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Re: Bye Bye Gravatar

https://unattributed.cc/re-bye-bye-gravatar
22•surprisetalk•2d ago

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efilife•1h ago
Beautiful typography on this site, a joy to read. Overall, it's just nicely designed
chrismorgan•55m ago
It’s funny, I’d genuinely say that Gravatar improved for quite some time. In the old days it was fine, then for quite some time under Automattic when they started fiddling with it it was ridiculously bad and for a while even literally unusable due to broken tie-in to WordPress.com accounts or something (I forget), then they finally got it together again so that it was arguably better than before they took it over, with the caveat that they had expanded its scope a little so there was foolish distraction, but at least the core flow was actually better… but then they’ve continued fiddling with it.

At a cursory glance, this “AI Context” thing is just frivolous AI-washing of the profiles feature they put in some years ago for humans to be able to read. I’m tired of that sort of thing, and products advertising features as being AI Ready™ for an Agentic Future™, when those features are just as meaningful for poor humans.

mvdtnz•51m ago
I feel like I'm missing a lot of context and I'm not willing to click on a (another) random link to get it.
s09dfhks•40m ago
I thought i was alone. I have no idea what this blog post is complaining about
colechristensen•12m ago
You have to read the image to figure out what they're talking about.

Subtitled "Add more info to your profile to help AI know you better"

Presumably llm scraping bots scrape gravatar, so they're adding a set of profile fields so bots will scrape and know more about you.

You could just call this a public profile and people wouldn't freak out, do it or don't, it's not like you're particularly paranoid if you're using gravatar.

But this one mentions AI instead of just calling it a profile and this person reacted ... like this.

behindsight•44m ago
The blog's visual design is quite pleasant to read.

However I am a bit confused by the author's remarks

> I do NOT EVER consent to ANYTHING being done in regard to AI in my name.

> With newer sites like Bio Link and FediProfile I don't see the usefulness of Gravatar. If anything, I think it now has ANTI-features.

It's conflicting to mention Bio Link with the author's ideology since it quite prominently has:

- AI assistant to answer visitor questions based off of your "links, descriptions, posts, and a short knowledge base"

- AI site builder

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
1409•alvis•12h ago•768 comments

Re: Bye Bye Gravatar

https://unattributed.cc/re-bye-bye-gravatar
22•surprisetalk•2d ago•7 comments

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
248•KraftyOne•10h ago•45 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc
126•JumpCrisscross•2h ago•36 comments

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
204•aarondong•9h ago•127 comments

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-gc
8•phickey•4d ago•0 comments

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dr...
552•sohkamyung•5d ago•154 comments

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/
66•hhs•5h ago•6 comments

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
544•hhh•17h ago•185 comments

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
643•pchm•19h ago•495 comments

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

https://globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io/
137•eliotho•1d ago•73 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/
150•random__duck•4d ago•38 comments

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
157•crescit_eundo•2d ago•34 comments

A concrete explanation of how a cache works

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/29.html
15•parksb•3d ago•2 comments

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777
174•Alifatisk•1d ago•49 comments

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
564•louiereederson•15h ago•252 comments

Firefox Containers Preview

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
269•twapi•3d ago•91 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
18•agnishom•3h ago•6 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
288•m0do1•16h ago•53 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4
151•signa11•12h ago•125 comments

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek
119•Bootvis•1d ago•110 comments

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
270•thisislife2•19h ago•342 comments

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
148•robin_reala•19h ago•130 comments

Marimo now runs in PyCharm

https://marimo.io/blog/pycharm
89•cantdutchthis•2d ago•20 comments

The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)

https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times
90•bw86•17h ago•73 comments

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-ap...
420•rootkea•14h ago•304 comments

Unitree As2-W

https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/
111•MehrdadKhnzd•12h ago•44 comments

The footprints of every building in NYC

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprints-of-every-building-in-nyc/
60•jonathanmkeegan•4d ago•6 comments

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-b...
241•kristoff_it•19h ago•167 comments

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker
465•rwmj•12h ago•271 comments