#indieweb 2021-04-06

2021-04-06 UTC
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doosboox I’ve done a bunch of solutions for my own page in cgi scripts lately. My first thought around webmentions and websub was to implement them in that, too. But correct me if I’m wrong: there’s generally no way for a cti script to set response code or headers, is there?
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[KevinMarks] that depends on the cgi library you're using I think
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petermolnar cgi is underrated these days; it's the only thing I miss from nginx
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petermolnar lamba functions before it was cool
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Loqi misses from nginx too
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petermolnar pats Loqi
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[KevinMarks] medium has blogrolls now https://blog.medium.com/blogrolls-making-writer-discovery-seamless-6c94270d5e68
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[KevinMarks] on this day << “*I don’t want to have to empty my photo albums just because tech companies decided to make them “smart” and create an infinite loop of grief.”* https://www.wired.com/story/weddings-social-media-apps-photos-memories-miscarriage-problem/
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Loqi ok, I added "“*I don’t want to have to empty my photo albums just because tech companies decided to make them “smart” and create an infinite loop of grief.”* https://www.wired.com/story/weddings-social-media-apps-photos-memories-miscarriage-problem/" to the "See Also" section of /on_this_day https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=75203&oldid=74863
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[KevinMarks] https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/1379496744371781636?s=20
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@kevinmarks notice how @balajis is using a fiat name that he bought from a fungible marketplace to represent his identity instead of whatever cryptocurrency fluff he's raving about today? http://balajis.com is a name. A domain name. It's programmable and paid for. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1379404677159256065 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyT05nlWEBIrucN.png (twitter.com/_/status/1379496744371781636)
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[tantek] site-deaths << soon/announced: 2021-05-04 Yahoo Answers: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1379153188239110144
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@verge Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyO8hC4WgAYw5sT.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1379153188239110144)
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Loqi ok, I added "soon/announced: 2021-05-04 Yahoo Answers: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1379153188239110144" to the "See Also" section of /site-deaths https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=75205&oldid=75189
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[tantek] I really feel like there should be a bingo card for Yahoo services and shutdowns
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[snarfed] whither killedbyyahoo.com
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[tantek] uh, not only is that site dead (unresponsive), but it's not in Internet Archive, and every mention of that domain in Google Search (all three of them) are *themselves* not in Internet Archive either! 😳
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[tantek] that is one professional scrubbing job 😬
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[chrisaldrich] I'm waiting for someone to do a statistical study of online social services to come up with a mean-time-to-site-death...
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vilhalmer answers lasted about a decade longer than I expected it to, honestly
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[tantek] are there meta-questions being posted yet?
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[tantek] Why is Yahoo Answers being shutdown now in particular?
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[tantek] How did Yahoo Answers last so long?
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[tantek] How many Yahoo Answers will die on May 4th?
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[tantek] May the 4th not be with your Yahoo Answers
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[chrisaldrich] What is question?
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Loqi question is a post type for soliciting answer replies, which are then typically up/down voted by others and then displayed underneath the question post ordered by highest positive vote count rather than time ordered https://indieweb.org/question
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[chrisaldrich] Dawns on me that Quora has locked down their version such that their site-death would be similarly fatal to the space in terms of archival value.
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btrem Haha. Why only Yahoo? Add to that Google's shutdown of data-vocab, announced here a few months ago.
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[snarfed] oh sorry tantek, i made up killedbyyahoo.com, inspired by killedbygoogle.com and killedbymozilla.com
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[tantek] well apparently two other folks thought it enough to put it on a webpage, only to have it disappear (except in Googe's Index)
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neshpion looking at killedbygoogle.com, they're killing angular? are they all switching to react or what?
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alex11 i just want them to bring back yahoo groups...
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alex11 like wtf those were awesome why would you ever kill them
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alex11 yahoo is absolutely useless
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[tantek] silo-quits << Regularly purging example: https://twitter.com/curmudgeonaf/status/1379530809179303937
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@curmudgeonaf @LaurenGoode @pierce I delete all of my old acitivity on social media services regularly. So there is nothing to remember. All of my Facebook activity has been deleted (I don’t post there anymore), and I use Tweet Deleter to automatically delete old tweets on schedule. (twitter.com/_/status/1379530809179303937)
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Loqi ok, I added "Regularly purging example: https://twitter.com/curmudgeonaf/status/1379530809179303937" to the "See Also" section of /silo-quits https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=75207&oldid=75017
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neshpion lol "delete" from twitter/facebook
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