Posts by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
(DIR) Post #AQR6Amw2KW3aJ418Ea by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-09T13:05:38Z
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If you distribute your content publicly over an open protocol, you have no right to be angry when others read that content in ways you don't like.Case at hand are fedizens who complain about indexing or re-hosting of their profiles, toots and images.I'm convinced that If you don't want your content/details to be public, don't publish them. Keep them private. If you allow indexing, expect to be indexed. If you make data public, expect it to be read, copied, stored. Regardless of who & how.
(DIR) Post #AQR6Anoz2E0d3Tj0sa by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-09T14:28:30Z
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@rumblestiltskin There's a grey area, indeed. When I allow indexing, and I publish data over activitypub (AP), then being indexed is to be expected. But when I dissallow indexing, yet still publish that data over AP, what now?And when I keep my data private, obviously, being indexed (e.g. server breach, or instance sells out or so) is not to be expected.My problem is with the second., that grey area. I think that should not exist, as it is a false promise.
(DIR) Post #AQazbWesCMURXrOI6K by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-14T08:18:02Z
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Has anyone tried to leverage #IPFS for #activitypub, or #mastodon yet? Currently, mastodon copies all assets (images, emoji, videos, etc) onto every instance, causing massive storage demands for each instance. My 5MB gif is probably stored on at least 150 servers.What if, instead, the payload includes the IPFS address. Instances can then choose to either pull it in over IPFS, pull it in over HTTP (as is done now), serve from an IPFS gateway (CDN) or pull on-demand. Or all.Would it work?
(DIR) Post #AQdIQy3EIb9OlKNl0S by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-15T13:57:37Z
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@realcaseyrollins its here already: @elonjet
(DIR) Post #AQlVsbL1BzJp60tBfU by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-19T13:05:55Z
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@matt guess that very much depends on how strict your admins are moderating the Federation. "My" no-block instance bitcoinhackers org gives more of a reaction like:
(DIR) Post #AR40MjTK0euGTrKrL6 by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-28T11:12:23Z
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@otyugh @eloquence using the correct words, is, indeed, important. It's crucial for communication. But, communication is a group task. The 'best' term, therefore, depends on the humans involved.Finding proper terminology (ubiquitous language?) a community effort. Ongoing and dynamic.Hence, a sentence like "or as I've recently taken to calling it" almost by definition an example of bad communication. There's no "I" that can "take to calling" anything.
(DIR) Post #AR6uv32z7Hb9MIpt6e by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-29T20:20:49Z
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@bmannMastodon, using Rails, is designed for muli-tier, complex hosting: your typical "saas startup". But hardly designed to be ran by individuals on small VPNs or even their homeserver. Adding virtual-host/multisite will only make this worse: *far* worse even in case of Rails.We need software that is designed for tiny and simple hosting, next to mastodon. Tiny, selfcontained. sqlite, built-in workers etc. Like Gotosocial.
(DIR) Post #AR6uv4ex7bYyMLbivQ by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-29T20:24:11Z
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@bmann GotoSocial (and a few even less-finished Rust projects) do exactly that:A tiny binary. You can run one on the smallest VPS without hassle. Or run hundreds, serving hundreds of domains on a beefy server. It's really just a binary, copied to a server and ran with "./gotosocial --port 8085", and boom!, there's a mastodon-compatible server running on port 8085 (it even handles ssl-certs for you, if you need)
(DIR) Post #AR89grRxjaF9b2dZQW by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-30T10:58:36Z
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Today is the last day of stock exchanges in 2020. It wasn't a very good year for me (...) but PLEASE FOR ALL THAT IS HOLY: do drop another 0.07% !I mean, 2020 should really end in -20.20%, right?
