Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
@gabek I should specify, the audio port glitch on the dock happens regardless of Windows or Linux
@gabek I have a Lenovo t480s which came with a Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2 and I run Ubuntu and Windows on it, both work fine with the dock. (actually I should specify, everything except the audio works perfectly, the headphone jack on the dock still has obvious software glitches that happen randomly after 5min to an hour of use..)
I heard that there was a terrible bug in the Lenovo thunderbolt driver/firmware which would actually eventually destroy the thunderbolt controller in the laptop. It sounded like the longer the laptop ran with that bad firmware/driver, the more likely it would be damaged.
I tried as much as I could to update the thunderbolt driver/firmware. Some of this might only be possible from windows. I'm not sure. IIRC there was also an official Thunderbolt related package that Lenovo released for Ubuntu.
Streaming working on some Caddy config stuff for cyberia's public website https://stream.sequentialread.com/
and then gonna hopefully keep working on greenhouse later. Music today: ⚠️🔥 Massive Attack 🌫️🌧️
Sorta fun clip from my stream yesterday showing my software tripping over itself + the command line tool working for the first time ever https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream_clip_2021-08-21_06-26/
https://stream.sequentialread.com/
Music today: ✨🌊 She Music 🎛👩🏻🎤
Forest
boosted
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Nice typography video on the design details for Atkinson Hyperlegible, the Braille Institute's accessibility font
trying to stream more today https://stream.sequentialread.com/
✨🌊 She Music 🎛👩🏻🎤
I don't really "know anything" about it. I have come across it before while I was doing research on all the different kinds of projects like this. (I was mostly trying to learn about "decentralized cloud" stuff like maidsafe, IPFS, storj, filecoin, etc)
Solid appears to be a sort of "firebase" style of product that's open source and self-host-able? It also appears to be related to the "web-native linked data" RDF (resource description framework) efforts of the past. The idea was you could make a sort of graph database out of URLs & Subject, Predicate, Object "Triples". I think this design pattern was actually intended to be used for public data, in order to make the web searchable not just with google, but with a "native" SQL-like query language. So your web browser could run a query to return "friends of my friends who are not my friends" on its own, no web application required.
However, I don't think that idea ever really got a network effect, so it never took off, probably for both technical and Big Business $$$greed$$$ related reasons.
If I was designing something like Solid today, where it would do a bunch of architechture breaking changes to how web applications work, I would bet big on end-to-end encryption rather than betting big on RDF, linked data type stuff.
I think users actually want end-to-end encryption and there aren't a ton of great ready-to-use components that enable it in a meaningful way. With Safari web browser being shackled w/ limited storage APIs so apple can make more money on the app store, there is a need for web apps to store data thats only readable by the client, but it doesn't all have to be on the clients device.
End-to-end encrypted DB indexes and full-text-search databases spring to mind. That's something the world could really benefit from, but it does not really exist yet. Think searchable DMs in matrix web app, and searchable encrypted emails in ProtonMail web app.
more struggle bus stream https://stream.sequentialread.com/
music today: 🔥💀 AFI
@shadowfacts Especially because when I search the internet for "tusker app" I find someone else's app :(
Had to carefully navigate to your gitea instance to find yours:
"Tusker is a WIP iOS app for Mastodon and Pleroma."
@shadowfacts What is tusker? I know I can just look it up, but it might be a good idea to give some context on a post like this
first greenhouse dev stream in months 😬 🙃
@f0x i always just used sharpkeys for keyboard mapping on windows, its way better than whatever it sounds like you are dealing with. Its open source and while it still does require a reboot to take effect, log out / log in again works too 
built my proof of work captcha into gitea's signup flow: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/gitea-registration-proxy
@f0x I got mine working too :3 If you want to use it I could shoot you an API token, but considering my uptime track record you may wanna host it yourself ;P
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/gitea-registration-proxy
@f0x Muchas Gracias. ?Como puedo iniciar sesion???
@f0x poggerrrrrrrrrrrrs !!! (as the kids would say ) XD
found the culprit:
```
curl 'https://caddyserver.com/api/docs/config/apps/http/servers/routes/match/' -H 'Referer: https://caddyserver.com/docs/json/apps/http/servers/routes/match/'
```
is taking over 100 seconds to respond right now... reminds me of systems at my old job 🙃
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
