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

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I put up a tutorial of how to hack the activitypub.rocks website https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/how-to-hack-on-activitypub-rocks/375

> Basically, if you aren’t a Scheme hacker, editing the activitypub.rocks website is a great way to learn to become one! ;)

SocialCG meeting over! Here's the minutes: https://www.w3.org/2019/12/07-social-minutes.html

Meeting is starting now! See https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG#Meetings to join.

Hey all! Just a reminder that the next SocialCG meeting is in 45mins! https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/12-7-socialcg-telecon/339/5 https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG#Meetings

Not gonna say this show was ever great but ok this D&D satanic panic plot in season 3 is... just unwatchable.

I do not understand how it's Thursday evening. I swear a day disappeared this week. I'm legit confused.

If you would like to learn more about this stuff yourself, I recommend reading http://erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/index.html ... further info in MarkM's dissertation http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/

I think this is about twice as hard for me to learn and execute as mutable datashards was, and that was a challenge.

Similarly to that (for mutable datashards, I was studying Tahoe-LAFS; for spritely goblins' distributed code, I'm studying CapTP), I'm not really inventing much new, just tweaking existing documented ideas, but it's a lot for me to soak in.

And by thinking about I mean simultaneously executing, just very slowly.

I feel shitty about the slowness, but it's a lot to keep in my head at once.

The spritely goblins networked programming stuff is moving along. I'm out of research mode and into "thinking about the protocol mode".

It's still slow. But you can see the influence of CapTP here: https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins/commit/87f381c7696b35beaed6aafb38249f25e4ce5a2e