Drew Kirkman
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Drew Kirkman
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Professional nerd and unapologetic elder millennial. he/him.

📍Cincitucky

Personal blog: https://kirkmanskorner.com
Broadcasting nerdery over at @broadcastblueprint.com

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This dude must not remember Iceweasel. And that one was just over a branding dispute. He doesn’t want a deeper one because it will happen again.
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My Zune HD is literally the only reason I keep an old laptop running Windows 7 around 🤐

Someone at @microsoft.com really should push for unlocking the bootloader and/or allowing unsigned updates à la old Android ROMs
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Also my 4th gen battery swapped SSD upgraded iPod running Rockbox (which can play FLAC) and I welcome you to this club 🙃
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Qobuz has an impressive library rivaling iTunes for a digital download store and I highly recommend it for that reason and the following:

Everything is available in FLAC, sometimes even at 96kHz/24bit.
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This thread literally sold me an annual subscription.
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I swear by Syncthing these days! making good use of the 8TB RAID1 array in the server at home.
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In case you’re referring to me, I hope you understand my comment was commiserating, not explaining.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s literally the lower left quadrant of the Political Compass. Libertarian doesn’t automatically mean “on the right”. People like your uncle have a lot to learn
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
terminally online magae: “the left are a bunch of circus freaks”

terminally online leftists: “is this circus freak enough for you daddy”
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s more about your control over your own data - if you run the server, only you can take down your own account.

As for the setup, it’s literally just a Docker compose file that stands up the PDS itself and a Caddy reverse proxy for HTTPS termination.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good point! The self-contained and open nature of atproto is such a novel thing that the law hasn’t evolved to address. Third-party labelers are opt-in and the labels themselves are not applied to the original post’s repo (if I understand correctly), so the roles according to §230 are very muddled.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Interesting to think about... based on the replies to the QT, would it make more sense for atproto moderation labelers to be bundled/tied to the AppView for legal reasons? Given the AppView renders the content for the end user, would a labeler associated with that be considered first-party?
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At first I was thinking “I wouldn’t go and watch MTV to celebrate anything but you do you man” and then I got it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM