[$] Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy
The Fedora \
Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted
contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community
its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On
September 25, Jason Brooks published
a draft policy for discussion; so far, in keeping with the spirit of
compromise, it has something … ⌘ Read more

Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:

• Clean layout & typography
  
• Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
  
• Accessible copy-code button
  
• “On this page” collapsible TOC
  
• RSS, sitemap, robots
  
• Archives, tags, tag cloud
  
• Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
  
• Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
  
• Ready-to-use 404 page
  

As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:

$ zs newpost

to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞

#awesome #zs

TNO Threading (draft):
Each origin feed numbers new threads (tno:N). Replies carry both (tno:N) and (ofeed:<origin-url>). Thread identity = (ofeed, tno).

• Roots: (tno:N) (implicit ofeed=self).
  
• Replies: (tno:N) (ofeed:<url>).
  
• Clients: increment tno locally for new threads, copy tags on reply.
  
• Subjects optional, not required.
  

…

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org True, at least old versions of KDE had icons:

https://movq.de/v/0e4af6fea1/s.png

GNOME, on the other hand, didn’t, at least to my old screenshots from 2007:

https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2007%2D05%2D25%2D%2Dgnome2%2Dlaptop.png

I switched to Linux in 2007 and no window manager I used since then had icons, apparently. Crazy. An icon-less existence for 18 years. (But yeah, everything is keyboard-driven here as well and there are no buttons here, either.)

Anyway, my draft is making progress:

https://movq.de/v/5b7767f245/s.png

I do like this look. 😊

I was drafting support for showing “application icons” in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:

https://movq.de/v/0034cc1384/s.png

Then I realized: Wait a minute, lots of applications don’t set an icon? And lots of other window managers don’t show these icons, either? Openbox, pekwm, Xfce, fvwm, no icons.

Looks like macOS doesn’t show them, either?!

Has this grown out of fashion? Is this purely a Windows / OS/2 thing?

Concern missing middle housing proposal could see ‘hodgepodge’ development
The ACT government architect insists proposed changes to planning rules allowing denser development in Canberra’s suburbs will help “mums and dads” as much as big property developers. ⌘ Read more

How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub
Learn how to spin up a GitHub Issue, hand it to Copilot, and get a draft pull request in the same workflow you already know.

The post How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

i still want a tux plushie ngl. i’m gonna draft my sister (she can sew) into making me one

@prologic@twtxt.net Can you please draft up a specification for that proposed change with all the details? Such as which date do you actually refer to? Is it now() or the message’s creation timestamp? I reckon the latter is the case, but it’s undefined right now. Then we can discuss and potentially tweak the proposal.

Also, I see what you did there in regards to the reply model change poll. ]:->

First draft of yarnd 0.16 release notes. 📝 – Probably needs some tweaking and fixing, but it’s sounding alright so far 👌 #yarnd

@bender@twtxt.net (Feels a bit like his “edit” function could be implemented as “delete and re-draft”, but I’m only guessing here.)

OpenSSH 10.0 released
OpenSSH\
10.0 has been released. Support for the DSA signature algorithm,
which was disabled by default beginning in 2015, has been
removed. Other notable changes include using the post-quantum algorithm mlkem768x25519-sha256
for key agreement by default, support for systemd-style socket
activation in Portable OpenSSH … ⌘ Read more

[$] Taking notes with Joplin
Joplin is an open-source
note-taking application designed to handle taking many kinds of notes,
whether it is managing code snippets, writing documentation, jotting
down lecture notes, or drafting a novel. Joplin has Markdown support,
a plugin system for extensibility, and accepts multimedia content,
allowing users to attach images, videos, and audio files to their
notes. It can provide synchronization of content across devices using
end-to-end encryption, or users can opt to sti … ⌘ Read more

also I’ve made a draft of a voting page to receive preferences on each proposal
https://eapl.me/rfc0001/

Help me to play with it a bit and report any vulnerability or bug. Also any idea is welcome.

Hi everyone,
I’ve drafted a Request for Comments (RFC) to improve how threads work in twtxt:
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/18

I’d love your feedback! Please share your thoughts on anything that could be better explained, check if the proposed dates work for everyone, and I invite you to join the discussion…

There’s a reason I avoid speaking my mind on the internet like the plague. The same reason I’d set up a {B,Ph,Gem}log months ago but never got myself to publish any of the drafts in any of them.

I made a draft of an “encrypted public messenger”, which was basically a Feed for an address derivate from the public ket, let’s say ‘abcd..eaea’

Anyone could check, “are there any messages for my address?” and you get a whole list of timestamps and encrypted stuff.

Inside the encrypted message is a signature from the sender. That way you ‘could’ block spam.

Only the owner of the private key could see who sent what, and so…

And even with that my concussion was that users expectations for a private IM might be far away from my experiment.

