notroot

@notroot@sharkey.world

Artist, writer, and epic fantasy aficionado by night. Code monster by day.

Been doin' this since before ARPANet... "War Games" came out after me.

I learned Pascal on a Kaypro 4 CP/M box. I once housed a Data General mainframe in the family chicken shack, terminal and all. I scavenged my first 5MB hard drive (you read that right) from that fridge. Those are just a few stories that few have ever heard, because few can understand.

But I also lived in the woods for years. Years. In tents, or yurts, or under tarps, or under stars and the sigh and susurus of the wind in the trees.

Life can take many shapes, and it can change shape.

You haven't heard of me, but I help shape an industry that profoundly influences the world. You can try to guess if you want. I don't mind. I'll even tell you if you're right.

He/him #neverAgain #gunControl #BLM #feministAlly #lgbtqAlly #accessibility #antiFascist #atheist #patriot #camelCase_and_snake_case

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TonyStark, to random
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One of my favorite political action organizations, Swing Left, has announced a strategy for 2024. They're focused on 12 states that are critical to winning back the House for Democrats, keeping the narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, reelecting Biden-Harris, and building Democratic power in the states.

They plan to double down on supporting and building local grassroots groups, a key to current and future wins. It’s a great organization to get involved with.

https://swingleft.org/p/strategy

notroot,

@TonyStark @philip_cardella As a resident of one of the reddest states in the US, and speaking if I may for all Democrats here...

Thank you!!

lednabwm, to random

Exactly.....

notroot,

@Npars01 @lednabwm To be fair, it's not just Christianity... they're all like that to a greater or lesser extent. Certainly Islam cops this 'tude, too.

It's magical thinking, IMO. As soon as you are convinced that Jesus could walk on water, or that Ole Mo flew into the sky on the back of a magic deer-thing, or that Moses parted the Red Sea, or that Buddha obtained enlightenment, or that your guru on the stinking fetid shores of a corpse-choked river can actually levitate...

You have left sanity behind.

Extrapolate from there.

Daojoan, to random
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Nobody on social media is arguing with you.

They’re arguing with their idea of you.

notroot,

@Daojoan No they're not. 😉

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the hardest you've ever worked?

If you want to tell me the hardest you've ever worked it, please provide photos.

notroot,

@RickiTarr I worked in the oilfield one winter and yeah... that was hard AF. "If you can't get it, you can't stay!" was screamed at me while I wielded a 3-foot long crescent wrench down in a hole while tons of steel hung suspended and spinning above my head and literally geological forces were being held down below me by ... mud.

Sometimes the weight of the mud is wrong, and it blows back out... a geyser of mud raining down while you're trying to stab another ton of steel into the pipe fitting.

One time I had a cat-line tied around my waist and had to wade/swim out into the mud pit to get all the loose trash that had blown onto it. It was like 19 degrees F. It was always like 19 F.

I got more stories like that, all in about a six month period.

Then I failed a piss-test (Mary Jane is my mainframe) ... thankfully. Ended up in print publishing for the next decade.

notroot, to StarTrek

I'm sick of dystopias. I want more utopian scifi/fantasy, like . Or Ursula K Le Guin.

Sci-fi predicts the future. Fantasy re-imagines the past, and how it could create different futures. Both are about the future, though. Every great epic fantasy is either post-apocalyptic or pre-apocalyptic. The Wheel of Time is both. Sometimes the apocalypse is averted, sometimes it is not. Sometimes the apocalpyse is bad, sometimes it is good.

With shows like the Rings of Power and TWoT, we're getting a dose. But they're not novels. I'm still waiting for GRR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss to put out... but I'm a writer too, so I get it. It's hard in a way that other things just... aren't.

Utopias, man. Utopias. How can we fix this shitshow? That's what I wanna read, and watch, in creative new ways.

notroot, to fediverse

I wanna do an ActivityPub API that's really just that... a robust, general purpose backend capable of serving a variety of client apps.

Maybe v2 would have customizable API for compatibility with existing clients.

First things first though... I checked with Awesome ActivityPub to see if there were any active projects already doing something like this that I could just jump in on.

https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

There used to be, but I can't find it now... so I've got a clear runway to start ANOTHER side project.

Heheheh.

notroot,

TL;DR: Devs using the AP framework would only have to implement the client-server API, not the server-fediverse API.

And since it's a framework, that client-server API would be well-defined, and well-documented.

Just sayin'... I think it's a good idea. If someone else was already working on a project like this, I'd gladly jump in. Otherwise, I'm doin' it.

First and most important step:

Think of a codename for the project.

notroot,

More I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea, and right up my alley.

Like an ActivityPub framework, made for web devs, not users. Due to the nature of AP, it would have to be configuration-over-convention (more like Django than Flask), but theoretically it could do all the heavy lifting between client-server and server-fediverse APIs.

Devs would have to do a bunch of config to say "this server will map these APIs in this way," but a lot is going to be boilerplate and mappings with transformer callbacks and the like, right? It would reduce the work for new implementations, and reduce idiosyncratic client-server-fediverse implementations.

notroot,

I'm open to suggestions, here! Or any feedback. Would devs find this interesting? Maybe they would consider it for an AP-based project? What language? I'm most comfortable in Python, but by nature this project would need multiple elements, and many pieces could be fulfilled by already existing tech.

It sounds like a transformation layer between APIs to me, which means it could be systematized and implemented in multiple languages. A set of SDKs?

notroot,

Yeah... that's the approach to take: a backend like this is gonna be a docker compose kinda thing, with orchestrated pieces, anyway... regardless of language.

