Don't you like it when they deprecate your build tools? I'm looking at you, setup.py.

And want you to do something "much better" (hatch) that promptly silently doesn't package one of your files? (test.py -- it's named that way because it's a subcommand and why should I name it something less comprehensible?)

And for which no documentation can be found that addresses your problem? So you get the source, and randomly poke about? Well this random power was successful but can we maybe do better?

In other news, in a long pitched battle between the Postgres permission system and the uneducated horde a the gate, the now not as uneducated horde -- me -- can report to have won the contested territory. I wonder though whether I can hold it, given how things have been going.

That is a good handle for a root user :-) @omnipotens

The W3C Social Web Community Interest Group -- the home of #ActivityPub -- has a new chair, Dmitri Zagidulin aka @dmitri! This is excellent news for the future of ActivityPub and the broader #fediverse.

Dmitri has long, broad, relevant experience both technically and organizationally in the W3C and outside, and I'm very happy he stepped up to take on this rather challenging task.

At speed. He's already organizing the first meeting! Let's all help him get the group to accomplish much!

“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?

“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

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.

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?

The spam in Latin is the best.

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.