Posts by trwnh@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Az5gQYkcZFeOycl1VI by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-11T06:08:53Z
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youtube added voice comments????
(DIR) Post #AzKDYLczGBLrIEwmi8 by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-18T06:26:40Z
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@wjmaggos "microblogging" is more about informality and semi-ephemerality, which comes from self-imposed length and formatting limits. the "boost" isn't unique to microblogging, and you don't need activitypub for that either. people share things all the time without activitypub. you could share *anything* with a link if only your software would let you. i could "boost" anything on the web but mastodon won't understand it except for an incredibly tiny subset of the web.
(DIR) Post #AzMzvhwVdzndHICeIa by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-19T14:37:57Z
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@wjmaggos i'm saying "one click boost" is not new and it's not unique to microblogging (and there's nothing limiting it to activitypub)
(DIR) Post #AzfNLbepWhZ6EegWCe by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-28T10:34:39Z
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@helge @julian i fail to see how any of what i'm saying is "whataboutism", in the same way that i fail to see how this supposed fix is valid. it's absolutely not a "lack of understanding of the fediverse", unless understanding the fediverse requires rejecting all reality external to one's own very specific interpretation. you could call what i am doing "bringing up counterexamples". mastodon leaking private likes on the receiving end doesn't negate the existence of private likes.
(DIR) Post #AzfNLcj7YEajYFhSWu by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-28T10:42:53Z
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@helge @julian there are some assertions being made that cannot be justified. there is no reason to say that as:to is required. requiring as:to solves nothing. all you accomplish is unnecessarily disallowing private activities. it should be enough to receive an activity to know that you are a recipient -- that is tautological. whether you are receiving it via to/cc/bto/bcc/audience/etc is extraneous information.
(DIR) Post #AzfNLdYAURQO6ZaE64 by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-10-28T10:50:33Z
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@helge @julian if this creates any challenges for any software, it is an error in the software that should be corrected. any model of the world should be able to account for any possible observation, or else it is a flawed model. encountering information that doesn't fit the model can be ignored, or you can evolve the model to account for the new understanding. but building a model that fails to account for very basic use cases right from the start? not a good idea.
(DIR) Post #B0ieW647j1vqgr70ds by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T23:13:16Z
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markdown is exactly the kind of minimalism i hate, it is more restrictive than simplifying. actually i am fine with markdown so long as it is not parsed by a markdown parser -- it makes a lot more sense as a *microsyntax* and not an actual markup language. you can encode some limited semantics with it (things like emphasis), but you cannot encode any significant structure except what might be inferred implicitly by e.g. heading levels. i would not want to author everything in markdown.
(DIR) Post #B0wKoHVadoNGWRn9sW by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-12-05T13:35:02Z
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@cwebber the most security-critical way to use a computer is without an input device
(DIR) Post #B0wMnWlkcIRxTH7SPA by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-12-05T13:39:10Z
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@datarama @cwebber well, that would be non-use. i am being somewhat facetious but "use without input" would be like configuring some automated services and then disconnecting everything
(DIR) Post #B1PkOrSsZAEatytvvc by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T01:02:03Z
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blink is republicansgecko is democratsservo is greensladybird is libertarianswebkit is republicans pre-1960 i guess
(DIR) Post #B1hEn5SekNxI2cL2Uy by trwnh@mastodon.social
2025-12-28T04:37:22Z
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Well? What's it gonna be?
(DIR) Post #B2IX1YN5iopqprcHMe by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T04:10:50Z
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@anolandria it was a mistake to be less intentional with our communications and oversimplify everything to the point where we do away with concepts like "audience" and "context", leaving only "posts".
(DIR) Post #B2RQiWpa63p8zPg2WO by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-01-19T11:24:55Z
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@silverpill @julian @technical-discussiona "local collection" might still have access control on it.(the interface being assumed throughout the AP spec is HTTP, or at least HTTP semantics; "with the user's credentials" in this case means using an Authorization header that lets the outbox access the collection. it's only confusing if you have a monolith with no boundaries between the outbox and anything else; in that case it'd be "lookup the collection in your db/store/etc")
(DIR) Post #B2RQibRIxkNNHZMDsO by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-01-19T11:27:21Z
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@silverpill @julian @technical-discussion example: alice and bob on site.example each have followers collections, but alice can't see bob's followers. if alice addresses bob's followers collection, then alice's outbox can't deliver to bob's followers. alice must address bob, and bob can choose to forward to bob's followers (inbox forwarding)if site.example has a collection of "local users" that alice can see, then alice can address it and alice's outbox can deliver to items
(DIR) Post #B2WTiNQ6MEqJSGB6CO by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T21:58:42Z
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before i reply to your post on fedi you must consent to data sharing with our 3206 partners (my followers)
(DIR) Post #B34joyQRbdzVvAgnFg by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T18:21:26Z
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@ricferrer @evan @julian @rimu https: is not for web pages. it's for http resources, which can be any content type. the content should be dispatched to the appropriate content handler; for example:- html opens in an html viewer- pdf opens in a pdf viewer- png opens in a png viewer- mp4 opens in an mp4 vieweractivity+json could be opened in an activity viewer. see firefox for example in pic 1:
(DIR) Post #B36fidRsfp89cn0G92 by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T19:05:44Z
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@benpate @ricferrer @evan @julian @rimu should be possible even without necessarily those specific tools -- although fedcm can make it "friendlier" ux-wise- authenticate your id ("i am this person")- get the linked claims from the id ("this is my proxy url")- submit the request ("fetch me this thing")i mean, you could write a web extension right now that does it in a very minimal way, i'm pretty sure? "POST the current URL to this proxyUrl" is not exactly a difficult thing to do...
(DIR) Post #B36fifbAgFkaIBMhu4 by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T19:12:12Z
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@benpate @ricferrer @evan @julian @rimu i'm not entirely sure why it's POST proxyUrl instead of GET proxyUrl but i think it has to do with leaking metadata iirc
(DIR) Post #B36fiit0SOncUMjUcS by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T19:06:25Z
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@benpate @ricferrer @evan @julian @rimu there's a shortcoming where mobile browsers don't let you install web extensions as easily but that can also be overcome i think.
(DIR) Post #B36fioocPcr2sUj4c4 by trwnh@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T19:07:04Z
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@benpate @ricferrer @evan @julian @rimu native apps can also expose share targets so you can "share" the current web URL to those apps and it opens in those apps.