Python's a great language for prototyping, so with the SDK idea in mind... anything written in prototype Python that is not public in the SDK could be rewritten later in another (faster) language -- either piecemeal with C modules or in entirety.

I'm just spitballing, here, but I'm really warming to this idea.

notroot,

@smallcircles @helge @hrefna @steve Thanks! I'll definitely look into your suggested follows and SocialHub!

notroot,

Different clients are going to have different requirements, right? A macroblogging client has different needs from a microblogging client, and both are different than the threadiverse, or something like PixelFed. Even Mastodon has different reqs than Sharkey between the backend instance and the client.

And yet, the backend's relationship with the Fediverse, itself -- via ActivityPub -- is very similar in each case.

An AP-based backend is basically a two-faced API. One API faces the client, and the other faces the rest of the Fediverse. This project would provide a robust, configurable backend for a variety of frontend client implementations.

Then AP-based applications could focus on the frontend.

notroot,

@steve @smallcircles I'm thinking that, out-of-the-box, it could provide a basic, vanilla AP client-server API to get a project going, but that the power of such a project would be in customizing that API to work with different client API requirements -- including pre-existing APIs like Mastodon's.

This is all very much in the "Big Idea" stage right now, and a couple folks who clearly know more than me have already warned me that it's gonna be hard.

Doesn't mean it's not worth doing, tho...

darnell, to threads
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So is slowly killing off , & Shop is spamming users to the point they are reopening ‽ I can not wait to introduce people to ! 🕺🏾

👉🏾 Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36 https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/instagram-threads-triples-downloads-in-december-reaching-the-top-10-x-falls-to-no-36/

notroot,

@DopeGhoti @darnell @badtux Yup! And all of the uses so anyone -- hobbyist or engineer -- can write their own client and app, even their own client-app API. It's a lot of freedom.

I think the Fediverse is basically inevitable. I've been around a while and there's some network effect happening.

Network effect is ... resilient.

lovelylovely, to random
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Statement from on his South Carolina victory.

PASS IT ON.

notroot,

@lovelylovely I love him... we got lucky, because he's the most competent prez since FDR, IMO. A technocrat who works the ropes, wearing his opponents down with relentless determination and uncanny ability to take a blow.

notroot,

@lovelylovely That's my plan. I live in a deep red state, tho... so I think I'm gonna have to go with donating $$ instead of effort. I'd rather donate BOTH.

notroot, to random

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would theorize that the latest "AI" hype is intended to give trolls new tools to manipulate the rest of us.

Just asking questions....

notroot, to random

When we defeat the anti-democratic forces that face us -- and I believe we will -- let's try again for an egalitarian unity.

notroot, to random

Here's what I think happened that triggered the latest fascist resurgence...

Obama won, and was reelected.

Enuf sed.

notroot, to random

The purpose of the "Favorite" button is to basically ping, "Hey, human! I'm human, too!"

notroot, to random

Hi,

I'm an anarchist who voted for Joe Biden in both the primary and general election in 2020. I absolutely support him in the 2024 contest.

"Anarchist?" you are probably asking yourself.

Yes, because small-a anarchy is reality. We create systems of order in primal rejection of chaos, and then we formalize them and pass them down through generations as systems of government.

The word, "anarchy," has bad connotations, I get it. But the idea is not even sort of new.

Anarchy is not a goal to be achieved. It's the theater, itself, not the play or the players. It's the possibility of putting on a play. That's anarchy.

The mere fact that anyone can break any human law proves that we live in a state of anarchy, already.

There's nothing to strive for, anarchists.

There's nothing to fear, traditionalists. It's what you already know.

This IS anarchy, man.

Pagan_Animist, to random
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    notroot,

    @Pagan_Animist CNN panders to the party in power, usually. But the MAGAts were so confident in their orange messiah that they dismissed "Sleepy" Joe.

    He wasn't sleeping motherfuckers. He was LURKING.

    Now CNN's gone through an executive shake-up and re-aligned with Trump, and that ship is sinking. Perceptibly. Like, real-time train-wreck.

    What's a two-faced, fickle, former corporate behemoth like CNN to do? "Double-down" or "pivot"?

    I'm sure it's a painful question keeping execs awake.

    notroot,

    @Pagan_Animist They haven't been sleeping well since Barack Obama was elected.

    That's the problem. They need to get over their racist shit, so we as a nation can START to move on.

    lin11c, to random
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    New paid ads I saw on Facebook today. This is just 3 of the 8 I reported. Very disturbing. There appears to be zero standards or regulation on social media.

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    notroot,

    @panamared27401 @lin11c @tantramar I don't even use it for that. They can text me.

    lizstl13, to random
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    UN Agency in Gaza fires employees over alleged involvement in October 7 attack.
    https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227142760/unrwa-un-agency-gaza-hamas-employees-oct-7-attack#:~:text=UNRWA%20plays%20a%20critical%20role,and%20medical%20supplies%20into%20Gaza.

    notroot,

    @lizstl13 One of the released Israeli hostages reported being held by a UNRWA teacher, and fed almost nothing.

    UNRWA, predictably, acted all huffy, demanding evidence (beyond eyewitness testimony, I guess) and their usual lying, terrorist-loving, antisemitic song-and-dance.

    UNRWA abuses in Palestine and Gaza have been well-documented for years.

    Anyone demanding evidence can go fucking Google that shit, themselves.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unrwa-fact-checked-after-calling-report-about-hostage-unsubstantiated/ar-AA1kU2q6

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