lown shared 2 months ago
Random idea I haven't thought through at all yet: a twist on allowlist based federation, designed for small invite only servers.
Admins could tag an individual remote server X and apply a special rule like: we reject all messages from them to start, as though the whole server were blocked. As individuals on our server follow specific accounts on server X, those accounts can now receive and maybe even boost messages from us.
I dunno. Call it "threaderation"?
Is there an actively maintained, apt-based, vanilla-as-possible distro out there with rolling release packages, fit for desktop use? Should I just use Ubuntu server and install GNOME myself? I've never had experience with non stable Debian.
Feeling pretty pleased with the new UI I've designed for my little Raspberry Pi-based dashboard.
I made my Pimoroni Inky Frame (Pi Pico W bolted onto a colour e-ink display) into a cute slideshow gallery and control panel for Home Assistant 
Decided to start learning discrete mathematics using this lovely set of lecture notes recommended by https://teachyourselfcs.com/. I've never done maths beyond high school, and while some things the author writes make sense, at other times I feel like I'm clinging on for dear life to a sentence which is presumably patently obvious, like "We know that 2^3 = 8 < 10, and hence 2^99 < 10^33". That took me five goes to work out!
Another pro in favour of microblog.pub - it's written in Python, runs in Docker, and stores error messages in the database, so it took me 10 minutes to fix a bug that prevented me from seeing my inbox (and which I caused probably by a misconfigured ActivityPub implementation in Gathio).
I'm really enjoying using microblog.pub to host my own ActivityPub instance. It was really easy to set up; I can see it'll be easy and fun to hack to my whims; it supports all the ActivityPub features I care about; and it's really nice to be able to simply manage my own ActivityPub instance without using something as huge as Mastodon. For single-user instances, this seems like the perfect software. Thanks @[email protected]!
Work on Teen Witch Tactics has stalled; we were working hard to have a demo ready for a mostly self-imposed deadline to show to some investors who had been interested in it, but they're no longer interested in funding video games, apparently. It's a lot of work to shelve, but at the moment it pains me a bit to look at it! And look how cute it got.
