#indieweb 2019-05-22

2019-05-22 UTC
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[ldavid_ensiie]
Need to go, so will come back later. Anyway, I was trying to connect to the wiki to add some ideas about following and interface about how to manage peoples and feeds. I think feedly do it the right way with informations about inactive feeds and others things.
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GWG_
Anyone use Hover as a registrar?
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KartikPrabhu
[ldavid_ensiie]: yes! more UI discussion please :)
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Loqi
[indieweb] wiki: Wiki backup and issue tracking for indieweb.org
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[eddie]
!tell GWG yes, I do
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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GWG_
[eddie]: Why?
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Loqi
GWG_: [eddie] left you a message 2 minutes ago: yes, I do
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[eddie]
[cleverdevil] do you send your Known notifications into Aperture? jbove was looking into trying to do that
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[eddie]
GWG I like their simple UI for registering stuff. No tricky “uncheckmark this box to keep data private, etc”
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[eddie]
I also like paying a flat fee (even if more expensive) and knowing I’ll always have private registry if available for that domain suffix
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GWG_
I am trying to convince my brother to leave enom. He wants to stay with tucows
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gRegorLove
github.io subdomains are restricted from logging in to the wiki: https://github.com/indieweb/mediawiki-extensions/blob/master/LassoAuth.php#L17
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gRegorLove
There is an issue filed to give an error message if someone tries to log in with one of those: https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/issues/48
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Loqi
[sknebel] #48 Give error message to users logging in with banned domains
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[tantek]
The general policy is *subdomains* are restricted from logging in
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[tantek]
And I kinda think that's ok. Domain names are much cheaper than phone plans, computers, etc. so I think it's reasonable to keep requiring them to edit the IndieWeb wiki directly
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gRegorLove
Agreed, though only 9 domains are explicitly blacklisted there.
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[tantek]
s/blacklisted/denylisted
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[tantek]
(at least in this context)
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Ruxton
I wonder if tantek got his 4sq back yet.. what a bungle!
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[cleverdevil]
!tell jbove I have a plugin for my website that sends Known notifications to Aperture.
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[cleverdevil]
!tell jbove if you are familiar with PHP, you could lift the code from my plugin - https://github.com/cleverdevil/CleverCustomize/blob/master/Main.php#L99 - if not, let me know, and perhaps I can split this out into a plugin for the community.
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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aaronpk
[cleverdevil]++
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Loqi
[cleverdevil] has 37 karma in this channel over the last year (75 in all channels)
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[cleverdevil]
Honestly, half the time I feel really embarrassed for all of the PHP I write for Known plugins, because I really am quite the amateur when it comes to PHP!
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[cleverdevil]
But, hey, that’s half the fun of putting it on GitHub. People can give me pointers ;)
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Zegnat
I sometimes think PHP is the perfect hack-away-at-it "amateur" language. Keep on sharing, [cleverdevil]!
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[Rose]
FAO [tantek] and anyone else posting likes to Micro.Blog: https://micro.blog/manton/3678231
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Loqi
[manton] @Ron This came up recently in the IndieWeb chat. The links work for me (but I haven't tested on Android yet). It might be best to exclude these from the feed since Micro.blog doesn't have special support for them.
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[Rose]
The whole thread, not just the post Loqi picked out.
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[tantek]
Yeah I wonder what’s the best path forward there
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[Rose]
Personally I wouldn't syndicate likes to micro.blog unless your site adds the context for you, at least for now.
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snarfed
[tantek]: they're a pretty bad experience in your atom/rss feeds too. separate post per like
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snarfed
you might consider excluding them from your feeds
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snarfed
er, i guess same feeds, so i guess i mean, similarly bad experience in non-indieweb feed readers
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snarfed
not a big deal though
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[Rose]
I need to check what my likes look like in my feeds, pretty certain the way GWG set it up it adds the context that makes it rather better for sharing. But this also leads to the question of "should likes be in the default feed?"
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Zegnat
Anyone using an “indieweb feed reader”? Do they expand the likes in tantek’s feed?
