https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH56qC6f8WQ

a missing database index
like snowy winter streets
would not a typeclass fix?

#pointfreeverse

bob keck and other favorites.

i got an email survey last week about rescheduling discon iii for later in 2021, possibly december. I hate waiting but I don’t enjoy virtual cons nearly enough.

The last large piece of missing functionality leading up to a Ktistec release candidate is complete.

Ktistec now runs scheduled tasks in a separate fiber. In particular, ActivityPub message delivery now happens in the background, which makes posting snappier.

Other new features:

• Remote follows
• Warning prompts before dangerous activities (deleting posts)
• Many bug fixes

#ktistec

Running Ktistec the First Time

One of Ktistec's design goals is to make installation and configuration as easy as possible. Rather than multiple supporting data store services, Ktistec uses Sqlite. The database, along with uploaded images, are stored on disk, for easy setup (and, more importantly, backup).

When you run Ktistec the first time, you'll set up the instance, and then you'll set up the primary account.

Ktistec needs to know the name of its permanent home on the internet. The host name is part of the identity of every account on the instance. My identity is "toddsundsted@epiktistes.com"—other federated hosts, and users, send messages and other content to me at "epiktistes.com". (This means you'll need a domain of your own, too.) Give the instance a site name and submit.

Once you name the instance, you create the primary account. Ktistec current supports only one account. This is intentional—another one of Ktistec's design goals is to promote a more fully distributed fediverse. A fediverse with a handful of large, multiuser services isn't a whole lot better than the world we had before, imo. (But don't worry—secondary accounts are on the roadmap.)

At a minimum, you need to specify the username and the password of the account. You can use a single character for the username, but you'll need six characters that include both letters, numbers and symbols for the password. Display name and summary are optional.

Once those two steps are done, you're online!

#ktistec

the strangest looking weather i’ve seen in a while.

a fistful of improvements to ktistec

• 6d1925b track a recent mastodon change that requires a signed digest on http posts
  annoying—epiktistes wasn't successfully federating with mastodon servers for days—but breaking compatibility in the interest of better security is an acceptable excuse (but don't get me started).
• bd6fb4d log encountered uncached external contexts
  ktistec parses and caches the contexts it cares about and ignores everything else. this change drops a message in the log when the server encounters contexts it doesn't know about.
• 1661226 wire in post reply and delete buttons
  posting is de rigueur for membership in the fediverse. deleting is just a good idea.

#ktistec