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Thursday, September 24, 2020
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If you tell me what URL you're entering at indielogin.com to start the flow I can probably tell you what's going on. -
Gary
https://twitter.com/every_daydad
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Sep 24
Cannoli day!! 🤯🤯
Seriously thanks to all, I honestly cannot believe this has gone anywhere near this far.
huge congrats! 🍾 also why do I keep thinking cannoli is a pasta? -
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Going thru the unprocessed transcripts of the next http://identityunlocked.com episode, heavily featuring PKCE as interpreted by the transcribers, be like:
/cc @aaronpk
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The Ultimate @Yubico setup guide for developers
Setup GPG, git commit signing, ssh, and more, across multiple yubikeys!
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The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou
A spot-on summary of where we’ve ended up with web components.
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers.
But then…
Somewhere along the way, the space got flooded by JS frameworks aficionados, who revel in complex APIs, overengineered build processes and dependency graphs that look like the roots of a banyan tree.
Alas, that’s true. Lea wonders how this can be fixed:
I’m not sure if this is a design issue, or a documentation issue.
I worry that is a cultural issue.
Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically because “here is my truckload of dependencies, yeah, what”.
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Pushkar Jaltare
https://twitter.com/Pushkar2911
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Sep 24
@aaronpk Do you have any plans of making "The Little Book of OAuth 2" available as ebook? I bought you another book as PDF and would love to do the same for this one.
I thought about it, but most of the content is the specs themselves, which are already available online in a variety of formats, so I'm not sure it would add much value. Plus formatting an ebook is a *lot* of work 😅 -
Decentralized naming systems like @HNS and @namecoin seem focused on competing with DNS. They're also hopelessly complicated. Is there equivalent for user names instead of DNS?
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rabble
https://twitter.com/rabble
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Sep 24
Decentralized naming systems like @HNS and @namecoin seem focused on competing with DNS. They're also hopelessly complicated. Is there equivalent for user names instead of DNS?
I think the challenge is you need to drop the idea of creating a global namespace. Otherwise you end up with DNS or blockchain solutions, both of which are centralized. You need something that doesn't rely on the entire system being aware of all other names. -
Lawrence of Dystopia
https://twitter.com/laprice
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Sep 25
so, like URI s and URLs? but with relative namespaces?
I don't think there's a clear answer yet. But I'm thinking something that matches more how people communicate identities in person. Plenty of people share the same name and it's not a problem the majority of the time during normal communication. -
rabble
https://twitter.com/rabble
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Sep 25
Sure and that social distance way works for searching online but I hear folks saying their account names all the time. It’s important we do find a solution.
heh social distance
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Blaine Cook
https://twitter.com/blaine
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Sep 25
I know this is maybe something we'll never agree on, but I don't see the problem with a global namespace? Isn't it a feature? It makes the web work! It makes the phone system work! It makes email work!
I wasn't saying either one is better than the other. Just that whether it's a global namespace is a property that then has all these other side effects when trying to maintain that property in a system -
Blaine Cook
https://twitter.com/blaine
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Sep 25
The reality is that the only real question of a global namespace is a regulatory one - who gets ultimate control of it? And in that, DNS is actually not a bad approach and has spent ~30 years ironing out regulatory bugs and has found a pretty stable spot.
Agreed! And all the blockchain versions of a global namespace have nowhere near this level of experience in maintaining the system in the long term, and are very likely much more fragile than DNS
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rabble
https://twitter.com/rabble
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Sep 25
I walked through setting up an account and identity on handshake. First the cheapest one was $49 and took an unbelievable amount of technical knowledge and steps. It made dns seem simple. I don’t see how normal users would ever use it.
with that description, I don’t see how abnormal people would use it either!
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Blaine Cook
https://twitter.com/blaine
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Sep 25
i.e., is that something that *must* happen with consent from email providers/domain controllers? Or is it something that could be baked into ssb/deltachat/similar? What would ownership verification look like in that case?
the “I’m locked out of my account” problem is not going away any time soon, and is a real hurdle in building this kind of thing in a decentralized way
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Blaine Cook
https://twitter.com/blaine
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Sep 25
For sure; it just requires specific functionality on the provider's side. With webfinger, we always imagined that you could enable "portability" by setting a redirect or a pointer, again provider-dependent.
in a way, email already is portable. My email address is on my domain, parecki.com, but it’s actually a Gmail account under the hood. If i want to move that to another provider, I can, and I don’t need to tell anyone a new email address. This is of course thanks to DNS 🙃
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rabble
https://twitter.com/rabble
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Sep 25
So if you’re able to control a domain name and set Mx records you’ve got portability. It actually works pretty well but it’s not used for individuals so much as organizations. What’s the equivalent or way to extend it to individual users.
For some reason DNS providers haven't iterated on the UX around configuring records much. If as much time and money were spent on making DNS easier to use without understanding all the terminology as was spent on all the blockchain tech, we'd be in a much better place right now.
