@jackdaw_ruiz the chapter about huey lewis and the news is, for me, the highlight of the (objectively overlong) novel and the best few pages that guy ever wrote, AFAIK
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me putting on the American Psycho plastic poncho and talking about how the Deftones self-titled album, which exists in the shadow of being the followup release after the critically lauded White Pony, doesn't get it's due. but its visceral, intensely he... -
Today was a huge milestone in our quest to federate #Flipboard and tear down the walls around our own walled garden.First, we launched a new version of Flipboard for iOS and Android which brings the promise of two way federation to life. Now when a fed...@mike LFG
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love me a good backlash against a celebrity bullyhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/rossyoder/momofuku-david-chang-chili-crunch-trademark-dramalove me a good backlash against a celebrity bully
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Here's a weird, maybe misguided ActivityPub protocol question:Let's say I have an Thermometer actor that honors Follow activity messages.Would it be weird if that Thermometer later sent off different activities depending on the type of Actor that had f...@lmorchard (it might also be worth looking at different relay actors for different activity types, like this kinda thingy: https://github.com/noellabo/pub-relay )
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Here's a weird, maybe misguided ActivityPub protocol question:Let's say I have an Thermometer actor that honors Follow activity messages.Would it be weird if that Thermometer later sent off different activities depending on the type of Actor that had f...@lmorchard "extended actor type" -- extended how? `"type":"Service", "WeatherMonitor"` (extension of Service, i.e. one of the AS "core types"[^1]) or `WeatherMonitor` as *only* type? I think most software would treat your monitor actor as a service even if it didn't know (or care to find out) what a weather monitor is, i.e. the way it treats all bots, so it might be a safer interop approach.
Maybe I'm missing forest for the trees, tho[^1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#actor-types
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@nonlinear very confusing to see another nonlinear wearing a DISCORD sweatshirt over on warpcast. i think you two have to fight for the handle!https://warpcast.com/bravojohnson/0xb74a03a6@nonlinear very confusing to see another nonlinear wearing a DISCORD sweatshirt over on warpcast. i think you two have to fight for the handle!
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anyway, Edera is officially a thing now. if you're a VC, give us money. or don't. i don't care what you do.@ariadne honestly it might be worth applying for grants from big bad cloud megacorps, anything that makes containerization safer might be something they can dole out a little R&D budget to? are there any grant application whisperers in your cabal?
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Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) can be divided into 3 categories, depending on where the authority resides:- Secret key (did:key, did:pkh).- Server (did:web).- Blockchain (hundreds of them).With a #DID derived from a secret key you can truly own your ...@bnewbold @silverpill @erlend @cmdrmoto I'm not sure if i can be physically present in Vancouver, but whether or not I am, i am definitely down to chat between now and then, as well as during the week of IETF whatever time zone i'm in
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A new bill would try to make tools like Zoom and Teams work together securely https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24119268/wyden-secure-interoperable-goverment-collaboration-technology-act-encryption@verge ron wyden is the best
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Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) can be divided into 3 categories, depending on where the authority resides:- Secret key (did:key, did:pkh).- Server (did:web).- Blockchain (hundreds of them).With a #DID derived from a secret key you can truly own your ... -
I understand what they're getting at but just to nitpick the subhed: Joining the military is not the most American thing possible https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/magazine/guantanamo-spy-case.html@howelloneill depends what you think America was built to do. if america at war is great britain 2.0 working as designed... then maybe joining up at 18 actually *is* more american than, you know, contributing to the health of the social fabric .
(not trying to reply-guy, just agreeing with you cynically that the headline assumes a pretty grim definition of america's mission)
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Who are the early-career people in tech that inspire you or give you hope with their work or their ideas?@anildash do people early in their second or third careers count
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/me flips the "Days since I have been required to be in a client's Teams instance" sign to 0@luis_in_brief @ryansingel @danhon i'm tagged in this thread and i don't like it
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so google spied on its users in incognito mode AND sold the information off, and they're planning to kill adblockers, and people still won't use firefox. ridiculous@rogueren @eniko right, sorry, i didn't literally mean there being two engines (i know firefox isn't blink), i mean there "being two" effectively, on the same footing in the market, i.e. two engines that frontend devs feel market pressure, not moral pressure, to test against and build for. as is, firefox support is kind of "opt-in" and mostly opted into for ideological reasons, which is never a great strategy for long-term survival...
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so google spied on its users in incognito mode AND sold the information off, and they're planning to kill adblockers, and people still won't use firefox. ridiculous@eniko please don't take this the wrong way, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Googleit's the definition of loyal opposition-- google literally props up mozilla to look like competition so that they won't be called a monopoly. i'm not sure using mozilla hurts google in any way, or brings us any closer to multiple browser engines-- they literally bankroll firefox for us to feel like we have a choice, and for journos to sound crazy when they talk about it.
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The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.It's communities vs markets.Communities are supportive and market...@Whisperwind @fromjason blessèd be the policy wonks adept at addressing the upstreamest problems like indefatigable salmon
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The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.It's communities vs markets.Communities are supportive and market...@Whisperwind @fromjason that might be an upstream problem. seemingly nothing necessary and good is politically tenable in today's US... it's like the 250-yr-old constitution itself is what's untenable, or at least how it's interpreted in the two-party electoral system, world-historical unaccountable military-industrial complex eisenhower warned us about, citizen's united, and states' rights quagmire. strongly agree there's 1000 ways premature and rigid regs would backfire on this issue, tho.
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The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.It's communities vs markets.Communities are supportive and market...@MayInToronto @fromjason @Whisperwind (to OP's comment about the FCC being the joke in your town, I would actually lay as much blame on the FTC pre-Biden as on the FCC itself, which was kinda hamstrung and hollowed out due to cold war shenanigans for decades before AOL and Comcast created today's oligoposcape)