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bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zvinwh7vy4… with the exception of infrequent piracy feed updates, this account is discontinued

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/09/2026
does anyone still use the piracy feed there are still some users clearly but idk if it justifies the infra cost & the experience probably sucked cause ive been doing moderation like once every 2 weeks will gladly hand over the src and the db (posts + ban list) if anyone cares to take it from me
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 07/08/2026
TorrentLeech signups are open again www.torrentleech.org/user/account... Use code WHATIFTHATWORKED
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 09/02/2026
you should give money to juliet ko-fi.com/notjuliet
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/07/2025
why are people so obsessed with vpns as the single default censorship circumvention measure. this shit is bypassable with a ublock filter don't go paying some other random company just so they mitm your social media
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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · 11/07/2025
github.com/bluesky-social… added a new field to ipcc so you need another ublock filter `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="countryCode":").+?(?=")/US/` `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="isAgeRestrictedGeo":").+?(?=")/false/`
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025
yes, the censorship resistance relies on you making the bare minimum of effort to use the infra that does not censor
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025
you cannot derive conclusions on any piece of action by "Bluesky" before knowing where it is enforced it could be any combination of the bsky.app, api.bsky.app, the bsky.network relay, the bsky.network PDSes, or bluesky-social/pds and you especially should not *doom* before knowing which it is
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025
would anything even be lost if i deleted this account
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025
perhaps if you think "everyone else is just an extremist" or "politics just divides people" consider instead that it might be that your positions are so extreme and make you so unlikable that people want to keep you as divided as they can from them
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025
blockenheimer domain expires in a month i might just let it expire and finally kill it for real
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025
the fact one can run a ~full bluesky appview, becoming entirely independant from bluesky the company, for a fraction of what the big mastodon instances pay for hosting seems notable
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/06/2025
it's only a bluesky appview if it comes from the Bluesky PBC, otherwise it's just sparkling xrpc
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futur 🔹 @futur.blue · 23/06/2025
appviewappviewappview - after 6 months, I'm running what is, afaik, the first full-network bluesky appview - you can use it at zeppelin.social, query it at bsky.zeppelin.social, read about it at whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3..., & help me keep it up for more than a few weeks at github.com/sponsors/fut...
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in and out, quick appview adventure | futur
it's an appview, michael, how long could it take? tl;dr I'm running what is, to my knowledge, the first instance of the Bluesky AppView containing all\* data in the history of the network This took...
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/06/2025
Someone just told me that Widevine DRM acknowledges the existence of DeCENC in their API responses. Neat! Presumably some of their CDMs ship mitigations now. I haven't looked.
"decencMitigation":{
			"mitigationOption":"DECENC_MITIGATION_OPTION_NONE"
		}
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/06/2025
is there anyone as obsessed with searchability as hentai readers. is there a single website with namespaced tagging of content other than e-hentai
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/06/2025
it's still so weird to me that RED is in all other aspects the better music tracker yet OPS is the one of the two that sanely handles overloaded artist names like what is this joke
Artist page for "Justice" on RED, showing a big "WARNING: MULTIPLE ARTISTS" sign where the artist image usually goes, and showing albums from all of the artists of the name all in the same listing, no disambiguation.The "Arist Information" box at the bottom of the RED artist page for Justice. It reads:

Multiple artists co-exist on this page.

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Justice&type=artist

1) a Drum & Bass project

2) Justice (stylised as Jus†ice) is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Hidden text: Show

