Christopher Allan Webber cwebber@identi.ca
Madison, United States
GNU MediaGoblin founder, former Creative Commons software engineer, python hacker, free software enthusiast, maker of weird drawings See: http://dustycloud.org/ (Any pronouns are okay.)
2019-02-04T13:27:54Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Hi! I haven't logged in here for a while. How's everyone doing?
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2018-06-06T04:43:28Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Whoa, Unicode really did get a Copyleft symbol? https://glitch.social/@a_character/100155946276956781
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RMS will be proud! =)
ActivityPub for GNU Social GSoC
2018-04-24T13:53:05Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Congrats to Diogo Cordeiro on getting a GSoC internship this summer to add ActivityPub to GNU Social! And thanks to GNU Social maintainer mmn-o for mentoring!
GNU Social is a social communication software used in federated social networks. In a federated social network user data stays in user's server instead of a centralized one. Given that, standards were created in order to make the communication between different softwares in a social federated context possible. ActivityPub is the newer and covers parts out of OStatus's specification, namely the app/client development. Because of this and other benefits, GNU Social is looking forward to support this new protocol. The project idea aims at developing a plugin (as GNU Social is true to the Unix-philosophy of small programs to do a small job) that will implement the ActivityPub Protocol in GNU Social.
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Federating the Onions
2018-04-23T16:50:48Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
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How about federating garlic, huh?
Dracula demands it!! 🧛 🦇
JanKusanagi at 2018-04-23T18:45:23Z
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2018-04-17T14:41:15Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Hello! I haven't logged on here for a while. How are folks?
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hello
I'm fine, nice to see you around!
Laura Arjona Reina at 2018-04-18T07:58:28Z
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Heading outside to clean up the neighborhood soon. Sun is shining, though it's cold for April.
I haven't logged on myself in a while. but I mostly only see random weather forecasts on my feed, and the Twitter bridge went down so I don't even post much since I'd have to make the post twice 😐
ActivityPub guest post on the FSF blog
2018-01-24T04:05:05Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
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Yay!Jason Self at 2018-01-24T04:06:08Z
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Loved reading this, Chris, as well as the post on your personal blog! Congrats <3ActivityPub is a real standard now!
2018-01-23T16:10:02Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation! Yes! At last! Finally!
Let your social networks be free!
ActivityPub was basically 3 years of my life, and there were points were I wasn't sure if the time and energy I was spending on it was worth it. I'm sure it was today. Thank you everyone who participated in the standards process, have implemented... or are going to implement! You made it all worth it!
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maravilloso!!
Hmmm, I see your profile here needs some updating xD
JanKusanagi at 2018-01-24T20:25:09Z
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Congratulations!
On a related note, I stumbled upon a progress report of the FreedomBox project. In it they talk about integrating distributed social networks and in particular about Diaspora and GNU Social. How about someone bringing ActivityPub and accompanying implementations to their attention?
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2018-January/008242.htmlMarko Dimjašević at 2018-01-25T18:56:03Z
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I can't wait to release the version of pump.io with AP supportEvan Prodromou at 2018-01-25T21:46:23Z
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2017-11-25T05:22:37Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Took today off, mostly. Reading Mark S. Miller's thesis (about 1/4 of the way through)... an incredible read
2017-11-22T15:43:35Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
W3C Social Community Group meeting at the top of the hour! https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2017-11-22 Hope to see you there!
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2017-11-22T05:38:10Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
BTW, today ActivityPub got voted to go to Proposed Recommendation in the Social Working Group!
Which means that at this point it's up to W3C membership and management to move it to the space of it being an official spec.
The implementation reports page is looking pretty good too!
Now I really need a rest...
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@cwebber@identi.ca congratulations!
Diane Trout at 2017-11-22T16:44:14Z
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2017-11-14T23:00:13Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I'm a big fan of emacs and I'm a big fan of object capabilities
but I have bad news folks, we will never be able to combine these
Never is a pretty long time...Jason Self at 2017-11-15T01:27:55Z
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2017-11-13T19:27:20Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Hm I guess I haven't been posting here enough lately! https://octodon.social/@cwebber has been capturing all my brainshare.
