@coriander like we got a great lord of the rings about the love story between aragorn and arwen but like. you could make a lord of the rings about something else
@coriander basically i think enough time has to pass for them not to try to cash in on references to the originals, and also they need to secure the rights to the silmarillion and related writings so they can focus more on elements the originals couldn't
re: lord of the rings
it's nice when a group of humans who are passionate about a thing get together and make a proper art about it
it's unfortunately rare to see on any kind of scale but it's nice
re: lord of the rings
i feel the same way about the animated hobbit feature by rankin-bass but this is more contentious
New blogpost: Programming Resolutions for 2024
New blogpost: Programming Resolutions for 2024
@wallhackio if you want better type detection (not dependent on instanceof), most builtins have methods which will throw if not called on an instance and you can use those as a brand check
i think assuming that people haven't done weird things with inheritance is a fine limitation tho
@jdp23 you have no guarantees about whether the content gets there. it can’t be FETCHED or VERIFIED by the receiving server if your server has them blocked; this comment by claire implies that this also takes effect for individual blocks <https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18345#issuecomment-1120176872>.
mastodon does not appear to include the contents of boosted posts in boosts, so this is enough to prevent them from federating from a Mastodon server. however, other ActivityPub implementations could conceivably include the contents of the post being boosted. in this case, the content would be leaked, and just not verifiable.
on mastodon, every post is verified to protect against other instances lying about things that you said. this means: if you have AUTHORIZED_FETCH and a server is blocked, and it gets word of a status by you, then it will check to see if you actually posted that status. it won’t be able to confirm that, so it does the reasonable thing and assumes it may have been deleted. consequently, it does not record the status or show it to its users.
however, there is always the possibility that (a) a different ActivityPub implementation includes the full contents of your post when it boosts it, and (b) Threads accepts this content as true, even though it can’t verify it. there is nothing technologically which can be done about this sort of information leak, aside from not federating with instances which might fall into the category of (a).
unrelated re: meta meta meta
@aschmitz wait i cam get your posts from here? since when?!
re: (test post)
i wonder if my browser is cacheing something weird (i really need to set cache-control headers)
re: (test post)
this seems to work, but interestingly not in the in-app browser on iOS (works fine if you open the link in safari normally)
(test post)
This is a test of crossposting functionality between <https://status.ladys.computer> and Mastodon (via the Shortcut that I use to generate statuses).
If everything works as intended, this post should appear in my Mastodon feed with a permalink to the original at the bottom.
(If it doesn’t work as intended, I may delete and remake this post until it does.)
Permalink: <https://status.ladys.computer/urn:uuid:018c74a5-da0c-71eb-b017-2b896350e3a7>
re: prrgrrmmng, social media
source code is here <https://git.ladys.computer/Status>, naturally
re: prrgrrmmng, social media
you may have seen me do this before but what distinguishes this from previous attempts is there are now atom feeds
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