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# 02:22 aaronpk speaking of how awful client certs are, is anyone else having trouble logging in to startssl.com right now or is it just me?
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# 02:32 [shaners] RE: the post-type / h-* discussion. I think it’s about the Robustness Principle (aka Postel’s Law).
# 02:34 [shaners] There’s no harm in marking up posts with something more than h-entry. For more specificity. If it helps a downstream consumer to have something more type specific, great.
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# 02:35 [shaners] If consumers just treat a post as an h-entry, then no harm no foul.
# 02:35 [shaners] But if a downstream consumer does something else based on posttype / h-*, then they get it for free/cheaper.
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# 02:40 snarfed aaronpk: are you getting ssl_error_unknown_ca_alert?
# 02:40 snarfed if so, delete all of their Software Security Device certs
# 02:40 snarfed in firefox, it's prefs, advanced, certificates, view certificates
# 02:41 aaronpk snarfed: what do you mean? do I need a new client cert from them? i thought that one didn't expire?
# 02:43 [shaners] Anyhow, I’m crashing for the night. Sweet dreams, indiewebcamp!
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# 02:46 aaronpk my class 2 validation is gone, and i can't retrieve any of my previous certs
# 02:47 aaronpk i did, but it's expired so it won't let me use it
# 02:48 aaronpk "I also notice you need a merge, send us an email to..."
# 02:49 bear they just merge your old account to the new one
# 02:49 aaronpk I assuem they just need my email address and they can figure it out from there?
# 02:50 bear once you validate as the same email again
# 02:50 aaronpk so much for trying to renew indiewebcat.com tonight
# 02:51 bear they are generally very fast - and this is their daytime hours :)
# 02:51 aaronpk true. they have always been very good about support.
# 02:52 aaronpk yeah 1 year is long enough to completely forget whatever process you went through
# 02:52 bear sure, once cert renewal is automated, then lower TTL makes a lot of sense
# 02:52 aaronpk honestly i wouldn't mind even if the startssl certs expired every 90 days. mayyybe 120 days.
# 02:53 aaronpk it would force me to be better about proactively renewing and automating as much as possible
# 02:53 aaronpk i do have enough certs now that i'm renewing them pretty often, so i've streamlined it as much as i can
# 02:53 bear that is why I now always use a shell script to generate everything - documentation is built in
# 02:58 aaronpk seriously considering scripting this domain verification process
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# 03:05 aaronpk the effort of automating it is ever so slightly more work than doing this manually
# 03:06 aaronpk i'm not sure it would pay off, especially if i start using let's encrypt soon
# 03:06 bear if all of the ones I used to manage at &yet were in the same month... then I would have automated
# 03:06 bear but since most of them were one-off's it was much faster to click around
# 03:07 aaronpk it'd be pretty great to have a command line utility for `verify-domain example.com` that would receive the verification code and submit it back
# 03:08 tantek from what I understand, Let's Encrypt is supposed to help automate this stuff
# 03:08 aaronpk which is why it's not worth it for me to automate the startssl process
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# 03:15 aaronpk wow with class 2 validation i can add a whole bunch of domains to the same cert
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# 03:18 aaronpk lets me get as many wildcard certs as i want, so the cost was recouped already
# 03:18 aaronpk plus those certs are good for 2 years even if i don't pay $60 next year
# 03:18 jasons @aaronpk sorry just joined; sounds like a good deal — where is this?
# 03:19 aaronpk it's a terrible interface and there are many reasons to avoid it, but i've been using it nonetheless
# 03:20 aaronpk aside from the UX issues, the biggest catch is that if you want to revoke a cert you have to pay $20
# 03:20 strugee I'm on their free tier and it kills, because it takes forever to renew certs and I have to do it twice in the year because half of my subdomains were registered months apart
# 03:21 aaronpk i feel like i'm finally getting the hang of the process now, only took like 2 years
# 03:22 strugee I'm way, way too good because I have like 15 subdomains that each have to have their own _individual cert_
# 03:23 aaronpk StartSSL is a service that provides SSL certificates
# 03:23 strugee also, there's definitely a page already mentioning StartSSL
# 03:23 aaronpk the threshold of how long before expiration you can renew. since i know they don't let you create another cert that matches a current active cert
# 03:23 Loqi HTTPS is an abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, a protocol for secure communication, supported by web servers (like Apache & nginx) and browsers https://indiewebcamp.com/HTTPS
