Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 25

i'm sorry, i should say: alleged release soon

following up with contacts at, for example, redhat (who would surely be involved in such an embargo) say they have no idea what this is about

*** Very bad! WeeChat is crashing (SIGSEGV received)
*** Full crash dump was saved to /home/kaniini/.weechat/weechat_crash_20180118_36420.log file.
***
*** Please help WeeChat developers to fix this bug:
*** 1. If you have a core file, please run: gdb /path/to/weechat core
*** then issue command: "bt full" and send result to developers
*** (see user's guide for more info about report of crashes).
*** 2. Otherwise send backtrace (below), only if it is a complete trace.
*** Keep the crash log file, just in case developers ask you some info
*** (be careful, private info like passwords may be in this file).

i feel like the universe is telling me to uninstall my IRC client

modern CPUs were a mistake (release soon) https://skyfallattack.com/

of course this is no substitute for properly abstracting the i/o parts of your libraries to support asyncio natively in 2018

in practice calling loop.run_until_complete from a non-async function called from an async function is basically the same thing as awaiting the non-async function

what this means in practice is that a synchronous abstraction layer can become async by using loop.run_until_complete while the loop is already running

@Gargron

ah i see. the magic key is reused in the AP actor as publicKey property.

got it :)

@Gargron what about authentication? i heard something about HTTP Signatures. how does that work?

@Gargron

ah. i am trying to make sure my activitypub implementation is compatible with yours, so i figured i would ask :)

@Gargron nevermind i see what it is for now

@Gargron what is mastodon's .well-known/host-meta for?

@cj

yes, only some activities that are linked straight to database entities are handled in this way.

for what it's worth, the guy who runs #party on all of these irc networks himself is pretty harmless.

you could reach him as tatee on EFnet, for example.

of course, i suggest to network operators to verify that the partyline content is acceptable for the environment they are trying to operate though, as the partyline bot's owner leaves the moderation policy to the network operators themselves (by giving them access to various commands).

i did mention to him that he should probably include contact information in his note giving instructions on how to operate the bot though. i suspect he will do so in the next version of that pastebin...

@dzuk i choose to cease

scw-955c00:~/eshu$ ESHU_CONFIG=site_settings.py python3 -m eshu.manager.initdb
INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl PostgresqlImpl.
INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume transactional DDL.

:o

more activitypub notes:

follow/block = interaction with account object

favourite/reblog = interaction with any activity object (mastodon always uses a Note)

content warning = Note.summary and Note.sensitive == true (does this mean mastodon will render a summary with expanded content if Note.sensitive == false though? if not, why not? seems useful)