Seeing the world through property rights is so one-dimensional and devoid of any creative thought it makes me sad as well. Eventually this is the SV ethos - own, conquer, extract, no space for externalities like simple urban pleasures.

Hero.

Pushing your personal agenda in public spaces on people by using someone's private property makes you a hero?

Yes. Otherwise, only those with money get to choose what messages are shown to the public.

Or jerk's boss or their boss or shareholders.

Downgrading from Opus 5 to Opus 4.8 was the biggest improvement with readability. I do use the skill under the link and with Opus 5 the improvement felt marginal.

Opus 5 writes absolute garbage, I do have the skill in question installed and it did not help much. Me and everybody on my team downgraded to 4.8 - instant improvement.

What is the problem?

Blockchain has some solid properties, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

What baby? DNS doesn't have the double spend problem. Why is the blockchain good for this?

The double spend problem for domains is the double domain purchase problem. I claim example.com and you also claim it, who wins?

Whoever buys it first. With a centralised database, this is trivial.

Usernames are the same. Who gets @example.bsky.social ? Whoever registers it first. Problem solved.

If you have a central database why do you need atproto?

To stream dns changes from site owners to dns servers. If you want to change a record, you post the change on atproto. DNS servers everywhere just subscribe to the jetstream. That way anyone can run a fast, local dns server which is kept up to date automatically.

How fast can I change my DNS records?

How fast can you post messages to Bluesky?

I'd like to see DNS ownership combined with the time range and an owner-unique key so you can go to the website you intended to visit rather than whoever happens to own the domain at the moment.

Why would they still have the server but not the domain?

Domains cost money to maintain. They can lapse, change, or be sold. Sometimes people make mistakes. So to my way of thinking they're great as a short-term named identifier but not as a long-term stable identifier. Would be nice to have both.

An authenticated chain similar to the crts for TLS certificates.

You don’t need a blockchain to implement a cryptographic chain of trust.

Not hotdog.

Pentiment is a Peabody award winning video game that covers this period. It's terribly engaging and well written. I'd use the word "educational" but that might make it sound dry, which it is not.

Curtis Yarvin in a New York Times interview said that there were no wars under monarchy in Europe. Imagine that.