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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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b0rk, to random
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the git zine is coming out on ★ ★ ★ Friday ★ ★ ★! Here's its about page

evan,
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@b0rk I CANNOT WAIT.

evan, (edited ) to random
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So, as far as I can tell, ActivityPub is by far the most popular JSON-LD application on the Internet, with billions of actor, activity and content documents published and linked.

Is there any other application of JSON-LD that comes even close in terms of documents published, number of interoperable implementations, and importance in people's lives? I don't think VCs are even within 4 or 5 orders of magnitude.

evan,
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@jack @Gargron Oh, neat. I wonder how relatively popular the two formats are? Either way, that's likely to be a lot bigger than AP.

evan,
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@jack That's not JSON-LD, though.

evan,
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@Gargron @jack It is? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm thinking of the schema.org microdata markup added to HTML pages. I get that it's "linked data" but I don't think it's JSON-LD.

https://schema.org/docs/gs.html

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@Gargron @jack Is there another way to add schema.org metadata to a site that I don't know about?

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should citizens of your country who live abroad be allowed to vote in national elections?

evan,
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@mensrea Have a good one! And thanks for voting.

evan, to random
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I'm excited about IFTAS Connect. It's a great platform, and considerable though seems to have gone into making it safe and productive. Seems like a great tool for the Fediverse community.

https://connect.iftas.org/

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who are your favorite artists who use code as a medium?

evan,
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@jenn @rhea

phildini, to fediverse
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Remember you can come see me give a talk on #ActivityPub! In a barn! With cats!
https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/112520695499950405

evan,
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@phildini neat!

appassionato, to australia
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Australia’s federal parliament has voted against recognising Palestine as an independent state.

Here’s how the House of Representatives voted on the motion put forward by the Greens:

Yes: 5. The Australian Greens and Independent Andrew Wilkie.

No: 80. Representatives from the Labor government, as well as the Liberal and National parties.

@palestine

evan,
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@appassionato @palestine It sounds like it was more about partisan politics than anything else. The Greens advanced the motion, and the other parties backed off in a huff:

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/greens-motion-for-palestinian-statehood-voted-down-by-lower-house-mps/news-story/a6539b229f4395cc76e6cfdee55d87f0

The Foreign Minister Penny Wong has signalled an openness to recognizing Palestine. My guess is that the government will do it on their own timetable, and won't let themselves be pushed:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-consider-recognising-palestinian-state-foreign-minister-says-2024-04-09/

norootcause, to random
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I’m just young enough that I never had to deal with “near” versus “far” pointers in C on Intel machines.

evan,
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@norootcause lucky!

evan, (edited ) to random
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What level do you play games at?

evan,
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I guess this makes sense. I'm "Normal" on first play, usually "Hard" on second or later plays, which I would say I do about 10% of the time. I don't find extreme modes fun, and I don't have small kids, so I don't need to play on Easy. So, on balance, Normal.

evan, to random
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I had a whole chapter for the ActivityPub book that I never got around to doing. I just finished it. I don't think my editor is going to be happy, since it's going to make the book too big, but I'd rather have to cut back than live with regrets.

evan,
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Friends, she was fine with it.

evan,
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@trwnh That'd be great. I don't think you saw either of the reference appendices. I'll check with Sarah.

evan,
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@pch you don't have to! It's available in early release right now.

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/

evan, to random
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One of the things we talked about in the Social Web Working Group was how to include binary data in the ActivityPub objects, like an Image. One proposed technique was to base64-encode the data and include it in content; another option was to use data: URLs in the url property of the object. Do any ActivityPub processors currently include inline images or other binary data?

evan,
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@jasnell Right. But I don't think we have a way to specify the encoding, although I guess one could just use some heuristics and assume base64 unless proven otherwise. Like this:

{
"type": "Image",
"name": "1-pixel GIF",
"mediaType": "image/gif",
"content": "R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"
}

evan,
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@jasnell Thanks!

evan,
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@jasnell does this ring a bell at all? I feel like we had this conversation at some point during AS2 development.

evan, (edited ) to random
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"International law should apply equally for all people and for all countries."

evan,
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@EcoLogicExplorer And yet we all are affected by agreements on refugees, on war crimes, on climate change, on airplane flights, on genocide.

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