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I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for identica and mastodon to interoperate. I hear they're both working towards ActivityPub, so it should happen...Screwtape at 2017-11-14T02:29:45Z
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2017-10-05T19:51:28Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Whitepaper I'm drafting with Mark S. Miller (!!!) on building a capabilities system on top of Linked Data Signatures
Also HOLY SHIT MARK S. MILLER OFFERED TO BE CO-AUTHOR ON A WHITEPAPER WITH ME OMG
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* shamefully looks up who this miller person is *
> Project Xanadu
> invented Miller columns [which apparently is the tree visualization with one column per hierarchical level that is now used in every file system browser everywhere]
OMG man that is epic.clacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2017-10-06T01:42:24Z
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Also wrote papers together with Eric Drexler:
http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.htmlclacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2017-10-06T03:06:48Z
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> This paper examines markets as a model for computation and proposes a framework--agoric systems--for applying the power of market mechanisms to the software domain.
> Algorithms that manage processor time and storage in ways that enable both conventional computation and market-based decision making will be useful in establishing agoric systems: they lie at the boundary between design and evolution. Algorithms are described in detail.
> This comparison suggests that a form of ecosystem here termed a direct market (as opposed to the indirect market of human society) is a promising basis for computational ecosystems.
In 1988. Very cool.clacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2017-10-06T03:11:15Z
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2017-09-22T23:32:46Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached.
Uh, "most" weren't breached, which means "some" were... were votes changed?
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Other stories indicate that attacks were on voter registration systems rather than the voting systems themselves. As a former poll judge, I can easily say that that's the attack surface you gotta worry about. If you don't have an accurate voter roll even the dead can vote perhaps repeatedly in that Chicago way.
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2017-09-23T00:22:48Z
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The American Yawp
2017-09-22T21:10:32Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Sounds cool, but from a quick look at the front page, seems like it should be "The US Yawp", hosted at usyawp.com =)
EvanCoin
2017-09-22T02:20:58Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
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I think auctioning off time outside of work and sleep seems pretty exhausting, especially adding the extra time management work. But hey, I think it'll be an interesting piece of performance art regardless. ;)
Good luck Evan(Coin)!
At the sociotechnological edge, as always! Go Evan!
not sure I'll ever actually see anythingCoin until you can get them at an atm with a printer in it :-) ..2017-09-21T14:19:08Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Oh hey look! Peter Mikkelsen got Godot packaged in Guix (apparently my half-baked patch helped)!
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DRM will unravel the Web
2017-09-19T03:11:38Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
A blogpost, and a deep sigh of despair.
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Nothing says we have to keep the web around forever.
@cwebber@identi.ca maybe it's time for a hypertext environment built on org mode and ipfs. More seriously we need a way to balance protecting user freedom & privacy with a fair to everyone funding method
maybe people need to write more browsers
(so that we don't end up with only two or three browser engines being used by 99%)
... and encourage websites to not implement things that only a couple of browsers can do.
I don't like the idea of not being able to trust the browser2017-09-07T15:33:26Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I was wondering this morning, for people who are ok with a neo-nazi rally because "well it's free speech"... what percentage of those people would be okay with an ISIS rally? White terrorism gets a pass.
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It's called getting them right where we want them...for facial recognition and data capture. You don't necessarily need a warrant to take pictures at an open-air event where faces and people are openly visible to the naked eye. If they self-identify now, it can help with establishing motive if criminal acts occur later.
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2017-09-07T17:21:33Z
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I don't think one has to be "ok with" people saying repulsive things in order to believe that it should be their right. And I say "right" in the sense that it's the sort of thing that the government shouldn't have the power to stop.
That said, making actual (even if vaguely specified) threats is something that can and should be prosecuted.
And yeah, if ISIS were to hold a rally without engaging in or threatening violence, I'd be all for it. Well, all for not stopping it anyhow.Splicer at 2017-09-08T01:18:49Z
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Dunno about the US, but in Sweden both neonazis and ISIS fans -- and other radical islamists -- hold demos. At the point where they (both) encourage people to destroy the state of Israel or encourage violence against jews in general, they get prosecuted for hate speech.2017-09-05T20:05:41Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
As a side note, I definitely think the Social Community Group has been well served by using Mumble; it's libre and everyone seems to be able to use it without difficulty. I'd love to see more standards groups pick it up.
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+1 for Mumble. The server is very simple to set up on Debian-like systems too. If I recall correctly, it's just and
apt-get install mumble-serverand the installer asks for default password.Ben Sturmfels at 2017-09-06T05:34:06Z
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