Notices by Charlie (cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.com)

Community reminder for #Ohio area folks interested in #Linux #Programming or general #Technology - the 22nd annual Ohio Linux Fest #OLF #OLF2024 is in a week at the Hyatt Regency in downtown #Columbus!

https://olfconference.org/registration-2024/

Friday Nov 15 will have:

* LPIC-1 boot camp
* Getting started with Kubeflow

(for OLF Institute Professional Pass registrations)

and presentations for:

* transparently functional computers by Marc Abel
* amateur radio by Mike Kwiatkowski
* #DisasterRecovery in #DistributedSystems by Mahak Shah and Akaash Vishal
* machine learning and Thai characters by Terry Howald

And of course the final keynote and birds of a feather sessions.

Saturday Nov 16 will have

* Time management for #sysadmin
* Power editing with vi

(for OLFI Professional Passes)

and presentations for:

* Automation by design by Brad Krumme
* Audour and Lua by Justin Ehrlichman
* #RaspberryPi and #Arduino via O.L.D programming by Cameron and Tracey Hughes
* Intro to tmux by Bob Murphy
* From engineering to management by Ethan Hussong
* VM orchestration with KubeVirt on #Kubernetes by Anthony Navarro
* Linux tools and #robotics by Trevor Watkins
* WebAuthn and passkeys by Cornelius Kölbel
* #AlmaLinux by Jonathan Wright
* #RockyLinux by the awesome Maxine Hayes
* Enterprise Linux kernel reverse engineering by Jonathan Maple
* Proprietary and open source migrations by Justin Paul
* Open source imaging with FOG by Justin Paul
* Moving applications to containers by Donald Vosburg

And of course the closing keynote by the legendary Jon Maddog Hall!

https://olfconference.org/2024-schedule/

Fingers crossed I can keep the Garfield open source solutions stage broadcasting live and working well! I am also working on a surprise for attendees assisted by Micro Center, (but won't spoil too much here, you'll just have to show up to see ;) )

@BeAware WTF is a "Trading Topic"?

@BeAware @Larvitz Oh yeah, when I encrypted that message to Larvitz, I just entered their email as the recipient.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any desktop clients for Mastodon which have native support for this, but that would be an amazing feature for one!

@BeAware @Larvitz In short, each key is in 2 parts; the public and the private.

I (as a third party), can take your public key and use it to encrypt a message that only the matching private key can reveal.

You can also use multiple public keys to encrypt a message, so you can chat with multiple recipients at once.

Signing works on a similar premise, where you can sign a plain text message with your private key, and me (again as a third party), can use your public key to verify the plain text message was not altered.

The main unfortunate part is access to the private key; email clients like Thunderbird support it natively and transparently, (sending/receiving encrypted messages "just works"), but Mastodon being a web application, doesn't have access to your private key, so a desktop app would be required (or a browser plugin would be needed).

@Larvitz @BeAware

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@BeAware "How can the fediverse be more private"...

Hang on, let us exchange GPG public keys before we proceed. ;)

@BeAware ..... yeah, that's fucking useless. That's just twitter with a reskin.

But from a corporation standpoint, that move makes sense. Why allow users the freedom to choose where they reside? You are just losing market share (and thus losing stock valuation, which we all know is the only thing most corporations give a fuck about).

@BeAware Yeah, I don't have an issue that he's making a bridge or how that bridge handles opt-in / opt-out; I have an issue that he needs to make a bridge in the first place.

Bluesky should have implemented ActivityPub when they rolled out federation. THEIR software should handle .....

OH, wait.... does Bluesky just not _want_ to federate or something?

@BeAware

They were chatting about "quote posting", I have no idea WTF they're referring to. Is it using `> ` to create a blockquote in a message? I don't know... probably some twitter term hence why I wouldn't know it.

They chat about the Bluesky bridge; I still fail to see why there's a bridge that's needed in the first place. They developed a social media platform with the intent to be federated; just use the already accepted standards instead of trying to reinvent it themselves. It's like Novell trying their hardest to push IPX when IP was already in place, then additional software translation needing to be built to support this arbitrary protocol.

5% search selection sounds about right. Mastodon has a lot of work needed to improve the UX, this stat is indicative of that; most users don't even realize there's a "Settings" section of any of their accounts.

37min: I'm sorry, I can't do long-form content on Mastodon? Have you SEEN some of my articles? Some of them are pretty damned lengthy! They're correct that it's server centric, but fail to go into the tidbit that it's open source, so the operator can choose to modify the software to allow for things like long-form content.

39min: Eh? Wasn't the idea with Threads and Bluesky to be federated platforms from the get-go? Or were they originally just aiming for the traditional (and failing) monolithic centralized concept? If bluesky wasn't originally federated, but added it afterwards, that's even more irritating that they didn't use a published standard for a new feature.

He reminds me of a buddy of mine who built an eCommerce bridge application to cross sell/dropship between Amazon and Ebay. I don't know how I feel about that...

I still don't understand WTF Flipboard is; it appears to just be Yahoo news, ie: a bunch of public news articles plopped on a page... How is that federation? Is it considered federated as Wordpress has a federated plugin where blog posts can be sent to users directly via follow requests? Clicking "follow" on a topic just takes me to the register page on Flipboard...

56min Yeah, the dude in the red shirt has a good point, how "federated" follow count and "internal" follow count is a little awkward. Why is there a differentiation between federation system, (at least when possible).

Their lack of split screen feels off. Why does each speaker require full screen one-at-a-time when they're having a conversation with each other? It would feel much more natural if they were side by side as they were conversing.

Yeah... probably not quite the feedback you were interested in, but those were my thoughts as I was listening to the video.

@BeAware Alright fine, I'll give it a watch while I work on this network diagnostic tool.

@killyourfm

Microsoft: "We're going to integrate ML into our public search engine, then upload all users' private content, tax returns, and homemade "movies" into that same ML system"

Yup, wonderful idea. This _definitely_ won't go sideways immediately after roll-out.

@killyourfm oooh, that's a hard one. Generally cursors in games are assets in the game files and it's up to the developer to support variable sizes.

One idea I have, try to decrease the resolution of the game to see if that makes a difference.

As a sidenote... retro? _RETRO_? Torchlight 2 only came out a few.... holy hell 11 years ago... I'm old.