Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 19

Now, this brings us basically to the present. I've got an independent implementation of a proper ZigZag backend, a nice gopher client, a not-yet-working hypermedia viewer & editor using ipfs, an abandoned attempt at a hypermedia viewer/editor with a web-based front-end (meant as an alternative to Medium, but also as a trojan horse to introduce people to real transclusion), and I think I might have a curses-based zigzag frontend half-implemented somewhere.

This article was written in 2014, but it still rings true today.

https://flowerhack.dreamwidth.org/3230.html

I'm so, so glad that it's basically impossible for Mastodon to become twitter or facebook, AND that it's basically impossible for us to become Ello.

"You've been chosen," the spirit said.
"What?"
"Save the world, make it kinder, cleaner, safer."
"Me?"
"Yes."
"Alone?"
"We chose everyone."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

@bob @aral I've seen EU funding for beneficial things ranging from drugs #harmreduction, #communityradio and even tracking #bears and #wolves in countries which are currently unused to dealing with them (as they return after being hunted to extinction in previous centuries). Perhaps all strange edge cases/niche projects but they do genuinely seem useful to communities..

@jamey More info on capabilities: http://erights.org/elib/capability/index.html

Also, it turns out capabilities are naturally Principle of Least Authority + the lambda calculus http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html

@ajroach42 @staticsafe You're *so* close.

The failure to roll out IPv6 was more due to ISPs simply not wanting to sink investment in upgrading their infrastructure until the very last minute, and not so much due to malice. Malice came later once opportunists saw how they could exploit their new-found scarcity.

The ability of the Internet to "route around failures" is fundamentally predicated on the end-to-end argument being valid. You cannot have true E2E as long as you must depend on NAT.

@staticsafe TBH, I feel like the lack of IPv6 rollout support is, like, 85% about making it harder for people to self host stuff.

#PositiveNews

"Glasgow's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons chooses first female leader"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/03/glasgows-royal-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-chooses-first-female-leader

"A woman has been chosen as the president-elect of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow for the first time in its 418-year history.

"Dr Jackie Taylor will assume the role for one year, before taking on the three-year term as president of the UK’s only multidisciplinary royal college in December 2018 when Prof David Galloway’s term comes to an end."

IPv6 means I can use Let's Encrypt certs in my home LAN with their standard validation method without resorting to port forwarding bullshit.

End-to-end connectivity is so nice. It is how the internet was meant to be before our collective lack of foresight gave us NAT.

#Tor users are increasingly blocked from even trying to solve #Google #Recaptcha's (they don't get to see CAPTCHAs to solve) - this is a worrisome trend. #privacy https://mastodon.social/media/HdXXRUS7R4-DcjMJm5U

@woozle @sydneyfalk Many social, political, and business systems developments of the past ... oh, say, 500 years, and in cases significantly longer, have been engineering around this.

Either finding ways to /extend/ trust, to /work around/ it, to /mitigate/ it, or to insulate from risks.

How many #InfoSec #SysAdmin #DevOps and other techie people have dedicated servers running and not being used most of the time to their full potential? I know I do.

Surely there is a way to have them connect and create a libre cloud - think of it as SETI@Home or Folding@Home, but for running services (say, docker containers or VMs).

That could create infrastructure for people who cannot afford their own servers, but would like to play with stuff.

Silently boosting...

Sometimes I just want a message to exist on different instances, I don't want to boost it up again, and/or push it into my timeline.

There's a trick for that. If you copy paste the direct link to a post into your search-box, that instance imports it and it exists there on the federated timeline and will appear in searches.

You can find the direct link by right-clicking the post-date of a post and selecting 'copy link location'.

#mastodon

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