kidehen

@kidehen@mastodon.social

Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software (#VirtuosoRDBMS creator)

#SSI: ni:///sha-256;xxdJ16bthZ724u0_xHvcNt0_Wu4ABxb56nPT50hNz-Q (denotes a SHA256 hash of a Public Key from a locally stored X.509 Cert)

#Nostr: d9c8c00017a2a345c2f32132436a26e1c72cb7a57e7b6b316f62dee2f8bcf8dd

Foci:
#OpenData, #LinkedData, #SemanticWeb, #KnowledgeGraph, #SPARQL, #HyperData, #DataConnectivity, #Web30, #DataSpaces, #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, #ActivityStreams, #SocialMedia, #RSS, #RWW, #ODBC, #JDBC

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Vivaldi, to email
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

If you're already using one of the major clients but are considering changing to Vivaldi Mail, this page is for you. ✉️

Here you can read a bit more about the features included in our built-in email client, and see the differences between Vivaldi Mail and the top 6 email clients.

We want you to make an informed decision, so...see for yourself and choose what's best for you!

https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/compare/

kidehen,

@Vivaldi Do you support digitally signed emails using S/MIME?

kidehen, to random

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kidehen,

@evan Me too! And to think the darn word was "Graph" says it all 😂😂

kidehen, to fediverse

Boom!

New release. Highlights include self-sovereign identity () enhancements, native & support, compliant Web Service import and export, and a new foundation for high-performance and integration using , , or retrieval augmented generation ().

https://community.openlinksw.com/t/virtuoso-08-03-3329-release-notes/4059

kidehen,

@indieterminacy Coming soon.
Also note https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/ActivityPub -- an client implemented via a shell script .

kidehen, to HowTo

Here's a screencast demonstration of Single Sign-On facilitated by loosely-coupling and , courtesy of the protocol.

https://youtu.be/DyRlar9PCvM

kidehen,

What's going on here?

I authenticate using @apple, @linkedin, etc.,
via their respective auth services, but retain control of the post-login identifier.

My Link In Bio style profile doc determines my canonical identity😀

kidehen, to random

Wordle 793 2/6

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kidehen, to threads

@chrismessina,

I see rel=me based authenticity is working over here based on your cross-reference.

Question:
Is rel=me embedded in the conventional HTML published by https://threads.net? I ask because I can't find that when I view-source on https://threads.net/@chris .

kidehen,

@dontpanic @chrismessina ,

I see it now. I looked earlier using which has some strange caching behavior.

Repeating the process using a different browser, as I should have in the first place, confirms the placement of "me" attribute and value (one's profile doc url) pair in <head/>.

Now I need to see if @Mastodon is picking up my cross references en route to validation :)

kidehen,

@chrismessina @dontpanic @Mastodon,

Finally cracked it. Here's how.

Over here I was pointing to https://www.threads.net/@kidehen (which does resolve) rather than https://threads.net/@kidehen.

That was it, bar confusion introduced by caching in my particular instance.

This is a "Big Boy" move by re authenticity, especially in regards to the burgeoning (where the next major battle for curators is about to break out).

BBC_News_Labs, to random
@BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc avatar

Hi, we are BBC News Labs #introduction

We’re charged with driving innovation for BBC News. Our team of technologists and journalists explore how new tools and formats affect how news is found and reported.

You can find out more at https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/ and we’ll be posting here about our work

This account is part of an experiment from BBC R&D in establishing a BBC presence in the Fediverse.

kidehen,

@BBC_News_Labs @datatwingler bookmark.

kidehen, to threads

Who would have thunk?

https://fedidb.org/

This is the effect, and they haven't even unleashed their support yet.

@Mastodon failed to understand a opportunity regarding the broader due to its approach to the client-server aspect of ActivityPub. Basically, it is happy to take the "platform over federated network" view which puts a huge opportunity on a platter for re for galvanizing 3rd party developers.

My $0.02.

/cc @evan @atomicpoet

arinbasu1, to fediverse

Twitter reugees, please join calckey.social https://calckey.social and consider funding the development work of @kainoa please! Calckey is the most mature and best of them all

kidehen,

@arinbasu1 @kainoa Does this platform support, or plan to support, the client-server protocol?

That's critical to the broader which is currently conflated with @Mastodon (which has made it crystal clear that client-server support isn't of any strategic importance).

kidehen,

@arinbasu1 ,

I am asking about the client-server rather than server-server variant of the protocol.

