them, because then I just get "missing PDS", no did document exists presumably, but I should be able to just skip that part and see the data anyway.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/02/2026
sufficiently decentralized
A satirical medieval‑style cartoon showing two opposing factions. On the left, banners labeled with phrases like ‘Our Blessed DID:PLC’ and names such as Swiss Shellco, ATScan Mirror, PLC BFT POA, and Bluesky PBC appear on castles and ships. On the right, an opposing group labeled ‘Their Barbarous Snapchain’ features Delaware C Corp, Quilibrium Fork, Tendermint POA, and Neynar, Inc. The scene exaggerates the rivalry between two tech ecosystems by depicting them as warring kingdoms.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
rfk jr is going to put up stalin numbers, but he'll do it in terms of lives not saved. you can commit the most horrific crimes if you do it with bureaucracy
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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I think about this a lot.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026
Hot take, but we don't need Rust thanks to AI. C++ plus Claude is all the borrow checking you need.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026
Ray Kurzweil Apology Form

To:

Ray Kurzweil

the Internet

Date:

1/22/2025

Reason for behavior:

The media convinced

☐ me that deep learning hit a wall

☐

I was biased against

people who gave TED

talks

I was jealous of your hair

I thought the

I thought you were too into the Turing Test

nano stuff was weird

☐Mercury was in

retrograde

☐ I will hereby respect the Singularity and I will NOT talk down on exponential improvements in computing power
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026
AI Agents on Farcaster, open social + AI is going to be big. farcaster.xyz/applefather....
A preview of the link attached
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Neat
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 26/12/2025
I'm in 3 atproto discords, so I would beg to differ. This is just a byproduct of crypto being international, where Telegram has more users, while Signal is US-centric, reflecting atproto. I strongly dislike Telegram / Discord, but UI/UX is simply better than Signal & Matrix, etc.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 29/11/2025
Welcome to the Clover Club cam
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 06/11/2025
Glad Zuck is standing up to Palo Alto NIMBYs. Anybody, including Zuck, should be allowed to run a local school in their home, free from nanny state bullshit. What you should be mad about is people poorer than Zuck who don't have the cash & lawyers to stand up to petty permitting lawfare from NIMBYs
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 23/10/2025
Before I hear your jibber jabber on politics, I need you to recognize this is the median voter:
Tesla Cybertruck wrapped with Kuffiyah and the flag of Palestine on the top in support of Palestinians. (San Francisco in front of Los Hermanos Taqueria)
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/10/2025
My side project is Web3 + Web5, so Web8. The Ocho!
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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 06/10/2025
I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine. Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 03/10/2025
The POIDH (pics or it didn't happen) miniapp on Farcaster crowdfunded a bounty for the most kickflips in a minute and Dave here just broke the world record! farcaster.xyz/davebachinsk...
farcaster.xyz
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 02/10/2025
Since everyone is still giving hot takes: IMHO the biggest mistake was ever having a 'trust & safety' team or 'community guidelines.' The only rule shoulda been: "this is a tech demo, if you annoy us in any way for any reason, we will ban you & maybe all your followers, if toxic enough"
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 30/09/2025
The constitution should be a living document: a large language model powered by Worldcoin™
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025
Kinda surprised the ATProto repo doesn't build out of the box on main...is there not a CI commit hook checking this stuff? I can't be the only one trying this...
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025
Orange Dreamsicle Negroni & a "Night in Cancun" clarified tequila/mango milk sour with Hibiscus foam.
Orange Dreamsicle NegroniNight in Cancun cocktail
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
That time I was forced to participate in a team-building exercise based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025
Happy Negroni Week!
A golden orchard negroni with a negroni menuA bitter eden negroni
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health
 | YouGov
AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 2, 2025
MMR VACCINE POLICY FOR CHILDREN:
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD...

BY PARTY
DEMS
INDS
REPS
ENCOURAGE PARENTS TO VACCINATE
91%
68%
57%
NOT TAKE A POSITION
8%
28%
37%
DISCOURAGE PARENTS FROM VACCINATING
1%
4%
6%
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A widow chose love. Trump chose hate. Carlson chose conspiracy. The crowd chose laughter. Faith turned into fraud, right before our eyes.
notesfromthecircus.com
The Grand Imposters
In Grace, a Movement’s Moral Bankruptcy on Grotesque Display
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 18/09/2025
I hereby endorse Taste of Persia in San Jose. 11/10 😋
Persian dinner combo with kebab rice salad and grilled jalapeño from Taste of Persia SJ
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 15/09/2025
I'm seeing enough misinfo on here that I think Community Notes should probably be pushed up in the 'priority stack' of features.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.
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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The FDA is touting this as a success, but ultimately it's an illustration of how its own failures to reasonably regulate e-cigs are fueling a massive illicit market. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA, border agency seize $86.5 million worth of unauthorized e-cigarettes
U.S. authorities have seized 4.7 million unauthorized e-cigarettes valued at $86.5 million in the largest operation of its kind to date, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 11/09/2025
I agree with this article, I will admit I scrolled my discover feed anticipating some appalling takes, but for the most part I did not find them, quite tame TBH. The whining on X about "how bad Bluesky was" was just a blatant attempt to poison-the-well & shame ppl from trying decentralized social.
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