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Parents in a western New York school district say a state mandate requiring electric school buses has left their children riding to and from school in unheated buses during winter weather.
A local Gaza hospital says Israeli troops fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby.
#political rant incoming: i despise how people refer to young #people being political aware as a “#woke” movement as if it’s a derogatory term. young people have ALWAYS been at the center of #politics. enough of this #cringe culture bs. you are allowing for #facism to rise!!! young people need to have #sex and do #drugs and be #disruptive again!!! they need to believe in #anarchy and make a FUCKING #CHANGE again!!! enough of acting like a housewife at 18!!!
so watching sports is okay if you should chose who wins: even if it's a black but if I watch college sports I'm subverting the white race just making sure
Fuck you if you #voted #Trump. Are you fucking #stupid? Are you allergic to #critical #thought? Should I get you a goddamn #EpiPen? Or are you not even willing to risk it?
Just a #reminder that the #US is not a "free #country" as many #patriots and #history teachers would suggest. Our prison system is designed as a loophole to allow for slavery. People are extorted for essential goods and services like healthcare and housing. Workers are exploited and underpaid. The government thinks it has the right to make decisions that interfere with one's bodily autonomy. Anyone who looks Hispanic enough is subject to being kidnapped and taken to a literal concentration camp.
I got one of these mini-CD singles with a used copy of Sting's Best of CD (it came from Japan). They're amusing. I only have one other, which came with NIN's Broken EP.
These little buggers didn't last long as a product.
From its conception, #Enigmatick has leaned heavily on the `inbox` and `outbox` endpoints for client operations. [...]
From its conception, #Enigmatick has leaned heavily on the /inbox and /outbox endpoints for client operations. There are some /api endpoints, but I avoid that were I can shoehorn operations into the #ActivityPub specification and #ActivityStreams vocabulary.
While typical operational activities are fairly well accounted for, administration is a weak point. For example: I haven't identified a clear way to use the currently described mechanisms for an administrative user to pull up and manage instances or actors on a server.
I've relied on CLI tools (e.g., ./enigmatick --help) to manage some of that. And in some cases, I know how to manipulate data in my database, so I haven't worried too much about building tooling. But I'd like to ship something that other folks can use to share in my efforts, so I've been thinking about how to model those activities in an ActivityPub-esque way to use in the Svelte UI.
ActivityPub Messages
To that end, I'm now using Block and Delete activities sent from the client to the server outbox to manage the blocking of instances and purging of data.
In practice, my client does not generate the id, but that attribute is generated by the server and the Activity is stored alongside other typically federated activities. These local Block activities are not federated out to other servers; they are intended solely for local server management.
The Block activity is sent as a message signed at the client by a user with administrative privileges on the server. Enigmatick's user authentication is unique (i.e., I use a separate set of encryption keys for client-signing executed by a wasm module in the browser). That can be a topic for a future article.
That the actor is defined as the system Application user is important. That's used by the server to establish the scope of this action as system-wide, not just for a single user. The system actor is discoverable in the nodeinfo metadata.
I'm using a typed object rather than just an id reference. This is so that I can use this same flow for blocking and purging Actor objects (i.e., the type would be Person, Service, or Application).
The purge action is similar, using the Delete activity.
The term, "delete" is a bit of a misnomer in this case as it applies to the instance specifically. The instance will remain, but the objects, activities, and actors associated with that instance will be fully deleted (i.e., not set to Tombstone).
Collection Endpoints
To facilitate the UI operations, I've created two new collection endpoints on my server: /instances and /actors. These endpoints provide typical ActivityPub Collection objects.
I've added some extensions in the @context to account for a few non-standard attributes.
That collection is used by the UI.
Collection Discovery
nodeinfo is a common protocol used for discovering information about ActivityPub-speaking servers. I've extended my use of that to facilitate client-discovery of these new endpoints using the metadata object contained in the nodeinfo JSON.
As I'm reading through this, I see some opportunities for refinement. I should probably be using OrderedCollectionPage instead of OrderedCollection for my collection endpoints. I'm sure there are other tweaks to be made.
This #Christmas, the only #gift I could hope for is that #Trump is visited by the #ghost of #Epstein, but instead of being visited by 3 other ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, he just has a #heartattack.
yes Jeff Smith, who apparently liked his male aids too much or something, but doesn't change that he was on all the time at my house growing up; also Yan can cook, Julia Child (to debone a chicken!)...
The other day I learnt that enabling syncookies in pf on OpenBSD lights up your server like a Christmas tree. Or in other words, it made the server respond to _every_ incoming tcp syn packet with syn/ack, making the bots scanning the internet think the port was open, even though the final ack would be dropped when rules were then evaluated. This increased scanning by a lot! Or so it seemed to me at least.
The reason for this experimentation was I got to experience what I think was a tiny syn-flood attack, and I was trying things to see what I could do to mitigate on my end.
I'll maybe write more about this after the holidays.
is the syn flood the christmas tree attack (or scan)? One of the old ones would light every port on a hub up at the same time and make everything go crazy
@Børge Personally I prefer to just not be there for them which is why my firewall rules and fail2ban responses are all DROP packets rather than ICMP REJECTS.
@tankenator I am absolutely flabbergasted at how Moe was able to find various events and programs throughout history to pinpoint why blacks, yet again, were unable to act with civility or compassion. It just really is never their fault, according to him.
Curry wasted his precious time going along with that show, and the batshit crazy takes regularly made it onto the NA show.
That was the beginning of the end for me, in terms of listening to NA
@Milkandtoast @tankenator i got a completely different ideology out of listening to the first 50. What made me stop was actually Curry, he always has to say something, if someone else is talking he's like a goddamned child, he has to interject.
