James_K

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by James_K 18d ago
Their primary goal was creating a Twitter clone, ActivityPub can do that. The federation stuff is really just a toy part of it, as you can tell from the fact that PLC DIDs are still issued from a central authority. Or they could have done i
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by James_K 19d ago
Something based on ActivityPub would be much more reasonable. I would not have nearly the same objections if it integrated with an existing ecosystem rather than carving up the already limited pool of people interested in the open web and l
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by James_K 19d ago
We already have those capabilities. My website has reposts on it. I just link to someone else's content from my Atom feed instead of something hosted on my own site. Then I attach a https://validator.w3.org/feed/do
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by James_K 19d ago
The difference is one uses W3C recommended web interfaces and the other does not. I make blog posts to my website using HTML, anyone can open them using a web browser. I can host those pages one of many static hosting services with no need
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by James_K 20d ago
You would repost a page by linking to it from your own. As for uploading content, that is outside of the scope of an indexer. The user hosts their data with some hosting service, or independently. I believe signatures are already handled by
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by James_K 20d ago
You send a request to a web indexer with a page you want added to the network, it scans your page for outgoing links and sends an email to the owners of any domains who are also on the service. One can imagine making it a little more featur
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by James_K 20d ago
There are invariably 3 solutions to all “federated” web problems: - Email - Semantic HTML - Web indexing services In this case, it's mostly indexing and a little of the other two if you want to add social features. I despite ATProto wi
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by James_K 20d ago
Ironic that people without imagination write a page using AI.
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by James_K 2mo ago
Email.
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by James_K 2mo ago
I dislike when people use the term “power” to describe making code slightly shorter to type. Operator overloading is not in any meaningful sense more powerful than a language which lacks it.
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by James_K 3mo ago
I think the better conclusion here is that most programming languages don't deserve Wikipedia articles. You wouldn't want one for every brand of screwdriver or kitchen appliance. Programming languages are likewise, just tools. An
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by James_K 3mo ago
Suppose you wanted to make a Wikipedia article on a certain brand CNC milling machine, would that be useful? Not really. The only thing ever written about it is its own manual, and it doesn't feature notably with the exception of being
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by James_K 3mo ago
Sad that we don't see more high praise of simple things. Not exciting enough, I guess.
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by James_K 3mo ago
Letting users pick their own passwords has always been a mistake. If passwords are needed, the system should choose them.
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by James_K 3mo ago
This could have all been solved if they added a setting for bread, pizza, or cake.
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by James_K 3mo ago
I've always doubted this stuff because I have some memories of things that happened when I was 2.
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by James_K 3mo ago
I will never stop singing the praises of plain HTML. It's accessible, it's portable, it's simple, but for some reason we need horrid JavaScript nonsense to operate.
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by James_K 4mo ago
POLAND MENTION!!!!!
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by James_K 5mo ago
Meditation from first principles.
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by James_K 5mo ago
I feel that Postel's law probably holds up the worst out of these. While being liberal with the data you accept can seem good for the functioning of your own application, the broader social effect is negative. It promotes misconception
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by James_K 5mo ago
But it's not “lots of people,” it's everyone. Everyone has a picture of their face on their phone. And the information is encrypted because phones use disk encryption by default. “Someone can get a photo of your face and passport
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by James_K 5mo ago
The “hack” in question is pointing out that the app forgets to delete images of the user's face and ID (stored). A lot of people have pictures of their face already on the phone, and often their ID as well so this is hardly a security
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by James_K 6mo ago
She could have accepted the Email, then printed the documents off and said it was faxed. I highly doubt anyone checks.
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by James_K 6mo ago
Working for an organisation which systematically abuses and degrades disabled people is not a morally neural act. If you're life is difficult then that's sad, but not an excuse to exact that difficulty 100 fold on other people.
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by James_K 6mo ago
I'm almost certain this is from the UK, and here we have a government that is absolutely obsessed by the concept of benefits fraud. Every real analysis has shown that virtually none exists, but it is a good excuse to tighten up the gov
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by James_K 6mo ago
That is not a problem with Wayland because specifying this is not a within the purview of Wayland. People like you don't seem to understand that Wayland is specification, and not an implementation like X11.
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by James_K 6mo ago
I think you've got it backwards. Applications like OBS do not typically register default global keybindings to avoid clobbering, you have to do it manually in their settings menu. The only difference with a generic interface is that th
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by James_K 6mo ago
Or you could write portable software that doesn't rely on reading global input. OBS you give as an example, and it is a good one. They could simply register a D-Bus handler and provide a second binary that sends messages to the running
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by James_K 6mo ago
How many keybings do you have and how often do you try new window managers? Compromising the security of the whole system just to save you a few `sed`s when writing some config files seems like a bad trade off.
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by James_K 6mo ago
I'm using Sway right now and I have key binds. Not sure why you think that's impossible.

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