jdarcy

I've commented a few times about some issues I see with the scalability of ActivityPub - the protocol behind the Fediverse and its best-known implementation Mastodon. A couple of folks have asked for more elaboration, so ... here it is.

First, let me add some disclaimers and warnings. I haven't devoted a lot of time to looking at ActivityPub, so there might be some things I've misunderstood about it. On the other hand, I've brought bigger systems - similar node counts and orders of magnitude more activity per node - from broken to working well based on less study of the protocols involved. So if you want to correct particular misconceptions, that's great. Thank you in advance. If you want to turn this into an appeal to authority and say that I'm wrong only because I haven't developed a full ActivityPub implementation or worked on it for X years ... GTFO.

What

What is ActivityPub? It's an HTTP- and JSON-based protocol for exchanging information about "activities". An activity could be many things.

zakariaf

Rails 7 new features. Before and After

• Add ComparisonValidator
• PostgreSQL generated columns
• PostgreSQL custom enum types
• Add tracking of belongs_to association
• association_previously_changed? method
• Add invert_where method
• Add associated method
• Add missing method
• Active Record Encryption

dvf

If you're using a high-end bluetooth headset on your Macbook Pro it's likely your mac is using an audio codec which favors battery efficiency over high quality. This results in a drastic degradation of sound, the SBC codec is the likely culprit, read more about it here.

Find out what codec you're using

1. Play a song on your headphones
2. Option (⌥) click the Bluetooth button at the top of your screen
3. If you're using AAC or aptX, you can stop here—those are the highest quality codecs.

Change your codec to AAC or aptX

bcomnes

1. brew install gnupg, pinentry-mac (this includes gpg-agent and pinentry)

2. Generate a key: $ gpg --gen-key

3. Take the defaults. Whatevs

4. Tell gpg-agent to use pinentry-mac:

   $ vim ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf 
   

brandonb927

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cheeaun

# http://twitter.com/dbergey/statuses/19335348554
# To search .less files with AckMate, put "--type-add=css=.less" in your ~/.ackrc file. Magic.

--type-add=css=.less

attilagyorffy

/* Ismael Celis 2010
Simplified WebSocket events dispatcher (no channels, no users)

var socket = new ServerEventsDispatcher();

// bind to server events
socket.bind('some_event', function(data){
  alert(data.name + ' says: ' + data.message)
});