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@craigmaloney @cwebber if not it's probably a generational thing

@cwebber

I'm won't even try to joke this late into the conversation. Success is probably unreachable.

@emacsen @cwebber Whoa, stop the world! Didn't realize I made a copy of Chris' joke.

@cwebber These joke references are weak.

I'm afraid to implement a garbage collector because I might get swept up in the task #vaguejokes

@yaaps

Thats a poor excuse and easily solved in my eyes for two reasons.

1) From an API perspective a new activity pub update entry would not delete the original post. So there would still be a trail in the API side itself.

2) From the front-end perspective allowing a user to browse the edit history with a link would mitigate any fears. People could easily see if a message was tampered with and someone could siply look to see which edit a person commented on if it became relevant.

@hansw @cwebber @design_RG

spoiler: it removed two heads and I got killed by the other 23

lost one of my best characters by being a doof, no other reason

@cwebber

I had a discussion with @freemo and @design_RG a few weeks ago where a lot of items where discussed about handling data and Activity Pub.

I noticed that Mastodon is not allowing to really edit a post, it was simply deleting a post and let people edit a text. This results in the loss of comments that did exist on the old post.

Wondering why this is I looked at the official specs of AP and found it was the official way.

I can imagine a few reasons, mostly technical ones to do it this way. Tables need to be updated, and tables might need to be reindexed (almost for 100% sure about that one). This could probably be fasted when partitioned tables are used imho.

Did I miss any other reasons why AP defined it this way?

@cwebber This graph of our victory from Twitter @TBPInvictus is about perfect

@civodul I'm so thrilled that the obvious co-interest of Software Heritage and Guix (esp w/ Guix HPC) are lining up so nicely, and this is a great example!

Read about the #Guix #ReproducibleResearch hackathon we held last week:https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/07/reproducible-research-hackathon-experience-report/

The activity around the Guix Past channel, which has received a bunch of “new old packages”, shows the real need for practical software archeology in science—far from the bleeding edge that we hackers love. :-)

@cwebber the covids are no more dangerous than the common triffid

it's a really good thing that the US beat the covids before reopening, it's going really well

There was a guy named Ken McElroy who lived in Missouri and was known locally as the "town bully". He was an unrepentant criminal, thug, and strongman, indicted 21 times but only convicted once, and he successfully appealed that. The conviction was for shooting (but not killing) a local grocer, and after he got out he threatened to kill the grocer for good. The next day, McElroy was shot dead in broad daylight in the middle of town, in front of a crowd of somewhere between 30 and 45 people. Mysteriously, nobody happened to see who shot him, so nobody was ever charged with his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

#lisp (When someone complains about too many "()") | http://redd.it/hpmpzr

@cstanhope I miss x11r5

ActivityPub Conference CFP deadline is TODAY! Get in your proposals folks! We want to hear YOU talk! https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#home

I got Guix running on Linode! I wrote up a tutorial: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-07/msg00062.html