Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 11

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SocialCG call today, in about an hour https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2018-10-10
Not a ton on the agenda yet, but if you want to hear me ramble about what my next steps are re: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/100866264755512782 that'll probably happen on the call

Imagine if we ran fediverse software *as a game* that people played... that would give motivation for people not currently interested in the fediverse to join. Kids would play it, teenagers would play it... and now imagine if we hook it up to Tor .onion or I2P addresses, etc. This could help normalize the behavior of using those systems as much as https is normalized today. When everyone uses it, that can help protect politically at-risk groups, activists, etc as well.

But what's the most common self-hosted server on earth? It ain't fediverse software, it's Minecraft. Why? I think the appeal of building a world with you and your friends is very appealing.

If we can make it very easy in-world to be able to program the entities you're interact with as you walk around and talk, that could be a big win.

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

DOJ demands Facebook information from 'anti-administration activists' https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/facebook-anti-administration-activists/index.html

(post from a week and a half ago, but I just saw it)

One upside is that giving up disposable electronics would mean a return to DIY culture, a boost to right to repair, a return of the fix-it shop. That would be good for our communities.

So there are upsides, they're just different then the ones we're being marketed today.

May all your hacks be fruitful
May all your code compile
May all your tests pass
With maximum coverage

Chinese government allegedly inserts tiny chip which backdoors networks all over the place https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

it's a good thing I work from home so nobody can see me pour hot tea all over myself

A real paying job based out of ActivityPub where you could be paid full time to work on an ActivityPub implementation https://twitter.com/fakebaldur/status/1047177467025416193

First of all, I'm going with the name AbilityPub since this layer of ideas is based on ActivityPub, it sounds like ActivityPub, and it stands for (Object Cap)Abilities for ActivityPub. (Someone else suggested this to me, asking permission before I attribute them first though, if I remember right who it was.)

This talk by Mark S. Miller talking about new security confinement tools in Javascript and how Node could make use of them in its packaging to keep users and developers safe is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Snbss_tawI

Good watch for anyone working on language / package management systems.

The European Court of Human Rights rules that UK laws enabling mass surveillance violate the rights to privacy and freedom of expression https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2265/press-release-campaigners-win-vital-battle-against-uk-mass-surveillance-european

My dad woke me up last night to inform me that homes were exploding a little over an hour away from me https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/us/massachusetts-explosions-fires/index.html

Hey it's @cwebber, your quadruple threat Cassandra

- FOSS all the things
- federate all the things
- ocap all the things
- lisp all the things

In very, very bad news, this passed: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

@selfsame @eq I once had a forkbomb in my buddy list status message. A friend wondered what it was and ran it in in the nearest shell they had open. As it turns out it was on one of their company's production servers.

Oops. Don't copy paste strange commands from the intarwebs, kids!

@uranther @pettter Me right now: Bitcoin has some bad properties and some good properties, here are what I tend to think they are. But also the point here is, you don't need to use bitcoin, but you can optionally tie in bitcoin if you want to.

Person who loves Bitcoin: how dare you say bitcoin has any bad properties

Person who hates Bitcoin: how dare you say bitcoin has any good properties

guix package --upgrade --keep-going --fallback
kind of tells a story

Alright computer soldiers! Upgrade! Keep going, don't lose hope now! Oh no... fallback fallback!