“They could flame and troll with a fearlessness that was harder to get away with under the material coercion of the state, or the physical consequences of talking when you were supposed to be listening. Without the oddly providential cyberlibertarian vision to give a reason for good behavior, cyberspace looked a lot more like the history of civilization than it did an unencumbered new chapter.”
Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):
Egg tofu
This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.
@naturzukunft@steve It's a list of the conformance requirements in the ActivityPub spec. I admit they could be rendered better. Sorry about that.
The requirements are the subset of behaviors described by the spec that are required via RFC2119 'MUST'. This doc has a bit more explaining 'behaviors' including the reuqired ones. https://socialweb.coop/activitypub/behaviors/
I am so happy I (literally) crossed paths with @cwebber at #FOSDEM, both because it was so nice to meet her again, but also because now I have the coolest sticker set of all #FOSDEM24 😍
"It was as he suspected: in a rigid hierarchy, nobody questions orders that seem to come from above, and those at the very top are so isolated from the actual work situation that they never see what is going on below. It was the chains of communication, not the means of production, that determined a social process.. Nothing signed “THE MGT.” would ever be challenged."
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of “monopoly in the means of production.” Since man extends his nervous system though channels of communication like the written word, the telephone, radio, etc., he who controls these media controls part of the nervous system of every member of society. The contents of these media become part of the contents of every individual’s brain."
"Put another way, Mastodon’s strong anti-corporate narrative resonated with people. It had a beloved open web protocol to back it up. All it had to do was nothing— bide its time, polish that iOS app, and wait for some of Twitter’s quarter billion users to come to you. But Mastodon and the greater fediverse lost what made it intriguing the moment it shook hands with Meta." https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/
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We are never obligated to extend the practice of our beliefs to bad-faith actors. In fact, we are obligated to protect the underpinnings that allow us to express those beliefs; doing so does not make us hypocrites...
You can't throw Che Guevara on an eighty-dollar tee shirt and hope the working conditions in which that shirt was produced improve. Just as you can't interoperate with a notoriously ruthless monopoly and hope its users embrace the open web.
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The challenge is that the baseline features of activitypub are essentially impossible to build an effective client off of.
It's not just they are defining their own interfaces, it is that they have to define their own interfaces if they want to be even reasonably effective at their chosen tasks at scale because of the limitations on how collections can be dereferenced
There are ways around this with FEPs and such, but it's not in the protocol
My view on this is... sure why not? The devil is in the details, but the actual code in @robin 's post is a valid as2 actor as far as I can tell. The 'over ATProto' part seems superfluous. From the perspective of an ActivityPub client, it's 'just' an ActivityPub Server + feature detection. It's not clear why the 'over' is necessary, or why it would be 'ActivityPub over ATProto' and not 'ATProto over ActivityPub'. But maybe just better to avoid the preposition altogether.
#FinishedReading This odd little #CarloRovelli book starts as a quite nice pop sci glance at time in 20th century physics, then shifts to speculations in philosophy of science. It comes with ecstatic blurbs from e.g. Phillip Pullman and Nick Hornby, who (like me) lack expertise to judge the meat of the book. Is it bullshit? Is it original? The whole package, including its sometimes strange language choices (who still uses 'Peking'?) left me intrigued but sceptical. #Bookstodon@bookstodon