Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

#introductions

Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Other things you may want to know:

- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history

Mozilla laying off 1/4 of staff https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

Confusingly COVID-19 is blamed, but I don't understand how that could be the case unless it directly correlated with losing specific funders. COVID-19 seems like it could also be an opportunity to close unnecessary offices, dramatically reducing costs.

Worrying:
- This probably means even more browser takeover by chrome
- Vague "pivot to products" talk
- Executive pay keeps going up https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1293188958705168384

Nothing fancy, just a simple chat type UI made in Racket https://dustycloud.org/tmp/goblin-chat-gui-test.gif

Getting a better handle on how Racket's editor stuff works https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/editor-overview.html

There's a lot of interesting ideas and tools here.

weight is just all over the place these last 2.5 weeks https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org_diet_results.html

hopefully I can do better this week

Well, both display and relevant inputs obviously.

#Spritely Goblins' integration with Racket's GUI now takes advantage of "reckless commits" to the actormap. In other words, a GUI-using vat is not transactional in the interest of speed, and also because Racket's GUI doesn't support atomic updates so this overhead doesn't make sense either.

However all your other vats can be transactional and can communicate with GUI vats so this can be Safe Enough (TM); just leave all your normal logic in normal vats and leave GUI vats for display only.

well I fixed the GUI stuff in goblins, now goblins actors can talk to GUI elements *and* vice versa

... yet I'm still depressed :\

The SocialCG is now on hiatus until urgent issues are raised or a different structuring is agreed upon. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/retooling-or-suspending-the-socialcg/869/2

Retooling or suspending the SocialCG https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/retooling-or-suspending-the-socialcg/869

In other words: I think either the SocialCG should go on hiatus or we should switch to something closer to an implementer-usergroup-discussion model for most meetings. (Or, go on hiatus for a while and reopen in that form.)

I'll be on Mumble at the top of the hour if people want to talk about it: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG#Meetings

feeling depressed :\

No topic set AFAICT, but I'll show up in 2 hours in the SocialCG channel today if people want to do a call.