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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 15h

Surprise! We are actually getting the Maelstrom instead, and not one but multiple Desjardins! And they are all sanctioned government contractors! Also absurdly rich!

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 16h

Oh so that’s where Deciduous ended up going!

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 17h

Is it available anywhere else?

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 19h

"If an attacker has physical access to your device, it's no longer your device" includes manufacturers.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, I enjoy a good trigger/reminder as much as the next coffee-addicted character, but I don't follow you *exclusively* for them. 😆

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 20h

The question would be who is redirecting you there... different apps have different expiration behaviors. Something I've noticed with PWAs is that, since they're effectively using browser storage, an app's auth token can get evicted. We do a clear set of best practices, though.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 20h

Is there some hypothetical follower who's here exclusively for black cats, coffee cup photos, and The Transition reposts? Whole self all the way — and I say this as someone who very explicitly has a special-interest alt account. I don't see how you take the tech commentary out of the Monkchips.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 22h

I haven't observed that. I have seen Opus and Fable become more agent-happy — did you notice if your session spawned a few parallel background agents? Alternatively, codeburn might be helpful on giving you an idea where that went.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’ve been telling @platypussdivva.bsky.social that everything I’ve seen about this documentary reads horror-coded, and this poster is doing nothing to change my mind.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Arguably, they expect you to willingly invite their device into your home, whereas this case was an invasion.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

(To be fair, a friend told me there is now finally a way for startups to do actual options, which you only pay taxes if they ever convert to something tangible, but the "phantom shares" hack they used for years left very dev I spoke to thinking potential upside was bull and ownership was worthless).

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Easy! Just do it the German way, which values and taxes share assignments at whatever the last investment valuation was. Oh, you were at a startup that tanked? Sucks you had to pay for those grants back then! Now I’m off to start a commission to research our baffling lack of entrepreneurial drive…

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In engagement, followers, exchanges…?

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I should get back to my Yahoo Pipes for ATproto project…

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This lines up quite well with my current view that, across the board, the impact of adding agentic development to organizations will end up being Conway's Law: With A Vengeance.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On that note… Make a war film rubbish. The runs in Navarrone.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I figured that previously it could be before you have an operator controlling a swarm, but I’d expect that to be even further automated nowadays.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's hard discussing @wsocial.eu with people because it takes a lot of effort to describe their unbreakable fuck-up combo in a way that doesn't sound like mean-spirited dunking.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would at the very least look for the average rating...

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today I learned that Cloudflare has a bot traffic chart, and that Russian bots seem to keep office hours.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

[taking in the klan rally as a white man] you know, these people seem perfectly friendly

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

news.berkeley.edu

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This thread falls under engineering horror. Paraphrasing a Monkigras speaker from earlier this year: there are two types of electrical mistake — “ouchie” and “fucking dead”.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I got added to a moderation list for making fun of W. Tribes gonna tribe.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

OK, I'm in as long as we can get t-shirts. Otherwise how do I know who to relate to?

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What is this chemistry you speak of?!

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Clears throat. bsky.app/profile/lizt...

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 09/10/2026

good lord, we tried to warn you Harris was running a scam

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ATPProto: "repository data is public and anyone can read it" @wsocial.eu: "Hold my outrageously EC-overfunded beer"

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The W Privacy Slow-Mo Highway Pileup continues to accrete vehicles.

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 09/10/2026

Holy yikes, nationality? Cool so now AfD and all the remigration freaks know who to target.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'd seen some comments on the periphery of this without know the root. What in fuck's name is going on over there?!

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd say they care about the *personal fallout* from the lack of privacy, after the fact, and they will lash out and throw a hissy fit... but don't care enough to do anything that will inconvenience them. If they did, Meta properties would be a wasteland by now. Network effects are a bitch.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suspect you would be surprised by how many non-tech people think their Facebook messages are private just because it says "private message" on the label.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That doesn’t help… but I don’t expect the civilian masses who believe Facebook is private to even attempt to understand the ATproto tradeoffs or their implications. If civilians have to understand something, you have already lost.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fair warning: someone’s feeding you like that, they probably have designs for your liver.

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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 07/10/2026

whether or not ai is (in)directly to blame for this blunder, i'm becoming increasingly bullish on the idea that simply putting some care and consideration into the things you share is going to be such a differentiator as everyone lowers their standards in order to do more

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kinda depends on if the poo is just produced and accumulating or actively being flung around.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t think I have anything nearly as loud as that suit. 🤣

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You should have come on stage like a wrestler, with "Smell Like Teen Spirit" playing in the background — but Richard Cheese's cover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr14...

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Richard Cheese "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (from 2009 "Viva La Vodka" album)

YouTube video by Richard Cheese

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Enjoy it while it lasts, folks — in a few weeks this sort of replacement is likely to be a supermassive vector for undercover malware that's going to dwarf all the Kazaa-hosted cracked Windows apps put together.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They don't even need to come up with new copy — just mirror! I'd suggest you point out that the alternative is a proliferation of unofficial accounts, which may be mislabeled as untrustworthy and reflect badly on the company... but this being Google, I'd suspect they'd just kick it off to legal.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe running an official one would be a good idea then. 🙂

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Opus 5.5 is much snappier now. I've yet to throw a major task at it, so I can't say about output quality, but at least the performance seems back to normal.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gotcha, thanks. Also, fwiw, @googlegemma.xmirror.bot is being labeled as "Suspected Inauthentic Behavior" by @skywatch.blue — you may want to look into what's triggering that.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coked-up praying mantis wants to fight you.

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

User expectations MAY BE that admins do not get access to spaces, either because the feature was poorly communicated, they didn’t check, or simply uninformed assumptions. But that’s for VeryPrivateService to manage, not you (or anyone else on the network stack).

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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seems you are munging two things here: user privacy expectations and admin needs. There is nothing skeevy about adding a tool admins could not only build themselves, but have a reasonable expectation for. It would only be sketchy if you were circumventing some basic spaces privacy capability

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