Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 44

#introductions

i'm tao! i studied computer science and philosophy and for the last year i've been living and working in #copenhagen (though i'm moving to #edinburgh soon). i'm into computer security, privacy, philosophy, and politics (and the intersections between these). in the near future i'm hoping to become better at vegan cooking & to explore scotland's nature!

@mayel So the goal for much of 2018 is trying to arrive to a situation where I can say: "Okay, this is not awesome, but this design will be good enough to get started if all these networks can send messages and content to each other."

It will probably extend into 2019, and 2019 will be the year when we begin to see some actual convergent implementations.

@mayel Part of the hypercoop work is an abstraction layer to make AP interop with IPFS. Studying SSB, GNUNet, and DAT trying to generalise that. I think there are enough commonalities to at least give it a try.

I made an early attempt last year trying to do that for the old Mastodon protocol and IPFS, but it soon became evident that wasn't the way to go, standing on shifting sands.

A longer version of this XKCD is the HOPE panel on voting machines.
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hope/videos/178158572 https://social.coop/media/8UbR6FcKQIqcLlO6HXY

The way I see it, ActivityPub is the decentralised method we're paving the way for the distributed web.

People are educating themselves and with the fediverse having surpassed critical mass beyond the 1 million-user mark, it's now practically unstoppable.

In about a year from now we'll be seeing the beginning of the convergence between the decentralised-web, with the distributed-whatever that goes next.

It's not that those technologies are immature. It's that they haven't converged yet.

I don’t necessarily feel super driven to toot about programming languages stuff all the time, but if anybody has questions about PL research, formal semantics, type theory, ML languages (including Rust), academic computer science, etc., I’ll always try to do my best to answer them. 😊

First installment in the @mozhacks@twitter.com Dweb series!

@andrestaltz@twitter.com shows you how to build your own communities with Secure Scuttlebutt.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-social-feeds-with-secure-scuttlebutt/

#Introductions

I'm Chris, a POC from a US ghetto, worked as a social worker and STEM teacher for poor, homeless, immigrant and largely non-white kids in America's inner-city slum. I'm a one-person indie game dev, and my games are personal reflections of my experiences.

I've been doing gamedev for 25+ years, my largest project to date is Neofeud, a cyberpunk adventure game. I made it while teaching full time, and homeless, w/ my wife and kids living in the back of a Mazda Tribute. Cuz America.

Software engineers versus other engineers.

Anyway, hi, I'm an internet linguist!

You might know me from writing linguistics articles at The Toast (RIP)

These days I cohost a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (lingthusiasm.com) and I'm writing a book in defense of internet language which'll be out with Penguin in 2019 gretchenmcculloch.com/book

#intro