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@joepie91 @jdp23 activitypub is pretty resilient from a federation standpoint (in a way which probably leaves it open to domain hijacking as mentioned); usually the problems people run into are related to data loss on the server side (like, if you forget who all you are following or who follows you, there's no way to get that information back from the network).

i'd be a little worried about some servers caching information, like the location of your inbox, and not bothering to re-find it if you switch softwares and the location changes. but that's an implementation bug, not a protocol bug, and you could PROBABLY work around most things like that with a redirect from one to the other

@jdp23 @joepie91 a WARNING is that once you turn on federation, it becomes increasingly dicey to turn it off

if you shut down your server for a long enough period of time, softwares might assume it is gone. then when you bring it back up, they might refuse to talk to it no matter what you do (to prevent domain hijacking). so it's probably best to keep what you have up and running until you have a tested replacement ready that you can swap in

@jdp23 @joepie91 the detail which would prevent this is the signing of the posts for things like secure fetch

theoretically, if you can keep the keys and signatures the same when switching software, nobody will know

re: holidays 

if you live in a state where your institution still can claim copyright over your work even though you are doing it on your own time and on your own device and they aren’t paying you, i am sorry

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holidays 

happy “programming on your own device on your own time without your institution being able to claim copyright over your work because they aren’t paying you” day, to those who celebrate

re: moment of zen 

@Satsuma in any case this is a moment of zen because the disconnect between what the presumed reader thinks forums are and what the writer thinks forums are shatters the illusion that there is any kind of broad understanding what webforum culture was or what made it great

if people are calling reddit a forum that's saying something

re: moment of zen 

@Satsuma u are too young to understand (moment of zen is a feature at the end of the daily show which highlights something from the media which is cringe [it’s “zen” because it is intended to jar you into epiphany regarding the limits of rationality as a frame for understanding the world, but that’s neither here nor there])

re: design hot take 

@gaditb @aescling this is true but a shorter answer is “information density maximalism”

re: f·b·i monitoring of activist movements 

they’re using this as evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory that jan 6th rioters were provoked by the f·b·i but uhhh it’s kind of concerning in its own right

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f·b·i monitoring of activist movements 

« Most of the federal informants who have emerged from criminal cases related to Jan. 6 were not tasked by their handlers with spying on right-wing subjects — let alone with seeking to entrap Trump supporters into storming the Capitol. They were mostly far-right figures who were recruited by the F.B.I. to report on their adversaries in the far-left antifa movement. »

@coriander greatest genre of video games is clearly space western

design hot take 

masonry layouts are bad

javascript 

this is almost certainly a profoundly difficult-to-optimize way of doing this but i love giving browser manufacturers impossible problems to solve

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javascript 

const s = [,,,];
2 in s; // false

const d = dense(s);
2 in d; // true
d[2]; // undefined

s[2] = "value";
s[2]; // "value"
d[2]; // "value"

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javascript 

very close to getting `dense()´ to work (as a proxy not a copying function) but alas it is time for bed

javascript 

hoisted by invariants

pokémon 

eevee day has ended … but eevee night … has only begun !

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