Kevin Marks

@kevinmarks
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Reading your thoughts, if you write them first. http://kevinmarks.com #indieweb #leftthisinstance #migration
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Kevin MarksDec 8, 2018
Kitty UnprettyDec 8, 2018
for years "mods are asleep" has been a joke relic from the forum days but the fediverse brings us to an era where the mods can let you know that they're awake by boosting your "mods are asleep" joke and then you can scold them to go to bed because you know their timezone and this isn't healthy
Kevin MarksOct 24, 2018
Aaron PareckiOct 24, 2018
My post on the Mozilla Hacks blog was just published! "Identity for the Decentralized Web with IndieAuth" https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/dweb-identity-for-the-decentralized-web-with-indieauth/

If you're at #iiw today, I'll be at demo hour showing how this works!
Dweb: Identity for the Decentralized Web with IndieAuth – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

IndieAuth is a decentralized login protocol that enables users of your software to log in to other apps. It's an extension to OAuth 2.0 that lets any website to become ...

Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Kevin MarksAug 30, 2018
Kevin MarksAug 30, 2018

I think it is time to re-read A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html

»the group is real. It will exhibit emergent effects. It can't be ignored, and it can't be programmed«
»The constitution is always partly formal and partly informal. …The informal part is the sense of "how we do it around here." And no matter how is substantiated in code or written in charter, whatever, there will always be an informal part as well. «
#indieweb

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

Kevin MarksAug 27, 2018
Baldur BjarnasonAug 27, 2018
“Dread of Heinleinism - Charlie’s Diary” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/08/dread-of-heinleinism.html
Dread of Heinleinism - Charlie's Diary

Kevin MarksAug 26, 2018
So if I redirect my account, I can still toot here?
Show threadKevin MarksAug 20, 2018
it does post to websub, yes.
Kevin MarksAug 20, 2018
does Mastodon still post to Websub endpoints, come to that? #indieweb
Kevin MarksAug 20, 2018
Does Mastodon still read via Websub? #indieweb
Kevin MarksAug 20, 2018
Show threadSuwAug 19, 2018
@natecull @kevinmarks I think it's interesting to call it a 'bug' - Lovelace had no way to run her program, and thus no way to test and no way to iterate. It may be more accurate to call it a typo - she was writing Note G out by hand, after Babbage (or the printer) lost the original version that she'd sent over to him. It's easy to imagine that the printer was also unable to properly comprehend what he was typesetting and thus could easily have introduced the error.
Kevin MarksAug 18, 2018
Kevin MarksAug 18, 2018
I wrote about the theory of Mastodon versus Twitter early last year; I think it's still mostly right http://www.kevinmarks.com/mastodontheory.html
Mastodon, Twitter and publics