3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.

Of all the things that my phone is supposed to be able to do this is the one thing I never touch. It has never worked better for me than just doing it with my own two thumbs.

Does anyone actually use their voice to control their phone (not voice typing)?

So Activpub needs an actor with an inbox and outbox to send and receive content. A did is a virtual actor that reroutes to a real actor and collects content across real actors.

Gpg public keys have a dedicated email address field. And if you don’t want to share your “real” email address then just make a new one. (edit) Or don’t include one.

And the did stores ur profile picture a public key display names bio etc etc.

Yeah that’s a pain point I experienced with Gpg armored packets, I couldn’t figure out a way to pack in a PFP. Even shrinking it to 64x64 made the public key file feel too heavy. So I just decided profile pics are out of scope and you should just use gravatar.

U could use pgp as the key in the did if the devs want to support it as a cryptography protocol. The did is also used to sign each message similar to pgp. U simply need more functionality than what pgp provides.

I 80% agree. I do wish PGP armored packets had extra fields and if that’s an RFC that could be sent to the Gnupg maintainers then gpg would be absolutely perfect but I haven’t gotten around to figuring that out. All things considered since GnuPG already exists and it’s already installable everywhere and it already works I figured I could just roll with it for userless atleast. I want to use GPG for all user authentication related concerns.

Whelp here I go again

Why not GPG!!??

I’ve been working on my own idea for what the “fediverse” should be, I’m calling it userless because I want to avoid users in the database and I wanna use GPG as the individuals identity because it already exists and can yes perfectly verify for me who created a post, I’m not sure why we need more than that.

I haven’t flushed the whole thing out yet and I plan to hand write proper docs for the protocol.

But GPG has been around since forever. I’ve been told that it’s too hard to use, it’s insecure, it’s too old. And when I use the thing I just don’t agree, there is nothing technically wrong with the product like it should be way more popular.

I’m so upset that this isn’t all that matters. Carriers usually setup really nice contracts with manufacturers for things like exclusivity and marketing.

I am 100% open to exploring other equally zero effort alternatives if only I had the time CURSE being an adult (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ . Is there anything better I should use, hopefully using existing ssh keys please.

I still use sshfs. I can’t be bothered to set up anything else I just want something that works out of the box.