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Hair update. Channeling @thebethbarnett@twitter.com a bit. It's warmer tones than I was going for but apparently purple shampoo and time will make it silver/grey-er. Or a second round of bleach. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/08/photos-hair
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@cwebber "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use blockchain." Now they have two terabytes of problems."
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I just discovered rel="me" and now I feel dumb.
This should be implemented on GitLab and Mastodon.
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
https://indiewebify.me/validate-rel-me/
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Oh good, now I have another 4,000 word blog post draft that I'll probably sit on for a while because I don't know how to edit it into something coherent 😓
(This one's all the technical details I've learned about how RSS/Atom feed publishers can implement RFCs 5005 and 6721. It's not going to be exciting to all that many people. I just hope people who develop blog/CMS software find it helpful...)
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"When you walk on stage wearing a ridiculous Ziggy Stardust wig, glitter Spandex and five-inch platform boots, people’s expectations suddenly don’t match their reality, and you disarm them. Then, you can have a real conversation about money." 💛 @anomalily https://www.forbes.com/sites/debtfreeguys/2018/08/26/why-channeling-ziggy-stardust-may-be-the-solution-for-all-your-money-woes/#6bc9ffbe3038
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A really sweet article about my personal financial story appeared on @Forbes with two of my favorite #debtfree queers @DebtFreeGuys - https://www.forbes.com/sites/debtfreeguys/2018/08/26/why-channeling-ziggy-stardust-may-be-the-solution-for-all-your-money-woes/#7123fab63038
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@kaniini I care about this so much I’m replying while waiting for my cruise ship to embark.
Rel=me is the real open solution and it works folks
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@kaniini
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People always talk about webs of trust and so on, but actually, that's not what really matters.
What you want to prove is that the same person who controls these:
https://kaniini.dereferenced.org/
https://github.com/kaniini
Also controls:
https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini
This proves it's the same person and the UI can reward them with a checkmark.
IndieWeb has the basis of a good solution for this since 2008, called rel=me.
You can read about it at http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me and then come back to this thread, probably not a half bad idea really.
Here is the gist of how this would work. In various software, you would set a list of links to things that are also you.
So, on pleroma.site, you would link to:
https://kaniini.dereferenced.org/
https://github.com/kaniini
And so on, forming a cyclic graph of rel=me links.
Whether or not an identity node is valid can be determined by following the cyclic graph and seeing if the graph is complete. If it is, then you get the checkmark. If it's not, then you don't.
This, incidentally, is similar in nature to the the concept behind my ActivityPub alsoKnownAs proposal, but there it is just checking AP objects for completeness instead of webpages.
Note that no cryptography or anything else is involved in this, it's just following links around on things known to be controlled. -
outside of being used as a user discovery shortcut, i'm vehemently opposed to webfinger for a multitude of reasons.
the main one being that all software implementing it wants to own the /.well-known endpoint, meaning that it is difficult for you to run multiple software on the same domain (combining diaspora and mastodon/pleroma for example).
