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Hi, I'm owls of the godless internets. I make software for a major university in the US midwest. In my free time, I run an expansive criminal syndicate that fronts as a heavy industrial conglomerate.

I like some games (GW2, DF, PoE, TTRPGs), PHP & Laravel, and fine dining.

You can find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.yshi.org/@owls, which is probably a better way to get in touch with me. So if you need some time-sensitive mod/admin stuff, @ me there!

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not the OP, but

i was going to point to the did:plc thing they made up and went with. but since the last time i looked, it looks like they support (and prefer) did:web, so that's sorted out.

the "wtf" i have is more to do with actually running a community with atproto. you need a central crawler service that knows about all the PDSes you want to be friends with (this is presumably why you need to sign up in their discord right now, they gotta tell their crawler to look at your PDS)

but i think the crawler has to grab the entire PDS for everyone it knows about? if you want a large community, it seems pretty resource-intensive since the ceiling is "infinity posts". bsky's open source code suggests they have chosen not to deal with this problem.

with most AP services (e.g. mastodon), you can prune the data and the only consequence is "you don't get full text search for super old posts received from other services that we pruned", so there are ways to limit the cost other than "limit the number of users in our community".

but this may just be an implementation detail and not an issue with atproto, e.g. git shallow clones are a thing, and the PDS is also storing a big merkel tree. i am not sure if the indexer relies on having the complete history or not (since you do need it for certain operations). bsky's own code just shrugging suggests maybe limiting it is challenging, i dunno.

Square Enix's producers are an asset, not a problem, former senior exec says (www.axios.com)

Final Fantasy maker Square Enix is right to bring more of its games to Microsoft's Xbox and keep taking risks on new games, a former senior executive at the company tells Axios. However, he said it should not heed critics who say the company is too dependent on star game producers.

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the shitcoin-obsessed CEO is the problem

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...

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If I'm running a tiny little single-user instance on a potato and my post goes to the mastodon.social federated feed, it would be impolite for them to direct 20,000 requests at my potato all at once. Instead, their servers grabs one copy and serves it to their users. If they're set up for 20k eyeballs online at once, they've got capacity to serve them all the photo.

Mastodon has a configurable clean-up period for cached media so you don't use infinite disk. That gives a bad actor an easy way to robustly host images for a couple days: post it, let it federate out, and then take your server down. Everyone else is now doing crimes for you, and cleaning it up is a reactive process by dozens of server admins.

owls ,
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it was never owned by the church.

the guy who bought it off the original founders was a scientologist and typical C-suite scumbag.

the only cult influencing neopets was capitalism. who doesn’t love shoving two ads in every hole.

Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games (www.theverge.com)

Neopets, the virtual pet website launched in 1999, is promising a “new era” with an improved website and fixed Flash games. They will launch a new unified website on July 20th to fix issues and bring back over 50 Flash games using the Ruffle emulator starting July 25th. A new Neopets mobile game called World of Neopets is...

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The guy that bought it is the one who ran the neopets metaverse thing. So it sounds a little dubious.

owls ,
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I've been spectating games all day. 8v8 has so much going on and is a ton of fun to watch.

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