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   Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 09:07:26 JST Erin 💽✨

   These days when someone (a person, a company, a standards body…) talks about a simple protocol to do something I get suspicious that what they actually mean is an overly-simplified protocol to do that thing where, if successful, it will be the backbone of that domain in 20 years and also a horrible mess full of hacks necessary to work around its initial oversimplifications.

   See also: SMTP. SNMP. SIP SIMPLE. SOAP. SASL. SPNEGO. SCEP. OAuth.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 09:08:26 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @erincandescent the list of initialisms is brutal