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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • “So they write about it” with AI assistance. It can easily be argued that modern word processor software has some level of AI in it.

    She: What kind of woman do you think I am?

    He: We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.

    Same story, it’s just a question to what extent the software moves from being an unacceptable amount of assistance as a tool. Sports equipment follows the same story, at some point it’s regarded as cheating, we just haven’t established what that line is. Clearly there are people who don’t care what that line is and so long as it represents a competitive advantage to ignore that line then people will freely cross it.






  • There exists ActivityPub library implementations in golang, just sayin’. It’s a big lift to start anew but at least the low end protocol is there and golang is a good mature language for productivity and security.

    DB is going to be to bottleneck and I’d build on ScyllaDB (or Cassandra) in a heartbeat. ScyllaDB on a single node is quite well behaved and auto-tuning, but from there these two can scale globally with scaled writes everywhere. I always architect with active/active in mind because at some point for some reason you need multiple sites even for just disaster recovery.