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

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso was terrifying and timely graphic novel. Its power comes from its understated visuals contrasted with its uncomfortably deep subject matter. In many ways it's the inversion of the rubber-necking of modern "true crime" story obsessions. What's on the other side?

Reading Sabrina by Nick Drnaso. The simplicity of the artwork makes it kind of haunting...

things are happening, things happening is good

it's not all for nothing

a little bit depres, but only a little

"don't worry today I'll just relax"

"Hm, I wonder how hard it is to switch that mutable datashards code over to elliptic curves. Probably not too hard..."

I am bad at relax

Ok, so that's three promise dungeon crawl stone soup characters dead in one morning. Plus brunch!

I think that qualifies as some downtime. What's up next, though?

Today I'm finally going to get some of that downtime in. Don't ask me to do things today, please!

Friam call went well.

Now it's time to relax and play dungeon crawl stone soup for a while???

I need to decompress

So much for that promise I made to a friend that I'd get any amount of downtime whatsoever once I got back from this trip ;P (Yeah yeah, nobody's fault but my own, I guess.)

Time for me to prep for my presentation to Friam today about OcapPub

Good moin moin

"You had a lot of hills you could have died on; why this one?" #nocontext #obviouscontext

That's not a fun conclusion to come to, but it's serious; from the general public's perspective, the FSF and RMS are the hub of software freedom's key ideas.

Even if you feel it should be possible to separate RMS's personal views from the FSF, that's not the public perception.

It's difficult to see how the FSF can survive this latest issue without RMS stepping down (which I doubt he will voluntarily?) or backpedaling massively (which he definitely won't).

The last few years have also shown it won't be long until the next issue arises, either.