We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun. luma.com/jj7nths0

I’ve had many conversations in the last months about the future - political and social - that we hope to see in the future. The current global events are a disappointing degradation to non-cooperative greedy optimization, but have led to a more engaged discourse - particularly in young people.

2026 promises to be if nothing else fascinating. Wishing for curiosity and positive outcomes!

Now the days get longer again!

Baking bread is an immensely gratifying persuit

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Thankful for friends and family

I’m surprised how little progress has been made in the last year on p2p network structures. We have economic games, much advanced network simulation tools, and additional cryptographic building blocks, but at a p2p level we seem stuck on DHTs

With Norse discontinuing Berlin flights, and Delta's limited to the summer, we're back to only a single daily united flight connecting Berlin with the United States (and Newark at that)

Has anyone connected up remotestorage.io with a PDS?

friction.observer/digital-huma... is a great synthesis of what digital human rights can mean concretely.

Mushrooms from a morning walk in the woods

中秋节快乐

Last week we assembled a bunch of people to talk about what technical interventions can move the needle on privacy. I’ve written up my take on the projects the group conglomerated around. www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Consider submitting to www.ccc.de/en/updates/2... The need for pro-social tech is only growing, and CCC is one of the best venues to organize around that work.

Great end of summer bike riding out of Berlin today.

A great conclusion to the ride today. After a bit of wading in sand, we got the majority of the day on a not busy service road for the train. After a large steep hill into Nairobi we got a final chaotic ride through traffic on a dual carriageway to complete the loop.

A slog in the morning, though interesting to see kfc and a more built up narok than any city yet on this trip. Then a payoff in the afternoon with a big downhill ride to suswa.

A day of skynet, corn, empty gas stations, and open road

Started the day with a big climb out of kisii. The road quality degraded a bit in the middle of the ride, but never felt too bad. Cooler temperatures and much of the climbing behind us now.

Had a hilly day from the Kenyan border to Kisii 90 km north. Easy to stay distracted from the work by the regularity of villages we got to pass through.

Back on the bike today, and back to Kenya. A long day but full of adventure with a local ferry, 20km of dirt roads, and a lot of curious faces.

Had a great few days exploring the Serengeti and seeing the great GNU migration. Left the park today for lake Victoria.

A break from biking today as we entered the Serengeti. Saw all the charismatic mega-fauna and really impressed by the place.

A transition day today. A short bike ride to the edge of the national park, and then exploration of the area. There was a huge bi-weekly market at the neighboring town.

I’ve had a great first couple days biking in Tanzania. Left Arusha this morning after some great Indian food, for a day on the Savana as we head towards the Serengeti.

Setting off this morning from Nairobi for a couple weeks of bicycling in Kenya and Tanzania.

"freedom of speech is easy; freedom after speech is the hard part"

Ready for #protocolberg tomorrow

Lovely day in the alps

Sad to be missing the atomosphere conference in seattle this weekend. It looks to be an important milestone for the community beyond the direct bluesky team to shape how to evolve the protocol beyond public posts.

I ❤️ u too, ufos (and retro-futurism murals generally)

新年快乐！ Happy lunar new year!

Finally made my way back to China after several years away. Lots that feels the same, and immediately overwhelming scale of things in the lead up to the new year.

The last few years have gone by fast! I’m now a permanent resident of Germany 🇩🇪 Looking ahead at a wild 2025, I’m feeling grateful to everyone who has helped me build a life in Berlin, and to those who have remained part of my life around the world!

Happy new year!

guten rutsch ins neue jahr!

Happy winter solstice ☃️ The days get longer from here on out!

yummy vector field by @wills.co.tt

@magik.net how much of the bluesky firehose do you think you're keeping archived?

Have you pet your servers recently?

Winter means it’s cookie season 🍪

One of those weird pieces of history - a North Korean cellular data USB stick.

Dear collective sysadmin knowledge-brain: If i have a libvirt VM, and want to define a network filter on it (eg a <filterref/> on the interface), is that possible to set up with it running in a user-mode 'session'?

Excited for the talk lineup at #38c3 this year! halfnarp.events.ccc.de

Stumbled on obfustopia.io today - very cool to see a concrete bounties accelerating work on cryptographic systems of the future. iO is one of the coolest future techs we may see sooner than we expect.

The view for the near-future at "defensive accelerationism day" paints a pretty wild ride ahead of us.

The main message at devcon.org seems to be "why are we still using telegram?"

*The* decentralized protocol and infrastructure conference is back! Announcing: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐯𝟐 June 12-13, 2025, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.