Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 4 days ago:
You just need somebody to put a coat on and say it’s OK
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 6 days ago:
Also, in many jurisdictions you can’t look up criminal history older than a certain number of years
- Comment on xkcd #3085: About 20 Pounds 1 week ago:
caltech.edu/…/dark-matter-flies-ahead-of-normal-m…
Here’s the best evidence of difficult to detect matter likely being real. You wouldn’t see such a shift in gravity if there aren’t matter unaffected by friction
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 1 week ago:
*you’re
- Comment on Literal interpretation 2 weeks ago:
Do they shit that loudly
- Comment on Literal interpretation 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get too pushy. You might get hemorrhoids
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 weeks ago:
Weirder in that it gets better at “photorealism” (textures, etc) but subjects might be nonsensical. Only teaching it how to avoid automated detection will not teach it to understand what scenes mean.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily, but errors would be less obvious or weirder since it would spend more time in training
- Comment on Choose one 2 weeks ago:
Phrasing
- Comment on Choose one 2 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude
- Comment on Choose one 2 weeks ago:
Better soft in the face though
- Comment on To whom it may concern 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t help when you use a return postage slip. They have unique codes. Being “just annoying” is probably the safest bet.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 weeks ago:
Recently mocked the tariffs
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t get served to all, but it has to be served to a relay which in turn is reachable by all.
While there is a firehose service which publishes all events as they happen, only services built in watching those needs to receive all (moderation services, etc). Everybody else gets a view already filtered and composed by services earlier in line.
A limited scope appview and relay is possible too, you can choose to only serve one community, and then fetch external content on-demand (but this will have the same impacts on latency as Mastodon and lemmy has when opening previously unseen threads)
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
In fact, it is worse than the storage requirements, because the message delivery requirements become quadratic at the scale of full decentralization: to send a message to one user is to send a message to all. Rather than writing one letter, a copy of that letter must be made and delivered to every person on earth
That’s written assuming the edge case of EVERYBODY running a full relay and appview, and that’s not per-node scaling cost but global scaling cost.
Because they don’t scale like that, it’s geometric instead (for every full relay and appview, there’s one full copy with linear scaling to network activity).
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
There’s literally no restrictions other than simple rate limiting, which you can ask for exceptions for.
I don’t know a Mastodon/lemmy server which wouldn’t rate limit new peers
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
Partially - something running independent infrastructure like Whitewind (blogging on atproto) will still work just like before (it’s easier for them to run it independently because you don’t need a full network view, just pull in the posts from the user’s PDS for standalone display)
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t scale “quadratically”. That’s what going viral on Mastodon does to a small instance, not on bluesky. Pretty much everything scales linearly. The difference is certain components handle a larger fraction of the work (appview and relay).
Both a bluesky appview and a Mastodon instance scales by the size of the userbase which it interacts with. Mastodon likes to imagine that the userbase will always be consistent, but it isn’t. Anything viewed by a large part of the whole Mastodon network forces the host to serve the entirety of the network and all its interactions. So does a bluesky appview, in just the same way, but they acknowledge this upfront.
Meanwhile, you CAN host a bluesky PDS account host and have your traffic scale only by the rate of your users’ activity + number of relays you push these updates to. Going viral doesn’t kill your bandwidth.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
No, PDS federation is fully open now.
They’re also actively supporting development of 3rd party appviews and relays.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you remember PDS federation not being open for a while, but it’s open now.
Running a public appview can be very expensive, but they’re working on making it cheaper to run one with a limited scope.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
They never said they’d do so natively with other protocols - but they support Bridgy, so you already can do that.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
Domains only help you verify organizations and individuals you recognize directly.
This verification system also allows 3rd parties (it’s NOT just bluesky themselves!) to issue attestations that s given account belongs to who they say they are, which would help people like independent journalists, etc.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 3 weeks ago:
I play Pokémon Unite a lot. Very wide variation in abilities and skillsets
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you know what content addressing is.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 3 weeks ago:
Go away.
Even I2P uses supernodes, that doesn’t make it centralized because you don’t depend on them.
You don’t need ultra purist single-type-node mesh like scuttlebutt to be decentralized.
Bluesky is federated, where the federation has multiple layers and EVERY layer can be run independently and interconnected to other nodes.
Beyond that, you still have not addressed that you said a blatantly self contradicting statement; that people self host relays, but also they don’t self host relays because that is costly and the self hosted relay code available to the public is experimental and mainly used for reasons tangential to the core function of a production ready relay.
Your inability to read remains YOUR problem, not mine.
My point is exactly this - it’s feasible to maintain your own private relay by mirroring the content you want, imitating both Mastodon and scuttlebutt.
You can choose to share a community relay - or not.
Running it for an audience of yourself is reasonably cheap. Running it for a worldwide audience is where bandwidth gets expensive. That’s why people run private ones.
Not capable of synchronizing with the original? Lmao. It’s literally content addressed, you can synchronize with every relay separately, swap arbitrarily between public appviews, regardless of who runs what and where it gets data from. It’s maximally capable of synchronization. It even beats nostr and scuttlebutt because you can VERIFY you have fresh and complete data (Merkle trees yay).
Pretty sure Whitewind pulls in data themselves directly when users use self hosted atproto accounts, maintaining its own relay index. Don’t think they make it publicly accessible though.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 3 weeks ago:
Sorry what, an example of a 3rd party service proving 3rd party mirrors exists proves it’s vulnerable to what? It’s content addressed and as open as it gets, it’s literally designed to survive if the company goes down
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 3 weeks ago:
Almost anything where memorization is the primary skill is going to be dominated by people with specific interest, rather than general high intelligence (certainly doesn’t exclude it, but it’s just statistics). Gotta look for something frequently requiring novel problem solving and adaption to filter for high probability of high general intelligence.
Then there’s also a lot of games requiring very narrow intellectual ability. Being able to parse a specific ruleset, or doing a specific kind of math fast, without needing to be able to handle anything novel. You’ll certainly find some “interesting individuals” around those kinds of games.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 3 weeks ago:
Generation why is the world like this
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Not knowing what a relay does and going on the attack over it makes you the fanatic.
It’s an archive node, which can (but doesn’t have to) forward ingested data
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Choosing to not understand the architecture is your failure, not mine