"#War #Manifesto On #Compliance Frameworks:
Turning #Protocols, #Regulations & #Standards Into Monetization Weapons
(#BaselIII, #CCPA, #Dodd-Frank, #ESG, #GDPR, #HIPAA, #HITECH, #IATF16949, #IEC/ISO #9001/#14001/#27001/#45001, #NIST, #PCI #DSS, #SOC 1/2/3, #SOX & All Other Current/Future #Frameworks)"
A tripartite cell-free translation system to study mammalian translation.
#RNA #Translation #Cell-FreeSystem #Mammals #Protocols
Did you know that #GNU/ #FSF has its own #darknet application and protocol stack?
What is #GNUnet?https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
GNUnet is an #alternative #network stack for building #secure, #decentralized and #privacy-preserving #distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure #publication of #files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.
Today, the actual use and thus the social requirements for a global network differs widely from those goals of 1970. While the Internet remains suitable for military use, where the network equipment is operated by a command hierarchy and when necessary isolated from the rest of the world, the situation is less tenable for civil society.
Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".
We believe liberal societies need a #network #architecture that uses the #anti-authoritarian #decentralized #peer-to-peer paradigm and #privacy-preserving #cryptographic #protocols. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal.
“The #Signal #leak was never about an #app. It was a diagnostic stain, exposing the rot festering beneath the Mythic US’s #veneer of #democracy and #law. The fleeting obsession with #encryption #protocols and personnel errors encapsulated the farce: a society expertly trained by its #distraction #machine to fixate on trivialities while the Operational US – the militarist-oligarchic core – wages #illegal #wars with #psychopathic #impunity”
A great video about why #Bluesky is NOT recommended as a truly open and independent alternative to mainstream #socialmedia.
@niccolove @niccolo_ve
#activitypub #fediverse #atproto #protocols #thefutureisfederated
Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 
(5/n)
... I still have one, but federated #XMPP just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche" .
If you wanted to dig down even further, you'd get to the point where you'd have to deal with #Protocols:
https://eattherich.club/@jmhorner/110991346559623491
A French 
librarian association made an...
When it comes to #Dentralised social media, #ActivityPub (and #Mastodon by extension ) offers a good middle ground. Other #protocols either are too technical for normal people or they rely on a company for funding ( e.g #Bluesky )
Giving this whole (maybe weekly) #LinkDump thing a go (in lieu of [and so far successfully escaping] writing newsletters)
Guide to securing your digital life and protecting your privacy
https://digital-defense.io
Computer Networks From Scratch
https://www.networksfromscratch.com
Obsidian notes about 100s of network concepts/topics
https://notes.networklessons.com/
Protocols for synchronisable data stores
https://willowprotocol.org/
https://earthstar-project.org/
https://try.st.imu.li/projects/vernode/ (via @tryst)
Social web translator (HTML, JSON, ActivityStreams, Atom, RSS etc.)
https://granary.io/
#CollapseComputing #FrugalComputing #VM #ConcatenativeProgramming
The Collapsible Project
https://wiki.collapsible.systems
CollapseOS & DuskOS
http://collapseos.org/
https://duskos.org
tiny-ps — Web component to display PostScript inside HTML
https://github.com/bellenuit/tiny-ps
https://belle-nuit.com/my-journey-to-postscript
ESP32-S3 w/ 4.7" touchscreen E-paper display
https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/papers3
Lilygo T5 E-Paper S3 Pro
https://lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-s3-pro
Lilygo T-Deck Plus (Meshtastic, GPS, 2000mah battery)
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
Community (and partially solar) powered online E-ink art frame
https://www.omniframe.art/
Upcoming exhibition @ ZKM Karlsruhe which will also include a custom version of my own DeFrag piece
https://zkm.de/en/2025/04/the-story-that-never-ends
Zimoun's sound architectures, installations & sculptures — always an inspiration on many levels...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4Kx6R7nv0
Kill the “User”: Musings of a disillusioned technologist
https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/
Today I'm reading Romeo Foxtrot Charlie 1540
The request for comments RFC are important documents to learn from*
(even when they are obsoleted you always learn from the Basics*)
#RFC #protocols #standards #network
#tsh #sh #zsh #ksh #Unix
@ayo did you come across #radicle yet? Looks really intriguing. They did a lot of R&D, seem to have nailed the #protocols now. I'm going to try it for my next #opensource project
Next Monday I will speak about…
"How to chat with your friends in 2025?!"
"And how to NOT build the next standards"
#protocols #xmpp #sip #matrix
#project ?vs? #product #opensource #business #service
Thank you @webmontagbonn for this opportunity! :)
Pairwise Authentication of Humans
Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations.
