Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 28

@emsenn I learned everything about it from the sample PDFs that come with it. If you can’t find the files on your system, take a look at the source repo: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex
Sample handout pdf and sample book pdf are the two files you look at and the corresponding Tex files have the code.

@emsenn Haha. 😃 No worries. I fixed the link. If you want to learn more, this should be the place to start: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Halberds_and_Helmets

@clew I have no idea? Is that true? I would have thought it was airlines, but I know nothing about timezone history. But I guess you're right: apparently the idea that it's "the same time" in a region was introduced because of the railway. Before that, every single point just said it was noon when the sun was at the zenith, haha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#Railway_time

@splendorsolis oh no! I know that they really don’t like changing their pot. So once you change the pot, they might refuse to bloom for a year or two (happened to us!) – and conversely we keep them in a dark, dry cellar for a few weeks between October and January which apparently increases the likelihood of blooming. Those are the only two things I know. Good luck next year!

@cj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP#History
But basically it's this: to push ahead with something that works, prove its utility, weather the storm of all the people who wanted to have a say but didn't want to put in the hours, and you're right in the middle of all the social conflicts ever. I don't think it's easy, but at the same time I often think this is how stuff gets done.

@asjo I just started reading it. Haha, the section about vending machines!

@jos Specially since there's a wiki extension for RSS: https://communitywiki.org/wiki/WikiModule
So we can get richer meta data from other wikis supporting it. Adding support for remote comments and favourites seem to be the only two things that really require something totally different from RSS.

@jos Other ideas would be spreading the namespace, even without the page content. This allows us to Near Link https://communitywiki.org/wiki/NearLink without federating page content.
But full federation would be interesting, too. I don't think that wiki editors would follow wiki editors on other sites, but one wiki admin could decide to pull in all the pages from another AP enabled wiki, for example. We could do it via a complete import using RSS, though.
@kensanata @cj

@jos Well, my blog is a wiki, and it has comment pages. Currently you can follow @kensanata which is the feed of the blog pages on my wiki, but if you comment on it, nobody gets notified, and the comments don't show up on the wiki, either. That would be a first step, I think.
The next element would be integrating favourites. Those would be interesting activities from other actors back to the wiki.
@cj

Today the light is better! #Hippeastrum #Photography

@hcs But! But! You dunked a perfectly fine croissant into coffee!? I have visions of my mom doing it and the thought of the soggy mess still makes me cry nearly forty years later. 😭

@hcs uuugh! Sign of a dry croissant! I’d never do it. But my mom did it too and she is French and grew up in Paris so guess I shouldn’t be surprised. 😆

@lyliawisteria at the office I mostly run Bitlbee Mastodon in the background and then I click on the links of the text or description makes me want to click through, and then they open in a text browser, and there I can click another thing to get them to open in the 4GB browser you mentioned at the beginning. Trying to get used to a more spartan online experience. 😀

@cj i also don’t mind developers implementing something first and then writing about it Dave Winer (RSS, XML-RPC) style. First versions may be flawed but they solve a problem and then better solutions evolve.
@kaniini

@cj i was thinking about @kaniini who said the protocol needed work and extensions and that needed coordinating between developers of the various platforms but the next step is organizing. So my fantasy is somebody bringing others onboard, and people meeting at a conference getting onboard, and a proposal written, an old school RFC with two independent implementations, that kind of thing.