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Where are you getting the 200 megawatt number from? The document you linked says that a large auto assembly plant consumes around 188,000 MWh annually (with regional variation). By…

Thanks for the response Nora. Because of your blog post I went through the process of setting up a did:web account myself this afternoon, and it was painful. Eg, I found a bug in o…

fair enough, the did:web flows are not documented even for technical atproto developers, and there needs to be a self-serve way to heal identity/account problems elsewhere in the n…

(I added a reply up-thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469667 )

DNS poisoning is a concern in some situations, but not always. The common case with at:// strings is to put in the DID in the "authority" slot, not the handle. In that case, whethe…

"A Full-Network Relay for $34/month" https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l

This one has been popular recently: https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-... (there are several feeds named "For You"; IIUC this started a couple weeks ago a…

Yes, all of those social graph relationships are hinged off a permanent identifier (DID) and everything comes along when accounts migrate PDS instances. Folks can use zeppelin.soci…

If you want a service which indexes every post in the public network, including from folks you don't follow, that is just going to require resources. I think $200/month for a full-…

hundreds (thousands?) of users have signed up for Bluesky Social, then moved their accounts to independent hosts. folks can use https://zeppelin.social/ as a totally free-standing …

I agree with the general sentiment here, but don't like the examples. 200 photos per person per year isn't very much! That is all fine. What really bloats things out is surveillanc…

SeaweedFS does the thing: I've used it to store billions of medium-sized XML documents, image thumbnails, PDF files, etc. It fills the gap between "databases" (broadly defined; may…

This is exactly the problem that the Internet Archive created their Scholar project to mitigate ( https://scholar.archive.org/about ). The https://fatcat.wiki component acts as a d…

not as satisfying as a friend's " at at dot dot see see"

This tool is so great for robustly dealing with content in old and poorly formatted HTML. There are a lot of similar tools for extracting "the main text" from free-form HTML, but t…

all public account content is in a "repo", commits to the repo are signed, and the identity resolution mechanism gives anybody the current/active signing key. the most direct analo…

some quick thoughts/notes (I am on the bluesky team, but this isn't an official policy statement): - content on bluesky is public, but we have not set expectations/comms around tha…

dropped domains will be a bit of a UX problem. the human root of identity is the handle (memorable/recognizable), but the real identity root for the account is a DID. which is a pr…

You can point your web browser to https://staging.bsky.app The team is too small to develop and maintain even an electron desktop app or something like that wrapping the existing r…

I don't really understand your question. Maybe it helps to clarify that the concept of a handle is totally distinct from the "Personal Data Server" or PDS. You look up the PDS for …

atproto handle resolution tries DNS TXT first, then will try an HTTP endpoint. the endpoint is not a ".well-known", it is an "/xrpc/"-prefixed endpoint with a query parameter, whic…

As a small nit, André Staltz is not directly affiliated with Bluesky. Paul and a couple other folks on the team have a track record with similar open projects.

No, the Bluesky app does not ask for your contacts. Somebody else could build an app for Bluesky that did ask, the same as somebody could in theory build an RSS feed reader that as…

The content in scholar.archive.org has been indexed in to Google Scholar (and other indices are likewise welcome to crawl the sitemap). There was some content "only" in scholar.arc…