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

We're having another SocialCG meeting on November 7th at 16:00 UTC! https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialcg-meeting-on-november-7th-16-00-utc/1106

On the agenda: officially making alsoKnownAs part of the ActivityStreams agenda. And maybe something else if you have it!

The ODT/ODF exporter for Scribble is almost done; a working system in less than two weeks.

Lots of time spent reading specs and other peoples' code as examples of what to do, peeking under the hood. This wouldn't be possible if I wasn't for FOSS and open standards.

Fascinating article about wolf kink fanfiction copyright takedowns https://web.archive.org/web/20200611030407/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/business/omegaverse-erotica-copyright.html

whoa somehow I hadn't seen the "RIAA getting GitHub to do a takedown of youtube-dl" bit https://twitter.com/xor/status/1319738279772770308

I delight in the existence of "jbovlazbakamnandu" and "jbovlazbakemsedycro" in lojban, referring to the difficulty of word-making in lojban and a headache from lojban word-making respectively

https://la-lojban.github.io/sutysisku/en/index.html#seskari=cnano&sisku=jbovlazbakamnandu
https://la-lojban.github.io/sutysisku/en/index.html#seskari=cnano&sisku=jbovlazbakemsedycro

I've started learning Lojban and... I like it a lot?

Took a couple of hours to relax, which was nice. We've been in crunchmode for so long the last few months. I've been running ragged.

But I think we're nearly out of it.

On the one hand Scribble has this beautiful conceptual design and on the other it does some weird ass shit like put your bibliography in a *table* with *only one column*

And I mean, *before the render pass even*

Oh yes!
*Nods enthusiastically*
This is horrible

here's your screaming box feel free 2 scream