Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 3

Who would be interested in joining a "Fediverse Futures implementer usergroup" video call? Half an hour of presentations, then half of discussion. If you're interested, please express so here or on this thread: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fediverse-futures-implementer-usergroup/

Someone on Hacker News said ~"the main problem with the fediverse is domain names and we need a more p2p system" and I posted a reply saying ~"as one of the main ActivityPub spec authors, not only do I agree, work is happening to bridge those worlds" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125249

"What is your deepest, darkest fear"

That I submit literally any paperwork and someone comes back with YOU MADE A CLERICAL ERROR, NOW SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES

Hey @dthompson, do you remember what the names of those weird FOSS geometric space shooters / racing games / etc you showed me at one point?

@stolas Glad you asked! Here's a (mostly complete) writeup https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/petnames.md

If you think only fools are vulnerable to phishing, and all you have to do is look for obvious giveaways like poor spelling/grammar, you're even more likely to be phished out of hubris. Many phishing attackers are quite sophisticated. Look at this one. https://jeffreyladish.com/anatomy-of-a-rental-phishing-scam/

It's gotten to the point where everyone has to be 24/7 on alert for possible phishing attacks, and that just isn't sustainable. That's one reason I'm an advocate of petname systems.

New plan!!!

It's the same as the old plan, carry on.

@freemo Not entirely sure if it qualifies but the video I posted last night is a pretty good overview and shows Goblins stuff being developed live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxt2dqqulQc

I accidentally programmed something very interesting to look at in Terminal Phase

2020 is the year of Linux on the Desktop because only GNU/Linux users run desktop machines anymore

I put up a tutorial of how to hack the activitypub.rocks website https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/how-to-hack-on-activitypub-rocks/375

> Basically, if you aren’t a Scheme hacker, editing the activitypub.rocks website is a great way to learn to become one! ;)

SocialCG meeting over! Here's the minutes: https://www.w3.org/2019/12/07-social-minutes.html

Wow, a C64 robotfindskitten in the Racket Game Jam, written in a Racket implementation of C64 assembly O_O https://pezi-pink.itch.io/c64-robotfindskitten

Well if there's any upside to the .org fiasco it's that more people are realizing how corrupt the DNS + SSL CA cartel is

SocialCG meeting happening now: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2019-10-23

I get nervous when I think about how long it's taken community-oriented free software to have interfaces that resemble "could be comfortable on mobile" and how much more critical user freedom concerns will be when we're all wearing sensory-modifying wearable computing and how hard it will be for the FOSS world to adjust its software to comfortably work on augmented reality type systems

"Source available" licenses are more nonfree / dangerous than straight up traditional proprietary no-source-available software/licenses. I am actively afraid of being exposed to code under such a license: that's now information that is difficult for me to use in my work on FOSS.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup adding better support for singular they/them pronouns http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=1ba1822a901933c9d9ee16ee0342f2572708ba75 http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=dba641b7393abb6947b3eae1b32a770070b52d7e http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=f4a770e8ca082ab2e1e1c979adca52b58c96e2e2 http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=ec079b9e983224845d71d486bd07cc79537ee5d0

That's an interesting idea... instead of storing the bearer tokens associated with your internally-pointing ocaps (held by external users), salt and hash them. That way if your server is compromised the ocaps that other people hold to you internally can still be valid.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cap-talk/zGu5th2Lsxc/84PZ5TD2CwAJ

Tried installing Lineage OS on two different phones today. Turned out neither was really possible while having a reasonably recent version.

Android derivatives are so... weird. Having to build a whole "image" to start your world with? It's a nightmare.

I can still install GNU/Linux on machines that are 15 years old and they still generally boot and run. And I don't need to build a separate "installer" per machine.

How the fuck did phones get THIS BAD.