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fubo,

That was years ago :)

fubo,

It was pretty popular in my house, but we’re all frightfully silly here.

fubo,

Money for Nothing

fubo,

And yet, if “abstraction” and “prostitution” sound the same, it must be a really noisy party.

fubo,

The English words “video”, “visual”, and “view” are all from the same Latin root, but imported into English from Latin and French at different points in history. The letters “vi” are not pronounced the same in any two of them.

This kind of shit just happens with language. It’s normal.

fubo,

Englishes have words for the second-person plural pronoun, but Standard English doesn’t have one word for it.

If two speakers are from the same background, they probably share a word for it. If they’re from different places or different races, they might not.

fubo,

It’s a dishonest accountant’s birthday.

You give them a cake in the shape of a book that’s on fire.

This is a bad joke and they are mad at you.

To let the cat out of the bag: Idioms are always like this.

A mildly interesting Michael Moorcock/MCU connection or coincidence

I’m currently (re)reading Moorcock’s The War Hound and the World’s Pain. Short synopsis - an educated, cynical, apostate and unapologetically brutal mercenary in the Middle Ages is recruited by Lucifer to recover the Holy Grail, nominally so that Lucifer can wheedle his way back into God’s good graces....

fubo, (edited )

“Groot” is also the Dutch cognate to the English word “great”.

There are plenty of Dutch words and names that are close enough to English to sound really funny to English-speakers. Like, Vroom is a real Dutch surname, but to American kids that’s the sound a cool car makes.

(In one of the Baroque Cycle books, Neal Stephenson needed a name for a Dutch shipwright who built really fast sailing ships. Who else could it be but Jan Vroom?)

fubo,

That’s so you can set it in the window if you need rescuing.

fubo,

Yep. This is called candling the egg, because it was first done by candlelight.

So, how does the fediverse work?

I want to take a crash course in Fediverse. I was browsing stuff on Mastadon and voila! I found these communities on Mastadon but I wasn’t able to post anything, but I was however able to reply to stuff. I don’t know how this works. I won’t be reading it now, but I want to know more about Fediverse, so a book or...

fubo,

If you’re up for reading Internet standards documents, start here with the official standard for ActivityPub, the protocol that it’s all built on.

fubo,

Did these folks make fun of Kobe Bryant and his daughter?

fubo,

House centipedes are predators. They're only there because there's food for them to eat — prey animals that they are hunting.

Now, what are their prey animals? Here's some critters that house centipedes eat:

  • Cockroaches
  • Termites
  • Bedbugs
  • Silverfish
  • Ants

You have house centipedes because you have these.

The centipedes are eating them.

Now, what was it you wanted to get rid of?

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What are Dynamic Lists?

fubo,

In what context? Those terms are used in a lot of different fields. Even within computing, they could mean a data structure in memory, or they could mean a type of email delivery list ...

fubo,

I've only read the ActivityPub spec; I haven't read the Lemmy code.

With that in mind, my impression is —

The new domain owner — if they set up an ActivityPub server instance (e.g. a Lemmy) and got a list of the old user's post URLs — might be able to delete or edit the old user's posts stored on other instances. That is a vulnerability, albeit a small one.

If the old user was still listed as a moderator of communities hosted on other instances, the new domain owner might be able to take over that moderator role.

One way to fix this would be for instances to issue a public-key cryptographic identity to each user, and distribute users' public keys to other instances. Then activities purporting to be from that user would need to be signed by that user's private key.

Users' private keys would stay local to their home instance, so users don't have to do any key management themselves.

This would mean that if an instance goes away (and its key material is destroyed) then nobody can ever act as any of those users again. A new user created with the same username and domain would be a distinct user for all other instances too.

fubo,

FYI: There is already a pact among some Fediverse operators to block any instance controlled by Meta.

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