And now all the people going "ohhh the IETF has published IPv8", my brother in Christ, this is a DRAFT not representing ANY consensus

The absolute insanity of the multiple hallucinated additional RFCs WHICH ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND but cited as "critical dependencies"

To quote someone from the mailing list: "How quickly can we reject this?"

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/tpJOKSWGRMGOANSCrDFQTud80T0/

How hard is it to propose an #XMPP XEP?

Right now it seems name changes are applied retroactively to past messages, or at least Gajim does it that way. This means we can't use our display name to indicate who is talking.

@skyweird::gryphon says that didn't used to be the case when they were using XMPP back in the day? Which means someone came along and fucking changed the semantics of namechanges out from under everyone? (Which by the way, over in Matrix land they're trying to do /exactly/ that. There's a setting to retroactively apply name changes in Element now. It's /on by default/ IIRC. I bet one day they'll remove it.)

We need a way to embed your name into the message itself. That embedded name overrides whatever your global/per-room display name is. Singlets can leave it off and have their retroactive name changes; we can enforce actually seeing our names like they should be.

(Of course it's possible to infer the correct name from the chat history, which is what clients did before, but that's only reliable as long as some jackass doesn't come along and change the semantics out from under you, nuking the names on years of chat history... embedding the name would be a very clear signal "HEY, KEEP THIS NAME".)

I could write up a spec myself if that'd be helpful!

We're about to be homeless at the end of April.

Does anyone have a place we can crash, somewhere in California?

We're in the SF bay area right now, and don't have a car (or a license), so we kinda rely on having a functional transit system. We do have a CA learners' permit and are on food stamps and stuff so staying in California would be helpful for keeping those.

(We don't have a job yet, and are trying to get one but every time something starts to look promising we just get ghosted. There's a very real possibility we won't have something by the time we get kicked out.)

Can anyone help us out?

#MutualAid, uhhh is #GetFediHoused a thing? I don't know if there's a tag for "need a place to live"

"Wake up, sleeple!" ⏰

so uh
we rescued a set of 4K movie film scanners

does anyone need a set of 4K movie film scanners

if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh

I have a feeling that this might be of interest to some of you. Official Seattle Sound Transit collars featuring the rolling stock of the Link light rail and Sounder heavy rail systems.

https://soundtransitshop.com/search?q=collar&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

"you calling yourself transspecies hurts REAL TRANS PEOPLE and you're just an ugly cis person you don't know anything!!"

vs. "you're nonbinary? you're by definition transgender then!!"

PICK ONE. :V :3

(or preferably neither, but y'know)

this is probably a terminology thing. They probably think "anyone who's queer is transgender" or something. Or "anyone who's thought about their gender is transgender" or something. To which I say, uh, no.

"transgender" generally implies opposite or at least different gender. And no, I am male, and I am not transgender.

It pisses me off when people try to say "nonbinary people are transgender" too. I'm nonbinary and not transgender, if anything I'm nonbinary and /cis/. :3

People who've pondered their gender and come out the other side with the gender they went in with, just understanding it a bit better now, ARE IN FACT A THING.

subpost:

figuring out your gender and deciding what parts fit and what parts doesn't DOES NOT automatically make you transgender

fuck you, I'm male :V

also I would really like server software that doesn't use YAML for configuration

get that forced-space-indent tainted shit off our server

yes this is technically Synapse and not Matrix protocol but

ye gods

Okay good gods Matrix's admin experience sucks

I wanted to make an account for a friend

invite links? what invite links

...

admin UI? what admin UI?

admin CLI? WHAT admin CLI?

"just do a POST request and calculate HMACs yourself LOL"

#Matrix

seattle folks: anyone want a redbox machine? we've got a couple in our garage and need to clear out some space

TIL about academy.europa.eu, and that they have self-study material/courses for each EU language

including placement tests that estimate your skill level/find appropriate courses with the CEFR scale

very neat :o

Hm hey @roxy, is Blobun supposed to drop movement inputs during the animation in non-sprint mode? Like if we try to move left and then up, it doesn't register the up unless we wait for the move left to complete before pressing up.

Sprint mode fixes this, but it'd be nice to not have to sprint all the time!

(we're using the Linux native version on Debian 13, in case that's important! I'm not sure if you've gotten to really test the Linux build so I'm not sure if this is intentional design or just a Linux-specific oddity)

Oh huh @roxy! I didn't think we'd get Blobun in the $10 version of the queer games bundle, cool!!

Anthro furries, feral furries, therians, even zoos, we're all just "those animal weirdos" to the normies. So let's embrace being the animal weirdos instead of kicking each other down going "oh no we're not like THOSE evil people"!