mro

tantek.com, 21 days ago to random

Recently @W3.org (@w3c) published the first Group Note of the Vision for W3C:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/

I’m the current editor of the Vision for W3C and helped get it across the line this year to reach #w3cAB (W3C Advisory Board @ab) consensus to publish as an official Group Note, the first official Note that the AB (Advisory Board) has ever published.

I’m very proud of this milestone, as I and a few others including many on the AB¹, have been working on it for a few years in various forms, and with the broader W3C Vision TF² (Task Force) for the past year.

W3C also recently announced the Vision for W3C in their news feed:

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-vision-for-w3c/

One of the key goals of this document was to capture the spirit of why we are at #W3C and our shared values & principles we use to guide our work & decisions at W3C.

If you work with any groups at W3C, anything from a Community Group (CG) to a Working Group (WG), I highly recommend you read this document from start to finish.

See what resonates with you, if there is anything that doesn’t sound right to you, or if you see anything missing that you feel exemplifies the best of what W3C is, please file an issue or a suggestion:

https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22+-label%3ADefer

Check that list to see if your concerns or suggestions are already captured, and if so, add an upvote or comment accordingly.

Our goal is to eventually publish this document as an official W3C Statement, with the consensus of the entire #w3cAC (W3C Advisory Committee).

One key aspect which the Vision touches on but perhaps too briefly is what I see as the fundamental purpose of why we do the work we do at W3C, which in my opinion is:

To create & facilitate user-first interoperable standards that improve the web for humanity

The Vision does mention “#interoperable” explicitly as part of our Vision for the Web in https://w3c.github.io/AB-public/Vision#vision-web:

”There is one interoperable world-wide Web.”

The Vision also mentions “#interoperability” explicitly in our Operational Principles https://w3c.github.io/AB-public/Vision#op-principles:

“Interoperability: We verify the fitness of our specifications through open test suites and actual implementation experience, because we believe the purpose of standards is to enable independent interoperable implementations.”

These are both excellent, and yet, I think we can do better, with adding some sort of explicit statement between those two about that “We will” create & facilitate user-first interoperable standards that improve the web for humanity.

In the coming weeks I’ll be reflecting how we (the VisionTF) can incorporate that sort of imperative “We will” statement about interoperable standards into the Vision for W3C, as well as working with the AB and W3C Team on defining a succinct updated mission & purpose for W3C based on that sort of input and more.

In a related effort, I have also been leading the AB’s “3Is Priority Project³” (Interoperability and the Role of Independent Implementations), which is a pretty big project to define and clarify what each of those three Is mean, with respect to each other and Incubation, which is its own Priority Project⁴.

As part of the 3Is project, the first “I” I’ve been focusing on has unsurprisingly been “Interoperable”. As with other #OpenAB projects, our work on understanding interoperability, its aspects, and defining what do we mean by interoperable is published and iterated on the W3C’s public wiki:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Interoperable

This is still a work in progress, however it’s sufficiently structured to take a look if interoperability is something you care about or have opinions about.

In particular, if you know of definitions of interoperable or interoperability that resonate and make sense to you, or articles or blog posts about interoperability that explore various aspects, I am gathering such references so we can make sure the W3C’s definition of interoperable is both well-stated, and clearly reflects a broader industry understanding of interoperability.

References:

¹ https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/#acknowledgements
² https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/VisionTF
³ https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2024_Priorities#Interoperability_and_the_Role_of_Independent_Implementations
⁴ https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2024_Priorities#Incubation

pfefferle, 23 days ago to random

@linos do you have a link to a documentation of the follow/approval process on application level, that is used by #mobilizon ?

feb, 28 days ago to helpers German

Guten Morgen zusammen,
Profilbilder und Videos von Threads scheinen derzeit noch ein Problem zu sein.
Profilbilder muss ich häufig manuell nachladen und Videos scheinen blockiert zu werden. Ist das nur mit meinem Profil so oder kann das noch jemand bestätigen?

mro, 1 month ago to random German

Hi @mastohost, I came across @liaizon which is IMO hosted by you. More precisely the social. subdomain is. How dow you resolve #webfinger #rfc7033 adresses to a host not mentioned in the address?

