Notices by George Dorn (gdorn@social.coop), page 6

Schnack works, mostly, and let me comment on my blog using this account. But it has a giant assumption baked in: you will run your blog on one domain, and you will run Schnack on a subdomain of that same domain. My blog is at gdorn.mydomain.com/blog and I'm using an Apache Location clause to send gdorn.mydomain.com/schnack to, well, schnack.

So I'm forking it to remove this assumption or at least allow it to be overridden.

Because I don't have enough projects going already.

#schnack #foss

Are there any #blog comment systems that work with a static blog generator like #Pelican and allow Mastodon/Pleroma users to authenticate against their home instances (via Oauth)?

I am seeing #Schnack (https://schnack.cool/) in this space, but it is hard to tell how baked it is.

@gcupc I suspect they both do a full HTTP round trip for every request, but I don't actually know for certain. Mastodon isn't really designed to scale down to a level where this optimization would matter, and Pleroma tackles the problem by leaning really hard on concurrency to avoid caring about the overhead.

Tangentially, I wonder if there is a difference in average toot length between instances, a result of the expected delay in delivery between instances...

I tend to write long screeds, imagining the fediverse to be more like FidoNet or Email (it'll get there eventually) but I've definitely seen other users treat it more like chat (a toot for every sentence in a reply, piling up messages and expecting them to be delivered in near real-time)...

Given how chatty the federation implementation is in Mastodon (and Pleroma as a result), has there been any effort to bundle API calls and save on HTTP overhead? This is something I'd normally throw in the 'premature optimization' bucket, but I gather this is a serious concern for smaller instances.

Maybe something like HTTP pipelining? Or multiplexing?

@measlytwerp

I miss #FidoNet, and to a lesser degree, #UseNet.

#UngoogledChromium is a nice, quiet relaxing browser experience. Worth trying if you're a #Chrome user.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

(I can only use it for single-tab sessions because it still doesn't implement MRU tab order for tab switching...)

@autogestion Unfortunately I don't have much choice, as the project I'm working on aims to support multiple existing mastodon/pleroma clients, so we need to do what they support.

#Oauth2 is a mess. As usual when a standard is a mess, it's because it is incomplete, very much like #ActivityPub.

As the number of services grows, the chances of smooth interoperability goes way, way down. In the case of Oauth2, this is because every Oauth2 library, every Oauth2-supporting service, every Oauth2-consuming client has a different idea of how access tokens are to be handed off from provider to client, especially if the client is not another website (e.g. #fedilab).

@tom79
I'm working on a PR to an oauth library. In my resaurch I noticed that Pleroma and Mastodon have very different templates for handing off the oauth access-token using the `urn:ietf:...` redirect_uri.

I wondered if you could point me to where in the fedilab source you deal with this problem, and if you had any insights into how services _should_ implement that token handoff?

@humanetech @aral

Heh, I just came here to point out zebrasunite.com as well.

One thing that's still missing from this picture - a job board. I'm currently looking (while working on several open-source side projects) but finding a programming gig that isn't ad-tech or b2b enterpriseware is hard.

The intersection of (part-time, remote, python/django, not-ad-tech) jobs is the null set.

I wonder what % of software development hours is spent pretending to optimize which ads to try to show to users who don't want to see them.

The '2' in oauth2 is an exponent, referring to the level of complexity.

@emsenn I feel like the later ages are underdeveloped. I want the ability to pay off raiders, draw them into my culture and turn them into productive trading partners.

@emsenn
I played a ton of it over the weekend.

One thing I like is how accurately it models free time throughout the ages. In the very early game, once the food and shelter problems have been solved, the people have tons of free time. But by the iron age, the food and shelter problems have long been solved and everybody is busy almost all the time.

Even in the far north with the extra-long winters, my young tribe spends most of their time idling, chatting, playing...

Mastodon's notion that everything is a Status is a major conceptual shortcoming. It was fine when the only thing on the fediverse was microblogging*, but now that other types exist the metaphor is getting strained, and it has ramifications for other projects trying to federate with the "default" platform**.

It will only get weirder when single platforms have multiple types.

* Technically never the case.
** Removing the default produces an opportunity to fix this.

@cloud Count me in!

@garbados @deutrino I was really into the idea of joining a hackerspace, until I discovered how much most of them cost. Maybe Free Geek would be into providing space and cheap gear to hack on, if somebody had the spell slots free to organize it...

I'm indecisive about exactly what I want to do, though. Ideas:

- Switch to EE, or something with embedded systems.
- Focus on AI, mostly to do some good in a pretty craptastic field.
- Get whatever degree gets me into a management role, because even though I don't want to manage, good managers are incredibly rare and maybe I could be one.
- Move to an adjacent field via computer modeling, like economics or statistics.

My self-imposed underemployment of late has me thinking about a career change, or an upgrade. This might involve going back to school for a masters degree in something.

Is there a good source to browse available graduate programs in my area? I haven't looked into this in ~15 years.