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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 05/10/2026

as it turns out they are not following GDPR either despite being based in france; they have a self-serve delete request system, but that system *does not delete the info* despite claiming to do so

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 05/10/2026

oh good god it's even worse than i thought verification/fingerprint history, guild info, locations, user agents, *plaintext admin passwords*, and so on all accessed; absolutely no encryption or hashing anywhere, despite claiming to do so in their privacy policy

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 05/10/2026

yeah someone got into our old production server that we never wiped and accessed 15 million IP addresses and 2 million emails. no big deal, everything's fine guys, no sensitive info was impacted. we're no longer using that provider, wait no don't look at our current server IPs

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 05/10/2026

these people are so maliciously incompetent it's unreal

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 24/09/2026

"that they didn't have to do at any point" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_...

en.wikipedia.org

Online age verification laws by country - Wikipedia

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 19/09/2026

librewolf is not a regular browser for usage by regular people stop trying to pretend it is

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 19/09/2026

thanks to the reactionaries in every reply section here i would like to announce that i am now 100% unconditionally pro-AI

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 14/09/2026

ikey doherty being driven to start yet another distro project purely out of spite for omarchy is hilarious and i fully support it

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

making bad art makes me sad so i guess i'm not a "real" artist (not that i was much of one anyways)

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

unit tests would be really good to have but i still have yet to come across any type of system that would work reasonably well given that it is a bot for a centralized chat platform with heavy ratelimits

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

i'm so afraid to do almost any kind of large refactor in fear that something will break along the way and code quality will get worse

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

everything about it is such a goddamn mess that i have little faith will ever be fixed

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

i'm sorry i don't know how much longer i can keep managing this

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 11/09/2026

maybe i should've handed esmbot off to someone else 3 years ago

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 10/09/2026

reminder that my sona is canonically nameless askkng what its name is invokes undefined behavior, which can result in any number of potential outcomes (some of which may be harmful), so please refrain from doing such if possible

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 10/09/2026

we (yes, *we*) will be bringing back the windows 8 charms bar

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 07/09/2026

i am putting emphasis on local models because that's the only area where that argument realistically adds up most people do not use local models. most people are unable to run local models. it still costs a lot of money nowadays to get ahold of a system that can run a viable local model

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 07/09/2026

the "lower end" models i'm aware of that are even close to the big options in terms of output quality still need, like, 12gb free ram minimum keep in mind that apple was still selling macbooks with 8gb of ram at $1700 as recently as 2024

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 07/09/2026

seeing more and more arguments that using llms will "challenge monopolies" or whatever, when as it stands it is only giving more power to 2 or 3 companies i am not aware of any local llms that are on the level of where the big players were a year or two ago that can run on an average android phone

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 06/09/2026

please read about things before throwing your entire self into hating them (and if it's been some time, re-read those things as they might have changed) i constantly roll my eyes at posts that technically take the same position i do, but use outdated info/convey it in a terrible, antisocial way

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 06/09/2026

in case it isn't obvious by my posts i am not exactly the biggest fan of the leadership and much of the community surrounding the atproto ecosystem and bluesky, but i don't like most of the posts i see on here that are almost fanfiction-tier in regards to how they talk negatively about it either

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 06/09/2026

the reasons don't even have to make sense, they can just make stuff up that sounds like it could be true and use that against you

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 06/09/2026

...so i guess the US can just. force any foreign web services provider to shut down just by labeling them a terrorist organization

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 05/09/2026

why is the guy who exclusively posts news clips in the top 3 of that "most influential posters" list

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 04/09/2026

note that bluesky doesn't use libvips directly, rather they use imgproxy which uses it under the hood to resize/convert images based on the request url parameters this is a very odd reply though, what reasoning or value are you trying to bring with such an accusatory statement

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 04/09/2026

libvips (the image processing library used by bluesky's image cdn, esmbot, and a ton of other software) has just banned AI contributions! github.com/libvips/libv...

github.com

doc: ban use of generative AI (#5203) · libvips/libvips@22331a7

In line with libjpeg-turbo, see commit: libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo@5966050641633f9298b03f6b99a625067b22a91c

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 03/09/2026

trying out the eurosky appview, i can tell that it's definitely behind in regards to backfilling right now because somehow it's showing the wrong handle for my main????? lmao?????

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 03/09/2026

it's funny how everyone seems to think this is some kind of new policy when you can tell with a 4th-grade reading level that they're talking about enforcing existing guidelines

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 02/09/2026

judging by the quotes/replies this post is proving to be an excellent honeypot

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 02/09/2026

i wonder if the experience would be improved any nowadays just by filtering out every user on the mushroom pds servers

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 02/09/2026

you can't talk about software development anymore. it is now banned

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 31/08/2026

every week is filled with exciting new horrors

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 24/08/2026

verity is hiding inside your chrome os install. Run.

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 21/08/2026

i checked, i believe it's around 988 atm?

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 21/08/2026

the list of "major pds providers" would encompass accounts on eurosky, blacksky, w social, and (potentially) tangled i do wonder what the criteria for a "major" provider should be; maybe those with over 1k accounts? this would notably exclude wafrn, northsky, and selfhosted.social atm...

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35M-4T type "cat" model @esm.this-is-epic.space · 21/08/2026

still wondering if i should change the scope of the atmosphere dwellers feed from "everything outside bluesky" to "everything outside of the major pds providers"

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