Asking because I implement @demo and https://seppo.social/demo/apchk.cgi

mro, 1 month ago to fediverse German

🐍 🛠 Early(est) access to work in progress on FediTest and the #Fediverse #test suite | @feditest
https://feditest.org/blog/2024-04-09-earliest-access/
#ActivityPub #Python @J12t
¹ https://mro.name/az49b65

freebliss, 1 month ago to random

I read this today on the fediverse: "I don’t think [static site generators] work for regular people - too much command line for grandma to use."

This is a surprisingly common sentiment among many people, on which I'd like to weigh in:

1. Conflating static site generation with "terminal interface" is technically wrong and conceptually counterproductive. I think part of why there isn't so much experimentation and diversity in the SSG space is because so many people are stuck with a mindset of the past (Tom-Preston Werner's «Blogging Like a Hacker»¹ was back in 2008!) instead of cultivating an awareness and imagination for what already is (and what else could be) there instead.

2. I don't know how far accessibility of SSGs can be pushed for general audiences in the end and where we will meet hard boundaries, but I feel that there is still so much untapped potential and space to try things, and not so many people taking notice or trying to go there. Be courageous and explore!

3. Correct usage of "grandma" is for instance "My grandma wrote a python script to detect reactionary jokes on the fediverse, and today she found a particularly bad one". The term the author was looking for is "non-technical audience". You're welcome, author!

¹ https://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker

liaizon, 1 month ago to berlin

Whats the least shitty bank I can get in #Berlin?

mro, 1 month ago to fediverse German

📄 #Show: apchk.cgi - a #Webfinger => #ActivityPub Resolver and #Checker | MRo Blog
https://blog.mro.name/2024/03/webfinger-to-activitypub/
#Federation #HTTP #NLnet #RFC7033 #Seppo @demo @NGIZero @EC_NGI @nlnetlabs @fediversity
¹ https://mro.name/ayubd3f

Codeberg, 1 month ago to random

There is one thing that annoys me about #Codeberg, but I was too lazy to tell …

… until today! Please let us know in the comments.

mro, 2 months ago to random German

📄 Knowing What You Need to Know | February #AD2024 | #CACM @ACM
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/2/279530-knowing-what-you-need-to-know/fulltext
"… She called the requester's cell phone and interviewed him until she had everything she would need to do the task without interruption. …"

#@Limoncelli
¹ https://mro.name/aygk2c5

mro, 2 months ago to Blog German

🔐 #SSH based comment system
https://blog.haschek.at/2023/ssh-based-comment-system.html
#blog #comments
thanks https://lobste.rs/s/808x6v/ssh_based_comment_system
¹ https://mro.name/ayfb626

mro, 2 months ago to fediverse German

📄 Who is welcome to my #Inbox? ( #ActivityPub ) | MRo Blog
https://blog.mro.name/2024/02/inbox-activitypub/
#Federation #Spam
@demo
¹ https://mro.name/ayf3yyk

edward, 3 months ago to random

Git is confusing, maybe we can replace it with something based on category theory

#FOSDEM #CategoryTheory

mro, 3 months ago to random German

Hi @fosdem, I'd like to give a 5-min Lightning Talk about "Internet by unprivileged users" but see no open slots at https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/lightning_talks/

Would you be so kind to put me on a waiting list? I can do it short notice in case.

Edit: Sat noon may be an option?

linos, 3 months ago to random German

Die Bahnen machen es einen echt schwer.

Züge von einer gewissen Stadt in Belgien nach einer anderen gewissen Großstadt in Deutschland online bei der #DB buchen funktioniert momentan gar nicht.

Die #ÖBB lässt einen nurmehr Aufenthalte von maximal acht Stunden konfigurieren im Ticketshop und das obwohl fahrplan.oebb.at bis zu 48h akzeptiert.

drewdevault, 3 months ago to random

SourceHut network outage post-mortem

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/

ben, 3 months ago to fediverse

Wondering how hard it would be to build the absolute minimum single user ActivePub instance.

#ActivityPub

naturzukunft, 4 months ago to fediverse

@evan i'm getting crazy with that blank node stuff ;-)
if you have an actor like that:
{
"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"],
"type": "Person",
"id": "https://example.com/1",
"inbox": "https://example.com/1/inbox.json",
"outbox": "https://example.com/1/feed.json",
"endpoints": {
"oauthAuthorizationEndpoint": "https://example.com/oauth/auth",
"oauthTokenEndpoint": "https://example.com/oauth/token"
},
"name": "John"
}
#activitypub

protonmail, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Meta wants you to keep Facebook Link History on, here’s why you shouldn’t:

“Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords.”

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018