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[Rose]
It didn't seem to in indigenous for me. But maybe I'm misremembering
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jbove
eddie: Thanks for asking cleverdevil regarding the notifications. Will send him a personal note about it.
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Loqi
jbove: [cleverdevil] left you a message 2 hours, 11 minutes ago: I have a plugin for my website that sends Known notifications to Aperture.
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Loqi
jbove: [cleverdevil] left you a message 2 hours, 9 minutes ago: if you are familiar with PHP, you could lift the code from my plugin - https://github.com/cleverdevil/CleverCustomize/blob/master/Main.php#L99 - if not, let me know, and perhaps I can split this out into a plugin for the community.
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jbove
cleverdevil: Thanks for leaving me a note through Loqi. Will check out your code! ps Loqi is cool
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jbove
Loqi: eddie++
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Loqi
eddie has 25 karma in this channel over the last year (97 in all channels)
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jbove
Loqi: cleverdevil++
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Loqi
cleverdevil has 38 karma in this channel over the last year (76 in all channels)
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jbove
coffee++
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Loqi
coffee has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (2 in all channels)
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gRegorLove_
He's one cool bot
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jbove
coffee--
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jbove
Yeah, trying out some commands :-)
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jbove
I love coffee ... too much
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infominer[m]
how much is too much?
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jbove
So you don't need to do msg or mention of Loqi for it/they/he/she to pick up the command?
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infominer[m]
its sustainable
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infominer[m]
drinking too much coffee
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infominer[m]
hhmmmm srry been up all night setting up my new (first?) blog off of which I'll publish my indieweb site (once the domain is hooked up)... and heard about some coffeee!!
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jbove
Whoops, anyone else seeing an Nginx 502 Bad Gateway error on https://indieweb.org now?
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infominer[m]
ayup
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jbove
What's the protocol when this happens?
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infominer[m]
start tagging everyone and run for the hilltops
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infominer[m]
don't rlly listen to me tho
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Zegnat
I think our current protocol is to poke aaronpk. But I would not be surprised if he is currently a sleep
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Zegnat
s/a sleep/asleep/
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jbove
infominer[m]: Run for the hills by Iron Maiden came to mind ;-)
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infominer[m]
yes pls, and can I have a shot of your coffee?
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sebsel
A European with access to the server might be a good idea too, to reduce Single Point of Aaron
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jbove
Loqi: restart indieweb.org
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sebsel
gives Loqi the indieweb.org site
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Loqi
laughs at the indieweb.org site
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jbove
Single Point Of Failures are always risky ... what's the continuation plan just the Worst Case Scenario happens et al
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jbove
lol at Loqi's respones
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jbove
grr typing difficult ... early morning ... needs more coffee++
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gRegorLove
jbove, yeah, don't need to address Loqi for the karma to work
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gRegorLove
What is Loqi?
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Loqi
what
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infominer[m]
Isnt it on gh? Seems likly a domain issue
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Zegnat
Hahaha
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Loqi
hehe
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gRegorLove
Who is Loqi
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Zegnat
That will not work while the website is down, gRegorLove
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jbove
Have a good day / evening / morning all ... need to get to work
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Zegnat
No indefinite cache
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Zegnat
And yes, all the wiki content should be available on the indieweb GitHub org
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gRegorLove
Hah, I missed that
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Zegnat
If you really want to talk worst case scenarios
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jbove
gRegorLove: thanks
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infominer[m]
Or im wrong, which is most likley
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gRegorLove
gives Loqi a 200 OK for the site
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Loqi
laughs at the 200 OK for the site
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Zegnat
Though I believe there has been talk about putting indieweb.org on a separate just-for-indieweb server. And if we get the 1Password, I would definitely want to discuss sharing server access with a few key players
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Zegnat
knows who he’d suggest
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infominer[m]
Gitlab/gpg! :p
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infominer[m]
Not practical at all atm, but im rlly excited about the future of publishing via keybase
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infominer[m]
They have the bare function + 250 gigs free pub/priv hosting per acct
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[Rose]
1Password is back, I only have access to streaming/video storage stuff though (somewhat obviously)
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[frank]
Interesting short discussion on likes earlier. I feel the same thing with my own behaviour. I tend to like/favorite a lot of stuff, just to make sure I don't lose it somewhere. But when it ends up on my site, it goes on the feed, syndicates to micro.blog with conversations happening all over the place and pinging back to the original post. But not all conversations. Like me and [jeremycherfas] have about a post. The building blocks are there, they
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[frank]
connections I guess.
