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Various improvements to FEP-ae97 C2S API
Portable actors located on other servers can be imported and merged with local ones.
The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.
The User Research effort that gained momentum two months ago continues with a new round of user testing sessions. It is key to build a roadmap.
Building blocks for both ActivityPub federation and data portability improvements were merged into the codebase. They are not yet used for any user visible feature but they are a stepping stone.
I really by and large have mostly lost faith that anything short of a miracle will get #ActivityPub to where I would like it to be, and the forces working against success here are just hard to even look at
I support the groups that are trying to define a way forward, and I suspect in many, many ways the battle is lost until and unless one of those efforts succeeds well enough to define a better way forward, and there's no way to know what that would look like or if it is even possible.
@hrefna There's a lot to be said for worrying about the compatibility layer later. It's such a bizarre situation ... the 2022/2023 adoption had so many people with deep distributed systems experience, and while there are some very encouraging projects (Letterbook for example, and the data portability stuff Lisa Dussault has been working on) the overall ActivityPub ecosystem has really failed to capitalize.
But I feel burnt out. Refraining from making these arguments again. 😬)
Wrt. FeatherPub I'd recommend organizing such that you keep decent level of control on evolving the spec. In a similar way to e.g. ATProto take a greenfield approach, learn from the past, be open to feedback, but otherwise make decisions in smaller dedicated group or alone.
I don't fully agree with all that's in the article "Open source is neither a community nor a democracy", but I think its good if in general there was better distinguishment between #FOSS i.e. "The Work" vs. FOSS creators i.e. "the workers". Too often when we say "FOSS" we implicitly refer to some imaginary homogenous culture, and derive expectations on the moral/ethical behavior in a "community" that doesn't actually exist.
@smallcircles I somewhat disagree with the whole premise that "community implies that we're all participating on some degree of equal footing", seems like a strawman to me (or maybe large parts of the world do understand it in that way, but I think he extrapolates entitled users too much). The rest of the post has indeed some good points. I 100 % agree with your 1-toot summary.
I'll never get how people can get used to living in America, let alone like it.
I asked my wife's aunt how to get to the nearest supermarket, and got an "oh, it's just 3 miles away, you'll be there in a blink of an eye".
Only 3 miles to get to the nearest grocery shop?? You know that I could be on the other side of Amsterdam if I drove 3 miles from my home - and on the way I'd bump into at least 30 different grocery stores?
And I've heard folks say "my office is actually quite near, just a 30 miles drive". If I drove 30 miles I'd be nearly in Belgium or Germany! I guess I'll make sure not to get lazy anymore about my 5 minutes cycling commute to my office...
And the state of public transport is something indecent even for a developing country. I've seriously seen better train and bus connectivity in Bangalore and Kyiv than between San Jose and San Francisco.
And let's not even get started with the cycling infrastructure. Sometimes you see these barely 1 meter wide bike lanes pop out of nowhere, and disappear a few meters later, and on the way they may be dangerously crossed by turning lanes for vehicles. No wonder that I haven't seen a single cyclist so far.
And how can you ever get used to having your neighbourhood's mall as the only place to go and meet people, with no parks, bars or public spaces within a walking distance? I've asked some friends where they usually like to hangout with their mates, and got answers like "we like to go to this place 15 miles from here". That's approximately the distance between Amsterdam and The Hague! I can't even imagine having to pick up a car and drive so long just to have a beer with friends.
And let's not forget kids. Most of the cities in Europe have a playground or park within 500 meters, anywhere you are. It's quite common for kids to walk or cycle there on their own. But those are apparently rarities on the other side of the pond. Kids apparently need to be driven around for all of their childhood, they are forbidden in most of the cases even from walking alone in their own neighbourhood without either being hit by a car or some zealous neighbour calling the cops for minor abandonment. And then people wonder why European kids are generally more independent?
Sure, there are exceptions too. Namely, downtown Manhattan, San Francisco, Washington and Boston. But those are all cities built before 1900 and the car tyranny. Everything else is just so badly designed, so badly isolated, so dull and so alike, and every place requires to replace your legs with wheels and tires, that I really struggle to see in suburbia anything that even remotely resembles an American dream.
I've never paid much attention to these things before, but my 3-year-old kid on his second trip to America has been quite an eye-opener. When asked by my mother what he saw in America, he candidly said "lots of cars and roads".
Every time my posts go viral by mastodon standards, I get mean-spirited replies from strangers who then inform me that I cannot criticize them because they're autistic. I'M ALSO AUTISTIC. WE'RE ALL AUTISTIC. THIS IS THE AUTISM SOCIAL NETWORK. IF YOUR REPLIES ARE REGULARLY UPSETTING THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SENDING THEM TO, THE PROBLEM IS NOT AUTISM
Ab dem Punkt ab dem arme Menschen sich bei jeder Aktion von ihren noch-so-kleinen moralischen Implikationen Gedanken machen müssen, doch ein jeder reicher Mensch keine Konsequenzen fürchtet oder beachtet, so haben wir die Endstufe des Kapitalismus erreicht: das Drängen von neoliberalen Gedankengut in selbst die Köpfe der Menschen die es nur schadet.
This is the #Scotus headline at talkingpointsmemo.com. I don't know why it isn't the headline at the NY Times and the Washington Post and everywhere else. It’s certainly accurate. The Supreme Court is granting itself powers not anticipated by the framers, who thought Congress and the executive branch had a role to play.
#NYT#MAGA#liarwinsdebate#biden#TrumpLies
NYT calls for Joe to quit and says the liar won the debate. As a high school history teacher who teaches debate I call the ediors out for their hypocracy. In order to win a debate, we usually commit the “sin of omission,” not giving certain, valid information that could help our opponent. If we tell an outright lie, we lose all credibility. Outright lying repeatedly is a sign of depravity and lack of moral fiber. The calls should be for trump to drop out not Biden.
The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.