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Good Tuesday everyone! WBH Volume 1 Issue 18 is here, and it’s jam packed. First, we have a featured perspective from Itto Outini on the value of personal networking and how personal networking is indispensible when it comes to universal/inclusive design. https://www.worldblindherald.com/humanity-humility-how-i-learned-the-value-of-in-person-networking-and-why-its-indispensable-for-universal-design/

—@worldblindherald

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Māori-language punk band Half/Time will appear on the same bill as the Welsh-language post-punk band Adwaith this week at the Focus #Wales festival in Wrexham.

While the two cultures developed on opposite sides of the world, both are subject to colonial rule and have felt the pain of having their languages suppressed. The festival arrives amidst a surge of interest in both countries in learning their languages.

h/t @nijhuism

#Indigenous #Māori #Welsh #Punk #Music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/01/maori-punk-band-halftime-tour-wales-indigenous-languages

—@Toastie

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Māori-language punk band Half/Time will appear on the same bill as the Welsh-language post-punk band Adwaith this week at the Focus #Wales festival in Wrexham.

While the two cultures developed on opposite sides of the world, both are subject to colonial rule and have felt the pain of having their languages suppressed. The festival arrives amidst a surge of interest in both countries in learning their languages.

h/t @nijhuism

#Indigenous #Māori #Welsh #Punk #Music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/01/maori-punk-band-halftime-tour-wales-indigenous-languages

—@Toastie

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Hey all, I’ve noticed that our beta test of post imports has resulted in old posts flooding timelines.

Sometimes these beta tests work without a hitch. But other times, we make new discoveries. I really want this feature to be available to everyone, but I acknowledge there’s been hiccups.

So I have a request. If you want to import your posts, please ask permission from @admin@calckey.social first.

Once we know you want to import, we will mute your feed for one hour — allowing you to post without disturbing your fellow calckey.social friends.

I appreciate your co-operation with this as we fine tune this fantastic new feature.

~⚛

—@admin

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Did you know that if you change the `dl=0` at the end of a dropbox link to `dl=1` it’ll just automatically download instead of taking you to that dumb webpage that plays videos terribly?

You did? Great.

DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU CHANGE IT TO `raw=1` IT WILL LOAD THE ACTUAL FILE IN THE BROWSER WINDOW WTF HOW DID I JUST FIND THIS

—@dan

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Regarding “AT was written because ActivityPub can’t handle portable content and identity”, I wrote up stuff about this *in 2017* https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot5-boston/blob/master/final-documents/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md and wrote a demo on how to do the portable content part https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

Good luck to the Bluesky / AT folks, truly. The main thing that frustrates me is this claim that AP can’t do this though. (The Bluesky folks are aware of this, we both wrote some documents about it together, so they *should* know, that’s my main irritation with the FAQ item that says ActivityPub can’t do it.)

But also:

– I am not currently focused on ActivityPub so maybe it’s not the best question to direct at me anymore
– I am focused on Spritely, which will eventually loop back to AP stuff, but that’s not its current focus (it’s a bit more general and dare I say a bit more revolutionary to how applications are written than that)
– I have never been interested in making a Twitter replacement because I am not convinced a global content space is necessarily a good idea
– It’s good that almost everyone agrees that decentralized networks are fundamentally necessary now though
– I am glad that AT/Bluesky is using DIDs and some other components that really might be truly useful
– I am not the best person to ask this question, but I guess I am one of the most obvious people to ask this question

—@cwebber