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Hey @seb! Welcome to Thimbl
@feom, a remote thimbl client needs to authenticate against the user's own host, since the user stores their own data. SSH is the best possible choice to do this. As to *which* ssh account, that's up to you. The one you want to use for Thimbl. As for keys instead of passwords, that is possible, but no clients have support for this yet. Also, you are not required to use a remote client at all, you can use a local client (like Thimbl-CLI) on the actual server that your finger account is hosted an, and thereby never need to remotely authenticate.
Hey big welcome to Phimbl users! I'll be following all of you!
Hello @arturo!!! Welcome to you and Phimbl!
hey @feoh, actually anybody with a finger/ssh account on any host can, if they like, log in here with there finger account and ssh password if they have a thimbl compatible .plan file like this:
bit.ly/dotplan
Hey @knarf, Thimbl is decentralized, if you don't want to use client hosted by somebody else, you don't have to! You can install a web-based or console based client on your machine. Any Thimbl user can use any client to follow any other Thimbl user on any host.
thimbl.tk is the client we use, others can use it if they like, but thy do not need to.
@ben, hey Ben! Welcome to Thimbl, sorry I missed your comment.
@feoh, it's your ssh username/password, ThimblSinging is just a Thimbl client that is web-based.
Hey @feoh, democracy has also never been achieved. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to understand the principals of political philosophy and apply them where we can. For Telekommunisten, that's telecommunications and media art. Maybe one day we will have a thimbl enabled pop machine, probably not coke though, perhaps the munich CCC will finger enable the Matemat.
Welcome, feoh. As a founder of telekommunisten and thimbl, the politics is what motiviates me to undertake these projects, see
http://j.mp/telekommunist-manifesto for more detail. In anycase, enjoy thimbl as far as I know the you can't catch communism from the finger protocol. unfortunately. cheers.
Hey @zeh, I would see p2p banking and currencies as part of Venture Communist, the idea of Insurgent Finance is to use speculative-grade bonds to take over existing enterprises as an alternative to bootstrapping new ones.
Insurgent Finance! My thoughts written on my phone on the way to #platpol11 last night, cleaned up and edited.
http://post.ly/21kjb
Hey @anthony, that's great!
Democracy Diner. Written before the Obama election, but might cheer up depressed Canadians (or not)
http://post.ly/1z5c6
Hey, welcome @Praveen and @Claudio!!
@anthony, no haven't tried it. But looks interesting, for sure. Although I probably wouldn't run erlang for a cms, since that's the sort of thing I would just run on shared virtual hosting, not our servers.
Hello @Dereckson! Welcome!
@anthony, I understand that better haskell IO is coming.
Join us in inscribing upon on our banners the revolutionary slogan, "Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered!"
http://bit.ly/jrsPeT
Hey @zeh, @anthony, the only true measure can be capital mutualized vs labour power captured by Captal.
Hey @zeh, @anthony, the only true measure can be capital mutualized vs labour power captured by Captial.
Hey @fguillen, nice to see new distributed microbloging platforms emerging, but IMO, the architecture of oStatus stuff, as base, is much too complex for wide adoption, and the tiers are not well defined. With Thimbl, you could host your Finger service on a device as small and simple as your home router. Requiring a full webstack (even as nice as Sinatra) to run on the host server is the wrong approach, IMO.
Hey funny @zeh, I just shared that link with some colleagues this morning.
The Currency of the Commons: Dmytri Kleiner about the "Telecommunist Manifesto" and the Currency of the Commons
http://vimeo.com/20196823
RT @iamleeg (from Twitter) You people using StatusNet are so funny. Distributed microblogging jumped the shark when John Carmack stopped updating his .plan file.
Hey @bbachler, no problem, keep me posted on how it goes. BTW, the #freeswitch IRC group on freenode is great.
Actually, it's what Singing has in it's know users list. Is that derived from followings or logins?
Hey @fguillen, it's not up to me ;) It's what other users have in their following
@fguillen, the website itself,
www.thimbl.net, only has 3.3% IE over the last 90 days.
@fguillen, yes the duplicate messages are because my finger server has many domains, so I can be followed at dk@
telekommunisten.org, dk@
thimbl.net and dk@
thimbl.tk, so need to have a way to indicate aliases, perhaps an accounts [] collection in the .plan?
@bbachler, the reason I use FreeSwitch and not Asterisk, is that I find FreeSwitch more flexible and customizable. You can easily. I like the Dialplan XML format, and have generally written my scripts in JavaScript. My feeling is that Asterisk is great if what you want is a PBX for an Office. FreeSwitch is my prefered choice when what I am making is not a PBX, but a telephony application of some sort.
@fguillen, the new version of ThimblSinging is great!
@fguillen, yeah, the version seems to work.
Monday morning, on the plan for this week: SSL for Thimbl Singing.
Heading back to Piet Zwart for lunch and goodbyes, thanks to everyone for a great couple of days!
Piet Zwart Institute now has the largest number of Thimbl users at any one host!
Thanks @rw!! We're all laughing here that we got a response!
Yo, @ashull, stop posting from the Future ;)
@naikomdemus, it works. Welcome.
transmediale was fun, Thimbl got a distinction and moves onwards...
Tonight @cbase: monochrom & Telekommunisten run DISMALWARE an antivirus toolkit for your liberal Western brain
http://bit.ly/dismalware
Hello from the thimbl workshop
@ed: have you tried frozen soup?
@spaetz: first response ;)
I'm working on a new option parser for node called Operetta, will release soon
@mark, great updates, your lates has been merged into the Telekommunisten repos
@mark, if we store the dats in GMT/UTC in the .plan, then timezones are no longer an issue
@mark, never mind about unfollow, I just read your blog ;)
@mark, just one more thing! perhaps convert dates to GMT? Otherwise sorting is affected by timezones
@mark, or perhaps follow would first try to finger the account before adding it, to verify it's a real thimbl account?
@mark, also a feature request, can we have a 'read' command that combines fetch+print? and unfollow would be nice (like when you make a typo in an address)
@mark, ok, using climbl now, posts are sorted in order. great. can't we keep the command as 'thimbl' though? it's nicer and more obvious (principal of least surprise)
@mark, not using the version I am, seems to sort by user then date, instead of just date, I tried to pull in the latest from your repo, but then the thimbl executable vanished.
@mark, would it be better if the posts where sorted by data, and not user?
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