Posts by npd@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #9ixBo10eAI9DAF8wKG by npd@octodon.social
2019-05-18T19:43:01Z
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@HerraBRE @clacke this looks really cool! How does this compare to / work with Jupyter notebooks? Jupyter is also about interleaving documentation and code and rendering to an interactive Web version. I was hoping the documentation would explicitly explain how they connect/differ, but maybe it's just an unstated competitor.
(DIR) Post #9jmoR59PPTx8n9cmpc by npd@octodon.social
2019-06-12T23:11:48Z
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@nolan I was hoping the conclusion from that point would be that indeed unilateral universal decision-making on acceptable speech isn't viable at all and we're better off making decisions for smaller scales than "giant" (like Mastodon instances, say). But alas, then the author zags and decides we should have a single, all-encompassing self-regulatory standard that applies universally to every platform and gets updated in response to backlashes.
(DIR) Post #9keIYXeIiijyRHQliy by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-08T18:55:40Z
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@nightpool @emacsen I share this confusion with ocap inboxes. It seems like anyone can request a new preferred inbox from me at any time, and then if they do so and abuse it, I can stop looking at messages sent to that inbox (like a burner phone number). But then the attacker can just request another inbox from me, right? I don't know ahead of time which stranger to grant/deny an inbox to; if I did, spam and harassment wouldn't be an issue.
(DIR) Post #9keIhafQrrywPFH5sG by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-08T18:58:39Z
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@nightpool @emacsen burner phone numbers are useful because phones often have shitty blocking/filtering features and because we can't identify who is calling us because spoofing is so easy, and so handing out a unique burner number is a way to handle identification. But it seems like ActivityPub (and to some extent, email, through DKIM/SPF) *can* identify the sender of a message, and so I can block someone who sends me an unwanted message. But why use burner inboxes if I can client-side filter?
(DIR) Post #9keKfVccr4A85V65S4 by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-08T19:29:06Z
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@emacsen @nightpool yeah, it's a different usage/analogy than burner phone numbers, as those are specifically given to people you *don't* trust, whereas you're talking about giving out capability URLs to people you do already trust.At first glance, that seems less usable to me. Rather than recording in my client "I trust Person X" (whitelist), I give Person X a special URL, tell them to use it rather than my well-known name and make them promise not to accidentally make it public.
(DIR) Post #9keLNkBA5r2JyeLNy4 by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-08T19:37:04Z
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@emacsen I do like the transferability that capability URLs have, like Flickr's guest passes. Even if you don't have an account, or I didn't list you specifically but my friend trusts you, they can hand along a special URL which lets you read/see something. There's some extra UI for tracking/revoking those URLs, but it's not terribly burdensome. I haven't seen capability URLs used for write access as often.
(DIR) Post #9keLUJb7Jwd9Z0cMQi by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-08T19:38:18Z
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@emacsen Maybe it just doesn't seem to me that most of the problems with spam/harassment are people I know or friends-of-a-friend getting blocked. Is whitelisting of people I already follow/interact with a difficult challenge that I just haven't experienced?
(DIR) Post #9lK892VlzkOmbEjSue by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-28T18:09:08Z
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I'm still trying to understand the ocap proposals for spam/harassment mitigation in ActivityPub. Some of this is difficult to understand because it reads to me the same as proposals for spam-handling in existing systems (like email). Postage stamps, which have their own limitations/drawbacks and would require huge development/adoption, could be implemented in ocap, or in IMAP. Revoking access for a particular URL sounds similar/identical to a blocklist, etc./cc @emacsen @cwebber
(DIR) Post #9lK892zuBiVA6gpWsa by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-28T18:13:49Z
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I think what I saw in @emacsen 's paper and in @cwebber 's https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org is adding a primitive of introductions between people. So if you only wanted to receive messages from (roughly) friends of friends, you could hand out special inbox URLs to people you trust, and there could be some UI for passing those along, so that only their subsequent contacts could contact you. And if I didn't know you but wanted to, I could ask my network, "hey, can anyone introduce me to Alice?"
