ExpiredPopsicle @ExpiredPopsicle@mastodon.social

With Mastodon, PeerTube, and some newer services, it looks like ActivityPub-compatible federated social media is starting to grow some real wings. This makes me happy.

OStatus seemed like such a patched-together prototype of a cool idea, and I'm glad that idea is taking hold.

I kinda wish Git worked on MS-DOS. It'd make my silly retro game dev stuff go much more smoothly.

Well, it's #NationalSelfieDay2018 (on Twitter), and also the one-year anniversary of starting HRT, so I guess I'm sorta obligated to post a selfie today. Sorry!

So I found this thing maybe a year ago in my grandfather's garage. It's an XT IBM Model F, and I've finally got it hooked up with an XT-to-USB adapter (these things exist!). It's pretty hard to type on at first, but I'm tempted to take it into work and use it as my main keyboard!

Okay. I need to keep my social media ratio of complaining versus actual content down as low as possible.

Better draw some more mermaids.

I wish having (and using) fancy noise canceling headphones wasn't a requirement for having a programming job around here. It's basically impossible to concentrate in an open office without them. Even then, sometimes the headphones just aren't good enough.

I missed the boat (heh) on MerMay, so here's a late doodle of a Mermaid fixing her truck.

Redrawing an old character from an oooooold game project I worked on.
https://mastodon.social/media/qPgKnHNfUgQ3LgLNuZA

That new D.VA skin reminds me of someone... https://mastodon.social/media/sOzTVmVGQiyxq2MlWeU

I don't know how to put this more elegantly, and it's been a long and stressful day of coming out to my parents about it.

I'm transgender, and I'm going to go by Kiri now.

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(This is a copy of what I posted on my Twitter account last month. I'm more active there, so I didn't even think to post here yet. Sorry for the lag for anyone who doesn't follow me there!)

My last post was whining about the lack of functionality in OStatus, but by now it looks like ActivityPub is the new thing and much simpler?

I'm interested, but a glance at the protocol spec doesn't give very good real-world examples. Just snippets of JSON POST data without all the context of where the heck these URLs come from.

So uh... OStatus doesn't have any method of private messaging between federated networks. Isn't that kind of a massive gaping hole in the functionality of a social network?

It seems like it'd be so simple to just send encrypted private messages over Salmon, but nobody besides Diaspora has stepped up and actually made a spec about it.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

(Not talking about this in a Mastodon-specific context, but OStatus-enabled systems in general.)

Rewriting tangent basis generation code while drunk.

That margarita with lunch may have been a poor decision.

I think I need a "Swear jar" but instead of swearing it'll be my "Cliff used the GL fixed function pipeline again" jar.

Mankind Divided's Breach mode might be enjoyable if I could find a game under all those microtransactions.

My Jeep broke again. The 4.2L in my YJ is on the wrong end of that reliability bell curve.

Hey this thing looks pretty neat. Hopefully it turns out better than all those other alternative social networks.

But seriously, the decentralization of stuff we rely on like social media is something we really need. Hopefully "GNU Social" or StatusNet, or Mastadon, or whatever name soup we're using to refer to this thing can actually accomplish this.