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so, anyway, i've been reminded about why i hate the fediverse. and as a result, i've been slowly piecing together the last bits of rapunzel so we can build systems based on consent and autonomy rather than islands and politics

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rapunzel can be thought of as an alternative "transport" for activitystreams JSON-LD data.

the actor model, as in activitypub, is replaced with decentralized identifiers based on cryptographic public keys. those public keys can be associated with any number of petnames using WebFinger.

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

specifically, in the rapunzel network, messages are:

- *always* encrypted using a CEK (content encryption key) which is itself encrypted to the recipient's public key.

- sent to one or more specified ring logs in a webfinger response.

- optionally published in one or more outbox ring logs: in this case, the message CEK is encrypted to the publisher's public key. this is basically pointless from a cryptographic point of view, but the construction allows us to be consistent re: the OCAP model (e.g. access to the message remains bound to a capability, it just happens to be public)

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

ring logs are:

- cryptographically attested logs which can be forgetful. e.g. they can support a quota, where old data is evicted from the ring log to make room for new data.

- merkle trees in the same way git repositories are merkle trees (e.g. messages are like git commits)

- optionally witnessed by trusted notaries: this is intended for people who want to reduce trust in the ring log storage providers they choose, by ensuring that the ring log provider is serving them the same data as the witness.

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

there is no traditional authorization to read a ring log.

as messages appended to the ring log are encrypted to the recipient (or are public), only holders of a key able to derive each message's CEK is able to do anything useful with the ring log data.

they are designed to be stored anywhere. by anyone.

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

there are a lot of problems still to solve with rapunzel. collaborative reputation management is a key one.

but i have thoughts on what that might look like: ariadne.space/2022/12/03/build…

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

conceptually, you can think of rapunzel's ring logs in a lot of the same ways as you might think of git. they are heavily inspired by git.
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things rapunzel (+ ipfs) is possibly good at replacing:

- "mastodon" (fediverse)
- discord
- matrix
- IRC
- scuttlebutt
- etc.

in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

an exciting idea would be to provide a mapping interface between cryptographic identifier (DID) and petname using something akin to bittorrent DHT. i see no reason why kademlia could not support that.
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honestly when I first heard about nostr I thought it was going actually going to be something like that.
(Spoiler: it wasn't)
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@oblomov nostr, at-proto and all the rest of the stuff out of Dorsey's sphere of influence are based on an incomplete misunderstanding of my ideas with rapunzel 🙃
in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

My idea for names in a system like this with cryptographic ID was "mining" them - brute force for N bits of text (maybe base 32) you like, with rest appearing as human checkable dictionary words & visual & auditory fingerprints. With distributed reputational system incentivizing reporting of partial collisions obviously intended to be misleading.
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working on it. Stock kad is probably too slow, but using it to get started. talk.fission.codes/t/nns-the-n…
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The problem with things that claim they will "replace IRC" for me, is that I can literally use netcat (or openssl s_client) to connect to it, and throwing together a simple bot to do something is just waaay to easy. And the client setup I have is better (for me) than anything else I've tried (in the space of chat programs).
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it's kind of long but I get to my point at the end; critique (but there's only critique bc I think it has potential)

i've looked at a few of these and the biggest problem i've seen is respecting the individual nodes' resources.

there's some inherent overhead added upon the baseline of a completely centralized system of course, but a lot of projects seem to not factor exactly /how/ much is added into the design.

see: my synapse DB was ~27GB a week ago after existing for ~2 years. my entire znc data dir is 2GB, and it ran for maybe ~3.5 years.

e.g. the CEK key is nice in theory, but if you look at matrix getting it working well seems to be very painful. and similarly, if OCAPs become an actual programmatic construct that could leak into bandwidth/disk space.

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re: it's kind of long but I get to my point at the end; critique (but there's only critique bc I think it has potential)
@ckie right, exactly. this is why i think the ring log structure is important: old data can be evicted from it while maintaining integrity of the log. this keeps the resource costs down.
in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

re: it's kind of long but I get to my point at the end; critique (but there's only critique bc I think it has potential)
yeah, I think what I was trying to say it's that it seems quite important to look at past protocols for what not to do; matrix E2EE is still flaky, and sometimes it'll take a while to decrypt since there's a <unqualified> few long roundtrips to get the ciphertext for the viewing device (and ultimately the homeserver can still just fake devices; element's UI makes verification sound like a nice-to-have without explaining exactly what it accomplishes to the user.) </unqualified>
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re: it's kind of long but I get to my point at the end; critique (but there's only critique bc I think it has potential)
@ckie the problem with matrix, in particular, is that the E2EE is stateful (this is necessary for any E2EE implementation that uses a ratchet). by contrast, rapunzel is intended to be as stateless as possible.
in reply to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

This sounds like we wouldn't need instances (as in infrastructure+moderation+blocklists) anymore, only "content neutral" infrastructure.