(DIR) Post #9lK893WWESabjq5ZiK by npd@octodon.social
2019-07-28T18:18:04Z
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@emacsen @cwebber and that introduction functionality could be implemented lots of ways: signing other people's keys to indicate trust seems easier to me. (Indieweb's "vouch" was a little similar.)But ocap URLs would have an additional function: you could cut off an entire downstream set of people by revoking a single URL, if a whole subgroup turns out to be unwanted.But there are other confusions: if I know you through 7 connections and you cut off 2, my client has to keep a list and retry.
(DIR) Post #9lz4oHKNj6YX3JJJPk by npd@octodon.social
2019-08-17T16:31:53Z
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Why aren't more people familiar with the NATO phonetic alphabet? It would be so useful! I was just trying to spell out my email address over the phone, the other person couldn't understand it, so I read out the letters as words (november-papa-delta-oscar-tango-yankee), and they were even more confused. Eventually we just texted over SMS to communicate.
(DIR) Post #9oAKJhUugmKLFLt9iy by npd@octodon.social
2019-10-01T16:05:58Z
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@cwebber @dthompson I have also internalized the surprising information that dishwashers are probably a lot more efficient than they seem. But are they more efficient even if you're just washing a small number of dishes?And I wash dishes by hand in ways that aren't very efficient (like keeping the water running), but I don't have an easy way to measure how inefficient.
(DIR) Post #9oNiQOQotjn662B2f2 by npd@octodon.social
2019-10-05T22:37:42Z
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@torgo oh yay! *clicks on the hashtag to see a link to the video**clicks on a video link*DMCA takedown notice*clicks another*Not allowed in your country*clicks another*Video no longer availableSo much for being excited about our technologically advanced future!
(DIR) Post #AUlcw8d0P5JTIZ19sW by npd@octodon.social
2023-04-18T03:30:21Z
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Testing out my first interchangeable lens camera by the Eno River.#florespondence #wildflowers #trees #iNaturalist
(DIR) Post #AUlcw9jQIi2ail1nWK by npd@octodon.social
2023-04-18T03:38:34Z
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And testing a zoom lens on a trail in the city, along Ellerbe Creek.#florespondence #wildflowers #trees #birds #iNaturalist
(DIR) Post #AV12lXlK7wTEFDur8C by npd@octodon.social
2023-04-25T16:17:38Z
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@EU_Commission full list available here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2413
(DIR) Post #AVHnk9IlOFWQSykkCG by npd@octodon.social
2023-05-02T18:22:36Z
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With @CenDemTech and advocates from the National Network to End Domestic Violence, we have been pushing manufacturers of Bluetooth location tracking devices and mobile platform vendors to provide more uniform, accessible tools to help people detect, find and disable surreptitious tracking devices.
(DIR) Post #AVHnkB9cVDOeDCUTDs by npd@octodon.social
2023-05-02T18:23:56Z
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today, Apple and Google have announced their collaboration, including support from some other location tracker manufacturers, to do just that.https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-and-apple-lead-initiative-for.htmlhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-google-partner-on-an-industry-specification-to-address-unwanted-tracking/
(DIR) Post #AVHnkCsg5B25ZEZy5o by npd@octodon.social
2023-05-02T18:29:05Z
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and importantly, they've also started work on a protocol at @ietf -- this is a draft spec that interested stakeholders can and should read and review in depth:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-location-trackers/Standardization through an open, multistakeholder process is so valuable here, to make sure protections for survivors are sound and to develop consensus for broad adoption.
(DIR) Post #AVHnkEghMgdfAezQhM by npd@octodon.social
2023-05-02T18:32:05Z
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And this March op-ed from CDT and NNEDV explains the problem and the goal -- stopping Bluetooth location trackers from becoming people trackers -- and what we think is needed to get there:https://techpolicy.press/stopping-bluetooth-location-trackers-from-becoming-people-trackers/