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Romio

@romiojoseph.github.io

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Designer. Hoping for decentralized platforms. Prefer open source whenever possible. Loves the beach, sky, space, movies, philosophies, plants, and cats. Blog; https://romio.substack.com Projects: https://romiojoseph.github.io/bluesky

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Feb 18

Charlie Chaplin's Final Speech from The Great Dictator + Coldplay A head full of dreams.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 3d

It's me, I'm no one

"I'm on Bluesky because I find the AT Protocol fascinating" - literally no one

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dan @danabra.mov · 4d

imagine how much more appealing Bluesky could be to people all over the world if it could fix this single problem

Inspired by another recent post on ATProto I signed up for bsky, but all I see is endless American politics. I relentlessly click "less like this" but it doesn't seem to budge. Is this just what the platform is like? Being constantly barraged by the same predictable takes on today's bizarre overseas controversy is not very conducive to mental peace...

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · 5d

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

Why does Bluesky exist?

So that "you can just do things"

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we can just do things - underreacted

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dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 19d

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · 25d

#Mars

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Signs of Ancient Life on Mars? Here’s What We See in This Intriguing Rock #Shorts

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · Sep 5

Possibly controversial take (I'm on a roll today), but… I don't want Bluesky to have support for 500-character posts. Mastodon threads have 500-char posts, and it is a noticeable difference and not necessarily in a good way. Just a bit too much to read in one comment…

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Sep 2

This is totally the selling point. It's actually one of two: the other selling point is helping to solve the cold start problem. They're not Bluesky's users, they're members of the atmosphere.

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · Sep 2

Going to go out on a limb with this one. ATProto's biggest selling point to me as a developer was the ease of being able to build an application with a store for user data and authentication already baked in. No need for a backend.

I still think that's a big draw for me and one of its biggest pros

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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · Aug 14

i love adding ui animation but i also love when my ui doesn't have animation

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Aug 10

When people call for “censorship resistance” in social networks, I’m not sure they realise how unpleasant a social network without filtering and takedowns would be

hailey @hailey.at · Aug 10

most people don’t realize how much we clean up compared to how much slips through. watching logs of stuff getting actioned is kind of insane.

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Aug 10

I tried downloading a folder from Google Drive that contained multiple subfolders with lots of Excel files. Google Drive zipped it (around 2 GB), and I downloaded it. But after extracting, I noticed that some subfolders were missing many files. #TrustButVerify

Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Aug 8

Exploring dbeaver. It is nice.

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Proton @proton.me · Jul 23

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✅ Zero-access encryption
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"Lumo by Proton, AI that respects your privacy", Lumo the cat is shooting fire out of its collar, erasing messages

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jul 16

Tried with Gemini Gem?

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thin clouds spotted outside Jezero Crater, Mars, on Sol 1564 (yestersol). Taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover.

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A barren landscape and butterscotch sky. Thin clouds are faintly visible.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jul 15

Open source related?

Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jul 15

Another IDE. Kiro is built and operated by a small, opinionated team within AWS.

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About Kiro

Learn more about Kiro, the AI IDE for prototype to production

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · Jul 10

That's right, Windows search bar, I wanted you to open up a Microsoft Edge window and search Bing for "illustrator." Well done.

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jul 4

Comet 3I/ATLAS

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NASA: What We Know About Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · Jun 30

And there are some really smart people on this team, and if they can't fix it easily then a good assumption would be that this is indeed a hard problem

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jun 29

Normal browser. I used to prefer GPT for web search and further exploration. Gemini never felt right. But this new mode feels different.

Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jun 29

The first impression of Google's AI Mode is good. Better experience.

Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jun 26

** 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 model requests per day at no charge.

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Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent

Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

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Romio @romiojoseph.github.io · Jun 23

One of the best www.jan.ai

Jan: Open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline - Jan

Chat with AI without privacy concerns. Jan is an open-source ChatGPT-alternative, running AI models locally on your device.