‮nahtaiv3L @l3viathan@mastodon.social

Apple to stop shipping Ruby, Python, and Perl in future releases. “Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default”. Native binaries FTW 😉 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_10_15_beta_release_notes

ever want to look up an obscure HTTP status code but you're tired of http://http.cat and https://httpstatusdogs.com/ ?

well you're in luck because now there's goats https://httpstatusgoats.net/

Kurze Erinnerung:

GEHT WÄHLEN!
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(Das funktioniert auch, wenn ihr eure Wahlbenachrichtigung verlegt hab. Einfach Personalausweis oder Reisepass zum Ausweisen in euer Wahllokal mitnehmen.)

@fribbledom You've got me thinking about the portability of identity as well.

I came to realise that Mastodon (and probably, all existing ActivityPub implementations), have an artificial coupling of user's data and the server instance.

Consider emails, which arguably is the most portable and prevalent form of internet-based communication, does not suffer from this coupling problem: I can host emails on my own server today, and have Google to host them tomorrow. Users are free to move hosting providers, as long as they have control of their domain names. OTOH, for those who don't really care about portability, there're gmail.com or hotmail.com addresses.

To me, identities in ActivityPub work very much like gmail or hotmail addresses, but the protocol does not support addresses with custom domains, without forcing the domain owners to run their own instances.

Why can't ActivityPub has something similar to DNS MX records for server discovery?

I believe it's beneficial to the fediverse users if identities in ActivityPub can work the same way as email addresses. Earlier I said it's an "artificial coupling" - I speculate that if a standard is created to define how servers can exchange the social graphs and other data, it won't be very difficult to create an extension the the AP protocol to realise identity portability.

We can haz Fahrplan! https://pretalx.entropia.de/gpn19/schedule/

ICANN granted Amazon.com the domain '.amazon' today, rather than the entire geographic region of the Amazon Basin.

Acts like this are colonial, obviously, but also a slap in the face to early internet promises of global representation + shared power. Its really sad.

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-domain-name-icann-approved.amp/

#GAFAM #GAFA #amazon

(via http://everest-pipkin.com/ , thanks ! )

Ich komm aus dem Kichern nicht mehr raus 😂