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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in dreaming. I practiced recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the hashtag entirely.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Yay! Completed 2 milestones in the roadmap! But added 4 more. This...this is progress, right?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae Ah, okay. I tend to make moral judgements about people who visit North Korea. Largely because they tend to be Dennis Rodman.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae Good lord. Did this guy move on to become a Lemmy dev? Because he seems like someone who has opinions about China.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae OMG this article is infuriating! Why did this guy use real HTML headings, and yet also keep the markdown formatting? What is this weird combination of both HTML and markdown at the same time it's making me cry.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae Use the FIDO stuff and have everyone store it on their YubiKey or as a passkey. The advantage is that everyone is forced into having a hardware 2fa device. I'm...mostly half joking.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@phnt @feld @arcanechat @jae I mean, nobody is going to implement it without key distribution sorted out. But once it is, I see no reason why a bunch of people wouldn't. I'd be happy to get it into iceshrimp and the clients I use. And the loops/pixelfed guy has already talked about it previously. And Sharky/firefish/whatever it's calling itself today will implement it because they implement everything. Pleroma and gnusocial will say they're going to implement it, but never will, eventually leaving it up to Akoma. GoToSocial will implement it five years later. Mastodon will implement something shaped like it, but use entirely different encryption and key formats. But eventually, everyone will have some form of it, and will all be able to exchange encrypted IMs with each other.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae What this thread has ultimately proved is that what we need is E2E for Activity Pub. Then we can all just IM over the fediverse. Equally unblockable because it's just HTTP to random places. And with none of my concerns around centralized control, and none of the XMPP baggage, and not trying to synchronize an entire dag the way Matrix does.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae I suspect PGP is the future. OMEMO is just kind of a crappy design. The issues with it were mostly solved, but they're just not worth it. As Matrix is also discovering. Though I don't know enough about cryptography to comment on the security trade offs, just the UX ones. There's some guy who runs a furry blog with opinions who's name I honestly can't remember. I'll leave that to him.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@phnt @feld @arcanechat @jae I mean in an ideal world, everyone just runs their own server they trust. But yes, in the actual world, OMEMO encrypted file uploads should be supported.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae No alt text? Really?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @arcanechat @jae Or gets phished. Or a virus. Or has her tokens stolen. Most attacks on messengers these days are more than just phishing usernames/passwords.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@phnt @feld @arcanechat @jae I've never even heard of conversations. Nobody I know uses it; we're all Monal or Siskin. They should really get on updating, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
21h
@phnt @feld @arcanechat @jae What does OMEMO file attachments that the existing file transfer over HTTPS doesn't give you?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @arcanechat @jae What is? What a particular SSL cert uses is up to the domain owner.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @phnt @arcanechat @jae Most things only implement OMEMO2. 1 was deprecated years ago. Time to update your client.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @arcanechat @jae Who knows. If I had a library written in the language I'm using I wouldn't even have to think about it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
22h
@feld @arcanechat @jae If someone MITMs a cert, the cert fingerprint still changes, and you get warned. Just like how SSH works.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @arcanechat @jae But the rpc process is sending me data it got from the internet. So now I'm responsible for checking for shell injection issues along with everything else. If only I just had a library that integrated directly with the tools I already use, instead of doing a clumsy RPC dance.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@phnt @feld @arcanechat @jae I have no idea what Kaidan does. But from a brief glance as someone who doesn't use it, it looks fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
22h
@feld @arcanechat @jae Yes, because shell injection is not a thing that can ever happen, right?
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