● NEWS ● #SimonAndrews #Standards #DKIM ☞ I figured out how #DMARC works, and it almost broke me https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc
#standards
● NEWS ● #JonUdell #Standards ☞ The Tao of #Unicode Sparklines https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/
Ran across an open letter about making ISO standards free (instead of hidden behind a paywall).
Reminded me of looking for the ISO standard for Modula-2 (my first love ;-)). Which is (at least in part) retracted/obsolete, but is still sold by ISO. For… almost 600 Euros for three standards documents, the base language, the generics extensions and the object oriented. The base is 214 Euros, while the two extensions are 170 each.
#modula-2 #wirth #nostalgia #retrocomputing #standards #paywall #eyewatering #freedom #scotland
Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall because it inhibits education and innovation
Many of the almost 24,000 technical standards maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO) are subject to copyright restrictions and are not freely available.
Two weeks ago, Jon Sneyers, senior image researcher at Cloudinary and co-chair of the JPEG XL (ISO/IEC 18181) adhoc group, invited fellow technical experts to collaborate on an open letter urging the ISO to set its standards free.
In an email to The Register, Sneyers explained that paywalled, copyrighted standards inhibit education and innovation.
These are standards that also reduce the cost of doing business, and which allow for various systems to interconnect with each other, for safety, and much more. It is actually crazy that they are not freely available for use. Even various ISO standards for free and open software protocols are hidden behind this paywall.
See Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall
#technology #ISO #openstandards #paywall #standards
Open letter drafted against what's seen as unjustified profiteering
this is a russian podcast on history of the fediverse: https://open.tube/videos/watch/db9cc76d-093c-4347-a49a-9af4246a1d92
i have to say they did a comprehensive research, or did know the history very well.
it starts with the early internet, email, then explains situation with messengers, xmpp, xml, rss, tells about aaron schwartz, and goes in to early fediverse projects, starting from identica.
in this podcast, diaspora is a tragic story. near the end of the podcast they mention the ticket to support activitypub, and that the comments were mostly not about whether it should be done, but on how it should be done. and then comes dennis schubert, critisizes the protocol and rejects the wanted proposal. then they say that diaspora is getting weaker - quantity of nodes decreases, while fediverse is getting richer - more and more people are attracted.
mastodon was mentioned as a huge success. well, it is a huge success. but they also mentioned that the project is heavy, slow, not easily deployed, has too many dependencies. most of that can also be said about diaspora. the pleroma was presented as an alternative, which is much faster, easily updated without downtime, thanks to underlying erlang ecosystem. it also supports gopher!
i did not think socialhome will be mentioned. but jason robinson was mentioned several times, as federation activist, diaspora developer, then the-federation.info author, and then they described the socialhome project in details, starting with its history. mentioned that it has very little number of nodes, and expressed the hope that it'll be developed further.
they also were talking about pixelfed, funkwhale, peertube, mobilizon, and the blog engines that support federation: write freely, plume, and that wordpress is able to federate with activitypub nodes via special plugin.
overall, very interesting, for me, listening, and a very good introduction for newcomers. thanks to creators. i am really thankful to creators, i wish the text was published, because i know many prefer to read, not listen, like me, also it would make the text searchable.
#russian #podcast #history #internet #diaspora #mastodon #decentralization #socialhome #pixelfed #funkwhale #peertube #mobilizon, #blog #rss #atom #writefreely #plume #wordpress #activitypub #federation #freedom #freedom_of_speech #freedom-of-speech #freedomofspeech #web #gopher #w3c #standards #protocol #protocols #research #listening
Re-thinking electronic mail
... There are good aspects the existing Internet email has that are still valuable enough that I continue to use it. I am, however, getting closer to the point that I’d like to make things radically better.
This essay collects my thoughts about email and what a replacement system might look like. I am not in a position to build the new system, but I can at least try to inspire more people to think about this and maybe the discussion will end up with something good. ...
-- Lars Wirzenius
I'm similarly less than gruntled with extant messaging options, privacy being another massive concern.
https://ideas.liw.fi/rethinking-email.html
#email #redesign #standards #LarsWirzenius #privacy #spam #monopolies
#foto #fotografieren #mywork #goodmorning #fbg #fbd #jamendo #CC
Guten Morgen #Welt!
#Yippiyayeeeh
#Swallows are back! \o/
Jo, ich weiß! Das #Foto ist da jetzt nicht so optimal, aber immerhin kann ich meine #Freude ausdrücken.
Und wenn ich mal 'ne #Idee äußern dürfte:
#Erdbeerkirmes, #Frühlingsfest der #Volksmusik oder #Frühlingskirmes, dass ist doch alles #Kappes
Ich fänd eine:
"The Return of the #Swallows - Party"
irgend wie viel besser. Da ist man nicht so terminlich festgelegt, die #Sache wird spontaner und man könnte mal die ollen #Standards verlassen.
Und da würde es bei mir viel #Kaffee geben, und #Kekse und #Kuchen und #Krümel und und und… :-)
#Party!
#Löwenzahn-Konfetti in die Luft schmeiß