“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.”
#LeslieLamport

The editors of Wired (@wired.com) appear determined to turn an article about GrapheneOS into a hit piece. Wired contacted James Donaldson, CEO of Copperhead, and appears to be treating his thoroughly debunked fabrications about the history of the project as their primary source. This is outrageous.

iroh for payments How Paycode used iroh to connect payment terminals to point of sale systems at highway toll booths, with no additional servers and full compliance.

Who says you need to buy new hardware? It's always a magic feeling when you can supercharge old Android-based terminals and Windows 7 machines with peer-to-peer!
www.iroh.computer/blog/paycode

BTW: your prices are super low. Would gladly pay 50% more!

Wtf?!
Would love a more detailed blog post or similar!
Sounds like a typical "cloud" story...
Selfhosting for the win!
All the best for the transition - you will get through this!!!

You made it to #twir!
this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/04...

Love it!
Could you please provide an RSS feed for the podcast?
You seem to only publish them on Apple, Spotify etc. - all closed platforms 💔

A tour of iroh YouTube video by number 0

just re-watched this intro to @iroh.computer.
it's THE perfect tech-edu video i have seen. no joke.
concise, great pace and educative+entertaining (eduent?!).

ps: maybe there is something cooking with iroh somewhere on my localhost

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHa...

@getdweb.net to me it seems like the video was uploaded without...mh video, aka for me it's only audio...was that intended? 😇

Surelock I hate deadlocks. Maybe you do too.

🦀🔐☠️ Tired of deadlocks? Me too! Here's a post about a library that I've been working on to help wrangle the problem in Rust

notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock

Meta’s Rollback of Encryption on Instagram Undermines Privacy and Civil Rights Today, CDT joined fellow members of the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition in expressing serious concern over Meta’s decision to discontinue encryption for direct messages on Instagram. Encryption had been offered as an opt-in feature, and users had to enable it in every individual chat. As a result, it was never widely deployed, […]

Today, CDT joined the @globalencryption.org Steering Committee (Global Partners Digital, Internet Society Foundation, Mozilla ,+ @internetfreedom.bsky.social) in expressing serious concern over Meta’s decision to discontinue encryption for direct messages on Instagram.

The Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat Anthropic's Mythos makes autonomous vulnerability chaining across devices a sudden reality, so I've been thinking about how digital 'antibotty' inoculation networks may be needed far sooner than I exp...

The Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat! My musings on the implications of the Mythos preview, and that we need to shake up how we approach building software beyond formal specification anil.recoil.org/notes/intern...

Top three browser extensions: Obsidian Web Clipper, uBlockOrigin & DarkReader

GitHub - sheeki03/tirith: Terminal security for developers and AI agents. Intercepts homograph URLs, pipe-to-shell, ANSI injection, obfuscated payloads, data exfiltration, and malicious AI skills/conf... Terminal security for developers and AI agents. Intercepts homograph URLs, pipe-to-shell, ANSI injection, obfuscated payloads, data exfiltration, and malicious AI skills/configs before they execute...

just found this nice tool that checks CLI commands for suspicious UTF sequences (e.g. homograph attacks) and more!

github.com/sheeki03/tir...

Demetrious Johnson Named To 2026 UFC HALL OF FAME CLASS 📣 YouTube video by UFC

finally! incredible human, most advanced MMA athlete and undisputed champion.
so happy to see the UFC finally paying him some respect.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-rI... #ufc #mma #mightymouse

Awesome! Thanks!

Public Ledger of Credentials Organization has been founded as a Swiss association

Initial board Bryan Newbold Richard Barnes Wendy Seltzer Filippo Valsorda Thyla van der Merwe

Some personal/protocol news!

Looking forward to helping make PLC the trustworthy and auditable bedrock of identity on atproto.

Catch me, @wseltzer.bsky.social, or @bnewbold.net at #AtmosphereConf if you want to chat!

We’re still getting started but want to be transparent even in the early stages.

The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

Peer-to-Peer is the true "serverless".
Shame that the term was stolen by marketing efforts for systems that couldn't be "servermore".

#wokeuplikethis #p2p #cloud

Just found out about it from the one and only @thorstenball.com.
Great newsletter!

Stripe Projects | Provision and Manage Services from the CLI Enable you or your agents to provision hosting, databases, auth, AI, and more from the CLI. Generate credentials and manage usage and billing in one place.

Wild.
Didn't expect this product from stripe 😅😁
Interesting!

projects.dev #stripe #ai

Its a beautiful day to realize again HOW NICE @obsidian.md is.
The desktop app is already legendary, but the mobile app is a gem too!
Keep discovering great stuff there.

CharaChorder Two (CC2.1) *Travel Case Included CC2.1 Improvements (December 2025) Molded Caps for Improved Comfort & Grip:Textured, non-slip caps engineered to disappear under your fingertips for an ideal balance of durab...

Anyone here rocking a #charachorder?
"A friend" is thinking about getting one...

www.charachorder.com/products/cc2

Great project making the results of votes in the European Parliament easily accessible: @howtheyvote.eu

Vote results: Extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

Here are the votes:
howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

Interesting to see that quite a lot of the S&D ("Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats") have voted **for** #chatcontrol.

Based on their party name one would assume the opposite 🥲

Is there a link already available? 😇

Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear An overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration.

Last year, I thought we still had time to design PQ auth systems.

Now, based on the pace of progress and on statements like Google's, I believe

1. we need to finish rolling out PQ kex yesterday

2. we need to start rolling out PQ auth now

3. it's too late to ship any new non-PQ design or system

In less than three hours from now!

Send e-mails and call your MEPs (proposed call script is available on the website for each MEP) via fightchatcontrol.eu !

just found out about @openmeet.net - an atproto-based #meetup alternative!