# 03:28 strugee aaronpk: I love your "Why do I need this?" answer in the twtr.io FAQ
# 03:33 bear there is a "trick" to the only one domain active restriction
# 03:33 bear they validate the primary domain but with a wildcard you can have a www. and also a *.
# 03:33 bear so if you need to revoke, you can re-issue using foo. and *.
# 03:34 aaronpk there is apparently another trick, which is you can add other domains to the cert. so now i have two certs active for ownyourgram.com for example
# 03:37 aaronpk the interesting thing is ownyourgram.com already has an active cert
# 03:39 GWG Think I should give up on startssl in favor of Let's Encrypt?
# 03:40 aaronpk hooray for getting a new cert before i need to cut over so it actually has time to propagate through the ocsp thingies
# 03:41 aaronpk tomorrow i will launch the new indiewebcamp.com cert
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# 03:43 strugee I've added an exception but earlier I saw an expired cert error
# 03:45 aaronpk uh i don't know, i've never changed any settings in firefox
# 03:45 tantek snarfed++ for updating the bridgy docs re: 201!
# 03:46 aaronpk point is, i've never changed any of these settings, so whatever firefox is shipping with makes it care about OCSP errors
# 03:46 strugee last I checked it didn't hard-fail but maybe they changed it
# 03:46 ben_thatmustbeme aaronpk: not styled, but i added an option to socialstreams to allow outputting as html instead of plaintext
# 03:47 ben_thatmustbeme i'm planning to figure out some generic styling to get things rendering in to at least something useful
# 03:49 strugee I wonder why I can't reproduce it in my main profile?
# 03:49 bear i'm guessing a security exception is in that profile
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# 03:50 [aaronpk] Omg I just realized why I get the SSL expiration warning emails two weeks before the cert expires
# 03:50 [aaronpk] I always assumed I couldn't get a new cert until closer to the expiration so I kept ignoring those emails lol
# 03:51 bear startssl is one of the orgs that I pay attention to every email they send
# 03:51 bear because they don't send anything at all unless it's actionable
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# 03:52 strugee bear: yeah I added an exception for the just-expired cert, but it should have been invalidated when aaronpk installed the new cert, right?
# 03:52 bear I don't think so, it stores them by domain IIRC
# 03:52 [aaronpk] bear: good point. I will pay more attention in the future :-)
# 03:53 bear exception certs and all that is why I test certs using private browsing tabs
# 03:53 bear that way it's always a fresh/clean view
# 03:57 Loqi A summary is short text that conveys a post's main point(s), or a plain text equivalent for kinds of posts like likes and RSVPs that use other properties to convey their meaning https://indiewebcamp.com/summary
# 04:01 tantek does anyone have a UI for explicitlyauthoring a summary in their posts? e.g. in a note or article?
# 04:02 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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# 07:00 KartikPrabhu !tell tantek manually. Only my articles have p-summary which by my definition are posts authored in HTML
# 07:00 Loqi Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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# 07:08 Loqi Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
# 07:13 KartikPrabhu aah yes. because I don't give the cropped version to non-JS users. I should change that
# 07:13 cweiske kevinmarks, the link on "html as tex replacement" is broken
# 07:16 cweiske for kevin it also works for all but the first 2 cards
# 07:18 kevinmarks yes, when I wrapped a div around the h-entry I forgot to mark up u-url
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# 07:22 cweiske kevinmarks, re htmlversustex - writing formulas in tex is still so much easier than in any other language
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# 07:26 KartikPrabhu what really is needed is a good writing UI that allows input in tex for formulae and then convert them to mathml
# 07:27 KartikPrabhu I had half a mind to work on such a thing but then didn't pursue it because it was too much work for a side-project
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# 07:35 KartikPrabhu oh mathematica is horrible because it has this propreitay fornat for things
# 07:39 KartikPrabhu kevinmarks: I try not to rely on fonts. Even if they don't load it is OK
# 07:40 KartikPrabhu but mathjax relies on all these fonts it wants to use with no way to say "use the default font on the page"
# 07:44 KartikPrabhu mathjax used to work great on FF with mathml rendering but something seems to have failed
# 07:49 [kevinmarks] Put data points in the SVG directly for graphs to correct sig figs, and change view coordinates instead
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# 11:56 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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# 13:27 tantek ^^^ that is a very strange reply, as AFAIK the account replying doesn't use the indieweb hashtag either
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# 14:54 tantek ^^^ aaronpk what the what is going on with that Flickr URL?!?
