Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@happyborg Yeah great points. I'm working on a gradual transition timeline where we start at where the current fediverse is and gradually go full p2p.

I think before we replace the current inbox flow we can have more put into indexed outboxes for fast sync so instead of waiting for pushes from the accounts you follow you can get a quick pull for just the data you want and leverage the social graph for loading all that info.

Inboxes do live updates, outboxes are for sync when you come online.

@happyborg That's the hope yeah. We're reducing the surface of the bits of AP that need to use a central server as much as possible. Right now the inbox is hosted in the cloud but it could just as easily run on your device and servers could acc3ess it over p2p if they support that or via http gateways.

Similar approach for the published AP data. Initially instances will load over https but we'll be adding specs to include p2p urls for all your data which some clients can load directly.

We've got a new #ActivityPub implementation that'll be released in early September in #DistributedPress!

Instead of fancy frontends and databases, we're focusing on enabling statically published sites to add AP support via a lightweight Social Inbox server that they can register using standard HTTP Signed Messages.

@codinghorror I wonder how much of tech company power comes from interoperability being almost impossible. Anyone can make a train or phone line but only Apple can make iphones that talk to apple cloud services. IMO in order to reduce their power they should probably be forced to interoperate more aggressivly at local levels.

@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia@a.gup.pe I think it'd be great if ai generated work is not copyrightable and folks use it anyway so that more stuff is public domain and unmonetizeable by corpos.

Gonna ditch all my programming languages and go full SQL. Style my web pages with an SQL to CSS transpiler. Query my filesystem with SQL. `SELECT from videos/spongebob WHERE season = 2 | vlc`

Honestly, instead of an "API" or some sort of HTTP RPC thing or even a RESTful interface, I just want a database that I can query. Seriously, just let me load my data and be on my way. Everything else is friction and pain points.

Not a fan of how sites with search features (youtube, duckduckgo, ali express, etc) have taken to showing results that they think are a "best match" even if they don't contain all the search terms I'm looking for. What the hell is the point of giving me options if it doesn't plan to respect them? Every year data becomes more frustrating to access as stuff gets "machine learned".

@ansuz OMG yeah C++ has given me the most grief out of any dependency management thing. Probably because so many things use it, but also the complexity in turning code into something that runs on your computer is so huge compared to other things.

@ansuz Jeeeeeze. That's horrible and only mildly surprising :// For some reason I thought jupytrt had a more stable environment but I've never actually used it so not sure why I was expecting that.

Feels like that could have been a great place to lock down available package versions and limit breaking changes entirely. ://////

@staltz Yeah I defs wouldn't subject the average human to my lifestyle. :P

I wonder how "AR screens" could interplay with public transit or with less harmful things than cars like bikes or scooters. Could be a useful case for having "fog computing"

You know people love to shit on Node.js and dependency hell in it, but dealing with package versions in it has been so much easier than other scripting languages like Python or Ruby. Even major updates in the version tend not to break all that much.

@staltz LOL I walk around with goggles strapped to my face and code using a mini keyboard. I'm pretty far from the definition of human though. Personally AR that magically overlays stuff is overrated, just having windows floating in my field of view has been great.

Wish all my computers worked like this. 🥰 #BodyHorror #FleshTech

https://www.tiktok.com/@orchid.flesh/video/7254756248589962542