@kainoa @Mastodon

chrismessina, to random
@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz avatar

A preview of X/Twitter, the everything app, where you have to pay to see or do anything

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

kidehen,

@chrismessina 😂😂😂

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

Do you know there’s an XMPP-enabled version of the Fediverse? Here’s an example of one such site:

https://mov.im/

Also, you can set up Friendica to work with XMPP. To wit:

Server admins can configure their ejabberd or prosody XMPP/Jabber servers to authenticate against the Friendica user database. If configured this way, every Friendica account is also a XMPP/Jabber account and can be used with any XMPP/Jabber client.

See also: https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/chats

So XMPP is a totally valid protocol you can use with the Fediverse right now. As for why few people do this, I don’t know. Maybe they really do believe that Google “killed” XMPP—which is, in fact, untrue.

@fediversenews

kidehen,

Using this thread to test new structured data extraction and transformation feature added to @datasniff, courtesy of new integration functionality.

https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/sparql?query=%23%20DEFINE%20get%3Asoft%20%22soft%22%20%0ASELECT%20(SAMPLE(%3Fs)%20AS%20%3FEntityID)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20(COUNT(*)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20(%3Fo%20AS%20%3FEntityTypeID)%20%0AFROM%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2F%40atomicpoet%40atomicpoet.org%2F110629494997735885%23osds%3E%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20a%20%3Fo%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(CONTAINS(STR(%3Fo)%2C%27schema%27))%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fo%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(%3Fcount)%20%0ALIMIT%2050%20%0A%0A%0A%0A&format=text%2Fx-html%2Btr

Note, this tech also handles 's thereby offer data portability across .

Just click to explore.

/cc @atomicpoet @fediversenews
@judell

Visualization of Discussion Thread description.
Result of uploading Discussion Thread description to a Knowledge Graph via its SPARQL endpoint.

J12t, to Futurology
@J12t@social.coop avatar

Why would Meta implement ActivityPub? 1½ reasons are compelling, another frequently mentioned one is not.

Blogged yesterday. So far, a bunch of nodding, no real disagreements. Still want your thoughts, particularly if you disagree or have something to add I missed.

https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230625-meta-why-activitypub/

kidehen,

@J12t "Embrace and extend is an entirely ineffective strategy if what you want to embrace and extend has only a tenth of the users you want “in just a few months”. It is not worth to embark on such a complex strategy if it only works for a month or two at best."

Yep!

kidehen,

@J12t "However: if that was goal, why would they implement standardized ActivityPub, as opposed to simply creating a (proprietary) API, like Meta has for its other products? It’s not like the cut-off Twitter app developers will require a standard API to come to Meta.."

They need support to engage developers, since they aren't implicitly trusted by said audience. Open standards offer an insurance policy against predatory behavior, when all is said and done 😀

evan, (edited ) to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

"All social software should support ActivityPub."

#EvanPoll #poll

kidehen,

@evan Yes.

We should also encourage developers of client apps to support the client-server aspect of .

kidehen, to random

Wordle 732 1/6

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kidehen,

@evan Yep, took about a year of using the same opening letters to pull that off 😀

dave, to random
@dave@social.masto.land avatar

Why did the fail?

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

kidehen,

@atomicpoet @dave @davew Yes it is, but my concern is that it too will stall. @Mastodon conflation is one major issue working against the .

Simple example:
client-server support is crucial to innovation, but it's difficult to pull that off when a majority of clients are hardwired to @Mastodon where there's no interest in that aspect of ActivityPub.

I've seen this movie so many times, and the outcome is predictable.

oblomov, to random
@oblomov@sociale.network avatar

Look, it's not that I don't get the enthusiasm about ‌/‌ —that's not the reason why I warn against federating with it <https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110397020867065165>. I do get it. There is something elating, validating, empowering even, when some{one,thing} Big & Famous (seems to) adopts “underdog” tech. I know because I've been there, both as a user and as a developer. But because of that, and for having been burned already not once, not twice, but three times at least, I know what to look out for.

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kidehen,

@oblomov At present none. Likewise, how are you so certain that its past behavior informs current and future behavior?

I prefer to wait and see rather than prejudge :)

kidehen,

@oblomov I've been in this industry for more than 30 years. I am happy to wait and see for now.

FWIW -- you may want do some background research regarding my involvement with open standards and a longstanding fight against misbehaving siloists 😀

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