Finally starting to understand why I have so much trouble getting along with other people on the free web - especially the architects and designers.
Soy zurdo. I'm left handed. By default I look at everything from a different perspective. I look at the ActivityPub spec and to me it was designed from the wrong direction - from the bottom up. It's backwards. "Here's a message". Much later, "here's how we share a message." Up finally to the top level, "Here's how a person interacts with a message." But you see, it's all based on a message because that's the direction they're coming from. They can't see a world outside the message. It is the basis for their world view.
Being left-handed I do it all in reverse. What is a person? How does a person interact with others online? If they need a server, can they have more than one for redundancy? How exactly? How do they share posts, photos, videos, profiles - and only with whom they want? How does a person block unwanted stuff?
It isn't until much, much later I get to "What exactly is a message?" And in fact, this part isn't important to me. I'm defining *how* people communicate, not *what* they communicate. I don't really care what's in the message or how it is constructed and am more concerned with people and identity and sharing "stuff" because that's the direction I'm coming from. The person is at the core of my world view, not the message.
Anyway, I wish I acknowledged this difference in thought processes much earlier, it might've saved a lot of hassles and misunderstandings.
Soy zurdo. I'm left handed. By default I look at everything from a different perspective. I look at the ActivityPub spec and to me it was designed from the wrong direction - from the bottom up. It's backwards. "Here's a message". Much later, "here's how we share a message." Up finally to the top level, "Here's how a person interacts with a message." But you see, it's all based on a message because that's the direction they're coming from. They can't see a world outside the message. It is the basis for their world view.
Being left-handed I do it all in reverse. What is a person? How does a person interact with others online? If they need a server, can they have more than one for redundancy? How exactly? How do they share posts, photos, videos, profiles - and only with whom they want? How does a person block unwanted stuff?
It isn't until much, much later I get to "What exactly is a message?" And in fact, this part isn't important to me. I'm defining *how* people communicate, not *what* they communicate. I don't really care what's in the message or how it is constructed and am more concerned with people and identity and sharing "stuff" because that's the direction I'm coming from. The person is at the core of my world view, not the message.
Anyway, I wish I acknowledged this difference in thought processes much earlier, it might've saved a lot of hassles and misunderstandings.
Marshall Sutherland
Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)
Raymond Monret
Hubzilla @ sasiflo
paulfree14
phellmes
Alexandre Hannud Abdo
Maria Karlsen
Erik Lundin
Seth Martin
Klaus
Most of us tend to the engeneering perspective with the focus on technical aspects. IT people often miss the social and real world aspects.
High Range, Australia, last edited: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:53:52 +1000
Laughing at this headline...
... as they do.
And especially...
... as they do.
Anyway, the article is interesting.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-21/women-choosing-diy-ivf-sperm-inseminsation-to-become-mums/8702818
Single women choosing DIY pregnancy methods over IVF clinics, sperm banks
... as they do.
And especially...
A friend of Hannah Slootjes offered to donate his sperm.
... as they do.
Anyway, the article is interesting.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-21/women-choosing-diy-ivf-sperm-inseminsation-to-become-mums/8702818
Carolus Rex
In America it seems the news is about MN cops shooting an Aussie girl (and a damm fine one at that).
Here our news is so much more sophisticated.
Stand by your ram: Lost sheep befriends giant statue
Here our news is so much more sophisticated.
Stand by your ram: Lost sheep befriends giant statue
A lost sheep befriends a giant ram statue at a saleyard in Western Australia, standing by its side for the past nine days.
The ActivityPub folks are going to hate me for this (big time), but here goes....
One can solve a wide range of short-comings and issues in ActivityPub and work around a lot of "TBD"s in the spec by doing this:
and it doesn't stop anybody from implementing OAuth2/JWS or Linked Data Signatures whenever they get around to defining how these things are going to work. It just gives you something that is well defined, proven, easily implemented (we all have the components to do this right now), but most of all works today.
One can solve a wide range of short-comings and issues in ActivityPub and work around a lot of "TBD"s in the spec by doing this:
Accept: application/magic-envelope+json, application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"and it doesn't stop anybody from implementing OAuth2/JWS or Linked Data Signatures whenever they get around to defining how these things are going to work. It just gives you something that is well defined, proven, easily implemented (we all have the components to do this right now), but most of all works today.
