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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 21/01/2025

Works well for me. Thanks for adding the feed!

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 20/01/2025

Looking forward to read the post. By the way, does your website have a RSS feed? I wanted to subscribe but I haven’t found it

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 19/01/2025

I was hoping for solar to help a bit but the forecast shows lots of clouds and rain for all the week :(

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 17/12/2024

ciechanow.ski/moon/ just appeared in my RSS reader and now I know what I’m going to read this evening.  If you enjoy deep dives and interactive visualisations Bartosz Ciechanowski’s posts are a must read

ciechanow.ski

Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article about the Moon

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 16/12/2024

Judging from my recent statuses I post about the AT Protocol and my side projects. I'm also into self-hosting, infrastructure as code and embedded development

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 14/12/2024

dustycloud.org/blog/index.xml works fine for me

dustycloud.org

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 14/12/2024

Regarding pricing: in the UK Octopus Energy is very popular among people with solar panels and/or electric vehicles by offering many different tariffs that work well for their use case. They also offer good API for people who want to setup their own automation

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 12/12/2024

I dont think its an accident that pretty much all the new appviews we start to see on atproto are less about communications and more about sharing public data in some structure, whether that is book reviews, recipes, linktree clones or pastebin clones

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 13/12/2024

Christmas was very cheap. If I remember correctly it was a combination of reduced load, warm temperatures and wind.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 13/12/2024

Meta users don’t mind ads on Facebook and Instagram. Why would they start minding them on Threads?

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 07/12/2024

Congrats on reaching Web Scale!

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 07/12/2024

I miss when telling someone I liked computers we ended up talking about the tech. I can still do it today but I need to be very selective and run away from people who want me to work on their questionable startup idea, sell me a NFT, show me ads, live in a virtual reality or talk with a chatbot

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Why @why.bsky.world · 06/12/2024

I really wanna see us add an option for you to use the face ID secure enclave on your phone (also works on android) to add backup signing keys to your DID PLC documents directly through the app.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 06/12/2024

This is wild. I wasn’t expecting such a level of detail in the photo description. It can *guess* a lot, just form a single picture theyseeyourphotos.com

theyseeyourphotos.com

They See Your PhotosEnte

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 05/12/2024

I have used it in a toy project for a while and it has always been a very nice experience, especially as a developer not familiar at all with JavaScript frameworks. The only drawback I see is that I'd like to take a local-first approach and I cannot do that if all my logic lives on the server

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 05/12/2024

Is this slide for a future episode of the podcast?

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 04/12/2024

Shoutout to the Bluesky team for being so open about their infrastructure. This is just an example of a member of the team engaging in replies and describing what Bluesky runs on

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 02/12/2024

lots of talk about how verification ought to work here. I’m pretty wary of the me dot workplace dot com approach — for me personally, I don’t want my employer owning my social media presence and I’m pretty sure they don’t want that appearance either, especially when I’m shitposting

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 03/12/2024

Are you going to run custom software?

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 03/12/2024

I wasn’t trying to defend Siri. I literally never use it. I’m old school and interact with computers using a keyboard, not my voice, and I don’t own “smart” devices :)

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 03/12/2024

Is there anything preventing to link multiple domain names to the same account? If we go with the idea that verification is done via domain name you might want to verify that you both are part of the Bluesky team (with paul.bsky.team) and that you own your personal domain

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 02/12/2024

You should try asking Google. Ouch Screenshot taken right now

Screenshot of a Google result for "time in the west coast".
It correctly says the timezone is PST or PDT but current time is a cached value, way out of date

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 02/12/2024

the best websites are like, <name-of-specific-computer>.{physics|math|ee|cs}.<some-university>.edu/~<initials-of-guy>/stuff/html-page-with-no-css.htm

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 02/12/2024

Whether we should deploy on Fridays and how to do it safely

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 02/12/2024

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” -- Brian Kernighan, 1974

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 01/12/2024

I’ve done Advent of Code a couple times in the past but it’s no longer my thing.  #DecemberAdventure is a cool alternative. I have a few features I’d like to add to my tool to optimise the use of our solar/battery system. Let’s see how far I can in December eli.li/december-adv...

Screenshot of my project. It shows forecast of load and PV production and Octopus Agile prices, both in a chart and in tabular form

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Johannes Weiss @jweiss.io · 01/12/2024

That was a really good read covering some aspects of lock-free concurrent skiplists & LSMs (log structured merge trees). By @jaffray.bsky.social buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

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Fine! I'll Play With Skiplists

Follow me on Bluesky! A Log-Structured Merge tree, or LSM, is a popular data structure for storage engines. It’s what is used by RocksDB, which is sort of...

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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 29/11/2024

“Fuck that. Use Atuin” 😁

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 29/11/2024

bsky.app/profile/did:... labels posts containing screenshot. People need to opt in but maybe bots better than nothing?

bsky.app

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 28/11/2024

I’m going to add this to my Nix config. Just in case

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 27/11/2024

My assumption is that anything non end to end encrypted will be use to train LLMs. Either because it’s easily accessible or because who has access will sell it

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 26/11/2024

Users aren’t interacting directly with the firehose. Is there anything preventing who runs the app view from injecting ads into the feeds? App view is costly to run so switching to a different one is possible but not that easy

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My favorite LA fact is that it used to have an amazing tram network, but then the car companies bought it, dismantled it and sold the land in small chunks so it could never be reassembled, ensuring that cars would become the dominant mode of transport in the city.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 25/11/2024

I’d rather be where I’m allowed to link anything I like than where all the brands are

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 25/11/2024

Stats I found say it has >50k users and >10k active user

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 25/11/2024

Recently I listened to changelog.com/shipit/130 and it also covered the costs to run all the infra. According to the show notes: “One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo”

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Hosting Hachyderm with Preston Doster (Ship It! #130)

Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 25/11/2024

This is a really good analysis comparing the ActivityPub approach to decentralisation with Bluesky/atproto. I might quibble with some details, but overall it's fair and balanced. Thanks @dustyweb.bsky.social for taking the time to write it!

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 24/11/2024

It’s complicated. Anyone can access the underlying data, which is great, but running a distinct AppView is going to require a lot of resources. It’s great that’s an option but it’s definitely a huge undertaking

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André Staltz @staltz.com · 23/11/2024

More about Bluesky/atproto in contrast to SSB: with SSB we were uncompromising with our decentralization principles, but we also wanted to see how far our technology could go. There were very few radically p2p technologies like us and didn't know its full potential.

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 23/11/2024

One day they’ll meet the people who think your surname is Cide

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 23/11/2024

Earlier I’ve seen someone mentioning bsky.app/profile/xblo... It only labels screenshots without cross checking, maybe it’s a starting point if you want to play with the idea

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Mario Sangiorgio @mariosangiorgio.com · 23/11/2024

Local first is neat and I’m a huge fan of the approach. As anything else it’s not a silver bullet and it’s not a great fit for large scale social media

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