Johannes Ernst
Making glazed citron from this recipe and the lemons in the front yard. I’m on the last day, trying to get it to 235deg F. Somehow (heh!) the temperature doesn’t want to rise above 212. I think I made some kind of scientific discovery /s https://www.davidlebovitz.com/making-glazed-candied-fruit-citron-recipe/
Johannes Ernst
We need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete. We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web needs it!
moirearty
@J12t yeah, their timing on this one in particular is pretty wrong. But I think it’s part of rolling out the reality to people because it’ll become obvious to everyone soon so they have to start circulating some of the truth to citizens. Especially important to build support for xenophobic and insular policy making which will become the norm across the wealthy world in order to refuse the throngs of climate refugees.
Johannes Ernst
Hey @mikedev, because something related came up recently, checking in what exactly you are working on with respect to nomadic identity and Mastodon? Patches? Protocol? ...? Any place I can see something?
Johannes Ernst
A perfect Northern California day today. Sun, quite warm, but not too warm yet, still mostly lush vegetation, and if you could see the mountains, there would still be snow. If you ever think of traveling to #California, I recommend May.
Johannes Ernst
Rachel provides two key reasons (my phrasing): 1. #Threads wants to be the best place where people have relevant, public, real-time conversations, and the #fediverse is the means by which people can find the audiences that are best for those conversations, because not all of them will be on Threads. 2. The fediverse is a compelling way for creators to own their audiences in a way they aren't able to own on other apps today.
Johannes Ernst
OpenAI’s pitch to publishers. https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-program-deck/
Johannes Ernst
Jack Dorsey interview post-#Bluesky. Whatever you think of him, his views on why he helped getting Bluesky started in the first place are interesting. I wonder which of those might apply to the Fediverse (which he doesn't mention at all). https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana 
crabmusket
@J12t Jeez that was mind-numbing. The history was interesting, especially that he set it up without his own control, which... allowed it to be what it now is. Ignoring that the fediverse exists and that bluesky is protocol-based just makes it seem like he has an ideological axe to grind. 
INPC
@J12t I don’t think the Fedi is an interest as it’s never been a ‘free speech’ platform. I’ve been using Nostr and it’s clear that he’s into it from his posts there. His words match his actions so regardless of any opinions, he’s doing what he feels is important. I prefer the vibe of the Fedi to Nostr but the protocol is cool and opens up some possibilities… but has edgy 4 Chan types, I don’t like that. I don’t care about X. Let Elno play with his toys and leave me out of it.
Johannes Ernst
"Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web". Online webinar, sponsored by Meta. Just fluttered into my inbox. https://www.privacylaws.com/events-gateway/events/fediverse2024/
Johannes Ernst
“Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT” Yet another amazing the-not-exploitative-alternative business opportunity.
Johannes Ernst
Protocol-invention-itis: A widespread disease among software developers. Like for other diseases, a simple vaccination -- ahem, a bit of research on what exists already -- can eliminate 90% of the outbreaks. Just sayin'.
Aaron Suddjian
@J12t This makes me wonder if there could be an easily searchable encyclopedia of protocols and formats like there is for integer sequences.
Johannes Ernst
Broken temperature records for every single day over the entire last year.
Johannes Ernst
Call me crazy, but maybe presidents who get themselves indicted shouldn't have their criminal trials presided over by judges they themselves appointed.
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Peter Brown
@rbreich it would at least give a better impression of the administration of genuine Justice.
John R :verified:
@rbreich Senators and Representatives in Congress don’t get to vote during an Impeachment when they are known to be complicit. We wouldn’t have a Trump problem if this were the norm.
Johannes Ernst
So #Bluesky is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public. I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe #ActivityPub is next? 
Jari Pennanen
@J12t I don't think Jack had a lot of weight on their decisions. The reason they didn't do DMs from the get-go is the same as why they were late when it mattered. They didn't have a product, and they are still building it. 
Liaizon Wakest
@J12t would be really cool to just colab on this since we dont have a DM protocol yet either
Anuj Ahooja
@J12t Meanwhile, the efforts going into DMs in the #Fediverse are aiming to be at the protocol level: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/112406758427466857
Johannes Ernst
Nice that somebody states publicly what has long been obvious in private. +2.5-3°C this century. Not 1.5°C.
Johannes Ernst
Today I learned: display: flow-root which solves a real problem for me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78439601/shrink-border-of-a-html-element-which-shares-space-with-a-floating-element #CSS
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The folks at @19thnews are committed to covering voting rights in this very important election - as they should. It's worth your time to take a look. If you have the means, consider supporting their work. https://19thnews.org/2024/05/voting-rights-coverage-2024/
Johannes Ernst
"The application/x-www-form-urlencoded format is in many ways an aberrant monstrosity," Tell it as it is. From a WhatWG's spec. https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#application/x-www-form-urlencoded |
Gregory's Server
@J12t if you haven't done much work with candy or sugar in general the process can be a bit vague. Usually up to waters boiling point (depending on your altitude) the temperature rise is quite fast. After the water starts boiling the only way for it to get hotter is by boiling off water and having a higher sugar to water ratio. This can take a long time and this ratio is the only thing that affects the temperature, since you can never be hotter than the boiling point of your liquid.
Duuhhhh … turns out the silly Bluetooth thermometer also has a 212F limit, and doesn’t indicate it!! So I’ve been burning my citron while waiting for it to get hotter!!