Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 13

btw my impressions of the Purism LibreM are overall very positive. An actual review to come once I spend more time with it though.

Congrats to Diogo Cordeiro on getting a GSoC internship this summer to add ActivityPub to GNU Social!
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4717538026455040

And thanks to GNU Social maintainer mmn-o for mentoring!

The Switter stuff is a good reminder about why I'm so very uncomfortable with Cloudflare. I'm not blaming the people behind Cloudflare, who I think know and have expressed why FOSTA is dangerous, but rather Cloudflare's fundamental positioning as a source of centralization.

Content Addressed Storage > Content Delivery Networks

@seanl @bob @pettter @nolan @CobaltVelvet I'm also in the minority in that anonymnity is interesting to me, but is not the *most* interesting property of tor onion services for myself personally. (I generally assume that unmasking tor users takes work but is generally possible for a state actor.)

What tor onion services also bring is a decentralized & globally unique identifier that can be used to set up a secure *connection* between entities, but is backwards compatible with lots of tooling!

I am super thrilled that people are exploring ActivityPub over .onion services. I've been wanting to see this happen for ages and even had it as part of the Spritely manifestio (still unpublished yet).

People are beating me to it and that is awesome.

PSA: Don't use the term "dark web". Use the term "private web" instead. Thanks.

I am really excited to see that multiple projects are implementing ActivityPub right now and have excitement behind them.

The fediverse needs multiple implementations. I'm sure we all agree that one email client software or one email server software wouldn't be good. To escape monoculture, a protocol needs multiple happy and healthy implementations.

Nothing is truly gratis, but some ways of paying for things are more ethical than others.

Issue asking for ActivityPub support in GitLab

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44486

Okay come on, *everyone* must want this

Thanks to @ted for filing it :)

If you want to see my Libreplanet talk but couldn't make it, here it is: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/standardizing-network-freedom/
and here's my slides: https://dustycloud.org/tmp/standardizing-federation.pdf

Hey look, it's @mlemweb! Morgan is one of my favorite people... free software user, digital humanities advocate, co-runs the teach Racket and Scribble workshops with me, my closest friend... and also my spouse!

Everyone give a kind welcome to Morgan to the fediverse :)

@kaniini Sorry I'm running on almost no sleep and I'll have to give a sane reply to this later because my brain can't parse it

Hi! Are you working on or can think of an ActivityPub application that's NOT on the ActivityPub implementation reports list? https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/

I'm compiling a list for my talk

Thanks!

Very, very bad news. The Supreme Court just gutted basic human rights for anyone who's not a US citizen by declaring that immigrants (including those with permanent residence) can be held indefinitely. https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589096901/supreme-court-ruling-means-immigrants-can-continue-to-be-detained-indefinitely

Nice article by @nextcloud folks about their current and future ActivityPub support! (Or is it ActivityPup? Don't fix that... cutest typo of all time!) https://nextcloud.com/blog/activitypub-the-new-standard-for-decentralized-networks/

(HT @falgn0n for the link)

Most of the acoustic cryptanalysis attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis I've seen involve having a microphone nearby someone's computer. Some of them are severe, and even can read encryption keys off the CPU: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2082200/listen-up-rsa-keys-snatched-by-recording-cpu-sounds-with-a-phone.html

But lots of programs can get access to the microphone relatively easily. It should be easy as a process using a computer's own microphone to do these attacks too, right?

So apparently Apple is slowing down older devices, claiming its to preserve battery life... but smells like planned obsolescence to me. We really ought to be able to replace batteries in phones anyhow.

Wow... my buddy list on XMPP finally just dropped to less than a page as all the gmail users vanished from the list.

Finally... two on each report item. That's enough to make it to Proposed Recommendation for ActivityPub on Tuesday. https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/

So this thread was conversing about the feasibility of a p2p ActivityPub (including a P2P Mastodon): https://cybre.space/@nightpool/99015268020447701

I think most people think that that's a very far jump, but in this thread I hope to demonstrate that it's a very short one... at least to make the jump to a minimally-P2P system that people might realistically use.