Most of the AI facial recognition cameras in the USA are from Flock and use small solar panels to keep the system battery charged. I've noticed that when I run small computers off small batteries and small solar panels even a bit of bird poop on the panel eventually causes the computer to run out of power. Bird poop, or bird poop simulants (like milk powder, black pepper, corn starch, water, wey powder) are non-destructive to solar panels or anyone's property. Sure would be cool if the birds would start helping.

I'll definitely give this a try. Older linux distros that have full working accessibility support don't run very well on modern hardware if at all (ie, the CSM compat mode quirks CSMWrap is meant to avoid). It'd be great to keep running my xorg linux with working screen reader on a modern ryzen system that'll last another 15 years.

> Older linux distros that have full working accessibility support

Such a sad state of affairs

they dont run in a VM well?

RMS was right, again. He called it decades ago in "The Right to Read". It must be extremely frustrating to see all this and know what changes need to be made to stop it and then have it happen anyway. Over and over.

> https://archive.is/yCaVV

When I load this URL I get "One more step Please complete the security check to access" and I cannot get past the archive.is computational paywall.

But the guardian article actually has text! Thanks.

That's a common issue if you use cloudflare dns.

satproto's implementation involves complex cryptographic signing and that makes it very not static. One needs to run a program of some sort to use satproto. The only static part is that the json that's operated upon.

This is not true of indieweb's web mention: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

It just uses HTTP POST (like pingback/trackback/etc, except it has a second step verifying the page sending the webmention actually has a link to a URL on the website). You can them them with a browser or cURL or some complex backend script. Receiving them is as easy as logging POSTs to a specific URL endpoint or even using someone else's community backend your site interfaces with via javascript (ie, https://webmention.io/ - not static since it uses JS). Or anything in between.

Totally decentralized and very simple. I implemented a simple nginx POST logging format in the config to receive on my static site. And HTML forms on my static site can send. http://superkuh.com/blog/2019-12-11-3.html

Webmention is cool indeed. Also one of few techniques that’s currently free of some corp’s greedy roadmap

Is spam a thing on webmention? Have the impression it is easy for spammers to generate webmentions to get attention.

I wonder what the signing is for if you already have a domain name to verify your authorship.

It doesn't use signing, aside from the signing that exists within TLS

I think they mean in s@.

...which doesn’t do signing, but does do E2E encryption? So it’s more like DMs-over-HTTPS.

Cloudflare are mafiosos. They create the problem and then sell you the solution to themselves.

I've run a personal mailserver from one of the "Don't use these ASN/Companies because there are already too many tor nodes" VPS hosts for 14 years (and going). They've had excellent service, I never had a problem with my neighbors on the shared hardware, and my mail deliverability rate has been on par with other services. Just one data point for you.

Flock AI cameras run off small solar panels. Having run my own computer systems off small solar panels I know that even a minor shadow or a bit of bird poop on the panel can decrease the output enough the computer eventually cannot run and shuts down. I bet Flock cameras have the same response to a bit of bird poop like substance or shadow.

Birds tend to be attracted to seeds.

This is not a pipe.