Aaron Parecki

Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey • Dec 15
@aaronpk Wrong: The Discourse project offers free hosting to maintainers and has for many years: https://free.discourse.group/
Shilling for Microsoft is pretty far afield from the #IndieWeb ....

I think you'll find most of the IndieWeb community is not the die-hard FOSS fans. Open source is important, but is not an end goal in and of itself. There's plenty of examples of not open source IndieWeb software that happily interoperates with the open source software.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Maybe: Fred Benenson https://twitter.com/fredbenenson

I think one of the hugest things web3 people seem to be confused about is that somehow building systems that expect less trust will fundamentally fix problems of trust – it's a nihilist approach to systems engineering that speaks more to their psychology than any sound theory

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:30pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:37am -08:00)
Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

If there's a "thing" you can point to and there's global consensus about it, it's centralized. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, just stating scientific facts.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:41pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:29am -08:00)
Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

True decentralization doesn't involve a conceptually centralized blockchain, change my mind.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:39pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:29am -08:00)
Pouchmouse https://twitter.com/Pouchmouse

Game programmers: My code takes over a millisecond to execute. I am a failure and have dishonored my family.

Other programmers: lol this hash function makes a web call who knew?

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 7:52am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:02am -08:00)
Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey • Dec 10
Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦‍♂️
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010

Good. Less infrastructure for the project maintainers to maintain means more time to spend on the actual product. Running a Discourse instance isn't free, both in money and time.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Eugen 🎄 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

@downey @Mastodon Let me be clear: I care that Mastodon as an end product is free software. I do not care if the tools used to create Mastodon pass a free software purity check. If a tool will make the job of creating Mastodon easier, I will prefer it. See: GitHub, Discord, and so on.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Fri, Dec 10, 2021 1:18am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:57am -08:00)
thisgoesnowhere https://twitter.com/thisgoesnowhere • Dec 15
This sounds super interesting! Have you written about it?

I haven't written anything specific about it because it's mostly a bunch of low-level gibberish around http signing and creating funny JSON blobs, but I did spin out the code into a standalone service I've used for other bots https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

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Marcus Hutchins https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog

I was completely happy with my income until a friend told me that if you fly on private jets you don't have to go through the airport or TSA. They just drive you right to the plane door. Welp, back to work 😭

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Tue, Dec 14, 2021 7:50pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:34am -08:00)
Tinker https://twitter.com/TinkerSec

Alright, I'm officially over #Log4J.

Not saying anything in my org is patched.

Just saying I'm done worrying about it & am moving on w/my life.

Y'all need to stop living in fear.

Just accept that exploits happen & if it's your company's time to be breached, it's their time.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 2:43pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:32am -08:00) #Log4J
Shannon Morse https://twitter.com/Snubs

To my friends battling #log4j and trying to explain this shit to the CEO and customers while also working overtime to patchpatchpatch, we all owe you a drink at the next con.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:15pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:23am -08:00) #log4j
Daniel 🥌 Stenberg https://twitter.com/bagder

I'm getting questions if curl or libcurl are vulnerable to the log4j CVEs.

Clearly not even users and customers quite understand software stacks.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Tue, Dec 14, 2021 10:11pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:14am -08:00)
Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli • Dec 15
Yes and no, I know that I myself at least wouldn’t be happy to have the IndieWeb referenced as a “fediverse”, but then again, I’m a bit burnt after I implemented OStatus for Flattr back in the days only to see the very downside of a federated approach when it comes to longevity…

I've implemented ActivityPub directly into my website, so my website is its own ActivityPub instance in the Fediverse. So there's definitely some overlap and grey areas between the two, but yeah generally Fediverse refers to the ActivityPub model of many ppl on one instance.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:13am -08:00
Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash

Fully agree with this point. There is so much prior art about decentralization being ignored. But most of the fediverse/indieweb folks I see have not engaged with decentralization fans to say "we've got stuff that's better/cheaper/already works".

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:28pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 8:33am -08:00)
Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash • Dec 15
Fully agree with this point. There is so much prior art about decentralization being ignored. But most of the fediverse/indieweb folks I see have not engaged with decentralization fans to say "we've got stuff that's better/cheaper/already works".

oh we've tried, but then the glowing eyeballs come out yelling and screaming and it just isn't a productive discussion for anyone

Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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Wed, Dec 15, 2021 8:33am -08:00
ATEM Mini Extreme PK1 monitor stand by daghi - Thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com)

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:01am -08:00 #pk1
small robots https://twitter.com/smolrobots

Literally just give me money and I'll draw things for you. It's not that complicated.

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:29pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:48am -08:00)
matty stratton, charismatic grifter https://twitter.com/mattstratton • Dec 15
There definitely are others - I think ABQ and ATL come to mind where I’ve seen locals refer to the area/city by that same code.

Chloe’s right about SFO though :)

Oh yea I think I've heard that about ATL before, but didn't know about ABQ!

I think I've said "SF" a grand total of like 4 times, and I 100% agree that if someone said "SFO" I would in no way assume they mean the city

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:48am -08:00
Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon

The "O" in "SFO" stands for "omfg I can't believe I'm having to defend and explain something like this- get a hobby, and at least do a sensible Google/Bing search before you correct me on Twitter like a jester in town square for all to see" 🃏🤡

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:13pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:22am -08:00)
Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon • Dec 15
SFO is the airport code, not the city. If you tell me you're visiting SFO, I assume you're just having a layover.

Interestingly we do actually refer to the city of Portland by our airport code PDX but I realize we are an exception here 🤷‍♂️

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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