Lady @Lady@cat.family

@gaditb amusingly i think the most practical application for knowing the “heat” of URLs is with webcrawlers so they know how often to recrawl

@gaditb (for pURLs that aren’t MEANT to be dereferencable, see `tag:`, `urn:fdc:`, and `urn:uuid:`, among others)

@gaditb it is a useful concept in library science! altho the term of art there is “persistent identifier”. see https://arks.org/

it would also be a useful concept on the fediverse if fedi developers ever bothered to read a book on information science

@gaditb @cpsdqs magnet identifiers are often not dereferencable–they require peers. IPFS presumably as well.

for data: URIs, you do have to qualify “dereferencable” specifically to mean “on the Web”; data: URIs can always be converted into a stream of bytes, but it is an embedded stream, not a stream accessible using the Internet

(consequently, you can’t have two data: URI resources which link to each other)

@gaditb mhm

in practice you can’t have a URL be both frozen and dereferencable but it’s really easy to have a URL which is frozen and not dereferencable!

@gaditb all URIs are structurally immutable…… they are strings………

why is an animated gif an image?

girls who hate the Activity Vocabulary

only write HTML if u mean it

foiled also by the problem of decidability but that’s nothing new

servo, it’s cute that you added tabs to your browser but you still can’t right‐click

this website is such hacky shit but you know what! i don’t care!!

foiled by macOS case‐insensitivity yet again

Cool URIs don’t change
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i

@aschmitz i have strong feelings about indie haha as someone who comes from the northwest

(and actually i think indie web could have been a great name if the movement itself were better, but i’ve found it to be consistently disappointing personally)

mostly my feeling though is that people have difficulty articulating or capturing the political aspects of what is, in essence, a push back towards the democratization of the internet and a levelling of the field of power

and i think that this difficulty is something that anarchists in general have struggled with across a lot of venues, not limited to just the web

so no, i’m not sure i do have a better label, but that’s kind of what i’m saying