Param Siddharth paramsiddharth

Why I Left AT Protocol

I'm Tree. I think and write about decentralization - analyzing power dynamics, architectural principles, and how systems can preserve or undermine individual autonomy. I've been involved with AT Protocol development and community discussions for some time.

TL;DR: I deleted my atproto account not because of bullying, though that happened. I left because the community's response to my architectural critique demonstrated exactly the power dynamic I was warning about, while simultaneously making it impossible to discuss.

The Technical Argument

Infrastructure should be separate from ideology. This is a foundational principle for resilient decentralized systems.

Install .NET 8 on Raspberry pi

Install .NET via the following script:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script

1. Perform dry run and review envvar `DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR`

I advise to first do a dry run and to enable verbose mode to review if envvar DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR is set correctly:

NONE OF THESE CLIENTS ARE VERIFIED BY ME FOR SECURITY OR ANYTHING ELSE! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Update 2025-07-16: Use either Revanced, NewPipe or Firefox with add-ons. Revanced is my personal pick, due to it being a mod of the official App like Vanced, but better (e.g. it has integration of Sponsor Block, Return YouTube Disklike and more).

I wouldn't recommend Kiwi Browser anymore as it has been discontinued. AFAIK it has been accuired by Microsoft and the extension support has been merged into Edge (Canary). But you'd have to use Edge. Yuck.

Setup Oracle Cloud VM as a VPN Tunnel for connected clients on Ubuntu 20.04

Install dnsmasq

apt install dnsmasq -y

Find and add these items to /etc/dnsmasq.conf

	import javax.crypto.Cipher;
	import javax.crypto.CipherInputStream;
	import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
	import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
	import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
	import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
	import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.io.InputStream;
	import java.nio.file.Files;

	if (window.location.origin !== "https://www.instagram.com") {
	window.alert(
	"Hey! You need to be on the instagram site before you run the code. I'm taking you there now but you're going to have to run the code into the console again.",
	);
	window.location.href = "https://www.instagram.com";
	console.clear();
	}

	const fetchOptions = {
	credentials: "include",

	// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
	// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
	// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

	package fmt

	import "errors"

	// Errorf formats according to a format specifier and returns the string as a
	// value that satisfies error.

	#!/bin/bash
	set -euo pipefail

	opt=${1:-}

	usage() {
	echo "$0 - ssh into a remote gitpod with your gpg-agent forwarded"
	echo
	echo "usage: $0 [option]"
	echo

	<div class="tinder">
	<div class="tinder--status">
	<i class="fa fa-remove"></i>
	<i class="fa fa-heart"></i>
	</div>

	<div class="tinder--cards">
	<div class="tinder--card" id="hr">
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	COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=remote-signer
	ENABLE_API_KEY_SUPPORT=true
	APPROVED_API_KEY=( UUID4 or anything really as long as this is exported on the sender side )