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Bluesky lead dev is dismissive of security flaws (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at the time I was helping to produce a capability-safe object-oriented programming language

this sounds like absolutely my kind of shit

He did not grok the idea that users might dig below the chrome and directly access APIs.

One time, one of the project leaders came onto IRC, and I made the mistake of greeting them. As a result, I was immediately banned from their IRC channel.

god though, this dev and their projects all sound like a complete garbage fire

[–] kuna@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this sounds like absolutely my kind of shit

Do you know about Goblins by Spritely Institute? Their CTO is Christine Lemmer-Webber, who was the lead author of the ActivityPub spec.

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

this looks awesome! I follow Christine on Mastodon but I didn’t know about this