(DIR) Post #AR89psRFQcotGhbOQC by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-12-30T11:17:22Z
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@htimsxela yea. I'm living in the past 🤦
(DIR) Post #ARKNVUnnKQG5QPqKFU by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-05T08:47:02Z
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@stux Andersom is overigens niet meteen ook waar. Genoeg mensen met diepgaande technisch/economische kennis die er overwegend positief over zijn. Hier zit zo iemand. Probleem is -denk ik- : diegenen met diepe kennis over [onderwerp], zijn erg terughoudend er in absoluten te pratenVraag n klimaatwetenschapper "Is de opwarming door mensen veroorzaakt?". "Nou, 100% zeker weten we het nooit, maar...". Populisten: "Wetenschappers zeggen klimaatverandering kan andere oorzaken dan mens hebben"
(DIR) Post #ARV3zN6SJlc9xeIc2S by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-09T21:42:01Z
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> The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.-- Mario Fusco
(DIR) Post #ARzmldS1vpWqBw3i8u by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-25T07:35:12Z
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@atomicpoet the Irony is that #ActivityPub solves this (in theory). It has an entire part on client-server communication. Basically how your app should talk to your instance.Yet. Mastodon never implemented this. Instead it built a custom "#REST" API. And then all the alternatives, from #pleroma to #gotosocial reimplement that #API, bug-for-bug. And all clients (apps, frontend, bots) use that.Mastodon is unwillingly, unkowingly doing a vendor lock in.
(DIR) Post #AS2QJca7xJ49rxxkmm by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-26T13:57:05Z
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@KevinMarks @m @user8e8f87c @clacke @rmdes It's a circular argument, though: it has not been adopted, because no-one adopts it, so no-one will adopt it.How can we break out of this? Not by keeping re-implementing and reverse-engineering the Mastodon API, that's for sure.Maybe this API can be used as basis for a standard, but I think its i) far too narrow for that, ii) way too tightly coupled to the databasemodel and implementation of Mastodon and iii) poorly thought out and lacking details.
(DIR) Post #AS8Gw7G6VvwxQK4cz2 by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-28T18:34:38Z
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In Dutch, and some other European locales, decimals are written with a comma: €13,37 is thirteen euro thirty-seven cents. 112,345 g is hundred twelve gram, not hundreds of thousands.With CSV Import and export, it's a random chance what format you get. This has caused me so much trouble, time and money. For decades, people have felt this issue, and it's still not solved. Not even seen, by many devs from places where this issue doesn't occur.Sure. I have sed&awk. But that's a kludge. #rant
(DIR) Post #AS8Gw8KOXSyajv5ZJI by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-28T18:50:18Z
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@vfrmedia excel and libre calc have tooling to help, with this, indeed. In Google sheets, there are workarounds. All require vigilance, though.Worse is with online imports and tools. Or with more obscure data tools. "Huh? Why are generating thousands of products? Half an hour searching later: Ah, 178.00 is seen as 17800." Me, a week ago.
(DIR) Post #AS8yMTLPJqhTTkMtO4 by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-29T18:35:35Z
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@matt ah, yeah. Webforms are horrible for this too.And the HTML5 <input type=number> has only made it worse, IMO. I've even encountered a website where I had to change the locale of my browser, because some backend refused the decimal without comma, it got from My Firefox, but Firefox refused a number with a comma in it's locale.
(DIR) Post #AS9ycSb43nO0x5H864 by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-01-29T20:19:40Z
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I'm looking for a classic computergame that I played a lot late eighties(?).You were a pixel in the border of a field. In that field some balls where bouncing. With the pixel you'd slice a area off, and if no ball was in there, you'd "win" that area. If a ball hit an unfinished line, you lost (or maybe lost a ♥️ IDK)Anyone remember the name?
(DIR) Post #ASGYpzFniGWWJNh7Xk by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-02-02T09:34:35Z
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Jira's image to present Jira is a bike that needs multiple people to operate, is impossible to get on, bumpy to ride, has all sorts of crap that has nothing to do with cycling but gets in the way, or blocks the view, and has a cart cludged to its wheel, to drag along random stuff. Perfect description of Jira 5/7.
(DIR) Post #ASlLj24ThC2deAOu6C by berkes@bitcoinhackers.org
2023-02-17T06:56:03Z
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@hn50 so that is how they plan to get ROI on their AI investments? Hmmm.