[ANN] [CCS] Draft: Monero - Intro Video ‘What is Monero?’

In line with the new website design currently in progress, we’ve created an updated version of the “What is Monero?” video. We’ve kept the original script but made some factual updates. If approved, the plan is to create a light mode version too. Looking forward to feedback/input.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=KkgqcLrNRvw
  
• [MO report](/vostoemisio-ccs-proposals-animated-videos-fcmps-what-is-monero/ … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS] Draft: New years resolutions
Link: https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/537

@p​lowsof:matrix.org ⌘ Read more

I’ve started a draft over at: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/src/branch/main/exts/webfinger.md

sec-t 2024
[This has been in my draft folder since September. Sorry! It’s been a
few months with ups and downs, mostly downs. Energy to spend time on
blogging has been low. Hell, energy to do much of anything has been
low. I’m trying to clean out the drafts folder and will post more
stuff.]

I attended the security conference sec-t 2024 in Stockholm the other
week. I held a presentation during the Community Event, Wednesday
September 11: “Verifying the Tillitis TKey”.

The TKey uses a novel way of helpin … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS Draft] NoShore: Groundwork for on-the-go offline payments

Please feel free to review the linked CCS-draft - any workable feedback is welcome!

Link: https://repo.getmonero.org/fullmetalScience/ccs-proposals/-/blob/noshore/fullmetalscience-noshore.md

u/fullmetalScience (monero.town) ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS] Monero FCMP Video Draft

Please see ours and xenu’s video here about FCMP. We think it’s ready to get shared but looking forward to everyone’s feedback before we officially share it in the Social media channels.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=1ZYMTbjoDaM
  
• MO report
  

@v​ostoemisio:matrix.org ⌘ Read more

More thoughts about changes to twtxt (as if we haven’t had enough thoughts):

1. There are lots of great ideas here! Is there a benefit to putting them all into one document? Seems to me this could more easily be a bunch of separate efforts that can progress at their own pace:
   

1a. Better and longer hashes.

1b. New possibly-controversial ideas like edit: and delete: and location-based references as an alternative to hashes.

1c. Best practices, e.g. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

1d. Stuff already described at dev.twtxt.net that doesn’t need any changes.

1. We won’t know what will and won’t work until we try them. So I’m inclined to think of this as a bunch of draft ideas. Maybe later when we’ve seen it play out it could make sense to define a group of recommended twtxt extensions and give them a name.

2. Another reason for 1 (above) is: I like the current situation where all you need to get started is these two short and simple documents:
   https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
   https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/discoverability.html
   and everything else is an extension for anyone interested. (Deprecating non-UTC times seems reasonable to me, though.) Having a big long “twtxt v2” document seems less inviting to people looking for something simple. (@prologic@twtxt.net you mentioned an anonymous comment “you’ve ruined twtxt” and while I don’t completely agree with that commenter’s sentiment, I would feel like twtxt had lost something if it moved away from having a super-simple core.)

3. All that being said, these are just my opinions, and I’m not doing the work of writing software or drafting proposals. Maybe I will at some point, but until then, if you’re actually implementing things, you’re in charge of what you decide to make, and I’m grateful for the work.

This is only first draft quality, but I made some notes on the #twtxt v2 proposal. http://a.9srv.net/b/2024-09-25

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for writing that up!

I hope it can remain a living document (or sequence of draft revisions) for a good long time while we figure out how this stuff works in practice.

I am not sure how I feel about all this being done at once, vs. letting conventions arise.

For example, even today I could reply to twt abc1234 with “(#abc1234) Edit: …” and I think all you humans would understand it as an edit to (#abc1234). Maybe eventually it would become a common enough convention that clients would start to support it explicitly.

Similarly we could just start using 11-digit hashes. We should iron out whether it’s sha256 or whatever but there’s no need get all the other stuff right at the same time.

I have similar thoughts about how some users could try out location-based replies in a backward-compatible way (append the replyto: stuff after the legacy (#hash) style).

However I recognize that I’m not the one implementing this stuff, and it’s less work to just have everything determined up front.

Misc comments (I haven’t read the whole thing):

• Did you mean to make hashes hexadecimal? You lose 11 bits that way compared to base32. I’d suggest gaining 11 bits with base64 instead.

• “Clients MUST preserve the original hash” — do you mean they MUST preserve the original twt?

• Thanks for phrasing the bit about deletions so neutrally.

• I don’t like the MUST in “Clients MUST follow the chain of reply-to references…”. If someone writes a client as a 40-line shell script that requires the user to piece together the threading themselves, IMO we shouldn’t declare the client non-conforming just because they didn’t get to all the bells and whistles.

