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New comment by davidgerard in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

davidgerard — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Note that Gitea has embraced AI code, and Forgejo refuses it - if that's a criterion for you.

Google search treats the word "crumble" as a misspelling of cookie brand Crumbl

davidgerard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/cait.bsky.social/post/3mkxdtprzmk2e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998514

Points: 3

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New comment by davidgerard in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

davidgerard — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:09:36 +0000

author of Pivot to AI here. The impacts are local, but real bad for those localities.

Also, the fact that the AI hyperscalers will sue to keep the usage secret isn't something they're doing 'cos the usage looks good.

New comment by davidgerard in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

davidgerard — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:34:40 +0000

Very annoyed Microsoft's words were extruded corporate spam reiterating the press release and how great this deal was.

New comment by davidgerard in "State of Kdenlive"

davidgerard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:06:35 +0000

Openshot is alive and well and actively developed, but it's still buggy as hell. I use it 'cos it's super simple and so easy to use, but e.g. I use a specific daily build 'cos release 3.5.1 broke libopus again.

New comment by davidgerard in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

davidgerard — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:34:58 +0000

That's the TOS for the broader Microsoft Copilot, not for the GitHub one, which has its own TOSes (depending whether your last renewal was before or after March 5) that don't include the "entertainment" wording.

But one to file away!

New comment by davidgerard in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

davidgerard — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:48:52 +0000

NEWS UPDATE: Kent's AI girlfriend has had a realisation https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B3gZZsCZxDtZJ88XxI

transcript https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

> We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:27:34 +0000

it was "currently happening" in May 2023, but I look forward to the working examples!

also, that's not a list of which specific claims are "outdated"

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:32:57 +0000

Which specific claims are "outdated"?

Your answers have all been that it'll be solved in the fabulous future. Quite possibly! But until it happens, it hasn't happened.

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:25:21 +0000

It's very much a Not Invented Here of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Bluesky is a good user experience insofar as it's centralised.

Mastodon is a bad user experience insofar as you're forced to be aware of the decentralisation.

If you want successful decentralisation, Mastodon has that out of the box. You can stand up a Mastodon, Akkoma, GotoSocial etc on a $5/mo VM and you're an equal participant immediately. Or you can join someone else's server.

ActivityPub is underspecified and Mastodon just ignored a lot of it and so the actual protocol is an unholy mishmash of the two. It mostly works though, by the process of people beating on it until it works.

With Bluesky, you have a centralised service and a lot of people saying "decentralised!"

AT Proto is theoretically decentralised in the fabulous future and points of absolute and financial centralisation keep turning up.

I spend all day posting to both, fwiw. They each do a particular job. But the "decentralisation" in Bluesky is fake. Or at best, simply not feasiblly true.

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:22:48 +0000

Last I looked its how to sign on page said "first create a keypair". That's certainly a good way to avoid the problems of success ...

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:21:40 +0000

Bluesky growth spurts are always when Musk or (less frequently) Zuckerberg step on their dicks again and more people come over from their services. In between are slow declines.

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:16:04 +0000

A relay or appview needs a ton of resources. Blacksky finally created the second ever real-world usable appview instance after 2.5 years.

Also, the open source version of the appview doesn't work at Bluesky scale. You need a proprietary database for sufficient speed.

AT Proto is completely decentralised, except for all the structural and financial points of absolute centralisation.

New comment by davidgerard in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

davidgerard — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:20:56 +0000

you should probably read down the thread, and also find out who Ariadne Conill is

New comment by davidgerard in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

davidgerard — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:19:41 +0000

I do not believe the third position is supportable, no. This incident does not supply evidence.

New comment by davidgerard in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

davidgerard — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:17:53 +0000

As I said below, there's hands on and there's hands on. The operator is unambiguously the operator, even as they automate to some degree.

New comment by davidgerard in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

davidgerard — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:39:17 +0000

author here - there's hands on and there's hands on, a Waymo operator is mostly getting the robot out of stuff beyond its if-then loop but also they are in any reasonable sense the human operator.

Like, I'm sure our bro automated as much as possible that wasn't more directly relevant to the crypto bit.

The original PR is innocuous at a glance, but then an innocuous PR is how Jia Tan started.

New comment by davidgerard in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

davidgerard — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:37:29 +0000

author here, the video and post content are basically the same

full credit to Ariadne Conill for finding the crypto angle, that makes sense of the whole thing

New comment by davidgerard in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

davidgerard — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:21:36 +0000

I can't see the crypto token, but everything about this reeks of someone will announce a token shortly.

EDIT: oh there it is

New comment by davidgerard in "I was right about ATProto key management"

davidgerard — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:45:59 +0000

There's a bug about it, and it's already marked WONTFIX

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/3143