To mitigate that risk, I have develop... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/pairwise-authentication-of-humans.html
My wife and I have two cards for an account with a major credit card. Traveling recently, she'd made a purchase on that card that triggered texts and emails to me worrying about fraud. This really bugs me.
Don't ask me why they're asking ME, not her. They CAN tell the cards apart. They should have asked her directly. It'd have been even faster. Delay was due to asking the wrong person.
"Charge OK? Yep. OK, done." That's all it should have been.
I verified things with my wife and texted back to the card's SMS query that it was OK.
But even after I inefficiently confirmed all was well, upon going to the web site, I was again confronted with the Fraud Department wanting to confirm purchases that I had already, through their clumsy interface, dismissed as non-issues.
Also at the site, I saw that they were playing a back-and-forth thing where the vendor was repeatedly retrying apparent new transactions to get an affirmative response. Every vendor in the universe likely knows there's no other way to get past this than to keep trying.
Given how bad their internal bookkeeping is, that they don't know I've dismissed this alert, I kept wondering what the chances are that sometimes people just get double-billed. You'd like to think there was a consistent state, a database, a single source of authority with data integrity and a unique view, but then again, they're not showing evidence they're good at that.
And now today I got mail from their fraud department asking me about my experience and whether, based on that, I'd recommend the card to a friend.
It WASN'T an incident of fraud. It was confirmed normalcy. It should have been finished now. Having already wasted my time once, they want to waste it more?
And let's leave aside my annoyance at the fact that every business in the universe has converged on this practice which (a) assumes I make recommendations based on a single experience, and/or (b) seems to be trying to single out an agent for blame, rather than considering process.
I seriously doubt that feedback from these surveys ever reaches the people designing the offending processes because modern customer service seems to have as its bedrock principle that no one inside the company should ever learn what the customer experience is. It feels like the purpose of customer service is as armor to make sure that the business can really see, much less absorb, the vast amount of useful information that customers would willingly provide about just how bad their product is. I think this because the worst parts never change, no matter how many of these surveys I fill out.
Here's what I wrote today:
«Declining a valid charge is not the answer to fraud. You may feel hampered by existing protocols, but the credit card companies all have this problem and all profess helplessness. They/you own this problem.
The problem is that every time you decline a purchase, the person we're buying from can't tell the difference between a stolen card, someone who doesn't manage money right, and you just being nervous. Create a way to send an error code that distinguishes these. A temporary error that says "I'm querying the customer, please retry this transaction." or even a way to just ask a question before responding. It's completely preposterous that the correct solution to this problem is to leave egg on my face because you can't have rational network protocols that fairly represent the actual information that needs to be represented.
You're using outdated ways of doing things because you're too lazy to make a new standard, and you figure it's just fine if you sully the reputation of every customer every time they make a nervous-making transaction, that they'll be fine about it, that they won't mind the uncomfortable conversations, that they love to have email, text, etc. in a zillion different places for a single transaction, information that confusingly lingers after-the-fact an that is just clutter.
So you're asking me now whether I think that was a kind of fun experience that would make me recommend your card to someone else? Do you hear yourself? Did this question really need to be asked?
What you did does not instill confidence. It just makes a mess of a routine situation that should have a routine interaction, and there is nothing about this interaction that has the look of routine, other than that customers are used to getting dumped on big Big Credit and having to take whatever you dish out.»
After more multiple choice questions, they asked if I had any other comments to add. I did add some reminders about alert fatigue and how real problems are likely to slip through the cracks when they're doing these other things.
Is it any wonder that not all of us are reassured by billionaires taking over the US and saying "don't worry, we're good at this", "deregulate us", "run the US like a business"?
"…there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of #Bluesky or the #ATprotocol, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to control things like identity, illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough for most users (many of whom likely don't know or care about #decentralization or #protocols, etc) but it's likely to be a centralized system that relies on trusting a central authority.
Decentralized in theory, but centralized in practice."
https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesky-decentralized-its-complicated/
I don't think ActivityPub needs to be reinvented, although it could certainly be better maintained. Maintaining the spec might be an unenviable job given the multitude of competing interests, so it should be rotated or voted on.
Something like Gemini but with an equivalent to webforms would be good, and enable more of an alt-web to become established against the corporate browsers.
#Protocols #Internet
@Etche_homo @pomarede i decided not to establish my presence in any service that doesn't allow me to #migrate my #social #network to another #server / #selfhost easily. There are really good posts detailing how #enshittification happens for every service with high exit cost. Therefore I'm fully supporting open #protocols (such as activity pub, rss or email) over services.
#science and #democracy have (at least) one thing in common: They take into account that #humans are #flawed and put #policies and #protocols in place to minimise the #damage such flaws (#greed, #bias, #stupidity, #corruption, #narcissism, #ego, #burnout, #ignorance etc.) can do.
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