Posts by yojimbo@hackers.town
(DIR) Post #AVCr2oFhCi0ykz6lUW by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-01T05:26:07Z
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I'd love to create my own platform for the fediverse!But I'm thinking it would end up looking like a console email client.And nobody wants that ... do they?
(DIR) Post #AVDttwZ1QT74wvZVWC by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-01T21:15:27Z
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@vik "Everything looks like email" is tempting, when you combine Maildir with notmuch :-)
(DIR) Post #AVDxRotElPBArDs8ci by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-01T21:55:09Z
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@vik Before you know it, I'll have re-implemented RMS' webpage-to-email lens through which he views the world.
(DIR) Post #AVE0ioj8vDUB8bwnGS by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-01T22:31:32Z
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@Linux_in_a_Bit Jack is doing nostr, he's only funding Bluesky AFAIK.
(DIR) Post #AVELLiZVjthSQNGijw by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-02T02:22:44Z
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@Linux_in_a_Bit I had dipped my toes into some posts about Bluesky and the protocols over the last couple of days, and found this article: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/ where the author asserts that they know where people's attention is at the moment :-) but it doesn't directly ask the question you asked. However, Bluesky is being "done" by Jay Graber these days, which seems to be generally regarded as a positive thing.Also remember there's a potential mismatch between comms protocols, and the platforms that use them.
(DIR) Post #AVZQsiSCGMRoGsqihc by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-12T02:27:38Z
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TIL this exists ...(Well, actually it was yesterday, but ...)
(DIR) Post #AVbtGRTuCgYtcBfcbA by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-02T02:30:33Z
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@vagrantc It's still far more likely to be helpful than closed source software that doesn't even know what its own components are, and therefore can't communicate potential vulnerabilities.It's a decent way to address a log4j situation, which was notified out-of-band from the software distribution model.But I don't see a direct link between SBOM and Reproducible Builds, in terms of the relationship between a software supplier and their customers.
(DIR) Post #AVnD0PEN54aB8ziBRQ by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-05-18T21:59:37Z
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@tedu "The Royal Borough of Fentown and Chelsea" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.Unless you meant a different Kensington?
(DIR) Post #AWEWwqHD5bWQ24m53o by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-06-01T02:15:14Z
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The #NZ government now makes some of its more important online services available free of charge via the mobile data networks of all the main NZ mobile phone providers.https://zero.govt.nz/If your mobile device is connected to a participating network [Spark, Skinny, Vodafone, 2degrees, Slingshot or Orcon], none of the mobile data you use when you visit websites through Zero Data will count against your data cap or incur any charges. All data usage will be charged back to the government agencies that sponsor the websites you visit.
(DIR) Post #AWNuKStrhW8FqkjBCq by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-06-04T23:03:58Z
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@xerz @vertigo Only if you expect binaries to be portable between distros, which they already sort-of-aren't.
(DIR) Post #AWxfocUxETbaKfVCHQ by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-06-22T21:06:25Z
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@adam Reverting the UI would cause distress to their UI developers, who have feelings too ...Will they fight for their employees (and of course managers who "approved" the whole thing in their infinite multidiscipline expertise)?
(DIR) Post #AXDbct5UvCZd55mJPs by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-06-30T02:50:36Z
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From https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Geolocating+IPs+is+harder+than+you+think/29834... This is one reason why Google recently started using "google.com/maps" for its "Google Maps." Users will gladly give Google Maps access to their location. After all, the map needs to know where you are to give directions. But by using "google.com/maps" instead of "maps.google.com," all "google.com" properties now have access to the user's location after the user gave access to the location on google.com/maps.
(DIR) Post #AXKUASEDqp2G674cWO by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-03T21:05:12Z
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Elon Musk needs your help!Stop following links to Twitter.com!Close your browser tabs!Leave his poor website alone, it can't cope with the attention it's getting ...
(DIR) Post #AXL0cebsbhn78jd5s0 by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-03T22:36:11Z
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@feld We will end up with a machine-readable contract for sharing data between fediverse nodes (i.e. server-to-server capabilities negotiation) and there will be a netsplit based on whether your instance allows data to be "public/unauthenticated" (our current default) or "to privacy-preserving instances only"I think I'd like this to happen, some people will benefit from it.
(DIR) Post #AXL0zgbDNRkfyCIj5c by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-04T03:19:18Z
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@feld Absolutely. Once there is a reasonable suspicion that the contract (social, technical, whatever) has been broken, defederation happens.
(DIR) Post #AXUyZD241tE1hq2sTI by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-08T21:10:50Z
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@vik You might find this project interesting ...
(DIR) Post #AXb8irmB88UPTNMRHM by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-11T21:51:59Z
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@mike Ubuntu had the same issue when downstream distros started forming (IIRC edubuntu was one of the early ones) and eventually they moved all their branding into basically a single package, to make it easier to remove/exclude.But it wasn't a consideration at the beginning. It feels more like an accidental consequence of "becoming a company and having copyright branding" that must be protected because ... well, that's what you have to do, innit? - and there being no licensing models available to provide freedoms with.These days I guess a distro could look at CC licenses for branding materials ...
(DIR) Post #AXb9wHQv9HsmlXNUKu by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-11T22:14:23Z
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@mike @smallsees "everything is Snaps" seems to be an awful way to run an OS; mind you, I'd also say that about systemd-creep.I do like an "everything just works" experience; but whereas in Windows and MacOS I'm unable to get into the system underneath and affect it, in my Linux/unix world that's exactly what I do want.I think I need to spend a few years with OpenBSD :-)
(DIR) Post #AXfKoP10x0v65oXvZg by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-13T22:38:22Z
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@tek Fight Club -> Night Club
(DIR) Post #AXfX6TCLKxutjBE7to by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-07-14T00:56:10Z
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@tek Reminds me of https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/windows-com-bitsquatting-hack-can-wreak-unknown-havoc-on-pcs/