My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

Bluesky Social

stechlab-labels.bsky.social

A research project from Cornell Tech, investigating using automated signals to help users have more context about the accounts they are interacting...

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday." It recasts a post like the one pictured. It reminds me to look at their profile and figure out if they are a real person, and are they terminally online, or engagement farming, or what. Then I might block/mute because I don't need people like that in my lifeworld.

> delphitools is a collection of small, focused utilities that respect your privacy and work entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine, no accounts required, no tracking. Just tools that do what they say.

delphitools

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection.

Seeking advice. I have many services that require cert renewal for HTTPS. My usual workflow for nginx is: 1) set up a cron job to call certbot monthly (strictly more often than needed for a 90 day cert but I'm lazy) 2) 91 days later, re-cert fails, realize that there was a bug in my script, fix it 3) 91 days later, re-cert fails, realize there was a bug in my script, fix it 4) at this point it probably now works forever Is there a good way to test things properly so I skip steps 2 and 3??

You discover a file on your hard drive called "eggn.ogg". You play it. What does it sound like?

I think I'm addicted to assembling uniforms for nuns... it's habit forming

I peek at Meta's Threads every now and then. Just saw an ad for an app that lets me bet on things like "what will Mr. Beast say in his next video?" though completely unclear what yes/no means in this context. I looked it up and this is being considered A Very Serious Company by other very serious companies. It's just lightly regulated betting, but they call it "direct investment hedging against unpredictable macroeconomic events". I hate our reality

Business Insider

Prediction giant Kalshi strikes a new media partnership with CNBC, days after its CNN deal

Prediction site Kalshi is partnering with CNBC, days after striking a deal with CNN. Prediction sites are popular but getting regulatory pushback.

Websites that let me log in ONLY via email recovery feel like they are personally punishing me as a password manager user... like, come on, I have an awesome, one click, client side way to recall a long unique password for your website but sure, allow me to personally increase your email service bills I guess In return I get One More Email To Deal With. Thanks pal

Here I am talking a bit about the ActivityPub Fuzzer and how it's intended to help improve interoperability on the Fediverse.