Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 9

If you're like "well don't worry about lastpass, it's encrypted client-side"... look up what the government wanted to coerce Lavabit to do.

You should assume that the attackers did something similar.

(This is a reason I don't trust these kinds of web applications where you just get some program handed to you as a blob, if it's also supposed to do encryption...)

Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

don't boost this

@liaizon @d0n @evan @gargron @grishka @halcy @hypolite @mike oh gosh

extremely happy with progress I'm making on many fronts in my life, learning to love myself a bit more every day (after a lifetime of self-loathing)

this christine lady might be ok!

@evan @davew @jasnell I have no comments and yet I must scream

My co-founder at @spritelyinst (he's Executive Director, I'm CTO) now has an account on the fediverse: @frandallfarmer

Randy also:

- Co-invented JSON with Doug Crockford and Chip Morningstar
- Co-founded the world's *first* major massively multiplayer game / virtual world: Lucasfilms Habitat on the Commodore-freaking-64! (Also the place where the technical term "avatar" came from (borrowed from Sanskrit by Chip, I think)) Watch this wild video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc
- Co-runs the open source revival of the original Habitat: https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/
- Co-founded Electric Communities. Electric Communities Habitat is where the E programming language came from from which much of Spritely is based. Watch this hilarious but mind-bending video from p2p virtual worlds... in 1997!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE
- The compression pass to my expansion pass of communication in the Spritely Networked Communities Institute. Any time things have gotten wordy, you can bet it's from me; any time they're terse and concise, you can bet it's from Randy. Usually we try to combine our skills.

Welcome Randy!

please boost this message across the network as far as you can I think it's really about time someone explained activitypub to me

okay I'm trying to piece this together

it's like email, but for the web (why didn't they just call it webmail?? lol!)

I guess I should re-introduce myself. I'm Christine Lemmer-Webber, I'm co-author of the ActivityPub specification by which you are probably reading this message right now.

I'm also CTO of @spritelyinst https://spritely.institute where we're a 100% FOSS nonprofit building the next generation of decentralized networked technology for communities. It's cool shit.

High level intro to ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uqHCo10I8
Tech tour: https://spritely.institute/news/blast-off-spritely-institutes-tech-tour.html
Donate: https://spritely.institute/donate/

Chief cassandra complex haver of the internet. I like lisps and programming in them. Etc etc etc.

I'm also a queer translady. Don't forget that the queers largely built this place.

I "locked" my Twitter account to private. More or less, I expect things to become incredibly shitty over there if you're a member of a marginalized group. You might consider locking or deleting yours... but honestly, locking and *not using* is probably the best strategy

@computersandblues there's a good reason to lock and abandon rather than delete your account: someone can then take over the same username and more easily pretend to be you

Hey I've been hearing a lot about ActivityPub could someone please tell me how it works?!?!?!?! THANKS!

@evan @darius @blaine @jesse bto

@evan @darius @blaine @jesse mega #vaguejoke

Lol I forgot about how I rendered the Tombstone object https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/pubstrate/-/blob/master/pubstrate/webapp/templates.scm#L324

I think one of the most interesting parts of the codebase was the way it embraced generic methods + activitystreams objects, as seen in the template rendering code for different activity/object types https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/pubstrate/-/blob/master/pubstrate/webapp/templates.scm#L248

Here is the codebase. If nothing else, if you wanted a foundation for a scheme-based activitypub system, you could start looking at this (one that could be packaged and usable by the Guix enthusiast crowd, even):

https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/pubstrate/-/tree/master/
And the test suite:
https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/pubstrate/-/blob/master/pubstrate/aptestsuite.scm

The pubstrate repo is really three... no wait, four things:

- An ActivityStreams library
- An ActivityPub library
- An ActivityPub demo application
- An ActivityPub test suite

All of these were cobbled together by me under tremendous strain and without enough energy or support during the last year or so of the activitypub standardization process. There are, nonetheless, some good ideas in there, I think. It's probably not compatible with most current activitypub applications (and yes, that's an interesting piece of commentary itself), but it could be made so without too much work I think.

Does someone want to take over the old activitypub test suite? It's written in Guile scheme. I don't have time.

I can point you to the code and show you how to get it up and running. It needs work.

50% of my timeline is tech posts
50% is trans people thirsting after other trans people

this is a good network