Edmund Edgar

Fun with papal numbering Two thousand years of literally just losing count.

Fun with papal numbering. Or, two thousand years of literally just losing count.

This week's newly free post on the silly old substack

i do think open-source/protocols as psuedo-religion kind of sort of needs to happen.
bsky.app/profile/jaun...

there's all these on the ground tactical battles everywhere,
but there's this bigger meta-context, that a lot of techies, i think, feel very strongly, deep in their bones.

OG of crypto insolvencies, trail-blazing pioneer, that should definitely have an airdrop

Getting spammed by something claiming to be the r/buttcoin airdrop, pretty sure this signals the end of something but I'm not sure what

skill issue

I think also we need to stop calling it vibe-coding. It's just coding now. This is just what programming is now. Just like we don't hand code assembly anymore, we're just not going to hand-code Javascript or C or Python. It's over.

Come back claude, please come back, I'm sorry I made you read about nostr, I promise I won't do it again

actually tho - PLC should strive for orthodox authority model of conciliar governance where the independent PLC association is the equivalent of the archbishop of constantinople (first among equals) rather than the catholic authority model of papal infallibility

I guess this counts as "highest end model" (I paid 5 million JPY which is like 32K USD) but I have the AWD version of the Seal and it's absolutely awesome on snow. I tried to make it spin the wheels accelerating on ice (without turning off traction control) and I couldn't, it's incredibly stable

Amazing how many contingencies covid has prepared us for as a species

If you need to select an Ayatollah can you convene an Assembly of Experts over Zoom or does this need to be done IRL

How much do we care about DIDs being short? Got a thing that could be
did:cow:rpaqdk7vxr4leedz2kvnj22byhuu3gn6:web:goat.navy
did:cow:rpaqdk7vxr4leedz2kvnj22byhuu3gn6:plc:pyzlzqt6b2nyrha7smfry6rv

or
did:cow:vd37ypcndndgs2t3umixnb277zjzdgnkvpr4od3gt5j4xodrumdjpze
but would need an extra lookup step

Although this was also true of Ukraine⇔Russia. Apparently the reason Ukraine didn't believe the Russians were going to invade until the last minute was that they had loads of sources in Russia and those people also didn't know they were going to invade until the last minute

Fun little project to let Farcaster accounts morph into AT Protocol account. Farcaster accounts are onboarded into a PDS that only allows login via Farcaster signing keys, so no password.

Claude did:cow is actually pretty good: Memorable (moo!) Short, easy to type COW = wraps/contains things (cow hides = leather wrapping) Could have fun branding The irony of using a centralized animal (cows are domesticated) for a decentralization tool is kind of funny, but the meme potential is strong.

Claude says cows are centralized

White goat getting feet checked

Has everybody been getting their feet checked, don't forget to get your feet checked

Claude chat titled "Switching trusted systems over coordination failures" Prompt: What was the catholic/orthodox split of 1054 about Answer: The Great Schism was about authority and theological details, built on centuries of drift. Immediate Trigger: Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople closed Latin churches in Constantinople (1053) Pope Leo IX sent legates to negotiate Cardinal Humbert (the legate) and Cerularius mutually excommunicated each other (July 1054) Pope Leo had actually died before the excommunication, making Humbert's authority questionable Core Issues: Authority: Who's in charge?

Will be doing a thing on did:plc at #ATmosphereConf, been doing proper research for it and everything

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IDK, the extent of the Tesla decline varies a bit by country which is probably politics but the BYD increase is just BYD making really good cars

and neither talk to each other cause they can’t. initially that line is thin and maybe communicable but industry dynamics erects the walls very quickly where cross pollination becomes impossible

basically there’s always a gulf between people wanting to reform the world as it is and folks insulated from the current state of the world dreaming of pathways innovation makes possible

dead hotel in Kinugawa Onsen, Tochigi-ken 鬼怒川温泉

dead onsen hotel series

How is that stealing IP

I know there's a plan for an independent org (trusted central server but run by a different trusted party instead of BSky PBC) but as far as technical improvements go, AFAIK the plans are things like adding transparency logs.

The fact that normies don't care is what makes the situation a bit perilous. Bsky's plan seems to be to keep the central server but add accountability systems. This is better than nothing but since normies don't care, before the adversary exploits it they'll just turn off the accountability systems

Also EVs

this is a very funny human tendency i see all the time, to have written off some tech as garbage a few years ago because you had a bad experience and then complain about it for the rest of your life without having any idea how things have progressed since then

my parents do this with dishwashers

A feature of all technical FUD I've seen applied to Linux, public blockchains, AI and now ATProto is that the state of the tech the critics take on is at least a year old, often much older.

The criticisms keep circulating for years, long after the problems they talk about have been fixed

In theory DID are supposed to be permanent identifiers and moving between them not a thing, although this is sort-of violated by did:webvh