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Notices by Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)

  1. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 17:30:50 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    Patriotism: Yorkshire is fucking awesome, why the hell don't you live here? At least come and visit, you'll love it, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you here yet?

    Nationalism: America is fucking awesome, but fuck off, you're not coming in, we've got too much to hide.
    In conversation Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 17:30:50 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  2. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2017 21:15:31 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    • Bob Mottram
    @bob That's 117 less than are blocked in the UK. It's probably even more than that now, I haven't checked the list for a while.
    In conversation Tuesday, 13-Jun-2017 21:15:31 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  3. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2017 20:05:59 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    How would the #fediverse feel about having #magnet search available in the directories?

    The federated social directory is still in a developer preview state, but it occurred to me that there's no reason we can't plug into Mario's work on shared files in Hubzilla and start magnet indexing things. Right now, this is only possible for Hubzilla (not even RedMatrix), but since Mario has already done it, it's not a hard problem anymore, it's already been solved - other's just need to implement it.

    Once they have, providing magnet URIs isn't brain surgery, and we get sync for free.

    Last night, I thought this was a great idea, but I woke up this morning and saw an article about ExtraTorrent being closed down, and though oh...yeah.

    So what do you think?
    In conversation Wednesday, 17-May-2017 20:05:59 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  4. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2017 18:09:32 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    Update:

    1) Yes, my other server is down, actually it's up, it's just not responding on port 80 or 443, don't know why, don't have SSH keys on my phone, nothing I can do till Sunday.

    2) Letsencrypt...I'm not sure what the problem is. If nginx is running, cerbot will complain the port is already in use, and won't update anyway...you need to stop nginx, do certbot renew, then start nginx again.

    If I'm missing something, or if there's some other client that works differently, can't you just location ~ /\.well-known/acme-challenge {
    root /path/to/webroot;
    }    ?

    And 3) I'll be back about 3am Sunday to check stuff in.
    In conversation Friday, 12-May-2017 18:09:32 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  5. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2017 11:38:40 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    Mastodon privacy isn't very different to what we colloquially call Public but not public, and in fact, we - and by we I mean every project with Zot - handle it in pretty much the same way as they do. They give you warnings in big letters that you're being stupid, we put it on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard". In both cases, you're just saying "if you think this is a privacy setting, you're an idiot".

    But remember back in the old days when everyone with any form of Zot was mostly technically competent...lots of us used it. It stopped being used as better privacy controls were enabled (or more accurately, as early bugs were fixed - but the point is, as these features became ready for the prime time).

    So, maybe Mastodon isn't being as brave/stupid as they appear to be.

    Maybe we're seeing the birth of pstatus.
    In conversation Saturday, 29-Apr-2017 11:38:40 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  6. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 18:55:50 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    A Guide To Protocols Used In The Fediverse.

    Diaspora: Clunky XML behemoth with some degree of privacy, a fuck tonne of metadata that has to be stored even by complete strangers.

    DFRN: Clunky as fuck XML behemouth, but damn well works, with pretty good privacy, but by God, it makes your head spin.

    Zot: On paper, the best of the lot, light weight, nomadic, more powerful and simpler than the others...but nobody understands permissions, so it's pointless.

    Ostatus: Shouting at people anonymously.

    ActivityPub: Privacy, as imagined by somebody with no actual experience of implementing privacy, reimplementing mistakes made by everyone else nearly a decade ago.
    In conversation Friday, 28-Apr-2017 18:55:50 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink
  7. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 18:12:35 UTC Thomas Willingham Thomas Willingham
    I don't know whether to commend the bravery of somebody trying to make OStatus private (ProTip: You can't catch water in net), or break down in hysterics at the fatuousness of the implementation.

    I secretly like Mastodon (don't tell anyone I said that though), but seriously, you can't have privacy and ostatus at the same time. Everything You Need to Know About Mastodon's New Privacy Settings | MastoBlog
    In conversation Friday, 28-Apr-2017 18:12:35 UTC from soc.beardyunixer.com permalink

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    One innocuous day in the Skyrack, a child was born in the shadow of Rombald. But all was not to be good, for Rombald was looking the other way. The shadow was all the child got. He learned the ways and the virtues of life from the land herself. From her hills and her valleys, her dawn and her eve, her pine and her heather. But nature is nothing, if not inhumane, and the child grew up neither good nor evil, upon the earth and a part of it, but in many ways apart from it.<br><br>He lead his life neither right nor wrong - merely alien. He would help and hinder. Save and kill. Try and fail. Live and die. Laugh and cry. Mostly cry. He set across the Earth, a lone drifter searching for roots, a reason, somewhere to call home. He lived through rape and war, affluence and luxury, East and West, North and South, high and low, dry and wet, through the howling wind, and the silent darkness.<br><br>Eventually, he returned to where he began. This time, Rombald turned to face him, and took him by the hand. Leading up to a hill of bristling heather and said unto him "here". Rombald left the man who once was a child alone, as he slowly realised in this one place - this one sacred place - here, and only here, is where he can feel absolutely no anger whatsoever.

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