# 14:58 tantek of course we can always be doing better, yet we shouldn't neglect/ignore the progress made since 2010.
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# 15:10 tantek ben_thatmustbeme++ yay for getting mobilepub working again!
# 15:12 ben_thatmustbeme no, the mobilepub side was that it was written before indieauth.com actually cared about csrf so it didn't use state=
# 15:13 ben_thatmustbeme alos indieid just never reterns anything from an attempt to verify the key, not sure why
# 15:15 bear Kongaloosh++ congrats on your first webmention!
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# 15:32 tantek anyone here POSSE to Flickr? Now that I'm using Bridgy to POSSE photos to Twitter & FB, and I do have a lot of photos (and friends) on Flickr, I was considering doing that automatically too.
# 15:34 tantek oops I thought the support was already there because adactio POSSEs to Flickr
# 15:34 tantek but maybe he is calling Flickr APIs directly!
# 15:34 snarfed we'd also need flickr publish support for silo SWAT0
# 15:34 snarfed so far flickr and facebok are the only two possibilities
# 15:35 petermolnar I do posse to flickr, but I'm doing it the lazy way of using a wp plugin
# 15:35 petermolnar however, for backfeed, I did write my importer for flickr if that helps
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# 15:41 tantek.com edited /Falcon (+770) "/* improve replies details */ before that, implement summary more text UI so I can switch to using Bridgy Publish for all my POSSEing to FB (instead of Twitter->FB crossposting)" (
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# 15:58 [jonnybarnes] obv if you pull the photos directly from instagram the filter will already be applied
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# 16:02 [kevinmarks] I think medium treats an h2 under the h1 as a summary, and a photo there as featured
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# 16:06 tantek.com edited /Falcon (-103) "update current POSSE / photos support per this past weekend's implementations, auto POSSE photos to Facebook DONE, POSSE tweet photo DONE via Bridgy Publish, POSSE photos to Twitter via their API deprioritized to a minor itch" (
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# 16:10 petermolnar tantek, about auto-posse to FB: I dropped that due the we-can-use-your-stuff policy of FB, are you not concerned about that?
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# 16:14 tantek petermolnar - since the photos are already public on IG, I'm not sure putting them public on FB makes it any worse?
# 16:14 tantek eventually I hope to switch to using ownyourgram + micropub
# 16:15 tantek and then figure out my own photo posting / hosting solution independent of IG
# 16:15 tantek at that point I may start subsetting the photos I POSSE to FB
# 16:15 tantek until then I'm not sure it makes much difference
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# 16:42 petermolnar.eu created /DNSSEC (+189) "Created page with "DNSSEC is a security extension to [[DNS ]] to allow verification and authentication of DNS records and domain names to prevent tampering with domain records and DNS-based middle-m..."" (
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# 16:44 petermolnar I believe the missing page is a sign of not-yet-done by indieweb members :(
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# 17:18 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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# 18:37 GWG !tell ben_thatmustbeme It didn't work for me
# 18:37 Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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# 18:44 GWG Loqi suggestions, no telling within 120 seconds
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# 18:53 snarfed hey flickr users, does flickr have "mentions" independent of people tags? like @-mentioning people on twitter?
# 18:53 snarfed looks like no, but i don't use it so i'm not sure
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# 19:17 GWG Kevinmarks, you are in town or were and didn't say anything?
# 19:23 GWG Snarfed, no excuse. He should have retroactively told me that he was coming to town.
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# 19:24 GWG Thinking about making event a custom post type in WordPress still and using that for all time based activities.
