| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 00:52 |
|
prologic |
So... Anyone feel like building an ActivityPub based decentralised app? |
| 01:35 |
|
pdurbin |
What would it do? :) |
| 07:44 |
|
prologic |
pdurbin Think Mastadon |
| 07:44 |
|
prologic |
but you run your own server instance |
| 07:44 |
|
prologic |
or join a friend's |
| 07:45 |
|
prologic |
I'm thinking a Markdown mostly freeform experience with unrestricted post length |
| 07:45 |
|
prologic |
so you can either write short notes to your followers or the public or large blog-like pieces if you wish |
| 07:45 |
|
prologic |
And of course be able to follow/subscribe to other feeds that are ActivityPub compatible |
| 11:38 |
|
pdurbin |
Ok, so not images or video. Words. I like words. Would it be anything like Plume? https://joinplu.me . I just heard of it yesterday. Also, I assume you're talking about a webapp. |
| 22:13 |
|
pdurbin |
So my almost 10 year old's school has all the students using Google Docs. The kids have figured out that they can create docs and share them with each other as a way to chat. She has some secret stuff she wants to tell her friend. I told her that Google can still read whatever she writes and that didn't sit well with her. |
| 22:15 |
|
pdurbin |
Then I told her that there's a way to keep her messages to her friend secret with something called encryption. She said, "After my soccer game, let's talk about it." I figured she'd forget about it. But then she asked about it a few hours later. |
| 22:16 |
|
pdurbin |
I told her to go ahead and create the Google doc for now and not to worry about it. But I'm wondering, what's a straightforward way to show a kid how to encrypt a message? |
| 22:18 |
|
aditsu |
is her name Alice? :p |
| 22:21 |
|
aditsu |
you could teach her how to use something that encrypts messages (maybe end-to-end), or you could teach her about encryption |
| 22:22 |
|
pdurbin |
Heh. I'm thinking something hands on. |
| 22:25 |
|
aditsu |
I suppose you could start with a Caesar cipher |
| 22:27 |
|
aditsu |
or a general substitution cipher |
| 22:27 |
|
pdurbin |
rot13? :) |
| 22:30 |
|
aditsu |
that's a particular Caesar cipher |
| 22:31 |
|
pdurbin |
sure |
| 22:32 |
|
pdurbin |
Not a bad suggestion as a start. |
| 22:33 |
|
pdurbin |
The newish Spy Museum in NYC has an interactive exhibit on substitution ciphers. |
| 22:33 |
|
pdurbin |
And a room where you avoid lasers. :) |
| 22:34 |
|
aditsu |
but do you get to see Cahterine Zeta Jones's curves? :p |
| 22:37 |
|
pdurbin |
not that I recall |
| 22:37 |
|
pdurbin |
But what's the next step for showing a kid encryption? |
| 22:38 |
|
pdurbin |
I haven't taught her the command line yet. |
| 22:39 |
|
aditsu |
on a computer? I guess you could shower her how to make a zip with a password, or set a password for an office document |
| 22:39 |
|
aditsu |
show* her |
| 22:41 |
|
aditsu |
although.. I'm not sure how much encryption they do in office documents, it might just be a flag |
| 22:41 |
|
pdurbin |
Yeah, I'm not sure. |
| 22:41 |
|
aditsu |
but archives are legit encrypted |
| 22:42 |
|
aditsu |
beyond that.. you'd probably want to use en encryption tool |
| 22:42 |
|
pdurbin |
She's weirded out about how her big sister locked herself out of her phone and how we were able to download all her photos from Google. She was like, "Wait, Google has a copy of all my sister's photos?!?" |
| 22:43 |
|
aditsu |
Google doesn't have my photos :p |
| 22:43 |
|
pdurbin |
It kind of saved our skin. |
| 22:43 |
|
pdurbin |
Her sister was pretty upset. |
| 22:43 |
|
aditsu |
can't you unlock it with the google password? |
| 22:43 |
|
pdurbin |
nope |
| 22:44 |
|
pdurbin |
We had to do a factory reset. |
| 22:44 |
|
aditsu |
weird |
| 22:45 |
|
pdurbin |
Anyway, the point is that I'm proud of the younger one for caring about privacy. |
| 22:45 |
|
aditsu |
my current phone has a microsd card :) |
| 22:46 |
|
aditsu |
in case of emergency, I can just take it out and use a usb reader |
| 22:47 |
|
pdurbin |
good plan |
| 22:49 |
|
pdurbin |
She knows substitution ciphers from Calvin and Hobbes. She's a big fan. So I probably don't need to start there. |
| 22:50 |
|
pdurbin |
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/11/04 |
| 22:55 |
|
aditsu |
it's great that she cares about privacy; it's kinda tragic that she has to live in these times :p |
| 22:56 |
|
pdurbin |
yeah |
| 23:01 |
|
pdurbin |
prologic: in short, my daughter has more of a need for end to end encryption than I do, apparently. :) |
| 23:03 |
|
aditsu |
have you introduced her to xkcd? :) |
| 23:04 |
|
pdurbin |
No, but my wife and I tried to see him the other week. He was supposed to interview Adam Savage from Mythbusters. But he had appendicitis, they said. |
| 23:05 |
|
pdurbin |
https://xkcd.com/2147/ |
| 23:07 |
|
aditsu |
pfft, using surgery as an excuse to miss appointments, how disgraceful |
| 23:09 |
|
pdurbin |
We were a little disappointed but what can you do. |
| 23:09 |
|
pdurbin |
I'm not sure how often he makes public appearances but he's just across the river from me. |
| 23:14 |
|
pdurbin |
aditsu: I forget if I told you that I'm playing a little piano here and there, and having fun with it. I'm working on page one of this version of Pachelbel's Canon in D: https://musescore.com/user/185147/scores/711791 |
| 23:15 |
|
aditsu |
ah, it builds up very slowly |
| 23:15 |
|
aditsu |
page 5 starts getting fun :) |
| 23:16 |
|
aditsu |
my wife has been taking piano lessons for a couple of years |
| 23:18 |
|
aditsu |
I don't think she can play this yet |
| 23:24 |
|
pdurbin |
I can handle page one so I just keep playing it over and over. I'm happy to be told exactly where to put my fingers because otherwise I would have no idea. I showed my sister, who's really good at piano, at Easter and she suggested a different fingering for one part but I think my fingers are longer than hers. :) |
| 23:26 |
|
aditsu |
cool |
| 23:27 |
|
aditsu |
even the first page involves some stretching, jumping around and mixing white and black keys |
| 23:28 |
|
pdurbin |
Sometimes I play it in an attempt to get my almost 10 year old to play her cello. Sort of a "look, Daddy practices too" I guess. |
| 23:37 |
|
aditsu |
I hope it works :p |
| 23:38 |
|
pdurbin |
She's switching to chorus at school next year but we signed up for another year with the private cello teacher, who's great. |