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Zegnat
[Rose], good to hear!
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Zegnat
I don’t know exactly how much granular sharing control we can have over passwords in 1Password? But I think server stuff would make sense for a limited group of highly trusted peeps
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[jeremycherfas]
I agree. Certainly I am not yet in a place where I can do everything I want from a single app. I still have to check 3 or 4 places to keep on top of all social activity. But I don’t mind, because I think it makes me more mindful of what I say where.
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[Rose]
Zegnat you can put things in different vaults, and each vault can be shared with specific people
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Zegnat
Probably a discussion to have when the US wakes up, and in -meta :)
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[Rose]
gives Loqi an nginx config
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Loqi
enjoys the nginx config
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[eddie]
Yeah, regarding the likes, traditional feeds and Micro.blog do not handle likes and reposts well and I ignore them from my feeds. They do not provide a good experience
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[eddie]
Regarding likes in indieweb readers, it’s hit and miss. If you provide the like/repost content/context like aaronpk does in the h-feed itself, it looks great in Together and Indigenous for Android
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[eddie]
That’s one of the major thing I want to improve in the Indigenous to Remark transition
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[eddie]
BUT tantek’s feed would always look the way it does until Microsub servers start parsing the permalinks of posts rather than just the feeds
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[eddie]
So there’s several layers there
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[Rose]
Another question: Should the like format currently suggest including the context, because most people are not using IW readers?
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[Rose]
Or recommend rather than suggest probably
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[eddie]
I very much feel that anyone on the IndieWeb sharing to Micro.blog should really follow some people on there and see what the community is like. Feeds like chrisaldrich, GWG and tantek look really out of place because it’s essentially their fire hose. I honestly think it’s a very good idea to tweak your feed to look good on Micro.blog
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[eddie]
Because if it looks good on Micro.blog it’ll also look good in most non-IndieWeb readers
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[eddie]
[Rose] it’s tough, everyone feels different about their likes
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[Rose]
I have shared a specific feed (photos, notes, and articles) to micro.blog, because that makes sense for the community there I think
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[eddie]
tantek feels very strongly about his likes, when we’ve discussed this in the past
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[eddie]
Don’t you, tantek 😉
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[Rose]
I guess I'm still thinking of likes as in "I have to go looking for them", rather than the more like a repost thing which a like is in the IW world
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[frank]
I agree [eddie]. I activated my blogfeed a couple of days ago and I really felt like the drunken sailor in the bar just rampaging through conversations talking jibberish. I turned it off again.
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[eddie]
[Rose] yes, your feed most definitely feels native rather like it’s transplanted.
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[Rose]
Well, I also started out by creating a seperate "microblog" category on my site for it, which I think helped me out
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[eddie]
Oh no, [frank]! Lol I felt that way initially too. It takes a little bit to figure out how you can filter a feed based on your CMS and what you should filter
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[Rose]
I need to figure out my feeds a little more, because I would love to have more.
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[Rose]
And my homepage is another thing I need to sort out
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[eddie]
[Rose] yeah that definitely helps. I started by saying “don’t post these types”, then I ended up creating a syndication target for it. So only articles and things I specifically syndicate to it end up there
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[Rose]
Perhaps I should be thinking of my micro.blog account as a syndication target more, explicitly choosing that category to send stuff there.
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[frank]
[eddie] I have the same feeling with my homepage. I need to tweak how to present all the different types of output instead of just one big stream.
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[Rose]
Does anyone have time for an IWC like session on that this weekend? 😆
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[eddie]
[frank] for sure! That can be a big one to handle. That’s something I’ve been working on over the last year. I’m still not fully satisfied with my homepage but happier than when it was a stream
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sebsel
[Rose]: sounds like IWC-addiction coming up after three weeks in a row :)
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[frank]
[Rose] But dont forget how conversations might end up. Just today I thought I had a conversation with [jeremycherfas] , on micro.blog. But it syndicated back to my site below a blogpost. No huge problem, but the crashing of separate domains/circles is something to consider.
