Yarn.social Online Meetup 25th May (See: #fcghsma for details)
In-reply-to » 👋 FYI: https://git.mills.io/prologic/salty.im/issues/2 is proposing some minor revisions to the Salty IM Spec to clean things up a little and make things even simpler. It also clarifies the Message Format as well as a way to support Events. Please comment if you have something to add, otherwise I'll make the revision and publish a new Salty IM Spev v1.1 👌

@prologic It’s misleading because my communications aren’t coming from the server that the domain mckinley.cc points to. Here, I’m mckinley@twtxt.net because my twtxt feed is on twtxt.net. I wouldn’t really be McKinley at mckinley.cc using Salty. I would be McKinley, somewhere else. All it would signify is that I am somehow affiliated with the domain. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just strange to me and I’ve never seen a service do that.

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In-reply-to » There are too many threads going, I can't keep up. Can someone catch me up on what's been going on here since last night?

@prologic Nice option, I have tried it before but didn’t understand from the description what it does, now it’s a huge difference, I’ll stick with the Flat.

Is it available from the API?

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Hello everyone, I’m back with another update for the #pwa!
I finally planned out how the app will be built.

First I’ll clean the project structure to be standalone and not as a theme, then I will work on every part separately, trying to be contained to let everyone try it out fast.

For the API I’ll be using this as a reference, @prologic help me if there’s anything missing there apart from what we already said (bookmark, etc.)

The first part will be the Discover view with no auth.

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In-reply-to » Internal Documents Show Amazon Has For Years Knowingly Tricked People Into Signing Up for Prime Subscriptions Amazon has worried for years that it tricks customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions. A previously undisclosed inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission has put more pressure on the company to fix it. Business Insider: Internal documents obtained by Insi ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I’ve had to “clean up” several accidental “Prime” subscriptions in my family. So, yes, I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing.

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📣 FYI: Yarn.social video conf today, all are welcome, open floor, bring your ideas, opinions or just come socialise with us! 🤗

Yarn.social Video Conf

  • Date/Time:
    • Saturday, March 12 · 22:00 – 23:00 (AEST)
    • Saturday, March 12 · 12:00 – 13:00 (UTC)
  • Google Meet joining info

Apologies, but we’ll use Google Meet this time, as sometimes folks can’t join with my PeerCalls instance very well 😢

#Yarn.social #Conf

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So… Here’s a thought…

If [Matrix] is built on a decentralised/distributed event syncing and a basic model of “Room”

And:

IRC is a centralised text based protocols with client to server and server to server networking and a basic model of “Channels” and “Users”

Then:

Yarn.social can build a “Chat” system based on the already existing and established decentralised/distributed syncing of feeds with a model of well umm feeds

🤔 🤣

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Russian Cybersecurity Giant Kaspersky Tries To Maintain Neutrality During Ukraine War
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Joseph Cox: Around the same time Russian forces launched a massive rocket into a square in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing and wounding an as of yet unknown number of people, Eugene Kaspersky, head of his namesake Russian cyber … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @prologic Here's the screenshot gallery on their website demonstrating all the platforms it runs on. NetSurf is awesome! I'm surprised you haven't heard of it. It's a truly independent Web browser that uses its own custom rendering engine and focuses on portability and low resource usage. It supports most of HTML 4.1/CSS2 plus it has experimental JavaScript support.

@prologic I’m no Mac expert, as you can probably tell, but I’m somewhat familiar with the browser development scene and know that quite a few browsers dropped their Mac support in 2021, because they didn’t have the resources (or much of a reason) to port their browsers to M1. Not helping was the fact that development for Macs is hard for those working on non-Apple devices, so browser developers had to rely on Mac-owning volunteers willing to help. The number of those volunteers was also shrinking, since most Mac users just use one of the mainstream browsers these days, even more than those on other platforms - probably thanks to the AppStore.

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