If your data is public then you do not control it in any meaningful way.

@rabble.nz I'm absolutely loving your @revolution.social podcasts. I'm only up to building human rights into the social web, but so far the discussions are excellent and there are lots of good ideas. Thank you.

Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU! Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms? Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday! #FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation

We don't have to accept this slop.

Cannot think of even one single time I've ever wanted to "paste with formatting"

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members! Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again. Join today to be part of it ⤵️

You know those actors who can't remember their lines? And the issue with children having issues learning and behaving that they want to blame on lockdowns, iPhones, etc? #covid #braindamage #longcovid

"Starmer said that lessons had been learned" ...which is clearly not true. Appropriate mitigations to stop airborne viral spread are still not in place. The Government will "carefully consider all of the findings and recommendations"  ...which is not quite the same as committing to implement them

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I really dislike apps totally changing their UI. That kind of thing should be opt in, or have some kind of warning before upgrade.

This was super fun. It needed a small extension to cryptree (yes we're still improving our core data structure). Now I can load a directory with 25,000 files from a server in the US in 29s, and most of that 29s could be parallelised with a further cryptree tweak and reduce it to ~12s.

iodéOS and /e/OS are based in France. iodéOS and /e/OS make devices dramatically more vulnerable while misleading users about privacy and security. These fake privacy products serve the interest of authoritarians rather than protecting people. /e/OS receives millions of euros in government funding.

Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

privacy activists should start telling people that storing data in unencrypted form in the cloud lets AI read it and train on it, maybe that will finally get people to care same with non-E2EE messages

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

new blog post bfswa.substack.com/p/6-years-af...

New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Reliable P2P HTTP requests! 1 bug was a subtle native byte buffer memory leak, the other was, well a stupid mistake.

Remember: when they ask “People who rarely get sick, what’s your secret?” they do not want to hear about the kind of mask you wear, the activities you refrain from, or the precautions you take, they want to know your secret because they can’t imagine doing what they know you do.

More of this please… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Maybe, maybe, there is a counterfactual involving a UK with no BBC that performs worse politically. But there is no doubt at all that there are counterfactuals involving a UK without the BBC that performs better. The 'how much worse will things be without the BBC' folks never answer this.

This us why we started with fine-grained access control and exfiltration proof apps in @peergos.org Combined with E2E encryption this is very safe, and you can get surprisingly far with that plus a permissioned client side api.

🎉 iroh v0.95 - New Relay, New Errors, Improved Connection API - relay on the NA west coast - replaced snafu with n0-error, a new error crate - infallible remote_id and alpn methods - Overhauled 0-RTT API iroh-blobs can now compile to WASM with an in-mem store! www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-...

Our 16th release this year - double the number of releases we had last year, which itself was a record. We are also on track for tripling our paying customers this year too. Come join the future of the web! Private, self-authenticated, self-sovereign. Control your data, control your destiny!

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

We've signed. It's long past time when N95s should be the norm not the exception. Patients & staff deserve to be protected & safe.

We made MLS more decentralized! We are excited to share DMLS that brings fork resilience to the MLS protocol, solving a key challenge in distributed systems while maintaining Forward Secrecy. This work was made possible by @equalitie.bsky.social, who funded it as part of the Breakout program.

Doesn't Signal use this?

Look how much more performant ML-KEM-1024 is than X25519 😲 blog.cloudflare.com/pq-2025/

I'm a happy paying user of @signal.org but I'm disappointed by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social thread about the AWS outage. Signal chose a centralized design to be more nimble (watch to media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11086...), but that comes with drawbacks.

Yet another reason my house is dumb.

Roomba should have been a warning.

There should be a "exit to the commons" where a government buys a popular piece of tech like a database, or something that many want to build on, and fully open source it and fund development for the commons. Then VC-backed tech wouldn't always end badly with bait-and-switches.

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour. Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

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Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk

This is a game changer in the named color technology! 🌈 With CSS5 color-mix() function, you can get a closer match to any sRGB color you want using only named colors. Compare this beauty: DarkSalmon 50%, BlanchedAlmond to this modern horror: oklch(0.8052 0.0723 48.25)

This makes sense & I get why privacy demands we are where we are. But it makes me pretty mad to see a special, curated list of blessed fast resources on the web. And for everything else to be slow forever.

We've got a new release out! This includes a timezone fix for sync, and 1000x faster host dir listing when creating a sync. github.com/Peergos/web-...

Email subject: IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT NESPRESSO... Let me stop you right there. First, no need to shout. Second, it's coffee, chill.

I recently got nerdsniped by @zooko2.bsky.social into implementing fast BLAKE3 hashing of multiple small blobs. I wrote a blog post about my experiment. iroh.computer/blog/hashing... It would be cool to polish this a bit and turn it into a public API.

Holy moly! 17,000 new paying members in a week. 2 more weeks of this and Greens will pass the Conservatives. 45% increase in last month since @zackpolanski.bsky.social took over. greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/12/g...

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

Heretical opinion: forward secrecy (FS) mostly doesn't matter unless all chats + clients enforce disappearing messages. Otherwise when the client is compromised all previous messages are compromised regardless of any FS.

If I had a dog I would call it sudo.