Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social
User freedom activist, ActivityPub co-editor, parenthesis enthusiast, occasional artist. https://dustycloud.org/
https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
Joined May 2017
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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.
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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
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the safest way to use computers is still abstinence
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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
fuck, there's a mini smash tournament tonight in easthampton??? I'm going
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You've heard of spam on the fediverse, now get ready for spear-phishing on the fediverse!
Brought to you by:
- easily spoofed avatars and usernames
- classic domain name spoofing problems
- the fact that humans are not wired to be able to identify these kinds of attacks
(On the next episode, something something petnames+ocaps https://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/papers/02-hp-petname/ )
Spear phishing + 0-day.. quite the read. https://robertheaton.com/2019/06/24/i-was-7-words-away-from-being-spear-phished/
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Notes on colorschemes and colorblindness by Paul Tol: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/ — if you create diagrams, you should know this.
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Just FYI I have not done any more work for Purism since Todd told me the decision to not moderate Librem Social was final. I've already seen some alt right personalities on there and that's not fine with me.
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🧠 we're... writing lisp and deploying it to production?
👨 we're writing lisp and deploying it to production!
🧠 holy shit we're living the dream!
👨 (so you better not fuck this up)
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Clouds, the Internet of the sky
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Ah yes, cargo ships, the Docker of the sea
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Tunnels, the OpenVPN of the ground
not my best post
bread first search
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voice in the distance: what are you doing?
me: a BFS visit on a 170 billion nodes graph
voice again: ah, ok then
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@cwebber thanks for the patch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa3XbXaEbFM in case you wanted a link
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@cwebber Reading your post makes me feel like I caught my jacket on the back of a speeding train and I'm having all I can do to keep up (in a good way).
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Self-proclaimed champions of free speech platform Gab blocks freespeechextremist.com over some speech they didn't like 
Posted an update on my Patreon account: Ascii Art, Crystals, and Goblins https://www.patreon.com/posts/ascii-art-and-27894854
Not sure if you're following @wobblysaeeda or not but they're putting out some awesome shit.
I especially thought https://mastodon.art/@wobblysaeeda/102202558576131199 was moving, inspiring, evocative, troubling.
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Put Your Head Among the Heads and say "Oh Cutter of the Heads"
This was a short animation on the theme of 'block' done for a local experimental film block party.
The title is a literal translation of an Arabic idiomatic saying.
The prompt was 'block' - shown as pollution/environmental blocking away of habitat, bowel obstructions ;) , and the executioner's block in the title and subtext, opression blocking justice and freedom
User freedom activist, ActivityPub co-editor, parenthesis enthusiast, occasional artist. https://dustycloud.org/
https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
Joined May 2017
