#indieweb 2019-11-25

2019-11-25 UTC
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jbove What is icann?
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Loqi ICANN is a global organization that is responsible for running the Domain Name Service root name servers and is also responsible for the assignment of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses https://indieweb.org/ICANN
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jbove This tweet made me realize that we really don’t own our domain names, we lease them
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jbove https://mobile.twitter.com/AmeliasBrain/status/1197976221050490880
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@AmeliasBrain Web standards nerds like to talk about how Cool URLs Don't Change & how you should Own Your Content on your own website instead of posting through a service. But you don't own a web domain. You lease it. And the international organization that actually owns it is for-profit. https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1197950543706112001 (twitter.com/_/status/1197976221050490880)
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aaronpk yes, pretty sure we say that on the wiki in a few places
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aaronpk or at least it comes up in conversations at IWCs all the time
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aaronpk found one instance: https://indieweb.org/federation#DNS_Exception
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aaronpk I *am* looking forward to the day there's a reasonable alternative to DNS that isn't also a worse user experience than the current domain name system is. we're definitely not there yet though.
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jbove This sounds like an ideal blockchain implementation use case.
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aaronpk 😭 lol no
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aaronpk I said *not* a worse user experience heh
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aaronpk besides, it already exists https://www.namecoin.org
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jbove Haha. Yeah. Gotcha. Hashes are not super memorable :-)
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jbove Thanks for pointing to namecoin. Unfortunate name.
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jbove What is namecoin?
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Loqi Namecoin is a bitcoin fork which was created to handle, buy and manage .bit decentralized domains https://indieweb.org/namecoin
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jbove needs to go back to bed. Baby woke.
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gRegorLove Also: https://indieweb.org/namecoin#Issues
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GWG_ Morning
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jbove Morning GMT
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GWG_ The timezone?
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jbove Thanks for the pointes to namecoin and its issues.
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jbove Yes :-)
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jbove I will rephrase: Morning everyone in or near GMT
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jbove Morning to you GWG_
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jbove Are you still in Germany?
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GWG_ I really need to get rid of the _
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GWG_ No, Dublin
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GWG_ Flight home this afternoon
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jbove How was the event? Sorry I couldn't attend.
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jbove Does Jacky's site seem down to you too? https://v2.jacky.wtf/
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sukil yup
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jacky it is
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jacky my DNS isn't resolving at the moment
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jacky I'm working on it
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[tantek] there is nothing about blockchain that is ideal in anyway except perhaps to organized crime
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[tantek] blockchain--
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Loqi blockchain has -2 karma over the last year
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cweiske that's not true. if the crime was organized, it would not need a blockchain. if someone would follow your line, then it would be for unorganized crime.
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[tantek] nope they need it to reduce their exposure to state level actors
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cweiske the blockchain makes it publicly visible
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[tantek] the transaction, not the identity
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[tantek] they also count on it being irreversible. transfer, burn identities, rinse, repeat.
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cweiske previously, even the transactions were not visible.
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[KevinMarks] Instagram << https://twitter.com/KateFlood/status/1198690400489398272?s=20
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@KateFlood PSA - if you added your mobile number when you joined instagram, it's not private. Anyone that follows you can access it and contact you via Whatsapp. What the actual fuck https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKKajvpXsAUt8RJ.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1198690400489398272)
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Loqi ok, I added "https://twitter.com/KateFlood/status/1198690400489398272?s=20" to the "See Also" section of /Instagram https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=66672&oldid=66196
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[tantek] phonenumbers--
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Loqi phonenumbers has -1 karma in this channel over the last year (-2 in all channels)
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[tantek] phonenumber--
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Loqi phonenumber has -1 karma over the last year
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[manton] Looking through the notes from the photo session at IWC Berlin, I'm reminded of https://mirrorproject.com. I can't believe it's still online! What a great archive.
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GWG_ Hi, [manton]
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[manton] Hello!
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GWG_ [manton]: How goes the Indiewebbing?
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[manton] Good! Was just trying to catch up a little on how Berlin went over the weekend. Plenty of IndieWeb things to work on. 🙂
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GWG_ [manton]: The video is something that I will try to get uploaded soon
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[tantek] Switching to meta
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