Reposted by Daniel FernandesLaurens @laurenshof.online · 16/09/2026i 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 6494
Reposted by Daniel FernandesElizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026On 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...reason.comAnother social media 'addiction' trial starts today. Its claims are weak—but dangerousMeta 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. 53919
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 03/08/2026I write about how the Coldcard bungling was predictable (fixed URL): paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/h...paragraph.comHardware Wallets Still Aren't a Silver Bullet — Now the Vendor Is the Attack Vector TooIn 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... 110
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 28/07/2026I write about the Base app (and other ETH key opinion leaders) giving up on social: paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/e...paragraph.comEnshittification Still MattersDecentralized social infrastructure is not a sidequest to DeFi. It is essential for protecting online identities and relationships from the inevitable enshittification of centralized platforms. 120
Reposted by Daniel FernandesAdrienne @adriennetenger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I 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? 141
Reposted by Daniel FernandesGrace @gracekind.net · 30/06/2026They swap out a single apostrophe character in your messages, based on your domain. Very sneaky! 711413
Reposted by Daniel Fernandeschrisb @boscolo.co · 23/06/2026The 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. 082
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 17/06/2026Ideas to improve soccer: 1. Shot clock 2. Icing 3. The power play 110
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 10/06/2026False dichotomy. You can call your friend and use Generative AI at the same time. Skill (dot md) issue. 010
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 21/05/2026introduce 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 040
Reposted by Daniel FernandesEdmund Edgar @goat.navy · 17/05/2026I 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 051
Reposted by Daniel FernandesLucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026who the heck decided to call it the cerebellum and not "skill tissue" 311623
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 14/04/2026This 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...x.comandroolloyd.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" / XHeads 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 120
Reposted by Daniel FernandesJCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I 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 3185
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 08/03/2026Another braindump brought to you by Claude. Why San Jose Doesn't Look Like Shenzhen paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/w...paragraph.comWhy San Jose Doesn't Look Like ShenzhenEvery 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... 140
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/02/2026Can 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. 100
Reposted by Daniel FernandesSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11/02/2026rfk 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 610321
Reposted by Daniel Fernandeszooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I think about this a lot. 0294
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026Hot take, but we don't need Rust thanks to AI. C++ plus Claude is all the borrow checking you need. 220
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026AI Agents on Farcaster, open social + AI is going to be big. farcaster.xyz/applefather.... 110
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 26/12/2025I'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. 2141
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 06/11/2025Glad 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 120
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 23/10/2025Before I hear your jibber jabber on politics, I need you to recognize this is the median voter: 050
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/10/2025My side project is Web3 + Web5, so Web8. The Ocho! 030
Reposted by Daniel FernandesEdmund Edgar @goat.navy · 06/10/2025I 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 3629
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 03/10/2025The 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.xyzFarcasterA decentralized social network 011
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 02/10/2025Since 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" 110
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 30/09/2025The constitution should be a living document: a large language model powered by Worldcoin™ 020
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025Kinda 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... 140
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025Orange Dreamsicle Negroni & a "Night in Cancun" clarified tequila/mango milk sour with Hibiscus foam. 030
Reposted by Daniel FernandesDr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025That time I was forced to participate in a team-building exercise based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). 1213913
Reposted by Daniel FernandesSam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Just 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 952720755
Reposted by Daniel FernandesMike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A widow chose love. Trump chose hate. Carlson chose conspiracy. The crowd chose laughter. Faith turned into fraud, right before our eyes.notesfromthecircus.comThe Grand ImpostersIn Grace, a Movement’s Moral Bankruptcy on Grotesque Display 22512
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 18/09/2025I hereby endorse Taste of Persia in San Jose. 11/10 😋 160
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 15/09/2025I'm seeing enough misinfo on here that I think Community Notes should probably be pushed up in the 'priority stack' of features. 001
Reposted by Daniel FernandesJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comInternet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlementThe true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown. 03012
Reposted by Daniel FernandesJacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The 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...reuters.comUS FDA, border agency seize $86.5 million worth of unauthorized e-cigarettesU.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. 141
Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 11/09/2025I 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. 000