#dev 2025-10-03

2025-10-03 UTC
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[KevinMarks] Mine is around 53000. I was in the first 100 on LinkedIn though.
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[KevinMarks] And 549 on mastodon https://mastodon.social/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=kevinmarks
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9jf9hf ahhhh so indieweb.org was a Wiki all along
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9jf9hf i only now figured it out
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9jf9hf https://indieweb.org/Special:Random is at the bottom of the sidebar and it always goes to https://indieweb.org/events/2024-06-12-hwc-nuremberg
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9jf9hf where do i go to browse the Wiki?
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IWDiscord <9​jf9hf>
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9jf9hf nvm found the alphabetical listing of all pages! https://indieweb.org/Special:AllPages
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[Al_Abut] sheesh, replacing my vimeo embeds with generic video was so dang easy, I should’ve done this years ago
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[John_Gorenfeld] I used to update my status on a Unix .plan file, anyone else?
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[Al_Abut] I think I used to do that in college? Whatever the setup was so that when someone used the finger command, you could serve up ascii art to make them feel welcome with a couch and a lamp, etc
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[Jo] I should incorporate that into my finger service
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Loqi I agree
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[John_Gorenfeld] Whoa do you have an online Finger server?
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[Jo] Yes, i switched my main domain and blog to a different server tho so all the nice scripts dont work so well anymore
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[Jo] johanna@diptera.casa works okay still but all other "users" will throw file not found errors atm 😵‍💫
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[John_Gorenfeld] As a fan of both TOS and WHOIS i love this. Is this something where you just open up a port on your webserver and can allow finger requests?
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[Jo] Yeah pretty much, and i use the finger server efingerd, iirc
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[John_Gorenfeld] Might have to set that up on mine...
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[Jo] You should! Its fun
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[John_Gorenfeld] Had the urge the other day to create a modern version of YTalk, where you could see the other person in your chat typing letters. Only with encryption
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[John_Gorenfeld] But yeah, IDIC!
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[tantek] what is finger
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "finger" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "finger is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] [Jo] ^ feel free to create the page and add yourself as an IndieWeb Example since you have a finger service on your domain!
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[morganm] What is a vpn
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Loqi VPN is Virtual Private Network, a way to securely connect to a private network https://indieweb.org/VPN
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[morganm] I went on a search mission to read reputable information about VPNs - I don't use one at home , I just want to learn about what's out there - and it's so heavily marketed and SEOd it's hard to find out good info
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[morganm] If I find any info I'll consider updating the wiki stub
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[snarfed] [morganm] out of curiosity, what's making you want a VPN?
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[morganm] I don't actually want one or have a use case, I am attracted conceptually to the idea of adding noise to the signal of my online footprint, sort of like I trim UTM params off urls, but not much more than that
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[morganm] I am still somehow interested in the concept of them
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[morganm] My wife asked me about VPNs and I knew nothing
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[tantek] It's a reasonable tactic to switch (tighten) security/privacy practices out-of-sync with an actual use-case. Doing so helps obfuscate any signal of "responding to" the emergence of a specific threat scenario.
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[tantek] e.g. setting up a VPN while at home for no reason, long before you travel to a country where the internet traffic is heavily monitored / filtered. then again depending on where you live, that could already be true, have been true for a while.
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[tantek] it adds noise at the "meta" level, to those who might ask "why did their internet traffic suddenly change?" if the answer is "because you randomly decided to", then you've disclosed zero information about your plans.
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[morganm] If I can make the bots work harder
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[morganm] Add a little fuzziness
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[morganm] Philosophically that is enough for me
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[morganm] Like I sit back in my chair being like "I'm a little harder to target with ads" and that somehow gives me utility
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[morganm] I will compile any good links or info I find on my Interest journey on this topic
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