Christine Lemmer-Webber
If you're like "well don't worry about lastpass, it's encrypted client-side"... look up what the government wanted to coerce Lavabit to do.
You should assume that the attackers did something similar.
(This is a reason I don't trust these kinds of web applications where you just get some program handed to you as a blob, if it's also supposed to do encryption...)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
So if you DON'T KNOW @evan let me give you some context.
The fediverse really went through three eras, as I see it. The OStatus era, the great fragmentation era, and the ActivityPub era.
If you used "GNU Social", that was StatusNet originally, and it ran OStatus, both of which Evan was largely responsible for. Evan also built the precursor to ActivityPub, the Pump API, and ran the Social Web Working Group, where ActivityPub was standardized!
He's been absent for a while. I'm so happy to see him back!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Admins of the fediverse are already overloaded. They're about to be a lot more so.
I just bumped my monthly donation to @CobaltVelvet from $10 to $40 a month. Heck, Elon wants to start charging $20/month for blue ticks and my experience here is worth at least twice that.
If you like your instance, support your admin. They need it. And talk about it: people are known to be more likely to give money voluntarily if they find out their peers are.
And fellow octodon users, let's see if we can get @CobaltVelvet some real actual support. If you aren't donating, please donate!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
New blogpost: Content addressed vocabulary https://dustycloud.org/blog/content-addressed-vocabulary/
(Or: how to make vocabulary extensions not a nightmare in ActivityPub and elsewhere.)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
MediaGoblin community meeting this weekend - 4pm Sat Feb 15 UTC-5 (aka 9pm UTC) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/mediagoblin-devel/2020-02/msg00009.html
The first one in a really long while!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@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
Christine Lemmer-Webber
More and more progress on the promise chaining stuff in #Spritely Goblins https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins/commit/3ba29f9b839ae8a0ebfb307c03bb21129918e29b
Next I need to work on same-machine but far-vat promise chaining. (Yeah I know, that sounds like nonsense.)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@antifuchs Break into peoples' gardens and tell them their loved ones are dead, the game!
What hijinks will ensue.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@antifuchs untitled raven game
Christine Lemmer-Webber
cat pet.txt
cat cat.txt
yes
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@Dee can you cat a pet?
Christine Lemmer-Webber
For those who haven't seen, socialhub.activitypub.rocks is live! https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
It's a forum to discuss ActivityPub implementation, hosting, community building, etc.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Some musing on ocap-safe macros and how they might be built https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cap-talk/t_j064EL030
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Hit that "aha" moment... or at least the moment where I think I probably hit the "aha" moment
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@emsenn Haha! I realize I'm being probably very opaque as I've gone this far down the rabbit hole. I hope people don't mind me "thinking out loud" even though it's probably like "wtf is Chris talking about anymore".
Yes, soon this should transform into stuff other people can understand without thinking about all the mechanical stuff I'm musing over :)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Some of the bigger questions come around whether I want to make this a primitive. Eg, a question of whether we'd be serializing even foundational datastructures like promises. Do we also want to capture all the messages-queued-for-delivery?
It seems like we'd want to say "yes", though that seems possibly difficult. I need to think more carefully about it...
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Eventually I'll need to implement "Safe Serialization Under Mutual Suspicion" so game worlds written in Spritely Goblins can persist to disk http://erights.org/data/serial/jhu-paper/
Still seems like the cleanest route I've seen.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
the internet of souls
Christine Lemmer-Webber
good moin moin
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Guix reduces bootstrap seed by 50% https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/
Go Guix and Mes! Go bootstrappability!
CTO at @spritelyinst. I'm here to fix the Internet.ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @fossandcrafts. Nonbinary trans-femme, she/they. https://dustycloud.org/
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