I even forget which word means what, "open", "close"

What if it was proxied through mobile network on an unsuspecting user's phone? You risk of blocking a whole city or region.

I admit, my approach was rather nuclear but it worked at the time.

I think an evolution would be to use some sort of exponential backoff, e.g. first time offenders get banned for an hour, second time is 4 hours, third time and you're sent into the abyss!

Still crude but fun to play about with.

When I hear Replit, I remember how the CEO tried to kill an intern's pet project.

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

To play devil’s advocate - where do you draw the line? They say they’re not going to push further into competing, but what if they did? I don’t know enough about either platform to really comment on how much of a big it is / how much they crossover. I do feel that it shows somewhat bad judgement on behalf of the intern to build something in exactly the same space as a former employer. One of the great things about software is that you can always move into another domain with your skills.

Obviously, I love the likes of Tailscale for embracing and supporting this behaviour - but that’s super exceptional (because they’re a strong team).

Well the line is law: infringing copyrights and patents. And the US law is very specific about ideas not being copyrightable, so clones are usually safe.

Yeah that’s fair - and to be clear, I’m not really defending the CEO in this case. As a founder, I was just imagining a scenario where one of our team did something similar and how I might react to it. My thoughts (and point) drifted a bit.

Serves more as a reminder to the youngsters out there that potential future hirers will use things like this to inform hiring decisions. Legal or not, your history follows you around (I’m old enough to be lucky to not have the stupid stuff I did early in my career available online). Be free, go build stuff for fun but keep clear of your employers space.

I am surprised the CEO does not understand the dynamic of his business. An open source project replicating your product is always a boost to the business. There is no case where that's not the case. The OSS is essentially the minatenance free free tier of the paid product.

This must be Gitlab?

Nah, their moat is making the software as fiddly and ops heavy as possible. I really like gitlab but having set it up myself several times now, it's kinda a mess and they're not incentivized to make it decent.

Let's say I need to resolve @example.com and we use the HTTPS GET method. So we will query https:// example.com/.well-known/atproto-did

Will it work if that link redirects to says https:// example.com/did.txt or even to a different host say https:// foo.bar/some/thing/did?

I don’t think it would follow redirects. See https://atproto.com/specs/handle#https-well-known-method

Edit: I'm wrong; see below

It says "HTTP redirects (eg, 301, 302) are allowed, up to a reasonable number of redirect hops."

Ah my bad, you're right! I glossed over that.

I was vibe researching TUN/TAP devices a few days ago. Cool to see such cool projects using them. I was mostly thinking about making a VPN prototype through.

There's a billion different types of VPN.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Increase my understanding

Which means they are already a "pointer" to a record in a centralised database.

Yeah, that's "Master Master", just like Chai Tea, which means "Tea Tea" and East Timor, which means "East East".

You mean Timor Leste, which still means 'East East', but they decided to replace the English bit with Portugese.

Or "River Avon"

And if Justin's pds goes down, then his followers won't be able to consume his content.

They read the content cached from the AppView, not directly from the PDS

You mean you want to host the personal repositories (PDS) for your users?

Ideally yes!

imo ActivityPub sounds better than ATProto, hence people assume the former is superior. This is a branding issue.

Yea maybe! I think at:// is an even stronger brand in a sense though. Actually makes sense as something browsers may support one day, “at://alice.com” makes sense at “stuff at alice dot com”, “authenticated transfer” is a decent acronym, “atmosphere” for the ecosystem is just great (and wasn’t even coined by the team).