Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Doesn't seem to work on Android either. :)

HA! Of course it doesn't work on Linux. :)

Here's an example server: https://github.com/julie-ng/nodejs-certificate-auth/blob/master/server/server.js

Seriously, why the hell are we still using username/password when browsers have supported requesting client certificates for years now.

Literally just learned today that it's an API that's supported in all the major browsers already. Maybe because it's at the TLS/Server-side layer instead of inside client-side JS or the HTTP layer?

Only downside is now I need to add this functionality to Agregore. :P

Been firguring out how to integrate an LLM into my flow. So far I'm thinking of using one of these LLAMA based models running locally. I tried one and it kinda sucks for code generation but at least I can run it entirely locally on my steam deck.

My UX flow is going to focus on using selected text in an X11 session. I'm using nerd-dictation to give prompts to the model, fetch "input" from selected text, then have the genertated "output" fed back over the selected text.

Considering making an alt for posting short stories and poetry about occult / cyber stuff.

I'm a shit writer but I think doing it out in the open as a habit could be a fun alternative to doom scrolling.

For anyone curious, here's the diff for the work I was doing: https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/commit/575528d9e21b84fcfd4798e4eb52c79f157866a2

Love me some deleted code 🥰

I'm especially happy with this file for tracking all the built in extensions. Should make it way easier to customize Agregore for communities.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/commit/575528d9e21b84fcfd4798e4eb52c79f157866a2#diff-70b5ca2470cd34e96ad7caf642d7f80f7bb7b8b4ee1ef10176de2cefab2fc051

Also! While I'm at it I've added more mime types to the JSON renderer so now when I view ActivityStream data I can get a nice formatted view with clickable links. 😁

Adding new extensions and updating versions for extensions is now super easy.

All I need to do is add a new entry to a JSON file with a `url` for downloading the zip file for an extension, as well as a `version` string which is used to compare against the manifest on disk.

The URL also has some basic templating where the system will replace occurances of `{version}` with the version number. With this I just need to update the one line to update the version.

AHA! "Fixed" the Ublock Origin issue by reverting to version 1.47.4

1.48.0 added a fancy new thing for rendering icons and it seems my extension system doesn't support whatever this fanciness is.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.48.0

Could also be one of the patches since then though. 🤷

Anyway, now I've changed how built in extensions work.

On build I add some zip files for extensions into the browsers binary along with version and name metadata.
On boot it will check if the extensions folder has an older version (or empty) for one of these builtins.
If so it'll extract the zip over top before all the extensions get loaded.

Also extension loading happens in parallel now

As part of this I've done some profiling of the startup time for Agregore (using console logs and my sense of time) and I found that reordering some of the initializing code can drastically improved perceived boot speed.

The main culprit was the `app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient` API. It's probably doing a bunch of sync API calls to the OS which is getting in the way. God I hate sync APIs. :P

I think for one or two protocols it's not a big deal, but in Agregore we're doing like 10 so it adds up.