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@stux I really hope the speed of light isn't a fundamentally insurmountable limit. Because if it is, this would mean the universe is a rather boring place.

Here's some truly bizarre UX for you. This is a public transport ticket machine in my city. Each subway station has at least several of these. They are used by tens of thousands of people daily.

If you simply put your rechargeable card in, it would show up […]

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@tchambers this reminds me of that joke I came up with ages ago.

In Russian localization of Windows, they translated "USB mass storage device" as, literally, "memorizing device for USB". So, when someone finally manages to connect a human brain to a computer, a notification would pop up, saying […]

On a fediverse server with a versioned client API, what would you expect to happen if an API call is made with a version number higher than what the server supports? Should it return an error? Should it take it to mean its highest supported version? Something else?

The API isn't RESTful, the […]

@pojntfx and even with alternatives being non-US-centric, like some of them are in my rare case of living in a country that was neglected by Facebook so long that by the time they tried they couldn't compete with our local social media companies, the fediverse approach is still vastly superior.

@kopio @phagleb this is Android, in most cases you don't have to rely on the app's mercy to provide you a close button, you just use the system back button/gesture without looking or thinking to get the annoyance out of the way in half a second

Yo dawg, I heard you like advertising popups, so we put an advertising popup on top of your advertising popup so you could be advertised to while you're being advertised to.

screenshot by @phagleb

@PizzaDemon @MastodonEngineering hey, do you have any details? What are you trying to do?

@bwebster reminds me of one of the mid-00s releases where Steve Jobs said on stage "we made it easier to see which window is active" :D

@bagder lol

The amount of work they've done is very impressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXU2XaY4GdU

TIL that there was this lost media Russian music video that people spent years looking for. It was finally found yesterday on a cassette that someone who archives TV recordings bought as part of a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzmOLwNS9l8

AGI any moment now.

(taken from Twitter)

And as a quick follow-up to that, #Smithereen 0.11.1:
- Added support for requesting quote post authentication according to FEP-044f so reposts are displayed on servers running Mastodon 4.5.0 or newer. Note: Smithereen still allows you to repost anything, the authentication is only there to […]

@silverpill @julian @technical-discussion ideally you would traverse everything and replace anything you don't understand with "id" references.

But anyway, I feel like we're getting too carried away about a very niche aspect of the whole thing. Almost like on that SocialHub forum.

In my own AP […]

@silverpill @julian @technical-discussion
> The server hosting the malicious actor can't realistically verify every embedded object

How so? It's a responsibility of that server to authenticate its actors, and restrict them from impersonating other actors on the same server, C2S or not. I don't […]

@julian I have this convention where I return IDs for remote objects (obviously, how else would you authenticate them if not by fetching from the origin servers) but complete objects that are local, to save resources. IIRC I saw Mastodon do it for replies so just copied this behavior

@julian @silverpill that I can do fairly trivially

@evan @julian I solve the problem of running into a deleted replies by never fully deleting replies that have replies, instead clearing most of the data. So, for such a reply, I return a Tombstone that still allows the traversal of the thread.

I agree that this is still not optimal though […]

@evan @julian yeah, that makes sense. Though implementing FEP-f228 as specified would be complicated for me because I don't store AP objects as-is — I treat ActivityPub like an API, so to return chronologically ordered replies mixed with likes, I would have to make database queries that would […]

@julian do you mean fetching the `replies` collections to make threads as complete as possible? I've been doing that for a long time already :D

Never seen those FEPs, will take a look

Seeing yet again how IETF RFCs are split into paper-sheet-sized pages, I can't help but ask — does anyone ever print them out? There must be people who do, because otherwise it would make no sense. Or is it just a historical artifact?

#Smithereen 0.11 is out!

This one mostly focuses on groups and moderation. Groups now have discussion boards, admins can specify server rules (with translations!), moderators have more and better tools at their disposal, and users can now pin posts and […]

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@gary_bbgames even if LG didn't allow you to do this, this app does nothing wrong. Such obstruction of adversarial interoperability should be illegal

@bagder curl AI slop speedrun any% world record