Wrote a summary of web linking (AKA link relations; think rel="xxx" in a <a/> or <link/> HTML element).
The piece of the puzzle that's still unclear to me is whether WebFinger has been superseded, or maybe just generally ignored. There doesn't seem to be much adoption (except by Mastodon) or follow-on activity AFAICT.
Setting up wife's new mac mini. Migration assistant hung when copying from old (2009) iMac or time machine, so I decided to simply set up the OS and migrate the data afterwards. It now needs to download and reinstall macOS. No idea how it got itself into such a state...
@henrikjernevad@tantek.com@tantek.com One interesting point was the use of microformats to enable likes and comments. That was new to me, although I've noticed the term microformats in passing.
I wonder if there's a lightweight blog implementation -- like what I currently use, WriteFreely -- that supports microformats? I miss the comment feature on blogspot.
It would be good to see webmentions flourishing too.
Unless I've missed something, there seems to be a slight disconnect between the HTML 4.01 spec and IANA.
For example, HTML 4.01 defines the "chapter" link relation, "chapter" is present in the IANA link relation registry (and refers to HTML 4.01 for the definition), but the HTML 4.01 spec doesn't have an "IANA Considerations" section.
HTML 4.01 even talks about HTML authors defining additional link types (without mentioning IANA).
@danielsiepmann@Anachron I wonder if there's an easy way to obtain an account's average posting frequency? I would take a punt on an infrequent poster but probably avoid the more prolific.
@Anachron@underlap I'm using friendi.ca/ and it should be possible to write an plugin for that. Provide a time range and count the posts within the database.
I'm absolutely not into mastodon and therefore can't provide any hint for that or any other software.
But I'm fine with just reading my timeline. It is not only about the amount, but also topics.
People shift their topics from time to time. I'll then remove them from my timeline if it doesn't match anymore.
No, it's not Signal or WhatsApp. It's EncroChat whose encryption has apparently been cracked by French police. Not sure whether this is an impressive technical feat or an example of sloppy encryption algorithms. I suspect the latter since this is in the news.
Currently getting my head round webfinger, webmention, indielogin, and the like: a mix of standards, experiments, and some decent results.
When does it make sense to use webfinger link relations vs link tags with rel(ationship) attributes in the <head> section of a web page? Are these equivalent features that just happen to have grown up in parallel or is there some rationale delineating the two?
Any clarifying articles greatly appreciated, as are boosts.
Just set up webfinger so "AT mastodon AT underlap.org" is an alias for my mastodon account on fosstodon.org. (I can't post the actual account because mastodon replaces it with the account it refers to!)
@underlap Can you post as that alias, or will everything translate to the actual address immediately? If you could use it as a "persistent" alias (like I do with a custom domain backed by GMail) I could see myself using that a lot.
@henrikjernevad I can't post as that alias at all, AFAIK. The webfinger resolution is early/immediate. But at least I can make my blog's contact page independent of a particular Mastodon server.
After a record 7.5 hour drive, my wife and I arrived in the Lake District, which is one of our favourite places, for a long weekend. It's also one of the wetter places in England, but hopefully we'll get some walking in.