Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 129

GNUnet has a new website - https://gnunet.org/en/

for the unware, quick video of what gnunet is -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CdHfySAPas

#gnu #gnunet #security #privacy

A few friends and I are thinking of starting a free software usergroup in Western Massachusetts that maybe would meet twice a month (once for presentations, once for hacking). Probably it would meet in Northampton, MA?

I wonder if there's interest in this?

I added a new "Encryption has a shelf life" section to the Caveats section of #Spritely Golem's writeup. It's an important point I hadn't called out previously! https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

> Encryption has a shelf life. In general, secure ciphers from about 15 years ago aren’t secure today, so it’s possible that chunks that are currently only readable by intended recipients can eventually be read by anyone who gets their hands on them. [...]

RT @StrikeVixen@twitter.com

How to scare someone trying to learn Blender.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StrikeVixen/status/1097557603591376896

@aral still, both email and ap's "privacy guarantee" is the same: your messages will be private to the servers that receive them. that doesn't preclude the "rogue admin" threat model, but it doesn't make either "public" per se.

even if your measuring stick for privacy is e2ee, you're basically making the mistake of equivocating existing implementations with the spec itself. pgp exists for email, but hasn't been done yet for ap. it's like saying xmpp is public despite omemo

@cwebber @bhaugen

And before you reply, yeah ActivityPub in its default incarnation is "only as private as email", and that's not quite private enough when the default is mega-nodes, and I agree (self hosting helps).

There are also intentionally spaces left in the spec to allow for even more private interactions than that and I'm exploring it but damn if you read people talk about it you won't get the sense that it's email-like in its directedness

it literally even uses to/cc/bcc for crying out loud

ActivityPub: Hi I'm literally being born because the former primary author of OStatus regretted not having private messages, let's make private messages the default addressing mechanism and public messages a special exception

*Years later, AP is a standard and widely adopted*

Popular meme: "Yeah well ActivityPub is nice and everything but it's too bad its only for public messages"

Me: ;_;

@aral @bhaugen ActivityPub, from the spec perspective, *IS NOT* everything is public. That's a common misunderstanding due to the most popular instance being a Twitter clone. But that's false. ActivityPub's origins come from trying to bring email-like private addressing (to the extent email really is private) to the fediverse, with public stuff being a special exception.

And that's not even to consider the current stuff I'm exploring in Spritely, which is taking some of that further.

Today I learned that if you use the CSS rule text-transform: uppercase, screen readers may interpret the text as capital letters, possibly screaming your text.
Therefore, use with caution. 😃

Source (FR): https://twitter.com/OlivierNourry/status/1097501248071389192

Could be a quite handy solution for creators who don't want to login on both platforms to upload their content.

Of course a better solution would be to upload to #PeerTube, monitor #PeerTube's RSS feed, and use YouTube's API to upload the video from here (see https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video for example)

And to finish on ideas, I though of an app that subscribes to YouTube's Push Notification service through PubSubHubbub https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/push_notifications and use #PeerTube's API to trigger PeerTube using YouTube-DL and download the video.

YOU make all my work on this stuff worth it! <3

Side note, I've gotten a lot of friendly and positive responses to the #Spritely Golem demo, and I see people excited about the ideas and what it could mean. I've also gotten a reasonable number of "that was fairly easy to follow" messages which is really good to hear. It makes me feel like this work is worth doing and that I'm off to a good start. There's more of these coming!

Last week we celebrated the "I ♥️ Free Software Day". A campaign by @fsfe to thank Free Software contributors for their important work. We want to thank ikoula, @opensuse @kde and opentrends for making the event possible!