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Description: a short story of scams & a devops eng. worst nightmare ❕ Note: Bluesky has banned *.hf.space from their relays, seemingly just before the writing of this post. sigh, we've all seen them. the inauthentic fundraising spam&scam bots have taken over Bluesky. but today, I decided to do some research into a specific tactic these scammers were using. HuggingFace Spaces One of my posts…
Description: email is awesome love y'all! but no shade, most of y'all don't know me. thats not a slight to you, the reader, its just the truth. so: unsolicited direct messages from people that i don't know, i would much prefer to have those conversations over email! email gives me less of a headache and puts less pressure on me. i also don't have to deal with typing indicators, read receipts, or…
Description: a late response to the social graph talk from last week So last week Spark Social announced their Open Beta and with that their separated social graph. This choice ended up starting a bunch of discussion about how we should be using the social graph in the ATmosphere. More specifically I remember these posts from @dame.is and @iame.li. Between the two posts, I definitely lean towards…
Description: just a little explanation re: I'm shown as being Live on my Bluesky profile, but I'm not live on the linked stream at all. Matter of fact, I haven't streamed on Twitch in 4 months. Penny isn't Vinesauce, Vinesauce is not live on Twitch. I appreciate this feature, but when you're limiting the feature to just one streaming platform, I'd wish it was "smarter". Why am I setting exactly…
Description: what we're doing now, and where we are going from here On Friday, September 19th of 2025, I (@mmatt.net) sent out a Bluesky post asking for community feedback on how exactly the public listens to their music nowadays. I also sent a similar line of questioning to my friends at @gusic.opn.haus. These antics all have the goal of: let's get people tracking on Teal. Community member…
Description: Because I saw a Dame post. ⚠️ You probably shouldn't do this.So.. you're probably wondering how we got here.Bluesky post from @dame.is, "i wanna run a PDS on iCloud"In case you're unaware, a PDS is a "Personal Data Server" for ATProtocol. You can learn more about what a PDS is and how to host one on atproto.com. A PDS is practically just an Express webserver responsible for storing an…
Description: This is another Switch 2 Blog Post. A screenshot of the new Nintendo Switch 2's home menu. A blank gray background with rounded square tiles in the center to show games, one has Mario Kart World. The bottom menu buttons are rounded circles containing an icon pertaining to what the button does.This is what the Nintendo Switch 2's Home Menu UI looks like. It's lame as hell. Blank grey…
Description: ...at launch. ⚠️ This post was originally posted at 4/3/2025, 4:07:16 PM.⚠️ As of 4/4/2025, Nintendo has delayed US preorders due to Trump-Tariffs. At this time, it is unclear if the Switch 2's console price has changed from $450. I will keep this section of the post up to date with the latest info on this.⚠️ As of 4/18/2025, Nintendo Switch 2 will remain $450, Mario Kart World will…
Description: An ongoing blog post correcting all the misinformation surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2. ⚠️ This is an ongoing blog post. The date listed above is the "last edit" date. This post started being written on April 3rd, 2025. 🚧Hello, this is going to act as my single link for when someone brings up something that isn't true about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. This post is going to sound…
Description: How and Why you should play the Biggest ITG Event of the year. ITL Online 2025 Pack ImageThe WhatITL Online 2025 is an online, asynchronous event hosted by the Internation Timing Collective! It is the biggest ITGmania event for all things tech and timing! Compiled of ~200 Community Made Charts from all sorts of packs curated by the talented ITL team, learn and perfect modern ITG Tech…
Description: A full guide on how to set up a USB profile for Public ITG machines. Before you head to the arcade:1. Grab yourself a USB driveAny size should work, just make sure its formatted as FAT32.SanDisk Cruzer 32GB on Amazon2. Download ITGmaniaMost ITG machines run on ITGMania (my arcade specifically runs ITGmania 0.9.0 and Simply Love 5.6.0), and having it on your own computer will be useful…
Description: A ramble about a truly user owned social media platform, why it confuses people, and Twitter's acquisition. Mastodon's Landing PageWith the recent news of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter (-$44 billion) many are thinking of moving away from said platform as Musk isn't someone without controversy. From emerald farms to just weird transphobia(?) and just straight up being a…
Description: The announcement of the "deprecation" to the existing AI TTS Donations program (the little Python program you know today) and of the future of AI TTS Donations. AI TTS Donations is changing...This announcement is containing 2 things:The announcement of the "deprecation" to the existing AI TTS Donations program (the little Python program you know today)The announcement of the future of…