#dev 2025-03-22

2025-03-22 UTC
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osteophage [tantek]: @[tantek] I wrote a post critical of Bluesky back in January but didn't cover the public data angle. Is there anything else you remember about the post? I can try and look for it.
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osteophage Not sure how the "replies" feature interfaces with the bridge but here's the message link for the older message I'm replying to: https://discord.com/channels/866577279223595018/866577430886350869/1352498588462088223
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[tantek] osteophage, [KevinMarks] found it. it was from anildash
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osteophage Oh! I must have missed that. Can I see the link?
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[tantek] osteophage yes this one: https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lkjb6ahovk2z
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osteophage Thanks!
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doesnm [artlung]1: i'm seen github pages forum where topics and answers created from pull requests. But lost link
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[snarfed] interesting, RSS feed generator that uses CSS selectors: https://github.com/TBosak/mkfd
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Loqi [preview] [TBosak] mkfd: RSS feed builder created with Bun🥖 and Hono🔥- builds from webpages and/or REST API calls
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[artlung]1 doesnm — sounds related and apt! And if they’re hosting with GitHub pages makes extra sense. Thanks!
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[schmarty] snarfed: i got email spam overnight purporting to be from the author of mkfd 😂
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[fluffy] I got spammed about mkfd this morning too. I wish the docs had literally any information about it other than a bunch of stuff about how “easy” it is to install an entire tool chain to manage its Docker stuff.
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[fluffy] And apparently it runs as a fully-fledged web app and who knows what its needs in terms of runtime requirements.
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[fluffy] I’m super not interested in checking the project out in its current state.
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[schmarty] fluffy: you were kind to investigate it even that closely!!
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[fluffy] Give me technical information about how it works and how to use it, instead of a “trust me, bro” on installing a bunch of stuff with a curl|bash
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[schmarty] sounds like it might be outright malicious then
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doesnm mkfd?
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[schmarty] mkfd
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[fluffy] I doubt it’s malicious, just like, it reeks of “modern” web dev, which I am grumpy about.
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[schmarty] i dunno. a bunch of email spam asking people to run `curl | bash` sure sounds like an attack vector.
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[fluffy] I am not fond of how many projects are frameworks upon frameworks.
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[fluffy] The curlbash is for installing https://bun.sh
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[schmarty] ahh, ok. not a file directly from the mkfd repo 😅
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[fluffy] Right, I should have been more specific
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[fluffy] But like. At a glance it seems like using mkfd has larger requirements than just, y’know, generating a feed yourself. And knowing how projects like these tend to be, I’m guessing the feed itself is gonna suck.
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[fluffy] Like I’m not sure who this is targeting… someone hand-writing all their HTML but still willing to run a bunch of typescript?
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[fluffy] Without more information about what it even does (or how or why) i can only speculate about which “css selectors or rest calls” it’s using and my imagination is lacking regarding why anyone would want to use this.
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[fluffy] Never a good sign when one of the TODO list items is “amass contributors”
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[fluffy] I hope that’s meant as a joke
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[schmarty] 😂
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[artlung]1 One can do worse than be ambitious and vocally earnest, but it's not obvious to me how I would use it vs other tools with longer track records.
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GuestZero does anyone know of a nice introduction to web key directory?
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[schmarty] what is web key directory?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "web key directory" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "web key directory is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] What is reach
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Loqi reach is usually used to refer to the number or extent of people that see or are at least shown a specific post (of yours) in whatever aggregator or reader app, site, or home (news) feed feature of a silo that they use to view posts https://indieweb.org/reach
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GuestZero tantek do you imply wkd isn't viable due to limited adoption? :)
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[tantek] No sorry cross talk. That was in ref to the "amass contributors"
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[tantek] Never heard of wkd. Looks like there's some incidental material on Wikipedia though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=web%20key%20directory&sourceid=Mozilla-search&ns0=1
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gRegor No experience myself, but surfaced a couple links on the wiki: https://indieweb.org/OpenPGP#wkd
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balintm intrusive thought: polyglot HTML/vCard file
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balintm likely can't be done in an RFC-compliant way…but maybe feasible if most vCard clients ignore lines they don't understand. sounds like a fun saturday evening hack
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balintm level 2: polyglot HTML/vCard/hCard
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balintm meh, looks like iOS Safari won't let me have fun with this
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Zegnat I also had an email about mkfd. I feel like I have had those types of "please look at my repository" emails before. Wonder if there is some service for that or something
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[tantek] instablock
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Zegnat It seems like a fun idea. It looks to just be about turning web addresses into RSS feeds. Presumably for subscribing to pages that do not have a feed at all.
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aaronpk I also got the mkfd spam
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