Jakob @jakob@mastodon.sdf.org

I've finished writing part 1 of "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent", which is to say the "Conceptual Overview" section https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

There's a lot there already, and we haven't even gotten to Part 2, the "How to Build It" section yet. I'll begin work on that tomorrow.

What's here already is more or less an explanation of *why* OcapPub is taking the particular direction it is taking, and why other approaches run into serious problems.

pro-tip: set your SSID to C:/TEMP/Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 to set off antiviruses on any windows 10 user who connects to it

As a hint as to why the current solutions aren't going to work, I'll point you to what happened when Mastodon rolled out direct messages with OStatus, but they *weren't really* private messages. An admirable attempt but it needed a different approach.

I believe this could be like that, but 10x worse. I've been studying what will happen under different approaches and trying hard to figure out how to map a solution onto what we have.

Dear fediverse:

Fascism joining the fediverse is extremely bad, and we have to do something about it. But please, please, please: give me two weeks before you roll out any new solutions. Some of the solutions being proposed look like they will make the situation better but will make it much worse.

I am dropping nearly everything to write a demo and spec explaining how to do things right. Please give me two weeks. I've been preparing for this.

Towards Guix for DevOps https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/towards-guix-for-devops/

Great blogpost by @jakob ... and great hacking over the course of this summer, too!

@jakob @technomancy nobody cares about the water pokemans

If you aren't edge-of-your-seat-excited for Blender 2.80 yet, you will be after looking at all the shiny stuff on this release candidate announcement page https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

Two things that scream "we didn't think out database design through properly":

- You can't change your username.
- You can't have "special characters" in your name.

"guix deploy" is in git master! Amazing work @jakob ! (and thanks for co-mentoring @dthompson for co-mentoring) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00066.html

Give it a spin and see what you think!

@enkiv2@eldritch.cafe I really appreciate that he points out the ephemerality of IRC as a feature, it's too often that I see technical people tout persistence as a feature when in reality it's often nothing more then a ploy to keep people glued to their screens rather then being able to focus their limited mental energies on more important things.

@ng0 @cbaines Oh I didn't see that :) https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix/issues/32

It may be hopeful thinking on my part; this is actually a dream of mine that eventually Guix can be used for completely reproducible development and devops workflows from top to bottom.

The work that @jakob is doing on "guix deploy" will hopefully help us get to that vision faster...