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So I am starting a HAM community.. Think apache for Ham radio. The idea is to address the state of open source software and standards in HAM radio.

Anyone, particularly open-source devs have any interest in talking to me about this, even if its just to make sure their ideas are considered as I launch... but people who want to help more directly are welcome too.

@freemo How are AcitivityPub messages authenticated? What prevents me for forging messages allegedly from @freemo? I understand that privacy is not an intended feature of the fediverse. But lack of authentication was a drawback of the fully decentralized Usenet protocol. Messages were constantly being forged as a joke. Eventually, gpg signing was added as an afterthought.

I don't see any provision for signing messages on qoto.org or other ActivityPub sites.

@freemo I am trying to follow social.quodverum.com/@darulhar

And your server can't find it, and there is an error trying to use the redirect "Follow" dialog Mastodon provides. I'm still a newbie on ActivityPub protocol, so I'm not sure what is going on. Has one or both servers "blocked" the other? Shouldn't that at least result in a clear "we've blocked these evil people" message?

@PtrebliG @lowqualityfacts Well I'm glad someone is finally brave enough to tell us that jokes effectively equal disinformation, because someone might have actually believed that a chicken crossed a road for some far fetched reason, and we don't want this kind of thing destroying democracy.

THINGS ONE LEARNS FROM LIVING IN ARKANSAS:

1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Arkansas .
3) There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 of them live in Arkansas .
4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5) Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
7) A nit naughty so I edited.
8) People actually grow and eat okra.
9) "Fixinto" is one word.
10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper...
11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.
12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin' 'bout you.
13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat?"
14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see...
15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH 'em.
16) You measure distance in minutes.
17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
19) You know what a "Dawg" is.
20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car.
21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tony Chachere's, Tabasco , and ketchup.
22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and Arkansas football...
23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."
25) You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "Goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World."
27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.
28) Fried catfish is the other white meat.
29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
30) You understand these jokes and forward them to your Arkansas friends and those who just wish they were from Arkansas !!!!!

@thelinuxEXP Just a nit pick here (but I think an important one): "Fedora" isn't proposing anything... Some folks are proposing telemetry _to_ Fedora (thats all of us in #fedora community).

@fedora If you have to trick your users into having telemetry by hoping they click through without noticing, YOU ARE THE BAD GUY.

Wait until #Google execs realize that they can save even more money by shutting down 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

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