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# 20:42 rhiaro Hey funwhilelost. Sure, ping the person listed as organiser for your preferred HWC and see if they'll set up a talky.io or similar
# 20:42 rhiaro I know someone in Seattle who might be interested
# 20:43 rhiaro But remoting into another HWC is a good place to start
# 20:43 ben_thatmustbeme funwhilelost: if you start your own, i have a friend i have been trying to convince to go to one. he didn't seem to keep on the idea of driving from seattle to SF for some reason :P
# 20:43 rhiaro We've had people remote into Edinburgh ones before
# 20:46 rhiaro funwhilelost: I don't think there's one tonight
# 20:46 rhiaro at least, Edinburgh is in a different timezone, and may have already happened?
# 20:48 tbrb I did not, personally, I'm pretty ill
# 20:48 tbrb though it would have finished ~ 1hr ago I'd imagine
# 20:50 tantek funwhilelost: I thought Rob Dolin wanted to do a Homebrew Website Club in Seattle but I can't find a reference for it.
# 20:52 tbrb Next person would be Kongaloosh I'd guess, rhiaro, though people actually seem to organise themselves :v
# 20:53 tbrb not that it's anything as formal as that :v
# 20:55 GWG Did someone say something about remoting into an HWC?
# 21:04 funwhilelost GWG: I was curious if people were remoting into the Edinburgh meetup.
# 21:05 GWG I'd like to remote into somewhere
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# 21:08 snarfed gRegorLove: looks like webmention discovery failed on your domain at some point. did you retry any of the responses? that clears the cached discovery and retries
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# 21:14 GWG Kongaloosh: Is this just your attempt to hear more of my story?
# 21:15 snarfed gRegorLove: if it's the capitalized domain i'm going to laugh :P
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# 21:19 GWG I just like to be inspired by others working on their site, no matter where they are
# 21:19 GWG Although I have always wanted to visit Scotland
# 21:20 snarfed gRegorLove: not sure what happened, but they're all sent now
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# 21:21 GWG snarfed: By the way, the new functionality was very helpful, thank you
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# 21:24 snarfed yeah, the retry button is way more powerful now. reruns OPD, clears a bunch of cached stuff, etc
# 21:25 snarfed personally i'm also partial to the extra info on user pages now: next poll, last synd link, webmention sent, etc
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# 21:39 gRegorLove snarfed: Cool. Did you initiate the retry or it just resolved itself?
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# 21:40 gRegorLove snarfed: Noticed the poll/syndication link info. Definitely like it!
# 21:40 snarfed both poll and responses auto-retry, with exponential backoff capped at every hour
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# 23:14 funwhilelost Known users: when you want to 'u-like-of' a post from Known do you just add the <a> to your post/status?
# 23:15 funwhilelost There's also the "Reply to a site" link but I think that's just for 'u-in-reply-to'.
# 23:16 tantek time to publish photo to IG to my site then POSSE to Twitter + FB: 2 minutes
# 23:17 tantek funwhilelost: pretty sure Known has a "like" post type you can just create and paste in a URL
# 23:19 funwhilelost Hmm... it's not obvious how to access it. The posting flow starts with "Status Update", "Post", "Photo", "Bookmark", "Location", "Audio". From these you can choose "Reply to a site" but I don't see a way to do the rest of the webmentions.
# 23:20 kevinmarks_ hm, I like them in woodwind and it posts the like to known; not sure what the plumbing is
# 23:22 funwhilelost It may be that micropub is happy to add the content to Known but I don't see an obvious way to do it in the posting UI.
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# 23:31 [kevinmarks] funwhilelost: if you use the share book marklet you get a like option
# 23:33 funwhilelost Just to confirm: when you indieweb "like" a post it creates an empty status with a 'u-like-of' webmention?
# 23:34 tantek it doesn't need to be empty - it can have summary text saying "you like ... "
# 23:36 funwhilelost Yeah, I'll definitely file an issue. In the `/share` UI it clearly shows the option for "like", "bookmark", "reply" at the top. When you click "Status Update" from the home page it does not show those options.
# 23:37 gRegorLove Yeah, that's what I was just noticing. Seems it should be on the regular Status Update UI too.
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