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[Rose]
Shush you, I'm not an addict.
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[eddie]
Haha yep,
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[Rose]
It sounds weird but I'm making an effort not to use the micro.blog app, I've added all the people I follow on it to a people feed in my Aperture install, and my mentions go into my notifications feed
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[Rose]
This means when I reply to people I do it from my blog and the webmentions handle the rest
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[eddie]
Yeah I don’t use the M.b app at all. Only my social readers
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[eddie]
I started that as an intentional thing over 6 months ago to try to find all the pain points and report them
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[eddie]
Manton has done a great job smoothing things out. There are only a couple rare “gotchas” now
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[eddie]
On that note, I should probably go back to bed now that my son has had his mid-morning feeding lol.
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[tantek]
I’m not opposed to dropping likes from my Atom feed if they’re messing up people’s UX on mb etc
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[Rose]
For anyone who wants to use monocle right now: reader.rosemaryorchard.com
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[Rose]
It's not perfect, as there's no installation instructions so I winged it
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[Rose]
Oh wait, not working at all, sorry 🙂
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[Rose]
You should document your opinions on readers somewhere Frank, because then people can work on incorporating them, or at least debate with you
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Loqi
definitely
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[frank]
Yeah I know
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[tonz]
[Rose] quick question on Compass, as you and [jeremycherfas] worked on it last IndieWebCamp Utrecht: is it completely php/mysql. In other words: should I be able to deploy it on a basic php/mysql hosting package (like where my blog is), or do I need more server access / privs than that?
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[Rose]
You should be able to deploy it on that I think, assuming you have command line access
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sebsel
[tonz]: you would need to run a background worker, although that is only required if you want to use trips at the moment.
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sebsel
also: it stores data in files in a folder, so the primary storage is not in MySQL, but you would still be able to use your basic php/mysql hosting for that I assume
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[manton]
Good discussion on Micro.blog and public likes. Thanks y'all. I think excluding items from a feed that don't exactly have counterparts in Micro.blog is a good approach. Longer term, I'd like to have more formal support for quoting blog posts, and some special items like [tantek]'s likes could automatically be supported that way.
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[tantek]
tinbox << Atom feed: drop likes, because even fallback content apparently causes poor UX in feed consumers like some micro.blog clients
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Loqi
I couldn't get an edit token for the wiki
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[tantek]
SMS << more 2FA recovery criticism: >$100k lost by a crypto company engineering manager: https://twitter.com/fremycompany/status/1131139678416056321
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Loqi
I couldn't get an edit token for the wiki
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Zegnat
No wiki, no inbox
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[eddie]
tantek didn’t mean to speak on your thoughts on likes in atom. I more meant your thoughts about your homepage feed. There was kind of two parallel convos that ended up interweaving. Likes in older feeds and likes in social readers
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[eddie]
But it wasn’t clearly defined what referred to what
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[tantek]
Eddie, the differences are due to how consuming code for the different formats is specified and implemented -> dev channel
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[eddie]
I agree there are differences there. And I’m not saying you’re wrong about it. Rose was just asking if the wiki suggestions should be changed and I was pointing out people all have different thoughts on likes in the IndieWeb
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[eddie]
[frank] definitely interested in your opinions on readers as one that builds one
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[tonz]
[Rose] “assuming you have command line access”, that is precisely the issue with basic hosting packages: I don’t.
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Zegnat
It feels like it should not be required, just means you can’t use laravel’s cli tools?
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[Rose]
It means it might be a bit more work to set things up, and migrate between versions
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[jeremycherfas]
Yes. Absolutely straightforward.
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[Rose]
You have a virtual private server and command line access though
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[jeremycherfas]
[tonz] You don’t have any terminal access? That makes things problematic.
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[jeremycherfas]
Yes. I failed to read slowly.