Sounds good. Might turn the "job" of an instance moderator more into a "blocklist curator".

And of course could decouple infrastructure support/maintenance from moderation.

(Currently extrapolating a bit, sry)

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Hi. I'm working in a descentralized health service. We are always looking for a platform to our EMRs.
Those we know are fit for big clinics, and very hard for the professionals (including "GNU Health").
So we think "how about a social network: after all, a MR is like a blog, once you have that, you just need to analize it to know what you need, and to not know what you don't.
The concept of "consent and autonomy" is at the root of our service, so I think "maybe this people have what we need".
¿Do you think this would be the case whitg rapunzel?



#NowWatching Felicity Jones in A Monster Calls. It looks like the film is mainly about a little boy and the monster, with Felicity playing a supporting role of the boy's mother. So often, for actresses, once they no longer play the teenager in an coming-of-age story they become the mother and somehow that's hardly ever the main role in a film; for male actors this rule doesn't seem to apply.
#FelicityJones #AMonsterCalls
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A young boy has to deal with a bully at school, his mother being ill, a strict grandmother and the annoyance of a monster telling allegories, all the while learning some life lessons.

I didn't really feel this film, maybe because the monster was not very convincing as either a monster or a storyteller. Felicity was as feared not in it enough for my liking.


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Scream VI–Jenna Ortega’s next project is sequel to last year’s horror hit

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday series #previews #movies

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@borg.com 🪐 fyi She has smaller films coming up to and already filmed: Finestkind, Miller's Girl and Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall.

I like her doing the smaller films. She can still proof herself and she doesn't need the fame.
#JennaOrtega

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i am looking forward to them too
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Watching a very long making-of for a Chinese film, without English subtitles. I have zero idea what they're talking about.


Failed doing an online training today, not because of the training itself but because I can't find it on the site.


A common theme in most Asian cinema that I have seen is that it has Zhang Ziyi in it. House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, 2046, Hero, The Warrior, The Banquet. Doesn't really say much about Asian cinema, more about me, or her. But now I'm watching Jasmine Women which I haven't seen yet. It is also known as Jasmine Flower.
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower #NowWatching
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I was wondering which of the three women Ziyi would play and it turns out all of them.
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The film is at first difficult to get into since the young woman in the first generation is a very naive character, but each generation the woman is smarter, stronger and more independent. The film turns out to be much much darker than you'd suspect once you realise what the things are that are not spoken about and hardly shown, but which have a fundamental influence on someone's life. I really enjoyed this film. Ziyi is really great playing three different and growing personalities. And it has probably the most memorable giving birth scenes of all films ever...
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower


If you see this message there is nothing wrong with my wifi despite what the chromecast says.
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It's Wednesday again so it's Wednesday again. For Mastodon users: that's first Wednesday the day of the week, then Wednesday the tv show. My fourth run-through I think, now one episode every week. Because Jenna Ortega is so brilliant.
#Wednesday #JennaOrtega


I don't quite know what it means yet, but Adidas says they haven't done a new label in 50 years, but they are going to and Jenna Ortega is going to be the brand ambassador of it. That's all I know. More to be revealed. This was from an official Adidas press release.
#JennaOrtega #Adidas

(Photo copyright Adidas)

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Most people will associate her with acting, red carpets, fashion and high heels, but people who have been following Jenna Ortega longer will know that sports and soccer in particular are very much part her. At some point as a kid she had to choose between the acting or continuing playing soccer and it could easily have gone the other way.


We all know harassment is bad, but on the fediverse there seems to be a subset of (often external) people of which the consensus is that it is fun when they are harassed. I don't agree with that.

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It's #WerewolfWednesday, and I have a story I really wanna share:

In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"

The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
1/6

#folklore #werewolves

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Maybe it's my insecurity interpreting "thanks for asking" with an implicit "and now leave me alone", or maybe it's correct, but I tend to err on the side of caution, because I just literally can't tell.


Just started watching South of Hell, which I know nothing about except it's a tv series with Mena Suvari hunting demons.
#MenaSuvari #SouthOfHell
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The sfx with the eyes isn't really good... But the concept that she hunts demons possessing people helped by the demon possessing her, is quite nice.
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It was good to see Mena Suvari, both as the demon hunting woman Maria and as the demon hunting demon Abigail. But other than that the series does not have much going for it and I would instead recommend finding something else with Mena in it to watch...


pinned opinion about nude scenes in films

My opinion about nude scenes in films: against my own interests I believe that they are always avoidable and the same impressions can be achieved in other ways.

