Merry Crimbo to anyone who can be bothered to read my posts ;)

According to the #wrapstodon thing, my engagement on Mastodon in 2025 consisted of "500 Internal Server Error". I was sure I'd written more than that.

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

Ooooh! ID-JAG or OAuth Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grants looks interesting: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant-01.html #oauth

I want a new flagship #atproto app that isn't a Twitter clone on the surface. As much as I loved Twitter, I see what the result has been societally and want to move forward. Bluesky is almost a skeumorphic interface on top of atproto and I can't wait to see what's truly possible with this platform.

RE: https://www.no2id.uk/2025/no2id-comment-on-the-first-delay-to-the-id-cards-consultation/ Please welcome the UK's No2ID @sam to the #fediverse !

*signs on to work computer* *looks at email inbox* IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED - OMG SHAI-HULUD *looks at calendar* HOLIDAY: Thanksgiving (US) Coincidence?

How the mighty have fallen... "ftp.warez.org" used to resolve to 127.0.0.1. Now it looks like it's been taken over by some domain squatter. Where am I supposed to find my warez now?

New social media health metric: MTTMD (mean time to moderation drama)

The Romans called the town Ivybridge because the name Forth Bridge was already taken.

Any bets on how long it will take me to get to the next Fermat prime on this vape?

turns out that federating forums by ingesting microblogs with hashtags is an absolutely disastrous idea even worse, while forum<>forum federation might work, as soon as one forum ingests microblogs it ruins the ecosystem for the other forums who are connected to it

#friday evening, and I get to the #pub ... only to find the local #antivax nut in full flow, and he's found a friend. Gaah. :(

Jesus... Oh no, nothing could possibly go wrong here. Nothing at all...

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Oct/0001.html SocialCG people want to make their own FEP repository on GitHub where authors will be required to sign a CLA. I'd like to make it clear: this is not associated with the original FEP repository. The #fep process is meant to be […]

Just a thought as I work through some bugs reported to NodeBB... would there be interest in ActivityPub.space hosting a "security" category for discussion around vulnerabilities, CVEs, and such that are related to ActivityPub? For example, if NodeBB were to receive a bug bounty report and […]

War ravaged Portland

We've essentially allowed ourselves to be limited in what we can do, by just copying other software. We could do something different. Theoretically you could have ActivityPub backed by repos and merkle trees like AT Proto, at a storage layer, which would allow really easy data migration. We […]

Imagine if we had a site like this for ActivityPub that wasn't just focused on monolithic servers: https://sdk.blue/

I have been, and continue to be, of the view that the "fight" between #activitypub and #atproto is a distraction. Whether one is "more distributed" or "more decentralized" is, at best, a technical criticism based on de jure analysis that has little bearing on the practical, practiced reality of […]