@Azure Instead of getting stuck, the pot keeps falling. As it plummets, teapot-shaped tunnel behind it, the ground around it begins to warm. The dirt solidifies to stone, then softens to liquid - but no matter, for one can heat a cast-iron teapot without fear of damage. Soon, the teapot is no longer falling but rising, tracking toward the surface. In a far-off country, a single worker looks up from a desk to see the ground rupture and a teapot soar upwards to space.
I’m getting ready to do more work on Calagator, a platform for community event listings. When we started, we were an alternate to Upcoming (around the time of its sale to Yahoo) and more locally relevant than Meetup. Now many communities share what they're up to on Facebook and have even less control over their data. A lot of my passion for sustainability in FLOSS comes from this project. So — I’m giving Patreon a shot https://www.patreon.com/calagator
@alcinnz@baldur …the term Differential Privacy refers to a property of the way data can be transformed in aggregate. An individual submission isn't differentially private, which is why in my blog post I used Multi-Party Computation to get a larger anonymity group first. Most papers in this field assume you have a large non-anonymous database and you need to allow people to query that data without violating privacy. But see also the older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response method.
@bellebcooper@jalcine I guess this is why compositionality feels so important to me: you should be able to pick one spec that tackles a problem of immediate importance to you and implement that without getting lost in a yak-shaving ranch. Then if necessary you should be able to implement another spec when the next problem appears, and have the two things work together. You shouldn't have to commit to a whole suite to get some benefit out of it...
@jalcine@bellebcooper Considering I met you in person at IndieWeb Summit this summer, I think you can get away with hovering in a conversation about it 😉
@bellebcooper Haha, I was asking in the first place because your post was so thoughtful I thought I might learn something from you... 😁
Okay, I really like things like WebMention and WebSub, and I don't hate microformats2. They're individually straightforward and if you use more than one they work together nicely.
I'm not sold on e.g. Microsub or the variety of post types, which are complicated and non-compositional. And I think that comes from the non-inclusive "scratch your own itch" value.
@bellebcooper I have some issues with various IndieWeb stuff myself, but I feel like on the whole their hearts are more or less in the right place... 🤷
@bellebcooper Good post! One thing I'm curious about after reading it: I see you're hosting your own blog anyway. Are you interested in the IndieWeb suite of standards, as they exist independently of micro.blog's implementation, or do you have concerns about those too?
@kity@lizardsquid yeah, it's pretty core to the workflow that Torvalds expects from the Linux kernel subsystem maintainers, but that doesn't make it less weird...