But i didn't get the feeling that Moe used white supremacy as a crutch.
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It's seriously amazing how fast the AT Protocol developer experience is, like from idea to early results is wowzers. Like, I've spent all of maybe two days working on @questionable.fyi@bsky.brid.gy, and I've already account profiles working with arbitrary data on the network. My next thing to do is OAuth... 😅
@futurebird Fascinating story. I too worked in the Rare Book Room as an undergraduate. My job was to fetch books from the stacks in back and bring them to the head librarian who would turn pages for the visitor. That back room with the books was very secure. If a book was chained to a shelf then I needed to get the key custodian librarian. Otherwise, I was alone; it was a little unnerving to hear a muttering voice back by the oldest books. I never found the source of the voice.
Have you ever had an uncanny or possibly paranormal experience?
I have.
It happened when I was in undergrad, I had a work-study in the Archivists Office in the rare books section of the library. The library is a classic modern building from the 50s, once ahead of its time, now well behind. The computer system was similar, my college being one of the first to adopt a digital library catalog in the 60s
So, as you can see, this is, in part, a story of a haunted computer terminal. 1/ #threads
I had returned early from spring break to pack in some extra hours in the library so I could avoid working during exams week. The campus was lovely in spring, dogwood trees shed pink petals on the quad, tulips tossed & bobbed sudden short thunderstorms. I got lost in my work on the solid library terminal with it's chunky keyboard & blue-green matrix screen.
My desk was under a little sky light in a hidden corner of the 5th floor. That's how I noticed the light changing. 2/
The library was a modernist building, as I mentioned, and many people called it "ugly" I think simply because it was modern. Secretly it was one of my favorite buildings on the campus. Because, although built with clean minimalist lines, it was made with care. The architect clearly cared about light. During the day, the building hardly used any electric lights at all.
So I was alarmed when the sky suddenly darkened so drastically that the runners came on. 3/
I had an odd ball-lightning/UFO-like experience as a kid, but it's pretty minor because the Occam's Razor explanation is so simple (I was dreaming). But I was never sure at the time.
I was lying in bed on a warm summer night with the window open, trying to get to sleep. As I recall there was some cloud-to-cloud lightning flashing in the distance. Then, suddenly, there was a wave of bright light washing vertically across the window screen, a bit like St. Elmo's fire, and a loud frying noise.
What makes me suspicious whether this all really happened is that this is how electricity behaves in movies, not usually in real life. And if it was a corona discharge... the house wasn't immediately struck by lightning, which you'd expect. (I thought at the time that it HAD been struck by lightning, but that's not what that is like at all, though it might be a kid's imaginary conception of what it is like.)
But, you know, there are all these isolated ball-lightning reports that involve really weird inexplicable behavior, so I suppose it's not beyond the realm of possibility that I saw something.
Once had the chance to perform a brand new song for the first time in public. Hundreds of performers, 130K people in the stands, televised to I don't even know how many for a 150th anniversary thing.
Got done and headed to our staging area to pick up my stuff and wait for my family to finish their parts. It was sort of a rush to be involved, and as I walked down I sang my part from the song.
When I was still in the hospital after delivering my first baby, I was out of my mind from lack of sleep and I started to hallucinate/waking dream. Just snapshot scenes of a few seconds. Years later, I was walking my kids to school and realized I was experiencing one of those snapshots in real life, like it had been a premonition. The scenery lined up, which is odd because I had no way of knowing I'd have moved houses since I had the dream.
I have a funny paranormal experience. In my 20s after college I went to work for a summer for my dad drilling water wells. Pop was really strict about work starting at 6 am. I’d driven to the town I went to college the day before to party and stayed out till 2:30 between the bar & breakfast and had just enough time to make the long drive to Pop’s. About an hour out from his place in the country there are two exits to the nearest town. One is quicker because it bypasses the town. 1/
I saw "ghosts" in my college library, but in retrospect they were probably a combination of mental illness and lack of sleep. So, not very cool.
The only interesting library story I have is when one of the staff let it slip that a lot of the department believed I was an occultist who really was speaking with spirits. (I am not.) But that's probably because of my extensive weird checkout history and my fascination by a very old magical text by Johannes Jacob Wecker in the rare books collection.
when I was a kid (starting at maybe 5 or 6), I used to swear every night I'd see a glowing figure watching me from the corner of my room, just inside the door.
For years. Never saw much detail, but I never wanted to look for too long. I slept with my ear covered by the blanket because in my lil child head if my ears were covered and eyes closed, ghosts couldn't get in.
But a part of me always assumed it was just a trick of the light - it was opposite the windows, after all.
But one night a cousin was staying over - she slept in my bed and I on a cot on the floor. Until she woke up SCREAMING about a glowing man staring at her from the same corner I'd always seen it in. I'd never told her (or anyone) about it because I was embarrassed by how scared it made me.
Someone else seeing it didn't help.
Not long after, I ended up moving and never saw it again.
I'm not a believer in the supernatural now, but I still can't come up with a satisfying explanation for that whole experience.
My last long-form essay of the year (there will be a few more book chapters and probably a retrospective article, but this is the last of the heavy analysis). It's about why bad politics is tedious politics, tedious politics is bad politics and how we can insulate ourselves against both:
All of these species of people, despite their wildly diverging politics, have one thing in common: they trigger the "my God, you're saying this again? You're full of shit" response.
i have an example of this sort of thing! when i was at Rising Tide recently there i had lengthy chats with some Australian Socialist types and a guy who wanted to run as a member of the Greens
the aussocs were ostensibly closer to my position but far less interesting and so i ended up just trolling them by talking about the pessimism of the frankfurt school whereas the greens guy was actually thinking things through
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