Notices by Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee: (brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net)

@evan i feel there's an asymmetry here that makes this a... poorly thought out response.

that said, in spaces where visibility is *expected*, it can be extremely valuable to know who's in the room with you. that's a different circumstance than the question of the poll, so deserves a separate answer.

@evan ah so the specific issue is that this is an example of *not* being in control of who sees your stuff

if you don't expect that clicking a link reveals your identity to another person, you might be *very surprised* to find that your stalker or a mass-harrassment group now knows who you are

@evan ah so are you saying that activitypub *already* reveals your identity to the server of anyone who's profile you view through your front-end server or client?

and therefore, it's no big deal for the server to inform the person that you viewed the profile?

@evan i haven't the foggiest idea how those things are related :)

@evan strong no. major privacy violation, extreme creepy factor, high risk of stalker behavior and harassment

I guess I lost my faith in Apple doing the right thing when Steve Jobs announced FaceTime promising it would be made into a cross-platform open standard and then just.... didn't

That was in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime#Standards

did anyone use desqview/x?

i remember lusting after advertisements i saw for it in my dad's programming magazines

desqview started as a dos tsr with desktop organizer widgets and slowly expanded into a fucking multitasking operating system

with an x11 server

chicken fried steak is just waffle haus schnitzel send toot

🚀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HneVxAmYcaA

making computers do horrible things is my passion

happy pride month, whatever your thing is

@gintoxicating i'm *so cold all the time* now i think they changed how fahrenheit works

"strip mine" and "strip poker" are not parallel constructions

The lathe was once cutting edge technology

@evan i feel like the only thing that realistically prevents that is the combination of:

1) companies and governments offering services through proprietary android and ios apps, without a standard web interface

2) those companies distributing their android apps exclusively through the google play store, which is not open source

3) google not making it easy to install google play services "legitimately" on a random aosp phone without doing something hinky to sideload it

sites, not silos

protocols, not platforms

communities, not consumers

@evan i think using "subject" (a term of art in computer posting) and "post" (also a term of art in computer posting) together confused me :D

@evan hehe this poll wasn't about what i thought it was about :D

@evan @mcc @gutmunchies <troll> that's just debian </troll>

Where do programmers go drinking?

The Progress Bar