Einer von Vielen
Steady progress on the ActivityPub plugin. It's a mountain of work and I'm certainly not going to bust my ass, but it's moving along at a satisfactory pace.
Now move along.
Now move along.
Fabio
Tobias
This is freaking hilarious
Proposal for improving private toot security · Issue #4208 · tootsuite/mastodon
Proposal for improving private toot security · Issue #4208 · tootsuite/mastodon
Elaborating on #4205 (comment)
Problem description: When a private toot lands on a non-Mastodon server, that server handles it like a public toot. When does this happen? When a Mastodon user has no...
Mike Macgirvin
I have to admit I was really worried about how to implement privacy in ActivityPub as there was no clear direction in the spec. I'm not worried any more. It's really easy. Forget about encryption and all that stuff.
They have a really elegant and simple solution to a very hard problem.
You just pretend you have privacy.
They have a really elegant and simple solution to a very hard problem.
You just pretend you have privacy.
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Followup: In fairness we do that anyway, but the difference is that we at least try to protect it during transport and provide minimal metadata, so it's only the endpoints one needs to be concerned with and not the porous backbones. In activitypub you just accept the porosity of the backbone (and protecting the metadata is pointless since adversaries can see the entire content anyway).
About an hour ago, someone asked me to help her install facebook messenger on her smartphone because a coworker informed her that it's more private than the text messaging provided by the phone service provider. I told her that I believe the opposite is true because I've at least read the facebook terms and conditions but do as you wish, the install button is in front of your face right now, you've been warned. She almost pressed it but started to argue. I repeated myself and said it's up to you how much privacy you wish to lose, you won't be communicating with me through it because I read for myself what I'm required to give up in exchange, and the service provider didn't scare me as much. She didn't press it while I was there but I suspect she will without reading. I could tell she really wanted to.
This does pose some difficult UI/UX decisions for us though. If you select a privacy group for delivery and that group contains members from other networks, we may need a slider to adjust your security expectations. On a scale of 0-5, if you select 0, we'll include GNU-Social folks (so your privacy group really isn't a privacy group at all, but just a group). If you select 1, you'll include mastodon. 2 will include activitypub, 3 includes diaspora, and 4-5 - networks with strong transport encryption (perhaps 5 would require encrypted storage). On the inbound side we might change the colour of the lock icon to indicate to potential commenters how private it really is.
'Just got slimed': Truck carrying eels overturns on Oregon highway
A carrying carrying hagfish, commonly known as slime eels, overturns on an Oregon highway, turning the coastal road into a slimy mess.
Obviously, a half-assed attempt to compete with Florida.
Truck carrying 4 sharks crashes on Florida highway
Truck carrying 4 sharks crashes on Florida highway
Rescue workers raced to scene; 18-wheeler was taking the sharks to an aquarium in Coney Island, New York
You can either make your home an "open to all" party space where you have to kick out drunk and disorderly people after they break the furniture; or invite some friends and people from the office and maybe a few other folks from the neighbourhood over for drinks and a barbie.
I suppose that's the key conceptual difference between networks like [Mastodon/GNU-Social and Diaspora] and networks like [Hubzilla/red (and even Friendica)].
One invests a lot of time/energy into tools and policies to block undesirable people, and the other invests a lot of time finding better ways to connect with interesting people (no matter what software they use).
I suppose that's the key conceptual difference between networks like [Mastodon/GNU-Social and Diaspora] and networks like [Hubzilla/red (and even Friendica)].
One invests a lot of time/energy into tools and policies to block undesirable people, and the other invests a lot of time finding better ways to connect with interesting people (no matter what software they use).
Jeroen
Fred
International borders often provide stark contrasts of the disparate conditions on both sides, for instance desolation and misery on one side versus abundance and a vibrant lifestyle on the other.
Here we see the US/Mexico border, with Tijauna on one side and San Diego on the other. You could hardly come up with a more striking contrast.
That's San Diego on the left.
Here we see the US/Mexico border, with Tijauna on one side and San Diego on the other. You could hardly come up with a more striking contrast.
That's San Diego on the left.
The loadaverage.org migration is taking even longer than the memorable identi.ca migration. And on that topic, identi.ca has also been down for days now.
Nomadic identity, folks. It's not just a good idea. It's a bloody great idea.
Nomadic identity, folks. It's not just a good idea. It's a bloody great idea.
