Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

present is a function that consumes a stream of future and outputs a stream of past

unfortunately most of us are stuck with the imperative implementation

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

blonk

I think @spritelyproject is already going in a lot of the right directions to make social networks a safer place. But maybe that information ought to be re-collected and re-presented for the current world context in a separate video.

I dunno?

Or maybe I should just keep coding.

*hack hack hackitty hack*

CRDT based library for live collaboration in emacs https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el

if "send" (to inboxes, asynchronously) is the ~actor equivalent of ~scheme's "apply" (synchronous call-return), what's the ~actor equivalent of ~scheme's "eval"?

Maybe it's just "eval"? Or maybe it's the message handler?

Or... in the vat model, maybe it's a turn? (weird answer)

Didn't pay attention and had to convert my fosdem video from the output and resolution I had after my (second!) obs recording to the strict video format requirements.

Figured out an ffmpeg command, in case it helps anyone else:

ffmpeg -i fosdem-2021-goblins-distributed-journey.mkv \
-acodec copy \
-vcodec libx264 \
-r 25 \
-vf "scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2" \
fosdem-2021-goblins-distributed-journey.mp4

being nice is nice

doing so much better than I was a couple days ago

get the fuck off your computer and go to bed, me

"Thank you for sending your files

These files will now be injected into the system."

oh. weird wording but... good?

Re-recorded and uploading my FOSDEM talk.

It did come out much better the second time around, at least. What a relief.

blep

I do take my work very seriously... and it's never felt more important or urgent.

But... just spending the day making progress, a quiet line of code at a time, is the antidote to the pressure I feel about needing to get it all right. I feel confident in the direction I'm going.