Notices by Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social), page 38

@piggo That was my thought.

@emsenn @yaaps One thing I might do before I try to do before I put any effort in to signatures is to take the public post RSS feeds for a couple of users, convert those to MD and yaml as test files, and try doing something with those posts that I can read from my palm pilot or whatever.

Test case, does it work.

Then start working on the tools to build new markdown posts and decide what to do with them.

@piggo Measured the output.

At full speed, it is pushing around 2.5 volts at around .16 amps, for a total of .4 watts.

The LED replacement bulbs I'm seeing want 3 volts or more.

@emsenn @yaaps Neat!

I'm going to give some more thought to to how I want the signature bit to work, and what potential abuses I am aware of, and then I might try to hack up a prototype.

@yaaps Yeah, some yaml and some markdown is the idea.

@marnanel @emsenn Nothing color on the printer. Dots are in black and white just like everything else. There's no way for it to generate color.

I don't understand the question about the cartridge.

@magaman77 A lot of websites work this way now.

This is similar to full-page caching, but it's safer (no executables on the website).

and yeah, text files are slower than databases on the same hardware. I've done some tests with my blog setup. It'd take about 15 seconds to rebuild my blog from DB. IT takes about 30 seconds to do it from text files.

@magaman77

I ... No.

Have you just never used a static site generator before? Stuff like Jekyll.

This isn't for real time updates. It's probably not even for websites.

sync your file store, rebuild the interface, browse the updates.

Might take a few minutes to build, but load times would be essentially instant.

Interact with the updates like they're emails, or newsgroup posts, or an RSS feed, or, if you want, like a web page.

@zatnosk Preventing only specific people from seeing posts is a hard problem (and one that I haven't seen solved correctly anywhere.)

Allowing only specific people to see specific posts is a slightly easier problem to solve, but expanding that audience is difficult and/or unsafe.

@zatnosk I dunno how privacy and access controls would work under this kind of a system, but it is something I'm thinking about.

The answer is probably some kind of encryption, with some kind of pre-shared keys, but this is risky in a one to many situation.

Even one on one, Perfect Forward Secrecy doesn't really work without real time communication, so we'd be stuck with something like PGP. (and then you have the problem of key rotation again.

I'm sure there's a big obvious thing I'm missing (key rotation, for ex. Privacy levels, etc.) but it seems to me that decoupling the transport from the content is the only way to make a delay tolerant social system.

I gave some more thought to the idea of "A folder full of markdown files plus some signatures in place of user accounts plus a static site generator" in place of traditional social, and the more I think about it the more I like it.

No database, no distribution mechanism, no nothing. Just a folder full of .md files.

Rsync 'em, email 'em, syncthing 'em pass 'em around with Dat or however you want.

Give it a dead simple spec, do all the heavy lifting in various available presentation layers.

@piggo I don't remember the specifics based on what I read a few weeks ago, and I don't have a multi-meter handy to check.

The thread I was reading said that the LED replacements weren't lighting up, and gave an explanation as to why. I filed it away in my head, as "won't work, not enough juice." but I don't remember the details.

I'll try to dig it up later today.

@vfrmedia @grainloom Super common in US in the 40s in rural areas, but they weren't very bright and batteries got cheaper after the war.

@hirojin @piggo I'm using it as a raygun prop.

@piggo Or rather, I'd need to add a capacitor.

@maenad
As a boy kid, this was a thing.

Also, staring at your own face in a mirror in low or flickering light will cause optical illusion and possibly even hallucinations. Three or four minutes is usually enough.

I'm still afraid of mirrors, tbh.

@Username_Here_ASAP
Exactly the same energy

@eryn I tried to use zigbee for a project a while ago, and ran in to the same issue.

@freakazoid @eryn I did not realize that.

I though there was unlicensed spectrum in the US in the 400 MHz range.

Thank you for letting me know.