Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Matrix homeserver development be like

* 10 minutes of writing code
* 2 hours of trying to work out a spec omission and asking people
* 5 minutes of writing code
* 30 minutes of filing spec issues
* 15 minutes of writing code
* two days of waiting for clarification on something ambiguous in the spec

I like the premise of the protocol, but sheesh, the spec has some serious quality issues, and it's making it almost impossible to get anything done on my homeserver project without losing focus, because the whole thing constantly blocks on spec holes

Can we get an experienced IETF RFC writer on this or something?

Question about #Matrix homeserver #development: is there actually anywhere in the spec that defines *exactly* what the expected behaviour is when some of the events in prev_events are not known to you and you want to do stateres?

I've been searching for an hour and for the life of me I can't find it.

(To be clear, I'm talking about an exact process description, not an inference of what the spec "probably" means.)

Begging for people wanting to do "CSAM research" or other such high-profile things, to first *talk to an established CSA prevention organization* before doing the thing. Yes, this also applies to academics.

It's an incredibly complex topic, far more complex than it seems at first glance, and it's incredibly easy to make things *worse* for abuse victims rather than better, without realizing it.

If it helps, think of it as the equivalent of cryptography: don't roll your own research until you have become deeply familiar with the field and have feedback from peers.

Still amazed by Finnair's apparent obsession with blueberry juice - not only do they (an airline!) have their own brand of blueberry juice, which I think you can even buy in supermarkets, they've also apparently made it a central feature of some custom-built logistics game that you can play on their in-flight WiFi

How any of this happened, I have no idea

Well, with how my kidney medication is going, I don't think a last-minute ticket for CCCamp is in the cards for me :(

It's nothing particularly serious, but I'm definitely gonna have to dial in my medication again, and that's not something I can really do cross-border at a campsite...

It's a good thing that the Firefish folks have recognized their error, but I also can't help but observe that "we didn't notice they were nazis, and didn't actively check" conveys a certain... privilege

Like, there are rather a lot of people who cannot afford *not* to check, and allyship is about recognizing that others are bearing that sort of burden, and voluntarily taking over some of it

So if you're not in a habit of checking for nazis, and you wish to be an ally, well, then maybe you should *start* having that habit

Further investigation of the allegations against mastodon.art yields:
- No receipts, evidence, or concrete details, not in any subthreads or side threads either that I can see
- Lots of evasive answers about exactly what is being alleged
- Two people agreeing that mastodon.art is in the wrong
- One of which signed up to the UfoI (the no-defederation pact)
- The other of which operates an instance that's well-known for originating harassment

So, uh, yeah, I think I'm gonna call this one 'case closed'.

No individual wants to hear how their beliefs/attitude originate from their privilege, generally getting angry that you're "generalizing"

... even when those beliefs and that privilege have an almost perfect correlation when observing "people" in general, and by definition the person with the privilege won't have this perspective to draw from, because to them those beliefs just look universal and "normal" (again, because of their privilege)

And I have no idea how to even begin addressing this