Alex
Oliver
Sean Tilley
Here's an interesting idea. Create a channel; and in it, describe/document one cool Hubzilla feature every day for a year. Maybe a paragraph or two. I can pretty much guarantee there are (at least) 365 different cool features if you look for them. Once a week could also be interesting - and that could go on for years. Anybody interested?
Jason Robinson
King Emir#
Beni Grind
At this point we should all recognize that none of that actually matters. The only thing that is important now is that we need more than a hundred people in the world to have heard the name Hubzilla and have a faint idea of what it is. Any sustained level of advertising is better than what we have now, so just throw stuff out there. The community will ideally provide some feedback so it's not blatantly inaccurate.
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@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) I get the point. Just, when advertising something that already exists, keep in mind how others do the same thing, because comparison is inevitable. I experienced this many time trying to show people how linux does things they're used to do under windows, and, in my experience, direct comparison fails if we don't do the same thing better. So, for me, better to point out Hubzilla's highlights. That said, my opinion counts very little ;)
yes I like propaganda. Spreading in regular through mastodon, as they already understood the pill of why federated networks are great. ....all the next steps aren't far anymore. 
May someone likes to join in for a "official propaganda day"?
Why a specific day? Cause it creates more attention to a thirten topics if multible ppl are engaged in it.
(that doesn't mean all the other days aren't propaganda days, just this specific day would be more intense)
May someone likes to join in for a "official propaganda day"?
Why a specific day? Cause it creates more attention to a thirten topics if multible ppl are engaged in it.
(that doesn't mean all the other days aren't propaganda days, just this specific day would be more intense)
Finally found a workaround for the fact that resumable.js insists on submitting any form that is a parent of its trigger element. Basically use a fake trigger element (which is inside the form) to simulate a click on an invisible but real trigger element (outside the form).
This is a different language to most of you, so let's just say that in another few days you'll be able to upload oversized files like feature length movies and debian ISOs directly to your posts - instead of uploading them separately in WebDAV to get around internal memory limits.
This is a different language to most of you, so let's just say that in another few days you'll be able to upload oversized files like feature length movies and debian ISOs directly to your posts - instead of uploading them separately in WebDAV to get around internal memory limits.
Jake Moomaw
Mario Vavti
This turns out to be incredibly difficult. I've got the chunked upload library tied into the 'attach file' button on the editor, and that works most excellently, but I'll have to do something completely different for the cloud (webpage) upload form, and then make drag-n-drop work for both modules. Each of these tasks is going to take a week or two of fiddling. It's in the 'blue' branch of red if anybody wants to give it a go.
Waitman Gobble
James D Morgan
Sadly no - it was in Austria (not Australia). But reminds me about 3 weeks ago the wife got a call that a truck overturned and there were 150 cows on the freeway. She's the emergency management coordinator for the local shire. Sunday night at about 11PM, and the office was panicking - they couldn't find anybody to deal with the situation. There were a couple of local police available and one wildlife ranger. And 150 cows running around the freeway. Actually about 50 were killed in the accident iirc. So there was also the mess of slaughtered beef to clean up. They had to get cattle trucks and volunteers up from Goulbourne and by the time these volunteers arrived many of the cattle were lost in the darkness. It was a long night for everybody concerned.
I think this quick sketch represents approximately where we are right now.
De La Tribu
Mostly to show what's going on and sort of how the pieces connect (a picture is worth a thousand words). There are a lot of folks on Mastodon who are new to this federation thing and don't understand the relationships and what does or doesn't work from their end.
Even more accurate would be if the left side was the 'fediverse' and the right 'the federation'. Use it if you want. It ain't very neat.
Even more accurate would be if the left side was the 'fediverse' and the right 'the federation'. Use it if you want. It ain't very neat.
Nice graph!
Communication of Friendica to pump.io is bidirectional, as long as you have an account at pump.io to bridge. IIRC Mastodon is working on an implementation of the new w3c stuff, and also IIRC NextCloud too
Communication of Friendica to pump.io is bidirectional, as long as you have an account at pump.io to bridge. IIRC Mastodon is working on an implementation of the new w3c stuff, and also IIRC NextCloud too
Even more accurate would be if the left side was the 'fediverse' and the right 'the federation'. Use it if you want. It ain't very neat.
Yeah, I've been thinking about this. While the terms are at this point interchangeable, the fediverse has historically been OStatus-based microblogging, and the federation is mostly comprised of long-form content platforms.
elmussol