Many actresses are somewhere in their career forced to do a nude (sex) scene. The male actors hardly ever are. To me the purpose seems sales rather than art. I'd wish for films to never include nude scenes and to always use suggestion instead.

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In saying who's a good actress and in buying their films I really do not care how famous they are (either way, some people are snobs and ignore those who are famous). It's just that for some people there are way more projects to talk about.

I'm now going to watch my blu-ray of Nina Forever, with Abigail Hardingham. It's a horror film, but it's the middle of the day so hopefully I don't get too scared.

I had known she was a good actress, but when I saw her in a double episode of Silent Witness I was stunned how good that performance was. I mentioned this on Twitter, years ago, and was shocked to get a thank you. Some people don't get praise all the time, even though they should.

On the cover, Abigail is the one on the right, not the eponymous ghost character.
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever #NowWatching

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The dead ex-girlfriend really objects to being called "ex". Her argument: we never broke up. Where's the lie, though.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

A very original treatment of baggage in a relationship, in the form of a horror film. A ghost story, but told from the perspective of the living, showing what it means for them. As such, Abigail Hardingham plays the main role, even though she isn't the Nina of the title. Great performance and a very worthy film.
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever

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So far the parallels with the Belgian film Daens (1992) are remarkable (that one is about a moment of social change in Belgium involving a priest called Daens). A smart young woman (Maud/Nette) observes hardships while working in a factory, including the brutality, including sexually, by the male supervisor. There's a government committee that will hopefully bring about change, but their hopes are dashed, resulting in an act of great police brutality. Even down to the committee members being ushered away and the policemen being on horseback. Though I must say that Daens did all this much better and I urge people to see that film. Antje de Boeck is truly amazing as Nette.

Anyway, I'm now wondering who will go to Rome for an audience with the Pope... For surely from here on the stories must diverge.

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Of course Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter are very good in this. But the film seems a bit lightweight. The suffragette movement is depicted as a choice, rather than born out of desperation, especially for the rich ladies. The comparison with Daens is that there Nette was forced out of desperation to fight for social change. Here Maud almost accidentally joins the movement.


#NowWatching Bad Neighbours 2 because it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it. This is a film of before she realigned her project choices and I'm only watching it for completeness. Or maybe it'll be fun. Anyway, I'm sure Chloë will be good as always.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #BadNeighbours2
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When you see a very unrealistic representation of university life, it's not clear whether it's because of it being a comedy or that we are supposed to think (American) university life is like that.

Also, a group of girls asserting their independence as a sorority by doing exactly what a guy tells them to do? I hope this becomes a plot point later on...

So far, every single character is not being true to themselves, but not really in a comedic way.

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A bit difficult to find something positive in this film. It seems to try to be a comedy with a feminist slant to it, but is at risk of only making fun of feminism. Maybe the resolution at the end is the only good thing, and of course that Chloë was indeed in it.


So often the quaint or old English is the current Dutch.

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music player software should understand that never, under any circumstances, do I ever want to replace my current play queue with a single click

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Seeing the BBC version of His Dark Materials series 3 and there are rather beautiful subtitles on all the 'mulefa' dialogue. They show both the original and the translation as Mary is slowly learning the language. On the HBO broadcast we didn't get this at all. There there were whole scenes in this fantasy language, with no indication what it was about. That was weird and now I'm jealous...
#HisDarkMaterials
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I'm realising yet again that I want to see everything else Dafne Keen will act in as well, and that it means I will have to watch some more Star Wars.


I may have written quite some articles for the student periodical in my university days, but here's me letting you in on a secret: almost all of them were filler stories like mentioned in the previous reshare by @Jason Lefkowitz. Though I didn't know the term 'bus plunge story'.

Our periodical needed to be a multiple of four pages, due to how it was printed. And even though it was laid out on the computer (wordperfect, but then laser printed and the pictures glued in by hand), there was only so much whitespace you could remove and articles you could shorten. At some point you realised you were still half a page over and you were just going to have to add content to make it to the next multiple of four.

I wrote so many totally pointless articles, quickly, after the deadline, but before the printer offices closed...



Doing one Wednesday per Wednesday for my fourth run-through of the series. Meanwhile also at episode four of The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. There's something quite Wednesday about this Lizzie.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #ChristinaRicci #TheLizzieBordenChronicles


I may have totally missed the joke about shitting down vs booting up.


Every single time I upgrade handbrake, I forget to safeguard libdvdcss.


