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# 00:00 aaronpk also there's always the neat trick of using 3/4 fake MX records that route to a server that doesn't respond, and spam servers will just stop trying but real mail goes and tries the other MX answers
# 00:03 aaronpk actually yeah that is totally DNS only because I've had to update DNS settings to allow amazon SES to send mail from my domains
# 00:15 tantek scrolls up and notices aaronpk's ping about rel values
# 00:15 tantek micropub_endpoint is ugly and stinks of user-unfriendly programmer naming thinking
# 00:15 aaronpk :) I've got my finger on the trigger, just say the word
# 00:17 tantek aaronpk, note also rel="hub" is what PuSH uses. not "hub_endpoint" nor "push_hub_endpoint" or any other namespaced garbage
# 00:18 bear for what it's worth, email is one of the few "just don't run your own" services even for me
# 00:18 bear dkim, spf, spam traps, greylisting… all just much nicer to spend $10 a month and let someone else deal with it
# 00:19 bear hmm, and it's not even $10 a month anymore
# 00:20 bear yea, I was updating my server and in that groove… so wiki edits were at the top of my brain
# 00:20 tantek I'm a little confused though - How To Accept Inbound Email and As a server daemon as section headings seem more jargony than the flat structure we have going on on the /web_hosting page
# 00:21 tantek and then a flat list of sections - which seems easier to browse
# 00:22 bear not sure what I would use to replace "As a server daemon" ...
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# 00:22 tantek start with replacing "How To Accept Inbound Email" with "Email Services by Type" perhaps
# 00:23 tantek and then figure out how to reorganize everything below that into a flat series of sections
# 00:23 tantek "roughly ordered from easiest/cheapest/friendliest to most powerful/technical. "
# 00:24 tantek like even the equivalent of "Custom domain silos" would be "Custom domain email providers" and include things like * Gmail - which lets you set it up so it receives and sends as if it is your own domain
# 00:25 tantek the general idea of documenting the spectrum of ways to use your own domain for email is quite valuable to indieweb folks
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# 00:28 bear quick edit to get what your suggesting into place
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# 00:38 pdurbin bear: hear hear on the don't run your own email thing
# 00:40 aaronpk yeah I only run my own email server so I can quickly set up forwarding aliases and new domains, but everything funnels to my gmail account which is where I actually read everything
# 00:40 aaronpk I read the "how to set up postfix with virtual users and mysql and blah blah" uttorial on howtoforge once long ago and have been running that server ever since :)
# 00:40 bear I use mailroute -> postfix -> dovecot -> thunderbird
# 00:41 bear using mailroute makes setting up postfix *so* much nicer
# 00:43 tantek those kinds of notes could really help people out who are considering solutions
# 00:44 bear I was just thinking about how to add the info to the wiki
# 00:44 tantek e.g. for each "type" subsection, there should be a note about "IndieWeb community members using this approach: "
# 00:45 tantek which will help illustrate which approaches are more real world than others
# 00:48 bear working on some additional info for the different mail types
# 00:49 bear including scenarios as an intro piece
# 00:54 tantek.com edited /email (+989) "/* Email Services by Type */ add Custom domain email providers as an initial subsection with example of gmail" (
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# 00:55 tantek bear - just added the mail type I suggested - the equivalent of Tumblr, which is essentially what gmail is
# 00:55 tantek more important to just document *actual* types in use by indieweb folks
# 00:56 tantek jonnybarnes how does fastmail work? is it free?
# 00:56 tantek how do you configure it to use your personal domain for receiving/sending to/from?
# 00:58 tantek bear - yeah - avoid those theoretical rabbit holes - they're not really worth documenting because they're not what people care about when they're trying to set something up that works
# 00:59 jonnybarnes tantek: I think I can do what I do because I'm on a paid tier, you get a username@fastmail.fm account, which is itself free, and once you point you MX records to their servers for your domains, then you can set it up so that blob@domain.com goes to your fastmail.fm inbox.
# 01:00 jonnybarnes you can also reply to an email from any address you've configured
# 01:02 aaronpk oh! I remember now... I got the "authorization_endpoint" and "token_endpoint" names from OpenID Connect
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# 01:04 tantek aaronpk - sheesh - is OpenID Connect even implemented/deployed by anyone? I was pretty sure it was a dead end.
