@tim_lavoie I haven't checked in on SSB as a project in awhile, I was under an impression that it had dropped off a bit. But, the concept of it seems really appealing for a lot of reasons
@potch You could publish a collection of activities as a static resource, but nothing would fetch it periodically like RSS. Really, ActivityPub is meant to be a push-based protocol.
That said, if you're not planning to receive any activities, I think you could just not have a server with an inbox. Might be kinda weird, but: if all you're doing is sending out activities, you could do that with a RasPi behind a home router making signed HTTP POSTs.
@potch Another way I've played with ActivityPub is by using AWS Lambda for a serverless approach. For an inbox, you really just need an endpoint to receive POSTs - which a serverless API gateway can do just fine and scale up / down as traffic demands
@potch Yeah, it totally could work that way. One wrinkle might be the "authorized fetch" scheme used by Mastodon & friends - where as a reader, you need to sign an HTTP GET request with the private key of an activitypub actor (i.e. your account's key). But, that works as a kind of access control where you can filter or deny GET to particular actors (or anonymous fetches)
@jesse Yeah, that is so neat! I've got a raspi with a USB serial cable hooked up to an Apple II right now, but it would be so much neater to do from a website like that. You can also hook up an audio cable to play in MP3s of old tapes, but that's grungy
@mjgardner @jesse Yeah, alas 😞 IIRC, there were privacy or security concerns for each, but I still wish they were in the browser
@TheDarkHorse @randomgeek are we still doing "phrasing"?
Been looking up some "simple workbench" plans for "beginners" and found some wood working videos on YouTube.
4 out of 5 that I've found so far are like "first you're going to get twelve 2x6 boards from your stock pile and run them through a planer..."
Like, bud, what beginner already has planer and their own personal in-shop lumber yard?
Like, I've built a workbench before. But, all I really have is a miter saw and a circular saw. Kinda have to bootstrap the rest of a shop from there
I built four of these EAA Chapter 1000 workbenches before, and might do it again since I left those in another state. Pretty simple to slap together with basic tools. Maybe overkill for what I need, though, because I'm not building aircraft. Still, they seem pretty dumb simple compared to a few "simple" YouTube benches
@mike Oh yeah, I totally forgot I'd heard about a joiner's workbench before!
There we go... this was the kind of workbench build I was looking for!
@thisismissem @darius Oh, I had no idea! (which is your point) Thank you!
@billseitz Yeah, like as a home owner, every-other-week garbage pickup in the summer makes me rather irrationally incensed at dog walkers who plonk their waste bags in my empty can in the hours after pickup
@ashedryden That sucks - but also yay thank you. I see people pull their mask off to sneeze, and I'm like why are you even wearing it then?
@DrGoldfire I missed that news last week! But then I'm missing a lot of things
@DrGoldfire Heh, yeah, that news I do remember. I find myself weary of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
@Person good for you? experiences vary
lmorchard googling: brain is making persistent teapot whistle noise how to stop
Listened to a vergecast this morning talking about wearables and they mentioned Fossil smart watches.
Now I kinda want one of those old Fossil Palm OS watches :thonking:
Trying to be productive, but I may soon punt and go take a walk in the sun to toss peanuts to crows