In the meantime, while the conversion runs and the PC is making a lot of noise to pretend it's busy, the amazing Stephanie Leonidas in Dracula. I've seen this version and as always she's very good. Though as always in stories the female lead is more the object than the subject, even more so in a Dracula story. What's great is that Stephanie really shifts her character when the influence of the count becomes stronger.
#StephanieLeonidas #Dracula
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This is still early in the film, I keep freeze framing because I'm also making dinner.


#NowWatching Christina Ricci in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, the tv series that came after the film. I'd seen the film a while ago. Of course I have to see everything with Christina in it, still quite some to go...
#ChristinaRicci #TheLizzieBordenChronicles #LizzieBordenTookAnAxe
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Conversion still ongoing, I have a slow computer, but I can already play episode 1. Of course next to Christina Ricci there's also Clea DuVall, that's great! Starts off with lots of axe-work and chasing a load of kids away with a single raised eyebrow. This is going to be good.
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I'm an idiot, mixed up Clea DuVall's name with someone else (also great). Edited the post.



Building with maven: please wait while we download the internet.

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If he's not your boyfriend, then why is he making you this miserable?
-- Mrs Haider


#AckleyBridge

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It's one thing to lie about your sexuality, it's quite another to lie about dinner
-- Naveed


#AckleyBridge

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#NowWatching more Amy-leigh Hickman, in series three of Ackley Bridge. Soon, very soon, we can see her in season four of You: 9 February!
#AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge #YouNetflix
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I'm only at episode two of Ackley Bridge series three, but this is an acting masterclass by Amy-leigh Hickman.
#AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge


Starting to watch The Princess, knowing nothing about it except that the film has Joey King in it and that she looks utterly cool on the poster wielding a sword. All good reasons to watch it.
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Yeah, I think they lied to us about what Disney princesses are like. Or this one is different...
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It's essentially one long, raw, no holds barred fight sequence. I like that it doesn't fall into the trap of having the female lead use cunning to stay out of the fighting, or do the fighting in some clean distant way with bow and arrow, as is common in films. Instead, she's fully in the thick of it, going all in. I like it. Joey King also executive produced this film.
#ThePrincess #JoeyKing


Bought a Wacon drawing tablet today. After some deliberations I went for the cheaper model that is advised for beginner's, since, well, I don't know what I'm doing. But the more expensive models were so much better... and so much more expensive...

I already notice that I've really got to get used to the absolute positioning. I keep using it as a touch pad!

I also realised that in a sense, I already have two other Wacom devices: both my phone (Samsung Note8) and tablet (Samsung Tab S4) have an s-pen, which is the same thing. Especially the Tab S4, using the Pen-Up app, is showing features of the more expensive Wacom models: pressure sensitive, multi touch, tilt(!), and of course its own display...



Your Activitypub followers are your mailing list. as:public is your blog.


The Scream VI trailer is out! It looks great. Nice detail is that unlike the previous one where they suggested Tara (Jenna Ortega's character) was the opening kill, here we see her in multiple outfits, so she is in the film for a while. Not so nice is that there is a clip of Tara in trouble that she maybe doesn't survive...

In cinemas in March!
#JennaOrtega #ScreamVI #Scream
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Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega are so believable as sisters.

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I think the biggest missing feature on Mastodon is the ability to specify how a post is supposed to taste. I know you can describe it in the body of your post or use taste hashtags but it really should be supported on the protocol level and I just can't really see Mastodon getting popular without it.

#bubblegum

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Hmm, The Fallout is not eligible for the Oscars 2023 and it wasn't eligible last year either. So it can win SXSW 2021 but just not even be allowed for the Oscars. Anyway, both X and Scream are eligible, but Oscar films tend to be picked from autumn releases and I don't think these are contenders.


It is all great how Jenna Ortega's talent is now so much recognised, resulting in The Fallout suddenly getting nominated in the 2023 awards season even though it premiered at sxsw 2021, and her Instagram followers jumping from 8 million to 38 million, but can we let her lead her own normal life in between jobs? You can see all the (presumably professional) autograph hunters on all the paparrazi photos.
#JennaOrtega


Using my note8 s-pen on my tab s4 to do the text extraction. It just works.


It looks like Schmigadoon! season 2 comes out 7 April. At least I see them mentioning "4.07" which I think is American for 7 April and not some room number. I got season 1 on Apple TV+ and I think it's like that worldwide.
#Schmigadoon #DoveCameron
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I loved the first season and I'm glad it'll be back.
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@ART // Cantankerous Tech // 🐀 It definitely was fun and I'll be watching this season too. It's going to be six episodes, one a week and the first two the first week. So something to look forward to for the Fridays.