Oh, wow. That's a blast from the past. I installed/swapped so many of them in the late '90s. We had a drawer full of spares. One of the things we always saved when a machine went to the recycler.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 03:13:57 JST Jamie Booth -
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 03:36:21 JST Jamie Booth The keys for bluray are both player and volume specific. They need internet access to keep that database up to date. Technically, it should be required to play newer discs unless they are using an older key. A lot of bluray players (I thought it was all) would refuse to play if they couldn't update the database.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 02:34:04 JST Jamie Booth I'm not sure if they have, but technically they can kill a bluray. The keys are revokable which is part of why the players need internet access.
DVDs (or rip the bluray) don't have this problem.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:11:03 JST Jamie Booth I'm not sure I'm following. You don't want to put a battery socket on a PCB and expose positive and negative. Are you wanting to use a PCB as some sort of structural component?
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 19:01:45 JST Jamie Booth @agrinova
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsI'm not a GDPR expert, but because the bridge isn't stateful (ie just forwards posts) I don't think you are going to apply any of the data directives. Worst case, you might have to do something for instances hosted in Europe. But whatever you do applies much more strongly to actual instance servers. Those are hosting data created by and about users.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 08:43:36 JST Jamie Booth @agrinova
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsThat takes a lot of time, and as someone in IT, most people take the defaults and are SHOCKED to learn some features exist. 😁
Having this behave like the rest of the fediverse accelerates the awareness and usefulness of the bridge.
You can more rapidly achieve the goal of allowing people to connect and converse. That is after all why the fediverse exists. The rest of this is semantics.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 08:40:54 JST Jamie Booth @HistoPol
@oliphant @snarfed @snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @fedidevs @fediversenews @chronohart @activitypubblueskybridgeBased on Ryan's response and some of the other descriptions, it sounds like the bridge software knows how to handle AP block requests. So, they should be the same.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 05:11:48 JST Jamie Booth @shiri
@oliphant @HistoPol @snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @chronohart @snarfedFrom reading some of the other posts and his answer to my earlier post, it seems he is accepting AP blocks in the software. So, both the tag and a block (domain or user) should work the same way.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:03:39 JST Jamie Booth @chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsI don't believe the choice of network matters that much. I think the harasser is more likely to go that extra step. If not, then a simple AP block solves that problem and that's a minor cost to enable better communication between people.
If this conversation around Bridgy Fed proves anything it's that we need more, less hostile communication between people.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:03:30 JST Jamie Booth @chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsNo, but they could also create an AP account and harass the person. This bridge doesn't make that any more or less likely. You still have the same tools to block a user even if they are over the bridge.
I think there are a lot of positives to connect people who landed on different platforms. The possibility of harassment is really a more global Internet problem not AP/BS/Threads specific.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 09:12:42 JST Jamie Booth @chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsWhat about if the person reaching out is from BS? If my friend on the AP side hasn't found this bridge and opted in, they won't show up when I try to add them. A lot has to go right for these people to reconnect if they have to opt in. In my case, all I have are remembered Twitter handles that I'll try to search across the bridge fir that handle. If I get results, I'll try to follow.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 09:12:35 JST Jamie Booth @oliphant
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@snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @fedidevs @fediversenews @chronohart @activitypubblueskybridgeI'm wondering if that means there may be a functional difference between blocking the bridge vs adding the #nobridge tag?
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:42:11 JST Jamie Booth @HistoPol
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsThis is a really good question and I don't know the answer. This is the kinda of thing I think we should be asking about the bridge.
@snarfed do you know the answer to this?
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:32:33 JST Jamie Booth @chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenewsLet's be honest most people have no idea this bridge is going to exist. So, they can't opt-in. If nobody opts-in, you won't be able to search for them by their ActivityPub handles. The bridge isn't useful. People on both sides who would like to reconnect with their friends won't be able to. However, if you know you hate BS, you can add the bridge to your personal block list and it isn't an issue for you.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:19:36 JST Jamie Booth @tness16
@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridgeMy guess is it won't have any way to know. But I don't know if BS has a bot tag like Mastodon.
I would also say not all bots are bad. You can have bots that report traffic or weather. Governments have bots for distributing information.
I feel like a lot of the responses to this have been reactions to the worst possible scenario. That rarely happens. Reality is somewhere in the middle.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:53:25 JST Jamie Booth @tness16
@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridgeI think it's ok to question the management and assess the risks (as long as you don't do it in a vacuum...AI is/will be an issue on ActivityPub as well). But, I also would remind you that there are real people who just want to get along and interact with their friends who happen to be on ActivityPub. This bridge allows that.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:34:56 JST Jamie Booth @tness16
@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridgeAssuming the big door in this context is to join an ActivityPub server, I know several people who came here when Twitter blew up and weren't warmly welcomed. Lots of people telling them they were doing it wrong, etc. So, they left and went to places like Threads or BlueSky. This is giving them a chance to be on their instance of choice (BlueSky) and still follow their friends who did stay on ActivityPub.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 04:24:10 JST Jamie Booth The important question is how will you collect the votes from people who are in a loop. They could be voting every day.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 02:49:02 JST Jamie Booth I once asked a coworker who made chess boards how he did it. His process was:
* Cut the wood to strips the width of the squares.
* Glue the strips edge to edge alternating colors
* Rotate them 90 degrees and cut them again into strips
* Slide every other strip up one square and reglue
* Trim the edges to final board size.I basically smacked my head with my palm. Felt so simple compared to what I was envisioning.
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Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 04:28:22 JST Jamie Booth Many of the old web browsers are secure because they don't support anything but static HTML. 😁
The "Web" just left them behind.