From its conception, #Enigmatick has leaned heavily on the `inbox` and `outbox` endpoints for client operations. [...]
From its conception, #Enigmatick has leaned heavily on the /inbox and /outbox endpoints for client operations. There are some /api endpoints, but I avoid that were I can shoehorn operations into the #ActivityPub specification and #ActivityStreams vocabulary.
While typical operational activities are fairly well accounted for, administration is a weak point. For example: I haven't identified a clear way to use the currently described mechanisms for an administrative user to pull up and manage instances or actors on a server.
I've relied on CLI tools (e.g., ./enigmatick --help) to manage some of that. And in some cases, I know how to manipulate data in my database, so I haven't worried too much about building tooling. But I'd like to ship something that other folks can use to share in my efforts, so I've been thinking about how to m
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From its conception, #Enigmatick has leaned heavily on the /inbox and /outbox endpoints for client operations. There are some /api endpoints, but I avoid that were I can shoehorn operations into the #ActivityPub specification and #ActivityStreams vocabulary.
While typical operational activities are fairly well accounted for, administration is a weak point. For example: I haven't identified a clear way to use the currently described mechanisms for an administrative user to pull up and manage instances or actors on a server.
I've relied on CLI tools (e.g., ./enigmatick --help) to manage some of that. And in some cases, I know how to manipulate data in my database, so I haven't worried too much about building tooling. But I'd like to ship something that other folks can use to share in my efforts, so I've been thinking about how to model those activities in an ActivityPub-esque way to use in the Svelte UI.
ActivityPub Messages
To that end, I'm now using Block and Delete activities sent from the client to the server outbox to manage the blocking of instances and purging of data.
In practice, my client does not generate the id, but that attribute is generated by the server and the Activity is stored alongside other typically federated activities. These local Block activities are not federated out to other servers; they are intended solely for local server management.
The Block activity is sent as a message signed at the client by a user with administrative privileges on the server. Enigmatick's user authentication is unique (i.e., I use a separate set of encryption keys for client-signing executed by a wasm module in the browser). That can be a topic for a future article.
That the actor is defined as the system Application user is important. That's used by the server to establish the scope of this action as system-wide, not just for a single user. The system actor is discoverable in the nodeinfo metadata.
I'm using a typed object rather than just an id reference. This is so that I can use this same flow for blocking and purging Actor objects (i.e., the type would be Person, Service, or Application).
The purge action is similar, using the Delete activity.
The term, "delete" is a bit of a misnomer in this case as it applies to the instance specifically. The instance will remain, but the objects, activities, and actors associated with that instance will be fully deleted (i.e., not set to Tombstone).
Collection Endpoints
To facilitate the UI operations, I've created two new collection endpoints on my server: /instances and /actors. These endpoints provide typical ActivityPub Collection objects.
I've added some extensions in the @context to account for a few non-standard attributes.
That collection is used by the UI.
Collection Discovery
nodeinfo is a common protocol used for discovering information about ActivityPub-speaking servers. I've extended my use of that to facilitate client-discovery of these new endpoints using the metadata object contained in the nodeinfo JSON.
As I'm reading through this, I see some opportunities for refinement. I should probably be using OrderedCollectionPage instead of OrderedCollection for my collection endpoints. I'm sure there are other tweaks to be made.
In preparation of updating and reorganising of this list I would like to collect current FOSS projects that offer an implementation of ActivityPub C2S. In this [current fedi discussion](https://ausglam.
Authorities in Lithuania said on Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially
Calibre is his project, and he gets to make the decisions he wants with his project. And, to be fair, Kovid did fix this bug anyway.
At the same time, I disagree categorically with this decision. As @mcc put it in a different context, I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off. There's a reason I'm spending as much of my own time and energy on the rereading Project and on Arcalibre.
Please don't harass or dogpile Kovid, either. His time and energy on Calibre have been, up until now, an immense gift. I share the above to be clear about why I consider his current stance both a betrayal and completely inconsistent with art as a thing worth doing.
Kovid gets to do what he wants with his project, but that doesn't mean anyone else should trust his project with something as important as books.
The EU's commission is responding to appeals from carmakers for a more flexible approach. The new limit still needs approval by the EU parliament and member governments.
Vielleicht so: Ich fühle mich als Ostler von einigen, die behaupten, für den Osten zu sprechen oder Westlern den Osten erklären, vereinnahmt. Beispiele: Holger Friedrich, Sabine Rennefanz.
Ja, gut. Da kann ich nicht mitreden. Kenne weder deren Namen, noch was die über Ossies sagen. Ich gehe immer nur in den Defence-Mode, wenn Leute (Wessies) daherkommen und behaupten, alle Ossies seien Nazis. Als Antifaschistin 3. Generation und Nachkommin von Nazi-Verfolgten fühlt sich diese Kollektivverurteilung nicht richtig an. Zumal ich glaube, dass der Westen genauso naziverseucht ist, die Leute ihre wahre Natur nur besser verstecken und unter den Teppich kehren, wie schon seit '45.
@levampyre Warkus – soweit ich ihn aus Social Media beurteilen kann – stammt zwar aus dem Westen, lebt aber schon Ewigkeiten in Jena. Und er schreibt nicht, alle Ossis sind Nazis. Sondern die Konstruktion einer homogenen Ost-Identität, wie sie Leute wie Holger Friedrich (Herausgeber Berliner Zeitung, Weltwoche und neu Ostdeutsche Allgemeine) betreiben, ist nicht besser als andere Identitätskonstruktion. Sie wird von einigen Rechten benutzt, was nicht heißt, daß alle Ostdeutschen rechts sind.
Dem kann ich nicht widersprechen. Das entspricht auch meiner Wahrnehmung, ja. Aber das ist ja auch immer das Problem mit so Schubladendenken oder "Homogenisierung", aus dem btw. ja auch gruppenspezifischer Hass erwächst: alle Juden sind so und so, alle Ossies sind so und so, alle Muslime sind so und so, alle Transmenschen sind so und so... Das ist immer problematisch und verletzend, weil es die individuelle Lebensrealität der Angehörigen der Gruppen ignoriert, vielleicht gar verleumdet.
Der einzige Gemeinplatz, dem ich mich voll und ganz anschließe, ist der: Alle Nazis sind scheiße! Den halte ich zwar für eine absolute Wahrheit, glaube aber trotzdem, dass wir das spezifirieren und erklären müssen - weil viele Menschen, auf die diese Kategorie zutrifft, sich selbst gar nicht dort verorten. Und deswegen sagen wir, Rassismus ist scheiße, Verfassungsfeindlichkeit ist scheiße, Entsolidarisierung ist scheiße, Queerfeindlichkeit ist scheiße, Ableismus ist scheiße, etc. pp.
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Como a Wikipedia se estabeleceu como o maior repositório colaborativo de conhecimento da web e como pressões políticas colocam ela em risco. Tudo belamente contado nesse especial do The Verge. (Mosaico)
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.
just small circles 🕊
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Which ActivityPub applications support Client-to-Server (C2S)?
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