# 01:04 aaronpk really? I thought it had more adoption than, say, OAuth 2.0 discovery drafts
# 01:04 tantek besides they can't even decide on their method for namespacing. e.g. openid.server with a "." for namespacing
# 01:05 tantek aaronpk - do we know ANYONE that uses an OpenID Connect ID?
# 01:05 bear OpenID is going to suffer a big drop in usage once MyOpenID closes down
# 01:05 aaronpk openid connect is really an identity layer on top of oauth, which is what everyone wanted oauth to be anyway
# 01:06 aaronpk I mean I'll make stuff up all day long, I just figured it'd be better to base this off of current implementations
# 01:07 tantek Google implements/deploys all kinds of crap that never gets any actual adoption. Or sees a brief spike and then gets neglected and shut down.
# 01:07 tantek implementations without actual users are worthless
# 01:07 tantek I suppose they can work as proof of concept prototypes
# 01:08 aaronpk well there can't be any users until there are providers
# 01:09 tantek so there's over a dozen listed there - anybody (any humans) using any of them ever?
# 01:09 tantek right - so until otherwise proven, all of those providers fail the selfdogfood test
# 01:10 aaronpk all I was pointing out is where I got the names "authorization_endpoint" and "token_endpoint". I didn't have any other better ideas for the names anyway.
# 01:11 tantek aaronpk - I guess I was questioning the naming abilities of folks who evangelize/deploy providers without pointing any actual users, especially the folks working on the providers themselves.
# 01:11 bear groking now what t meant - having the more common (and useful) email examples up top makes more sense
# 01:12 aaronpk I am actually much happer with the rel=micropub name, that makes a lot of sense
# 01:12 aaronpk I don't see any real issues with "token_endpoint", since it's pretty descriptive of what it is, and "token" doesn't really cut it.
# 01:18 bear removes "stub" reference from email page
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# 04:36 JonathanNeal Is there ARIA role or similar attribute that identifies a link as being to the current page, like one would find in a navigation menu?
# 04:57 snarfed depends on whether you're producing or consuming though. mf2 isn't exactly widely adopted yet
# 04:58 snarfed really? i don't know about clever so much as it's just the spec :P
# 05:04 JonathanNeal I never think of microformats when it comes to things like navigations or articles.
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# 16:51 jonnybarnes barnabywalters: is there an actual quote somewhere you could link to?
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# 21:27 aaronpk i've been so bad about posting things online recently
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# 21:43 snarfed i heard we might have an nyc contingent tonight too…?
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# 21:48 bret sparverius what about in two weeks? :p
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# 23:05 bret I know there are free ssl options, but why, in general, do SSL certs cost so much? Don't wildcard certs for subdomains cost a significant ammount?
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# 23:17 aaronpk tho if anyone wants to go send a pull request to webmention.io i'm all ears :)
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# 23:20 snarfed aaronpk, do you know what you would change? just switch to using u-url? or something more?
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# 23:43 snarfed it's using twitter streaming api for RTs as well as favorites now
# 23:44 snarfed i tried doing replies that way too, but it didn't fully work right, so back to polling. ah well
# 23:45 tantek looks like we're going to get it on air.mozilla.org as well
# 23:45 aaronpk tantek: let's connect a little early to try to sync up the video again, yes?
# 23:45 tantek which means both live broadcast worldwide and recorded for later viewing (unless folks object I guess)
# 23:45 bear that will be very nice for us remoties
# 23:46 tantek aaronpk - we can try - I don't suppose you use Vidyo do you?
# 23:46 tantek it's the software we run to do the video connecting
# 23:46 aaronpk can I install it on a computer here? or do I need a mozilla account?
# 23:47 aaronpk "However, non-employees can take part in such meetings using a guest URL"
# 23:49 aaronpk it might prompt me to download it if you send me a meeting URL
# 23:51 snarfed good old ryana. anyone here use adium and know how to hide nickname changes?
# 23:51 snarfed i've looked and tried a few times, but failed so far
# 23:53 bear isn't it Display → Show Join/Leave Messages. Unchecking "Show/Join Leave Messages"