Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

@galaxis @aral There are ways around it, though. Leaner feeds (don’t go back far in time), add pagination via https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005#appendix-B and make sure client and server use HTTP caching (simple use of if-modified-since headers and 304 responses). These already help a lot. The next step is caching the RSS to a file and letting the web server handle it. I had to do all this for Emacs Wiki, years ago.

@JordiGH As in synthesizers by Moog? 😜

@maiki I’m thinking of adding support of RFC 5005 to the RSS feeds my wiki generates. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005#appendix-B

@maiki Spice up your feed with reports from the far future? I’m all for it!

The original discussion of Kept Pages by Sunir Shah (not Sunil, damn my phone and my typos!) is on Meatball Wiki: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/KeptPages

@dredmorbius writtes about the same issue under the title “data is liability”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hn4r5/on_the_media_asks_what_can_we_learn_from_ashley/
I recently thought about this again in relation to “eternal messages” and Secure Scuttlebutt (#ssb). Why are we designing software to model conversations as a set of contracts? “I don’t like to design a system that doesn’t allow for any take backs. Human lives, our legal systems, or social conventions – they all allow for take backs wherever possible.”
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-29_No_Take_Back
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“In computer science, it’s easier to keep everything. It just costs space on a disk. Forgetting is hard. And thus, being lazy, we decide to build a world that makes it easy to undo all our mistakes, to prove all our mistakes, to keep all our records, and so the road to the police state is paved with good intentions.”
As software developers, we often find that designing humane software is harder then ignoring human needs. But it’s what we need.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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“The current political situation is a situation of constant surveillance. Not only are we constantly watched and monitored, we are also constantly being recorded. Any collection of data becomes a treasure trove of information. A target.”
A long time ago, Sunil Shah convinced me that Kept Pages are better than keeping old revisions of wiki pages forever. This is unlike a source code repositioned. We don’t need version control software for conversation.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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@ckeen Thank you very much! This confirms the suspicion I held due to some nebulous understanding of how it all worked.

@celesteh Gamelan Music as in the music from Java and Bali? I only discovered Gamelan a few years ago. What a fantastic discovery (for me, being a non-music person).

@celesteh Yeah, I groaned when I saw the Great Eats. 😝

@skalman hahaha isn’t that the truth. Got to fill that empty timeline!

"I like your idea. I think it’s a good idea. The community has needs, you want to fill those needs, and that’s good shit. I need for you to succeed, and that’s why I want you to scale that shit back.” This is the beginning of some excellent advice by @linkskywalker from elsewhere which I copied into a blog post for future reference. For my future self. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-29_A_Project_For_One

@romanzolotarev rcirc (part of Emacs)

@pkotrcka Thanks