I'm going to start doing some user research for #ActivityBot. I'd like to pay participants £20 / €20 for an hour of their time.
This has to be a voucher (no cash or cash-like cards) so which would you prefer?
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Woo! It's now official 😊
I'm getting some grant funding to further develop #ActivityBot.
If you have any feature requests or suggestions - or just want to build your own ActivityPub bot - check out https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot
I'm going to try and keep a record of all the bugs, errors, and inconsistencies I've reported in #ActivityPub and #Mastodon documentation.
First up, how big are the limits on what you can federate?
Mastodon lists some limits in KB/MB, but others are just raw numbers. That might make sense for an ASCII world - but emoji complicate everything.
Next is slightly more trivial - a broken internal link in the Mastodon documentation.
I think the #RFC9421 HTTP Signature algorithm should be explicitly included in #Mastodon's requests.
Feedback welcome - especially those explaining politely why I'm a wrong about this.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29905#issuecomment-5440336919
@Edent Currently on vacation so I might misremember, but afair the algorithm is already determined by the key used. So including it would do no harm, but is kind of redundant.
@dave I'm not sure I understand.
The *digest* says what algorithm it uses, but it isn't a given that the same algo will be used for the signature, right?
I can't find another reference to the algorithm in the public key.
Very happy to be told I'm missing something obvious :-)
@Edent RFC9421 only lists a handful of possible algorithms. IIRC if your key is ed25519 only one of them applies, similarly if the key is ecdsa. I think there are two possibilities for RSA keys, but we only support one for legacy reasons and do not plan to encourage future use of RSA so will likely never implement the other. So in practice looking at the key type should be sufficient to determine the algorithm used.
@dave ah, I think i get it.
Enjoy your holiday 😄
@Edent Well deserved! That thing was really useful to me while figuring out how ActivityPub all fits together. Nice one.
@Edent Yah. Congratulations
@Edent i guess i can find the MoU somewhere in nlnet ... is the reasoning attached?
@Edent congrats, that's awesome! 🎉
@Edent I voted books, but https://uk.bookshop.org/gift_cards rather than Kobo perhaps?
@Edent I voted books, but https://uk.bookshop.org/gift_cards rather than Kobo perhaps?
@Edent the Office for National Statistics, when they do surveys, give you one of these vouchers -- https://www.pluxee.uk/products/evouchers/ -- which the recipient can then choose from a bunch of different stores and restaurants and such. I turned mine into an M&S one one time and had a lovely dinner :)
No idea whether you have to buy 10,000 at a time or something, mind, or whether it'd work for you, but I found it useful, and the ONS presumably (hopefully?) did at least some due diligence on them being OK :)
@Edent Amazon voucher might have the widest appeal, unless you prefer not to support that company
@Edent een kadobon, maar let op geldigheidsduur: https://blog.gifty.nl/cadeaubonnen-wat-je-moet-weten-over-geldigheid-en-vervaldatum/
@wiert I don't really understand what you're trying to say, sorry. It is up to a recipient if they don't want to spend it in time.
@Edent sorry, thought you were Dutch. People are bad at remembering expiry dates, especially when they are years in the future. Luckily, there are still a few Dutch gift cards that don't expire.
@Edent guessing something electronic to keep your logistics reasonable? How about https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/ (covers £ and €) which would cover physical books (and maybe some eBooks options?)
@Edent Does GoG have vouchers?
