Notices by bengo (bengo@mastodon.social)

Wholesome regenerative family reunion in Buenos Aires this last week. 🇦🇷

I notice https://devconnect.org/ is coming to town so I’m extending the trip to check out the “Ethereum Worlds Fair” next week after a year away from the ecosystem. What does #ActivityPub + #Ethereum look like? IMHO better than how Mastodon insists on controlling your keys 🔑

@feld 🤣 now do IPFS

@feld I don’t really disagree with anything you said. I worked a little on this and some think even it doesn’t scale enough (let alone kubo, IPFS-cluster, etc). https://github.com/elastic-ipfs/elastic-ipfs

I was more trying to point out how common/easy of a dig it is “but that is used for xyz” when it comes to internetworking.
Ngl I have no idea which tool would be the “premier” for that. Maybe you’re right and it’s Matrix 😂

+Infinity your last point too. Where can I read about “new torrent stuff”?

@silverpill @feld the problem with all of these, IMHO, is IPFS does not in practice really work if all you have is the hash of a file. It has to be the hash of an IPFS-specific encoding of a file. (iiuc: torrent too). But yes it sure would be nice if all it took was the hash of the file, which was a common refrain in some of the “next gen IPFS” discussions last year etc. that’s why I linked to BLAKE3 before 😊

@silverpill @feld hey @silverpill can you figure out how to support resolving did:dht in your impls? 😅 https://github.com/decentralized-identity/did-dht

@silverpill @feld like a magnet link ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

Awesome #ActivityPub presentation from @darius at #dweb Seattle tonight. Great work on the observatory and fuzzer. 👏🏻
Data driven decisions ftw.

⚠️ We’re now entering the “extinguish” part of “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. We’ve had the first proposals in @socialcg to remove requirements of #activitypub that have been in place for 7+ years, and without an explanation how the removal improves anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

React if you’d like a #ActivityPubSpecAlert when there are proposals to change the requirements of ActivityPub as we’ve begun to see the last couple weeks.

Join https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

@silverpill @peertube Thanks for the heads up! I learned @peertube keeps full URLs including schemes in its db. I think it must have set these to `http://` from before I enabled PEERTUBE_WEBSERVER_HTTPS?

I ran some manual sql queries and I think/hope it's fixed. 😅

```sql
UPDATE "actor"
SET "url" = REPLACE("url", 'http://', 'https://')
WHERE "url" LIKE 'http://%';
```
(and for other columns too)

I set up a @peertube instance! (personal use / experiments)

🥁 🎉 https://bengo.tube 📺

To try it out, I shared this old diving video of a bunch of Galapagos Garden Eeels[1] https://bengo.tube/w/wWccigJ46EWVaAm3aPQtRj

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_garden_eel

#peertube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil

"Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but instead an average and mundane person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself, was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology, and believed in success which he considered the chief standard of "good society". Banality... does not mean that Eichmann's actions were in any way ordinary, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional.”

#winning

@silverpill @ilja what's a good client i can download to create posts/URIs that conform to FEP-ef61?

@ilja ya! Good rec. I've been following it. Personally I don't love a new custom URI scheme vs just using did:, but on the whole it's a great contribution

"The Challenge of ActivityPub Data Portability"

a new blog post on web 3.0, data portability, integrity, authenticity, and why it's hard on the fediverse.

https://bengo.is/blogging/2024-10-03-the-challenge-of-activitypub-data-portability/

I love #mastodon but had to call it out a bit here to explain how it could be better for the #ActivityPub ecosystem.

boosts and polite feedback appreciated ⁂

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair,
"I, Candidate for Governor" (1935)

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00010168

#IETF #ActivityPub amazing presentation by @rwg Cant wait for the book 📚 !!

@Gargron the fediverse was created primarily for sharing trekking photos. Depending on who you ask 🏔️

https://codingrights.org/docs/Federated_AI_Commons_ecosystem_T20Policybriefing.pdf

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