3) ...Artist page for "Justice (3)" on OPS, which has an actual artist image, the albums you'd expect for the Justice you actually want, etc.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 14/06/2025
consuming all the "here's how to tell writing is ai" slop and intentionally implementing all their solutions. that writing style was the result of rlhf, after all, it's optimized for clarity and agreeability!
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 09/06/2025
Uuuuh, using the news app as cover for an anonymous tip line makes so much sense!
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/06/2025
Haskell loves you too, little lesbian!
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/05/2025
if you pirate your media you're never gonna have to feel bad that you supported someone that turned out to be evil
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 23/05/2025
piracy feed changelog thread
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/05/2025
did:fast ≈ authorities A each keep  weights W: A↦0..1  state S: addr↦op  pending P: addr↦nil|op you can ask A  get(a) → S[a]  submit(a,op) { P[a] = op } → sign(A, op)   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ ¬P[a]  finalize(a,op,{cert}) { S,P [a] = op,nil }   if op.prev=H(S[a]) ∧ (2/3)>ΣW[cert.A] where cert: sig(op)
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/05/2025
let a hundred did implementations bloom
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/05/2025
there are too many things that make atproto interesting for any statement that atproto is an iteration on some single protocol to be truthful
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 13/05/2025
the more time goes on the more bored i get of discourse it's fun once in a while but i don't know how yall have the mental stamina to continue doing this shit all day all year
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/05/2025
also cursed and fucked is the flattening out of "material analysis" to the point where people exercise no agency in embracing fascism. more or less "they just happen to face that special blend of circumstances that makes u a fascist, they can't help it, it could have happened to anyone"
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 03/05/2025
uploading on trackers is only scary for like, your first 100 uploads
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 30/04/2025
oh fun. posts that quote accounts you've muted don't usually show up on your timeline... until the quote gets detached, at which point you get the worst possible combination: contextless discourse you dislike involving you dislike
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charlotte 🐇 @char.lt · 28/04/2025
the demotion of service proxying in favor of app-first optimistic writes to make writing an atproto app easier feels like ulysses going "dude cut just a couple of the coils of rope bro itll make it easier for me to hear the song if i can move a bit"
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🌱📈 @cwonus.org · 28/04/2025
the "beware the pipeline" meme but with plc's various names
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/04/2025
"forces me to go through the browser before going to the app for the link I clicked" is the highest level of evil a mobile app can be
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/04/2025
deer on android when
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/04/2025
I'd really appreciate an "unbreak the app" setting (disable go.bsky.app which breaks deeplinks on mobile) it would be pretty cool of PBC to consider user needs above the analytics of corporations and just not do this shit in the first place but like, at least let me restore correct behavior?
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 28/04/2023
yes, i ended up taking over devops for… a private cryptocurrency network. how i kept the important stuff on me while nomading: made USB earrings. one booted into Tails, the other was encrypted and held the master signing key.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/04/2025
monero power usage is approximately equivalent to a few minutes of playing a video game per transaction (and using monero more makes that number go down, not up) i think trans people losing access to healthcare would be much more destructive than this higher-than-optimal energy cost
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/04/2025
crypto enthusiasts' criticisms of bitcoin are consistently more incisive than the criticism from so-called crypto critics
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 13/04/2025
apparently not everyone knows you can just google this shit so might as well just. here you go here's where you start diyhrt.market hrtcafe.net
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 12/04/2025
piracy feed is finally fixed
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/04/2025
moderation lists as implemented on bluesky currently have some real bad incentives i gotta say
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/04/2025
it blows my mind that the mistake of using string templating for structured data is literally such a big one it's mutliple of the most common classes of vulnerabilities (sql injection, xss) and yet now the big industry trend is doing string templating TO DEFINE YOUR WHOLE INFRASTRUCTURE
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 09/04/2025
society moves forwards one software patent expiration at a time
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
firmly believe that "no technical solutions to social problems" has had a social cost higher than leaded petrol
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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · 18/03/2025
thanks quad9 there's a reason why i don't use you as dns
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/03/2025
unexpected side effect of the new update: com.atproto.moderation.createReport requests are now sent without `.report` at all instead of an empty string, which broke my feed server since it was written in python and i just did req["reason"] to get it
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 05/03/2025
the crypto hate in transdiy spaces is honestly baffling. you want to buy drugs from illegal sellers, is it really the time to go "no i will not use 'fake' money for criminals"
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Cool new statistical attack on Monero, with a fix. duke.hush.is/memos/6/
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Duke Memos - OSPEAD And The MAP Decoder Attack on Monero
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 01/03/2025
"remember to always support indie artists by buying your music. but if your financial situation is bad then piracy is okay" stop regurgitating the justification capitalists give for exploiting you. i make money and i pirate the music of my irl friends and that's fine and good
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/02/2025
please cloudflare it's all i want
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 15/02/2025
im not a chaser actually i may be cis but im an egg so that makes it t4t
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/02/2025
well, on one hand, we can massively reduce the amount of people we traumatize, but on the other hand, those people would have to get a different job that doesn't traumatize them. so who can tell whether it's a good thing
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