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Read - Reading: White Nights by Ann Cleeves (Minotaur Books)
The electrifying follow-up to the Dagger Award-winning Raven Black. In this second thriller of the highly acclaimed Shetland Island series featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, the launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day he's found dead. Set in midsummer, the book captures the unsettling nature of a landscape where the sun never quite sets and where people are not as they first seem.
Finished through chapter 5.

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Read captured conversation about Parler (Pastebin)

<Dash> I didn't see any mention of the header in the github repo so I feel it's helpful to mention this: in case anyone gets ratelimited, Parler will honor an arbitrary x-forwarded-for header with any IP and, well, not ratelimit you according to my unscientific test
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<kallsyms> Dash: lmao really?
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<andrew> Dash: okay, that's actually pretty huge cc kiska arkiver Fusl
<Kaz> heh, good to know Dash
<ave> this is amazing
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<NotNite> yep
<Kaz> does that also apply to the API Dash?
<andrew> so, who wants to modify the thing to generate new IPs for X-Forwarded-For for each job and see what difference that makes?
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<Dash> Not sure, but i'm credential stuffing them with 300 threads without getting ratelimited
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<Dash> Someone else should probably test

Read Working on Compatibility with Webmentions & the IndieWeb by Tim Nolte (Tim Nolte)
I’ve been working for awhile on trying to make my blog the central hub of my online presence, even on social media, taking a #POSSE approach. I’ve recently setup Bridgy in order to bring back the conversation on other platforms back to my site. One issue that I’ve found is that the #Facepile setup of #Webmentions is getting blown away when using JetPack comments. This issue was reported on GitHub like 3 years ago, and even mentioned by Chris Aldrich on his excellent blog post about using WordPress with the #IndieWeb. https://boffosocko.com/2017/10/06/using-facepiles-in-comments-for-wordpress-with-webmentions-and-semantic-linkbacks/
Read Import from TiddlyWiki 5 to Obsidian (Obsidian Forum)
How to Export from TiddlyWiki to Obsidian Note: I am on Mac, so all the steps are specially for that OS. I followed the steps by @kepano and just tweaked/clarified the things that didn’t work for me initially. So this is very much his work. @pikacho, I hope this is helpful for you and others. Step 1: Set up TiddlyWiki in Node.js Download and install Node.js Open “Terminal”, run npm install -g tiddlywiki If an error occurs, run sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules (that gives you a...
Read Fractal communities vs the magical bullhorn by Ben WerdmüllerBen Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)
In her book Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown eloquently describes a model for decentralized leadership in a world of ever-changing emergent patterns. Heavily influenced by the philosophy laid out in Octavia Butler's Earthseed novels - God is change - it describes how the way we show up in the...
Read Thread by @pfrazee@pfrazee (threadreaderapp.com)

Yo, decentralizers. If our projects are ONLY about censorship resistance and NOT about better algorithms for elevating truth, and NOT about creating constrained but real powers of moderation, then we're making things worse. 1/n

It kills me, absolutely kills me, that after years of decentralization advocacy it's a moment like this when all the dweb projects pop up on HN and social media. The interest popped -- not when truth became inconvenient for corporate power, but when lies did.

Charitably, people may be reflecting on the kind of power imbalance being revealed and reflecting on how it could be abused.

https://twitter.com/pwang/status/1348335710303096833

 

Uncharitably? Do I need to even say it.

For anybody still unsure:

We have to find a way to square our ideals and our fears about monopoly control with the realities of how our technology is working. It's not enough to defend an ideal. We need to be effective.

We've all done our spiderman homework. What comes with great power?

If we really believe that free speech is important -- as I do -- and we want to protect it, then we need to work hard to make sure that free speech provides value to people. Otherwise they're going to shrug and let it drift away, "a nice idea, but impractical, really"

The question isn't "how do we make moderation impossible?" The question is, how do we make moderation trustworthy.

That, it turns out, is much harder than p2p tweets

It's also about *checking* power, not just distributing it. Like code-forking: FOSS doesn't always mean "anybody can contribute," but it definitely means that the users can fork if the core devs abuse their position. How can we get that kind of check on power here?

It's nuanced. It's harder to sell than "censorship resistance." Maybe we need a new framework for discussing this, a new set of words. I don't know what to tell you, but the reward is equal to the challenge. n/n