Gregory's Server
“The user authenticated with the client server.” Maybe I shouldn’t be reading specs late at night, but count me befuddled. What did that user do exactly to whom exactly?
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“Oh for f’s sake is something I do not say aloud, but think vehemently at my coffee while I count to FF in hexadecimal.” @cstross in “Escape from Yokai Land”. I guess I gotta try some time. Looking for a good #peertube instance to host #Fediforum demo videos (of #fediverse apps). Any recommendations?  There’s a chance that 12 months from now, we’ll only have half as many banks as now imho. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/investing/pacwest-bank/index.html These are too good not to share. Trust me, I'm an engineer!! From https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/hotsec15_slides_green.pdf So I've been working with HTTP since early 1994. And I was today years old to learn that HTTP has "trailer fields". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Trailer  @J12t Wait, what!?!? Is that actually supported by clients? It looks like a client has to explicitly express support for it. Looks like the browsers do. I guess this is one of those HTTP/1.1 features that I never ran across. Weird. @J12t It is kinda hidden (and specific to) Chunked Encoding, which may be why I never really noticed it. Interesting though! If anybody thought that unaccountable internet companies are not so bad, here is exhibit number 49321 or such: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-threatens-reassign-npr-twitter-account-npr-says-2023-05-03/ World Press Freedom Index: “85% of people live in countries where media freedom has declined in the past five years” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/03/media-freedom-in-dire-state-in-record-number-of-countries-report-finds Asking others what they really mean, and why, in some more detail, is underrated. Just saying. @J12t This is a good point, yes (though feels ironic to conclude it with ‘just saying’, since that’s exactly what you’re suggesting moving beyond!). The #Bluesky suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers. What can we learn from that in the #fediverse?
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 @J12t Bluesky is new and people are hungry for others to follow? I'm a little confused about why you come to the conclusion that suggested follower experience works. *You* get followed so that means it works? How about on the other side? Have you followed any suggested accounts, and what has the experience been? Were they good suggestions? That would be interesting to hear about too. So what is that “identity manager” you speakest of, @mike ? Curious minds would love to know. :-) Created my first repo on codeberg. First impression: really nice! Second impression: really slow! Third impression: HTTP 500 and just where did my repo go when I tried to rename it??? Fortunately it had barely anything in it. So I filed an issue against #codeberg. And they fixed the problem within the hour!! Volunteer organization, operated out of Germany, where it is the middle of the night going into a long weekend. Wow! I guess I need to figure out how to donate a bit to them.  @J12t Yeah, in the busiest hours it is sometimes really slow. They are working on it, but the growth has been pretty steep. I want to introduce the term "Territory" to cyberspace. A Territory is a subset of cyberspace that is governed by the same entity. E.g. when I visit a website, I enter the Territory that the website belongs to, necessarily subjecting myself to the governance in effect in that Territory. That may include TOS, content moderation policy, required payments and fees (e.g. app store cuts) etc This makes it easy to talk about "the rules", because it's just like crossing borders in the physical world. So Facebook and Instagram are built on Meta Territory, and that's largely a Zuck autocracy. Twitter is now a private fief Territory of Elon. While social.coop, from whose Territory I write this, is a democracy. @spreadmastodon@mastodon.social : Given the considerations here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110260436878159223, have you considered not steering new Mastodon users to mastodon.social at all? Otherwise your very efforts to bring new users to a "decentralized" social network makes it more centralized, no? /cc @tchambers @davidslifka @feditips @spreadmastodon@venera.social  @J12t @spreadmastodon @tchambers @feditips @spreadmastodon@venera.social Hi Johannes, thanks! Did you see the essay that I wrote on this topic? What do you think? https://medium.com/@davidslifka_86286/how-to-decentralize-social-media-6ae35a49ac46 Hey @SocialCoop, I have 40 notifications but regardless what I do, they never go away in the web interface. Something strange in your Mastodon server configuration? @davew OmniOutliner Pro, current version, has an option to export the data to file format "Plain text (Symantec MORE 3.1)". Thought you might get a chuckle out of that.  |
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