jmoiron plays the blues
@jmoiron.bsky.social I know running a submersible company with a move fast shoestring DIY attitude pioneered at low stakes tech cos doing shit like online dogfood retail is incredibly stupid to the point of being funny, but I can't get over the basic horror of a hull breach at depth.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Popular decen/federated platforms tend towards concentration (email, bitcoin, bittorrent trackers, etc), so the claim that decen solves bad operators is over sold. On the other hand, the drawbacks d/f have directly impact UX in very visible ways that are seldom acknowledged by p...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The "AI Model Collapse" reminds me a lot of low-background steel. We were careless with nuclear testing, so steel created after the 50s is contaminated with nuclear fallout and not usable for sensitive instruments like particle detectors and geiger counters.