robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@nandalism @intficpics @sandestin

Can you branch off by replying for a second time to a previous response of the bot?

(I had a bot that allowed for that in the short time Wave was a thing and it IMO was much nicer than standard UNDO constructs.)

@kuba @agnieszka @kukrak @arek @icd

Czyli teraz firmie się bardziej opłaca tak skopać to co tworzy, żeby takie rzeczy były bardziej konieczne...

@SwiftOnSecurity

> I was a child talking outside their remit.

I agree with everything but this, for two reasons: being a child is a very discriminatory proxy[1] for competence and the concept of remit that a person has is something that promotes appeals to authority and so seems to go against the message of the rest of your post.

[1] in the meaning of "its usage in some cases causes bad social effects, even if the correlation it relies on exists"

@flawed @TindrasGrove @matthew_d_green

IMO that'd be rather terrible, because it would force all the clients to either ignore these preferences or conform to the idea of what preferences even make any sense that the server author had. (For example, how should this preference be understood by a client that shows a threaded view?)

Granted, there are a few such preferences that can be expressed in terms that are very client-intependent (e.g. "should the client require explicit user action before showing an image"), though these also suffer from that problem (it would make a lot of sense to have a client that allows the user to specify an expression that determines whether an image is shown immediately).

@agnieszka @kukrak @arek @icd

Czy "skoro można" jest istotne dla tego rozumowania?

@niconiconi You mention that vacuuming the database and similar measures that don't change its contents help significantly. Do you know what are the content-related reasons for the slowdown? (i.e. what grows without bound?)

@sam @melizeche @malwaretech

Please note that I'm *not* talking about trusting your own instance, but post author's instance.

@melizeche @sam @malwaretech

Even worse, you could mess with it for all people who view a post made on your instance. So, if fedi instance evil.com publishes a post with a link to good.com, evil.com could choose to include a fake preview and have every other instance display that fake preview. Now, when I see a preview of good.com, I expect that this preview can be manipulated only by good.com and _my_ instance.

@Scriv That depends on the initial setup, no? It will certainly be world-building if the initial setup is something like extinction of dragons, but if the initial setup is e.g. rise to power of a family, then I would expect it to be generate a plot. Would you?

@Scriv This reminds me of a cooperative storytelling game, where the focus of play is on a timeline and players take turns adding increasingly finer grained events. The timeline doesn't grow forward or backward; we start with delimiting events, and then fill out the space inbetween. I've never played it myself though, so e.g. don't know how often people write themselves into a plothole/deus ex machine in that game.

@dantemercurio @seb

What customer encryption keys do you mean? I thought you run just Mastodon, am I wrong?

@freemo You might wish to talk with @pixel about his past experiences (I have no knowledge on whether he'd want to take any part, but he might have valuable information he'd want to share due to having written https://github.com/pixeldesu/fediverse-friendly-moderation-covenant).

@rqsd@borg.social Isn't there something that uses the hostname in a nontrivial fashion _in the kernel_?

I can't immediately think of anything other than formatting loglines, but if there is such a thing it's a good reason to have the information be managed in kernel and exported to userspace.

@fay59 @fj

Note that in this case we care about signing, not encryption. (Well, signing and hashing (for subdomain name masking), but ttbomk most hashes we use are quantum-secure).

If you did that, you would end up with something that requires less computation to break using currently-known primitives.

@timorl @modulux

Note that there are two point in time involved in this problem, so there are many varied forms of a time-invariance assumption.

@thor All wonders of the world are just carbon, calcium, oxygen, and a few other elements in some arrangement.

@mcnees Nystatin is interesting in that it's not absorbed via the alimentary tract. This makes it particularly suitable for treatment of oral and throat fungal infections: the effect it has on the rest of the body is thus minimized.

This is similarly neat as the mechanism of delivery of azithromycin (it's taken up by phagocytes, which concentrate in inflamed areas, and release it there).