Aaron Parecki

You should read or listen to this story. It's nuts.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/03/sortis-holdings-rent-bankrupt-rudys-see-sizzle-pie-portland/

Thanks to Matthew for reading my post on recent IndieWeb discourse and adding a new section with his responses and notifying me about it via email.

There are certainly a number of things in Matthew’s response that tempt me to respond, but I’d like to focus on this:

I am, nevertheless, a little annoyed by the exhortation to “talk with us”. What does it look like I’m doing over here, anyway? Oh, no, it’s not good enough to post one’s opinion on the web. I’m supposed to use one of the IndieWeb’s chats, either IRC, Slack, or Discord. […] I am already talking with you. I’m doing it here, on my own website for all to see, in the best IndieWeb tradition. And you are talking to me if you quote me on your own website or email me.

I don’t consider my post a reply to Matthew’s post. I do not see his post as an invitation to conversation. I read it as a “take” - an opinion piece intended to make the reader feel a certain way and then close the topic, complete with clickbait headline.

I shouldn’t have to point out that bloggers-blogging-at-bloggers has a long history of unproductive conversation. Reducing the impact of unproductive conversations is part is why there’s not an IndieWeb mailing list. It’s easy in these formats to go hard on the abstract, and to spend time constructing arguments instead of asking questions.

That’s not to say that posts can’t inspire change. In the past day or so indieweb.org/discuss has been updated to mention right in the opening sentence that the IRC, web, Slack, and Discord chats are all bridged. Discussions have also kicked up (not for the first time) around making the homepage more welcoming, focusing on principles first, etc.

Those changes are being decided in the real-time chat, where you can meet and talk with the individuals (all volunteers!) who make up the IndieWeb community. I reckon it beats trying to reverse-engineer that community from a wiki.

The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Federated Credential Management API, a Web Platform API that allows users to login to websites with their federated accounts in a privacy preserving manner.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-federated-credential-management-api/

Everyone who went to xoxo excited about blogging again > I need a feed reader > Feedly is a gross company > wdym "self hosted" > can I put Docker on my NAS > is this seriously what I'm doing with my life > 2113 unread posts

Good morning, #xoxofest! I’m so excited to be remotely captioning the festival! @whitecoatcaptioning

#indieweb @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone: I'm showing of a new version of noterlive that sends to mastodon instead of twitter

In the #indieweb chat there’s a helpful bot named Loqi that answers questions from the wiki and lets us add countdowns. Sometimes the bot seems like magic and there’s jokes about it gaining sentience. To that end, I apparently added a countdown in 2018 for 6 years out: “Loqi can drive.” It was something I set and forgot, so it gave me a laugh to get the countdown notification today.

You can also “give” Loqi things and it will respond with random things, so this funny exchange happened afterward:

gRegor gives Loqi a car
Loqi laughs at the car
gRegor gives Loqi a cybertruck
Loqi gives back the cybertruck

See, smart bot.

Ben Werdmuller, linking today to a story on Ghost federation:

I’m also convinced there’s room for another fediverse-compatible social network that handles both long and short-form content in a similar way to Substack’s articles and Notes. If someone else doesn’t build that, I will.

Yeah, it’s weird how no one has built this and certainly no one has been actively hosting thousands of blogs with long and short-form content, a social timeline, and fediverse integration for years. 🤪

Ben Werdmuller, linking today to a story on Ghost federation:

I’m also convinced there’s room for another fediverse-compatible social network that handles both long and short-form content in a similar way to Substack’s articles and Notes. If someone else doesn’t build that, I will.

Yeah, it’s weird how no one has built this and certainly no one has been actively hosting thousands of blogs with long and short-form content, a social timeline, and fediverse integration for years. 🤪

the millennial pause is when your web app hangs on your javascript bundle

The new factors for authentication
Something you wish you were
Something you want
Something that hurt you

Today marks four years of #Owncast! Can you believe it? For fun, let's take a short look back at what that looked like.

https://gabekangas.com/blog/2024/05/today-marks-four-years-of-owncast/

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

I realize my inability to do sales holds back my career/financials a lot, but EVERY time I encounter an IRL sales person it's a nightmare and causes weeks of stress. I don't trust anyone who can manipulate people every day like this.

in general my approach to things like webservers and email is

a) own my domain names
b) pick companies to run my email/website/mastodon/etc
c) switch whenever I want

I really appreciate the convenience of using services like fastmail/gmail/fly/netlify/github/nearlyfreespeech/etc, and I know that if things go downhill I can always switch

@aaronpk thanks - i like step '0'

You are very brave, patient and understands that you have options (1) and (2)

saved for playing around with.

I always knew this day would come. “Add a shared credentials relationship from twitter.com to x.com” https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/pull/759

@aaronpk sure, drop me an email (see my website in bio) and we can arrange a call.