æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ XML is debatable because it is more than expurressive enough to, e.g., encode s-expurressions. XSLT has a stronger case fur it though

@vaporeon_ some of these that i can think of here are sketchy but

• Go
• QuickBASIC, if you count that
• XML is debatable
• .......YAML? this is even more of a stretch than XML
• Zig

@vaporeon_ debian 5. no kidding about old school

@vaporeon_ nerd :P

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*flirty* hey babe, you wanna....... sign each other’s keys? if you know what i’m sayin’ ​

@vaporeon_ good question! the way pgp tries to address this is with the so-called “web of trust”—people can sign other’s keys with their own key, leaving a message on it that they attest said purrson is who they say they are. if you are very confident that somebody’s key belongs to the purrson they say they are (ideally, you met them in purrson and exchanged key fingerprints directly), you can decide to purrogrammatically trust any attestation by the owner of that key

i have never met a single purrson who actually bothers to do this, but the infrastructure is all there in GnuPG (gnu’s reimplementation of the pgp standard)

@vaporeon_ oh right i furgot you can do that. historically you use a pgp key fur that, which is an encryption technology designed fur email; i’m pretty think it’s more commonly done that way, but no matter. anyway, pgp keys are just associated with an email address by design

@vaporeon_ try running git commit --author='Linus Torvalds <mail@linustorvalds.com>' on a demo repo sometime; this just works. it’s that easy

@vaporeon_ very plausible lol

@vaporeon_ you can forge author metadata in git; this is just a furst-class feature. signing your commit is an actual guarantee that the ostensible author is who they say they are—more strictly, that whoever authored the commit has the purrivate key associated with the email address on the commit

@vaporeon_ my cat.family email address occasionally gets flagged as invalid because of the obscure TLD so i eventually bought a secret .com domain that more or less aliases to my actual email address. (email is strange and bizarre magic; you can make this work but it feels held together by a thread)