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[tantek]
I don’t think that’s a reasonable assumption or requirement for anything IndieWeb
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[tantek]
If it requires command line access, it’s likely a dev thing
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[tantek]
Not a user thing
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Zegnat
Which is why Aperture is hosted as a service managed by aaronpk and does not have installation instructions at all. If you want to install it, be warned, haha
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Zegnat
:o is the wiki back?!
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[tantek]
How about that. Is the wiki back?
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Zegnat
It is! And there was much rejoicing!
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[tonz]
[Rose] yes, I also have a VPS where I do have command line access, true. But managing a VPS is mostly beyond my skill level, whereas doing stuff within a php / mysql hosting environment is mostly well within my skill level. I’ll put it on my VPS-only list of potential experiments (basically a backlog 🙂 ).
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[Rose]
Shame you weren't there on Sunday, we could have helped you as well as Jeremy 🙂
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[tonz]
yes, a shame I had to miss most of the event. Well, at least now I had time to blog about what you guys were doing. So there’s that 😄
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petermolnar
I'll never understand [tantek]'s hate for sms
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[Rose]
It's pretty insecure, which is a good reason.
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aaronpk
and is tied to a cell plan which doesn't really make sense in the internet era anymnore
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vivus
and it's pretty easy to do a sim swap to hijack someones number and break their 2FA
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petermolnar
it works without data
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petermolnar
it's simple
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petermolnar
it works cross-countries (I can receive in China with a UK number without data)
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petermolnar
I know it's rather insecure, yes; there's always a tradeoff between simple and reliable vs secure, at least in IT, at least according to my experience
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vivus
try sending 10 SMSes between China and UK, your bill might make you think otherwise
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petermolnar
I received every message...
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petermolnar
the last time I had issues with that was in 2001 with an Alcatel One Touch, when I was skiing in Slovakia
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vivus
the price is exorbitant. Data makes it easy to send thousands of messages at a fraction of the cost
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petermolnar
vivus: I recommend rural Scotland and try to get _signal_. Not data, just mere 2G.
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vivus
2G is enough to send plaintext
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aaronpk
should probably either document these pros/cons on the wiki or move this to the offtopic channel
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petermolnar
vivus: lol. when was the list time you used EDGE to do anything? :)
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petermolnar
aaronpk: fair point
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Loqi
[indienews] New post: "Adding iCalendar Feeds for Events in Hugo" https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/05/22/ical-events-hugo/
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[frank]
Will do [eddie]
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[frank]
[tonz] Doesn't the hostingprovider have some sort of built-in terminal access on their controlpanel?
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[tonz]
[frank] unsure, not seen it, but I don’t expect judging by their approach to other things (like blocking xmlrpc. They don’t let clients play around on their own much. )
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[tantek]
[tonz] consider setting up a /contact page on your site, it can solve the "which preferred messenger you use" question.
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[tonz]
[tantek] that’s just bs. we’re talking comms w clients, peers etc here, not webppl. 99.999999 of people never talk about their comms prefs let alone publish their contact page.
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[tonz]
my prefs are on my website, but noone ever reads my site 😉
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chrisaldrich
What is an archival copy?
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Loqi
An archival copy is a copy of a web page made (often by someone other than the author) at a particular point in time, that can be used as a reference if the original disappears or is temporarily unavailable https://indieweb.org/archival_copy
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Loqi
ok, I added "https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/what-do-you-do-with-11000-blogs-preserving-archiving-and-maintaining-umw-blogs-a-case-study/" to the "See Also" section of /archival_copy https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=61600&oldid=59605
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Loqi
ok, I added "https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/what-do-you-do-with-11000-blogs-preserving-archiving-and-maintaining-umw-blogs-a-case-study/" to the "See Also" section of /A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=61601&oldid=60725
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Loqi
Jeena has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (2 in all channels)
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Loqi
doubleloop: [jeremycherfas] left you a message 1 day, 7 hours ago: I do, but mostly bread.
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doubleloop
Zegnat++
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Loqi
Zegnat has 39 karma in this channel over the last year (156 in all channels)
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jbove
aaronpk++
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Loqi
aaronpk has 34 karma in this channel over the last year (237 in all channels)
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