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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

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reverse engineering, cryptography, exploits, hardware, file formats, and generally giving computers a hard time Fedi: @[email protected] Macroblog: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · Sep 11

what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 3h

there's a creatine/creat(2) joke out there somewhere but I haven't figured out the details yet

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 3h

well they don't call it CAP fact

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4h

Yeah I do this too...

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4h

see also prolly trees

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4h

I got you github.com/DavidBuchana...

GitHub - DavidBuchanan314/dag-sqlite: DAG-SQLite is an SQLite-based represention of the IPLD Data Model

DAG-SQLite is an SQLite-based represention of the IPLD Data Model - DavidBuchanan314/dag-sqlite

github.com

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4h

I use it for all hashrate-related benchmarks lol

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

ok it's gonna take a little bit because my copy is a few months old so I need to re-sync, and apparently the handle is relatively recent?

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

I'm actually pretty optimistic about it, and I'm excited about the potential of async io. Just waiting for it to mature.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

well you can ask someone who already has a copy exported heh (I do!)

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

tbf you can sorta kinda trust plc directory for this, if you're not expecting someone to be adversarially creating fake entries

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

horizontally scaled sqlite

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

my databases are crying now

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

they're extending my context window tomorrow

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

(you can't trust the data in plc directory for this)

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

archive.org tbh

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

I think @chadtmiller.com has something along these lines for vscode, can't find it rn though

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

yes

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

but from a user expectations perspective, if I turn off replies, usually it's because things are starting to go downhill (or I just got tired of it) - the existing replies were fine.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

if a new appview comes online today, how does it know for certain which existing replies were made before or after the cutoff?

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

it's more consistent in a decentralized setting

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

(or is using did:web)

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

detect if user has non-bluesky-pbc rotation key enrolled (either directly or due to migration)

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5h

yes, and it's not getting any easier

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 7h

David Buchanan @retr0.id · Aug 10

trying out a new kind of vibecoding where I press the buttons on my keyboard and code appears on the screen. the code doesn't work most of the time but after a few iterations it usually gets there