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• Post #2175109

  @kate@fosstodon.org Just thought I would write a note to thank you for your site grid.iamkate.com which injects much needed sanity into the attempts to spread disinformation about climate change. The number of folk who splutter about 'renewables not being viable' when wind is actually used to generate more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK is quite something. I am not a fan of nuclear power on account of the expense so I get accused of being ignorant quite a bit. I do have a doct...

• Post #2175108

  Had to reset my DNS server because some S-head was using it to mask the source of their DDoS attack. Anyone know of a bind9 switch that reduces the number of requests handled to no more than 200/hr? The service is on a Digital Ocean droplet and serves 'example.com' so that the test services can perform unit testing and build example material for Internet Drafts.

• Post #2175107

  If you were wondering how bad it is in the rest of social media, Facebook is now a worse fascist s-hole than Twitter. Or at least that is the case if you use Twitter Control Panel to purge the HTML of all Musk features, the For Fascism Feed, restore the bird, etc. etc. My Facebook feed is now 80% Russian bot clickbait memes trying to praise the US Confederacy, claim various celebrities are being cancelled for being 'woke' and praising the mighty Russian military and its stupendous T72...

• Post #2175106

  So trudging through Ivan Jablonka's History of Masculinity, some thoughts. First off, the alleged history of masculinity has very little mention of men or masculinity. Which, OK so playing the game of excluding men from their narrative like women are, yada yada. Problem is, I was already familiar with most of his material. What I was after was more insight into the mostly male crap heads who cause most of the problems in the world and Jablonka didn't really deliver. We are given a rece...

• Post #2175105

  Change is coming to Social Media and the X-odus and the explosive growth of Blue Sky is just the start. Blue Sky grew from a few million users to 23 million in three weeks. And not just any users, pretty much all of the core contributors on Twitter have joined the X-odus. Blue Sky has critical mass now, Twitter is starting to deflate. I have seen a lot of social media go from dominant to dead in the space of a few months: AOL, MySpace, GeoCities, USENET. All gone like tears in the rain. And d...

• Post #2175104

  I am spending most of my time on BlueSky right now. They seem to have got decentralization more right than Mastodon has to date. There is really no reason why the two systems need to be separate. @hallam is an identifier that is controlled by infosec.exchange rather than me. If Mastodon supported use of the BlueSky handle system, I could be @phill.hallambaker.com in both places, post to both under the same handle, interact with both. Maybe merging with BlueSky doesn't seem very appealing...

• Post #2175102

  Big progress on my @nyone scheme which allows people to exchange contact card information by means of DNS handles or QR codes in an industry standard format (JSContact) with extensions that support inclusion of cryptographic credentials linked to specific applications and automatic updates. Why is this important? Because once Alice and Bob exchange their contact information, they each have all the contact addresses and all the cryptographic credentials they support, both today and in the future...

• Post #2175101

  @evan I was just trying to DM you like your post suggests, but can't find a DM capability.

• Post #2175100

  Spent some time thinking about what it would take to bind Mastodon and the ATmopsphere and the remains of the blogosphere into a single information space. Yes, I do realize some folk would rather erect a little moat around their social space rather than to unite against the people yelling 'free speech' as pretext for censoring all opposition to the orange rapist. Well tough. First dimension of welding together the social media is to enable people to use a single account anywhere. OAUTH...

• Post #2175097

  The OpenAI / Oracle / nVidia deals are a clear cut example of circular finance. Also known as 'Enron accounting'. nVidia 'invests' $100 billion in Open AI. OpenAI stock price soars. Open AI 'pays' Oracle $100 billion for cloud services to support their AI. Oracle stock price soars. Oracle 'pays' $100 million to nVidia to 'buy' GPUs, nVidia stock soars. And all the time, the CEOs and top execs at all three companies are exercising and selling their stoc...

• Post #1312444

  Having spent nearly 30 years building PKIs, I have some thoughts on the matter that I think may be relevant to adding end-to-end communication capabilities to Mastodon. 1) Don't add crypto capabilities to Mastodon, add them to the Fediverse. If Fred is using some Fediverse version of a Medium/Substack like service, I want to be able to use the same contact info to contact him there as I use here. 2) Don't add crypto capabilities to the Fediverse, add them to the Internet. Take the big...

• Post #1312442

  Huge progress on the Mesh last week, I have completed the plumbing for the (optional) naming infrastructure. Forget all the talk about 'end to end' and 'decentralization'. The single biggest issue for giving ordinary Internet users control over their digital lives is giving them lifelong control over the names they use to identify themselves. You cannot be a first citizen on Twitter or Facebook because they own your account name and can yank it away at any time they choose. Sam...