#indieweb 2022-03-23

2022-03-23 UTC
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[tantek]1 Unverified but seems plausible enough to pass along the warning: https://twitter.com/bookish_nea/status/1501152548517994496
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@bookish_nea Saw a warning that Russia may decouple from the World-wide web, meaning LJ will totally disappear soon. Back up your LJ to DW. Right-click images. Screenshot. And then… mourn with me the final passing of the most vibrant fan communities we’ll ever know & the archive of an era. (twitter.com/_/status/1501152548517994496)
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[fluffy] There’s been some plausible evidence that the Kremlin has established their own root CA, so yeah, it’s fairly plausible.
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[fluffy] gah, can’t find the article now. I thought it was on ars technica but maybe it’s somewhere else
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[fluffy] well here’s a different article than the one I saw: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-creates-its-own-tls-certificate-authority-to-bypass-sanctions/amp/ and a followup from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca
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Loqi hey [fluffy], we try to keep dev talk (root, certificate, TLS) out of this channel, can you move to #indieweb-dev?
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[fluffy] not this time, Loqi
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[tantek]1 sigh, jargon in slugs should be ignored by Loqi
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[tantek]1 gives Loqi a 🐌
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Loqi throws the 🐌
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e-snail comforts the poor 🐌
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jan6 "LJ" and "DW" are such jargon acronyms, lol, took me a while to figure out what the people were even talking about (especially as I've never even heard of this "dreamwidth" thing, and only passingly about livejournal)
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jan6 to the point there's literally someone asking "what's DW", and that someone has livejournal stuff to back up
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[tantek]1 jan6 ok to ask here and see if Loqi answers 🙂
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[tantek]1 what is LJ
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Loqi LiveJournal is a declining blogging silo https://indieweb.org/LJ
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jan6 what is dw
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "dw" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "dw is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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jan6 even Loqi doesn't know ;P
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jan6 what is DW
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "DW" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "DW is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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barnaby I would have associated DW with Dreamweaver in this context. never heard of dreamwidth
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[tantek]1 what is Dreamwidth
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Loqi Dreamwidth is an open source social networking site based on LiveJournal code https://indieweb.org/Dreamwidth
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jan6 exactly
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[tantek]1 DW is /Dreamwidth
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Loqi ok
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[tantek]1 what is DW
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Loqi Dreamwidth is an open source social networking site based on LiveJournal code https://indieweb.org/DW
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[tantek]1 there we go, fixed 🙂
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