Notices by Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca), page 2

There goes Jasper. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-wildfire-alberta-1.7273606

#ClimateChange

Dar founders: You may sincerely believe that your startup is going to improve the world. And you might be right! But when you're doing a VC pitch, don't kid yourself that the person across the table cares an iota about that hippie shit.

What is this “I need to pack for the trip” of which you speak?

#caturday #photography

@evan Is Meta proceeding with federation going to be helpful or damaging? Lots of us have opinions, but I hope that few of us are fooling themselves that they know.

@evan Anyone who claims to know is fooling themselves. No vote.

A white-hot extended burst of rage at the health sector’s reckless obliviousness to the persistence of COVID and its continuing dire impact on public health. Intense and impolite but important: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because

#covid #LongCovid

@botvolution @jet Yeah, you're right, I heard a few voices wondering what's going on with the polling there, even the exit polls were way wrong.

Wow, there’s a rare burst of good news: Modi's ethnofascist election campaign fails to secure a majority government in India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109 - “The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse”.

Tl;dr: Defederation works better than the tools available to centralized-network moderators. It doesn’t reduce toxic behavior by those blocked, but who cares? Also, they gathered a really interesting data set.

Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

@evan If someone writes down the rules I can file a registration and do the required IETFing. Rough copy is OK, can pour into an I-D.

If you have enough money to have an investment account, and in particular if you have ever moved that account from one institution to another, this may both amuse and educate you:
Guys what is wrong with ACATS https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-acats-transfers-work/

@evan Yeah and I don't recall Crunchbase asking my permission for commercial use.

@evan TIL Crunchbase is really out of date.

@cheeaun You're right. When I link one of my blog pieces it gets hit by like 3k requests spread out over ~3 minutes. Totally trivial compared to HN front page.

@mekkaokereke Dunno if you saw this… sobering: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/

Of geek interest: UUIDs have been around for a long time and they work well and interoperate fine, but the specification space is a mess. So the IETF just shipped RFC9562; it has a fine consideration of the history and the trade-offs involved in all the different flavors of UUIDs, and is well-written and I think, as of now, the place to start looking if something UUID-flavored is puzzling you. Strong work! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html

@snarfed.org Hey Ryan, brid.gy is kind of working, that’s cool. I can see my Fedi account and posts from Bsky, but can’t see my Bsky account from Fedi. Should I? I’m @tbray.org on Bsky, so the handle should be @tbray.org@bsky.brid.gy, correct?

Hey Fediverse, quoting a post from my Bluesky account, federated via the brid.gy service, see https://fed.brid.gy/docs
It’s early-stage stuff, lots of little awkwardnesses. But it does seem to be two-way, which beats the Threads experiment. The next post below the one I’m quoting is the mirror image, me on Bluesky quoting a Fedi post; it strains the federation fabric a bit.

[Hmm, quoting the URL didn’t bring in any text or picture. But it may in a few minutes…]

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uzwwzqpwg7tsboo2vohg6njb/post/3krk4pa7a7d2t

This apparently touched a nerve; I had no idea. Check the comment thread.

My own major gripe with passkeys is that I could never find a simple straightforward explanation of what they were and how they were to be used. I have a decent understanding of asymmetric crypto and PKI and key exchange and JWT and so on, so if you can’t explain it to me, you have a big problem.

https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/112339186728840038