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		<dateModified>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:34:13 GMT</dateModified>
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		<ownerName>Adam Curry</ownerName>
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		<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Podcasting 2.0 September 11th 2026 Episode 270 - &amp;quot;YOLO Guy&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;" _expanded="true">
			<outline text="Two weeks off, and in the gap Dave rewrote the identity of every podcast in the index, took the weekly dump from twenty-eight hours to four, broke feed ingestion for twenty minutes and then told on himself before anyone could catch him."/>
			<outline text="On the docket: step one of the scary stuff, the podcast rig that ate itself, the same man reporting the same failed splits two weeks running, a merch tag and a WebVTT question waiting on the board, and a famous actress who keeps her place in a podcast by taking screenshots."/>
			<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The only board meeting that runs entirely on Omarchy!&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
			<outline text="I&amp;#x27;m Adam Curry, in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country"/>
			<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;And in Alabama, the man who gave everyone a  new identity and called it scary stuff -- &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Say hello to my Friend on the other End — Dave Jones!&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
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		<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;ShowNotes&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;" _expanded="true">
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			<outline text="01 - 😂 THE PODCAST RIG ATE ITSELF — AND IS NOW RUNNING OMARCHY">
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Sunday 6 Sep:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;My Umbrel docker containers did not survive the OS upgrade from Ubuntu 20 to 24 on my podcast rig.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;This is why I never upgrade anything.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; I still have some Ubuntu 12 and 18 servers running.&amp;quot; — a sentence that should be on a T-shirt at Podcast Movement."/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Tuesday, the diagnosis, and he takes it on the chin:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;It was a &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;v1 to v2 docker compose transition issue&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;. It was &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;very much my fault for not RTFM before doing do-release-upgrade&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;.&amp;quot; Plus: &amp;quot;doing &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;2 upgrades back to back&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; to get from LTS 20 to 24.&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;To @ericpp, same day, the two-line eulogy:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;It&amp;#x27;s incredibly borked.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m closing the channel you have open to me because I&amp;#x27;m going to have to wipe this box.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot; — note that the lightning channel was collateral damage. That matters for §02."/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Thursday 10 Sep, the rebuild:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Omarchy on the podcast rig now. Let&amp;#x27;s see how this goes.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot; and then, shortly after, &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Podping gossip watcher up and running on it.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The genuine question underneath:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; the podcast rig runs podping&amp;#x27;s gossip watcher. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;What is actually load-bearing on that box&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;, and should anything that the wider ecosystem depends on be sitting on a machine you&amp;#x27;re willing to wipe on a Tuesday?"/>
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			<outline text="09 - 🤖 THE ANTHROPIC ADVENT CALENDAR">
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;@js to you directly, 11 Sep:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;@adam &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;it&amp;#x27;s like an advent calendar until the IPO — behind today&amp;#x27;s door is&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;...&amp;quot; and then the Anthropic threat-intelligence report."/>
				<outline text="Anthropic — Detecting and countering misuse (11 Sep PDF)" type="link" url="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-countering-091026.pdf"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The line JS pulled out:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, using Claude to design guidance software. They did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: within hours, the ac[tors]...&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;And the prediction, two days earlier:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;can you _imagine_ what stunts anthropic has planned for around the IPO timeline in a few months? gonna be great.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The board-meeting angle:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; every one of these reports is simultaneously a safety disclosure and a capability advertisement. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Publishing &amp;quot;our model was used to design a guided rocket&amp;quot; is a warning and a brochure at the same time&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; — and the IPO is in a few months."/>
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			<outline text="00 - 🔥 STEP ONE OF THE SCARY STUFF — THE NEW &amp;#x27;PODCASTS&amp;#x27; IDENTITY TABLE" _expanded="true">
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The lead, and it&amp;#x27;s Dave&amp;#x27;s.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Wednesday 3 Sep: &amp;quot;#api The new &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;`podcasts` table is now being written to by default on all new incoming feeds&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; and the &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;conflict queue is being populated for merge decisions&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;This is step 1 of the scary stuff.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Let&amp;#x27;s hope nothing catches fire.&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="@dave — the podcasts table goes live (3 Sep)" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Thursday 4 Sep, step one lands:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;#api &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;All feed ingestion paths now use the new &amp;#x27;podcasts&amp;#x27; identity table.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Spent the morning cleaning up a lot of old error log debris I&amp;#x27;ve been neglecting for years &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;so I can have clean logs for the next step&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;.&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;😄 And the same morning he broke it and immediately confessed:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;#api &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;I would like to pretend (by silence) that I didn&amp;#x27;t break feed ingestion this morning for about 20 minutes&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; by forgetting to update the env files on the aggregator servers. But, I&amp;#x27;m sure @js will produce s[creenshots]...&amp;quot; — Dave knows exactly who is watching."/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Tuesday 9 Sep, the number of the week:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &amp;quot;#api &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Refactored the weekly database dump script&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; since it was getting slower and slower and was very old. Re-running the new one now to test. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m anticipating 4 hour run instead of 28 hours.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;quot; — twenty-eight hours to four. That is the dump the whole developer community pulls from."/>
				<outline text="Podcast Index — public datasets" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.org/datasets"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;⭐ The board questions, and they are the show:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;1.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; What IS the &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;identity table&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; — in plain language, for an app developer? If a feed changes URL, changes host, or gets duplicated, what does the new table let the Index say that it couldn&amp;#x27;t say before?"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;2.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; The &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;conflict queue&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; is &amp;quot;being populated for merge decisions&amp;quot; — &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;who makes those decisions&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;, and is it automatic or does a human rule on it? Because merging two podcasts that are actually one podcast is exactly the kind of call that goes wrong loudly."/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;3.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; You said step one. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;What is step two&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;, and is that the part where something does catch fire?"/>
				<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;4.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Twenty-eight hours to four on the dump — &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;what changed&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;, and does that mean the public dataset can now ship more often than weekly?"/>
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