• Similarly I don’t like the MUST for user agents. For one thing, you might want to fetch a feed without revealing your identty. Also, it raises the bar for a minimal implementation (I’m again thinking again of the 40-line shell script).

• For “who follows” lists: why must the long, random tokens be only valid for a limited time? Do you have a scenario in mind where they could leak?

• Why can’t feeds be served over HTTP/1.0? Again, thinking about simple software. I recently tried implementing HTTP/1.1 and it wasn’t too bad, but 1.0 would have been slightly simpler.

• Why get into the nitty-gritty about caching headers? This seems like generic advice for HTTP servers and clients.

• I’m a little sad about other protocols being not recommended.

• I don’t know how I feel about including markdown. I don’t mind too much that yarn users emit twts full of markdown, but I’m more of a plain text kind of person. Also it adds to the length. I wonder if putting a separate document would make more sense; that would also help with the length.

Threads Gaining Support for Analytics, Scheduling Posts, Multiple Drafts and More
Threads, Meta’s social network that’s meant to rival X, today announced several new features that are available or coming soon. For creators, Threads is launching analytics for performance measurement.

Image

Users can see view numbers, replies, reposts, an … ⌘ Read more

I just “published” a #draft on my blog about “How I’ve implemented #webmentions for twtxt” (http://darch.dk/mentions-twtxt), so I wanted to know from you guys if you see yourself doing a similar thing with yarnd @prologic@twtxt.net or others with custom setups?

Bolsonaro Supporters Flood Street in Sao Paulo
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro ridiculed accusations against him of orchestrating a failed coup in front of tens of thousands of his supporters gathered in Sao Paulo on Sunday, February 25. Police are investigating if Bolsonaro incited what amounted to a failed coup after losing the 2022 election, and say he edited a draft presidential decree that would have declared a state of emergency and c … ⌘ Read more

Huge Show of Support for Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo Amid Coup Investigation
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro ridiculed accusations against him of orchestrating a failed coup in front of tens of thousands of his supporters gathered in Sao Paulo on Sunday, February 25. Police are investigating if Bolsonaro incited what amounted to a failed coup after losing the 2022 election, and say he edited a draft presidential decree t … ⌘ Read more

Google Chrome Gains AI Features Including a Writing Helper
Google is adding new AI features to Chrome, including tools to organize browser tabs, customize themes, and assist users with writing online content such as reviews and forum posts.

The writing helper is similar to an AI-powered feature already offered in Google’s experimental search experience, SGE, which helps users draft emails in various tones and lengths. W … ⌘ Read more

House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents
New documents show a scientist calling a lab leak “highly likely” — after drafting a paper claiming the opposite.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/

💡 Quick ‘n Dirty prototype Yarn.social protocol/spec:

If we were to decide to write a new spec/protocol, what would it look like?

Here’s my rough draft (back of paper napkin idea):

• Feeds are JSON file(s) fetchable by standard HTTP clients over TLS
  
• WebFinger is used at the root of a user’s domain (or multi-user) lookup. e.g: prologic@mills.io -> https://yarn.mills.io/~prologic.json
  
• Feeds contain similar metadata that we’re familiar with: Nick, Avatar, Description, etc
  
• Feed items are signed with a ED25519 private key. That is all “posts” are cryptographically signed.
  
• Feed items continue to use content-addressing, but use the full Blake2b Base64 encoded hash.
  
• Edited feed items produce an “Edited” item so that clients can easily follow Edits.
  
• Deleted feed items produced a “Deleted” item so that clients can easily delete cached items.
  

#Yarn.social #Protocol #Ideas

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-draft-law-5371-workers-rights-war-russia/

if your eag profile doesn’t say ‘neartermism’, you’ll automatically be drafted into the deepmind potential hires mailing list

It’ll track a bunch of finger(1) endpoints and let you see what’s new. Very early draft. Not actually a social network, more an anti-social network for ‘80s CompSci transplants. :-)

My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can’t tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won’t shrink. it’s piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it’s an eternal struggle.

phew. took me long enough, but I finally got an initial draft for using the monome grid in C directly via libmonome: !grid_tutorial

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Antivax, How are they funded? Investigating ad trackers with Gephi and the DMI Tracker Tracker tool - First Draft ⌘ Read more…

@prologic@twtxt.net looking through the drafts it looks like it actually used SRV records as recently as 2018 😵

@xuu@txt.sour.is Not too happy with WKD’s use of CNAME over SRV for discovery of openpgpkey.. That breaks using SNI pretty quick. I suppose it was setup as a temporary workaround anyhow in the RFC..

Working Draft 435 ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/5cg

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 · GitHub https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md

post-N235 Prolog prologue (Working draft) https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/prologue

Parrigues Tarot (draft) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/06/26/parrigues-tarot-draft/

Band name of the day: vomit draft

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/

Second OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts Approved ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1Xw