Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 15

@thomaswilburn For sure.

Hopefully the custom elements / shadow DOM specs will improve, though, because it's useful to have a standard around these things. E.g. some folks really prefer to stick to a standard rather than a framework which may change in 6 months. That's the other valid use case I see.

"Why I don't use web components" by Rich Harris https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2cia

Totally agree. The only major use case I see for web components is sharing small self-contained components on npm.

@srol If nothing else, I think the soundtrack still holds up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOUcAW6NA0

@AHg Thanks! You can press the left and right arrow keys... Or do you mean something else?

In case anyone is wondering about the name, there was a trend where JSON parsers were named after musical instruments.

- clarinet: https://github.com/dscape/clarinet
- oboe: https://github.com/jimhigson/oboe.js

My humble addition was, of course, the vuvuzela.

It's interesting news that JSON.parse no longer throws a stack overflow exception in V8 when the JSON is too deeply recursive: https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-76

A million years ago, I actually wrote a JSON parser to work around that: https://github.com/nolanlawson/vuvuzela

@moopet @arkag I'm not familiar with Keybase teams, but you can already link your toot.cafe account to Keybase, yes?

@anthracite Yeah we got people tooting at us too (replies), but nobody registered on toot.cafe itself.

@Gargron Maybe it would be more effective to block spammers at the signup page, before they register an account? https://toot.cafe/@nolan/102293590379775873

@v0idifier I dunno. I realize there's an API, and originally I supported it, but given the recent spambot wave I'm starting to wonder. Maybe the API itself could include the question/answer.

Long-term I would love to see Mastodon include some kind of variation on the captchas described here: https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/. I.e. individual admins could configure a custom question like "what color is the sky" or maybe a community-specific question like "speak friend and enter."

Assuming every instance chooses a different question and they're not too obvious, it would at least make it harder to build spambots that mass-register on different instances.

It seems toot.cafe has been mercifully free of the recent spambot wave. (As in, they haven't made any accounts here.) Is it only happening on instances with open registration? toot.cafe is closed but has an open invite link instead; a pretty blunt anti-spam tool, but perhaps it's working. #MastoAdmins

@puresick If you have a test case, you may want to file a bug on Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org