Notices by Erin 💽 (erincandescent@queer.af), page 2

I think whatever I do next (whether it be single or multi user), it'll be running Akkoma

There are a bunch of things about the frontend I like and Elixir is a programming language I vibe with

Misskey/Iceshrimp/etc are all fun and cute but neither JavaScript nor C# vibe with me

GoToSocial is a little barebones (though I might end up using it for some single-purpose stuff).

And digging around in Ruby makes me want to tear my hair out

We're in a world where there's lots of decent choices though

Back when we set Queer.af up, your options were vanilla Mastodon or Pleroma, and the latter's security was, at the time, quite swiss cheese.

Other notable entries:

• Tahake, for doing multiple domains
• Honk, for such wonders as a function called Jonkjonk
• Snac, for inflicting psychological horror on me by being written in C

@renard @LiveByReason @postmaster releasing unauthenticated plaintext, lots of things which should raise errors raise warnings which other tools interacting with it fail to use

You can convert an encrypted and authenticated data packet into an unauthenticated encrypted data packet and then modify the encrypted data without anyone noticing

Proper key separation was only implemented in the latest OpenPGP specification draft and GnuPG refuses to implement it

@renard @LiveByReason @postmaster it's obsolescence is nothing to do with lack of support by various providers and entirely to do with the fact that the cryptography design is obsolete and poor and the fact that the leading implementation is riddled with footguns and maintained by someone who opposes modern cryptographic design practices

@hannah all of the ActivityPub spec authors get spontaneous flashbacks

(e14n was @evan's company, which developed ActivityPub predecessor pump.io)

@LiveByReason @postmaster You can just use the migration tool, it will redirect all followers and leave a pointer behind

No need to mess with the museum of obsolete cryptography that is PGP

I feel like I've seen soo damn many shutdown announcements this month and adding another to the pile feels bad, but this one is really inescapable

Our instance tagline should probably be "The Fediverse instance most likely to get shut down by the Taliban". It would be a pretty metal way to go though

(Yeah, with the benefit of hindsight this was not the ideal TLD to choose, but also this place only exists because a friend had a cool domain they weren't doing anything with)

I hate being the bearer of bad news 😞

July 2018 - April 2024 feels like a good run though. Shame we won't make 6.

@oathboundFamiliar @mia i know of a few very old akkoma instances which are running fine but be prepared to shovel hard drives into the database server

I think most cases of "rot" are due to people running it on a potato with a badly configured DB server

@lanodan I don't think to anywhere near the level it is in France

But all the competitors are much smaller

@lanodan Don't worry Germany also runs on Doctolib

E-Presceriptions in the UK:

• I e-mail/phone my doctor
• They prescribe me something
• Drugs automatically appear at my chosen pharmacy next day (my chosen pharmacy can even post them to me!)

E-Prescription in Germany:

• I still need to physically go to the doctor every 3 months for them to scan my card
• I still need to physically go to the pharmacy each time to give them the prescription
• Pharmacists are no longer allowed to do substitutions if my specific medication is unavailable but e.g. the same thing with half the dose is?

Digitalisierung!

It feels like the German system is "We took the paper system and put a computer in the middle which has one purpose: arbitrarily saying no sometimes"

Thinking about how early in the pandemic a bunch of people were saying, roughly, "A COVID infection is only a bit worse than the flu" and how this is turning out to be darkly prophetic in light of our increasing realisation that the long term consequences of catching the flu are way worse than we thought

In light of these it seems ever more incredulous to me that we don't mandate installation of air filtration systems in convention centers, malls and other large indoor spaces where lots of people congregate.

(h/t russs)

@smallcircles @jdp23 @thisismissem @bonfire I think the thing to remember is that without protocol evolution so radical it almost ceases to be ActivityPub, instances will continue to exist

So building better community structures and reifying the protocol-level structural entities that exist are both important things to do

@james @jonty so one thing to note (which I understand completely) is that enforcement would have to be done by volunteers and basically nobody wants to do that miserable job; it's my understanding that typically they can barely get people to check tickets/wristbands

But even given that, the lack of a recommendation is disappointing (and imo says things about the head orga team)

@james CCC has always been more of a nerd get-together rather than a conference. Yeah, there's talks, but basically nobody spends the majority of their time at the talks.

Congress (which i've been to three times, though not this year) and the vaguely-overlapping camps (CCCamp, EMFCamp, the Dutch camps which change name every time) is kinda just a nerd gatherhing where everyone goes all out with the lighting/aesthetics/etc and friends from all over the continent gathered in one place. Its kinda incomparable to a typical conference.

But also yeah there are increasing amounts of disagreement between many of the attendees, the various volunteer teams (NOC, VOC, POC, etc) and leadership at CCC eV ("the" Chaos Computer Club) and CCCV (the speical-purpose-events-company)