Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I am publishing a small #ActivityPub / #fediverse project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @canary 🙂

It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.

So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

Is anybody maintaining a collection of these "why this Mastodon instance is shutting down" posts? Because when I get some time I want to walk through and write an analysis of them with some proposals for help: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

Still can't believe this footnote turned up in a court document

Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone

Update: I got an email from Hetzner's legal team today saying they came across my blog post (nice!). Paraphrasing:

- They're monitoring and understand that there is no actual abuse being done from these Tor relays getting spoofed.
- They emphasized that they do not routinely take action on this kind of abuse complaints, and that's why they forward them without requiring reply/action from the customer.

Love hearing this, and I'm actually impressed by Hetzner's response! Major props.

I just read a post by someone bemoaning the loss of connection to Black and other communities as they shift to allow-list-only instances. I want to share my (slightly edited) reply more widely, because I think this is a thing many white people on here don't understand:

allow-list-only instances can (and likely will) still choose to federate with instances that don't allow unacceptable behavior toward them.

if you're on an instance that is allowing white supremacy to run rampant, then yes, you will lose access to Black and other communities negatively impacted by whiteness. is this an acceptable tradeoff for you? are you willing to push your instance mods to do better, or move to an instance where they will?

and if not, you need to sit with what that says about you. because you are very literally choosing to be part of the problem.

There is passing privilege, but there is also the privilege of not having to pass, it’s way more nuanced than black and white passing bad or passing good

Passing is neither the end all be all of being trans, nor is it simply something you can ignore and trivialize, it’s an important mechanic of the trans experience and the way you deal with the concept is related to your geographical, socio-political and socio-economic realities

Yes maybe passing is “bullshit” if you’re a middle class tech workers in a progressive European Capital, but it absolutely is life or death in regressive countries where being trans is illegal and may result in a death penalty

Passing is like an unequally distributed social lubricant that like conventional beauty can become an obsession to the detriment of your life quality, but it’s also a tool of survival, and I feel most takes on the morality of passing really are way too personal and don’t generalize in the slightest

have physicists determined yet why it is that when you drop a small item it always, always disappears? even when it had a fairly predictable path & you watched it fall & there was no reason for it to bounce or shoot off in a weird direction or anything

yesterday it eeped with a surprisingly good view on the rail infrastructure :3

- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.

*thinks*

Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.

please reply to this with either

a) something that you think would make elon musk upset if someone said it to him
b) a thing about elon musk that happened a while back that you feel like everyone else forgot

I'd sure love to pay a tech co-op $25/month to host and sync a knowledge-workers stack including an open-source read-later + Obsidian or equivalent + Zotero + simple blogging with blot or something