Damian’s notes

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  Iron Spike on Twitter *creeps into your timeline* Hey. I wanna talk about this painting.…

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  Why does decentralization matter? Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

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  Letterform Archive on Instagram: Susan Skarsgard, 26 of 26: An Edition of Twenty-Six Alphabets, 2009. See more in the Online Archive : link in bio.

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  Government to approve first Jedi faith school - National Secular Society

• The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem Can you imagine Facebook closing registrations and saying “Sorry, we have too many users already, you can go sign up on Twitter instead”? And yet, this sort of situation comes up with Mastodon every so often, in regards to the mastodon.social server.

• Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1 Abstract This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users. Conceptually, one or more public key credentials, each scoped to a given WebAuthn Relying Party, are created by and bound to authenticators as requested by the web application. The user agent mediates access to authenticators and their public key credentials in order to preserve user privacy. Authenticators are responsible for ensuring that no operation is performed without user consent. Authenticators provide cryptographic proof of their properties to Relying Parties via attestation. This specification also describes the functional model for WebAuthn conformant authenticators, including their signature and attestation functionality.

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  Iron Spike on Twitter Hey, so. Let's talk about one of the most misunderstood genres in European, specifically Flemish, art.…

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  Reiwa: how Japan's new era name is breaking tradition | World news | The Guardian

(Via Anton Arhipov on Twitter)

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  JEP draft: Add detailed message to NullPointerException describing what is null