Today's new app is StressMyPC Portable, a PC stress testing utility allowing you to fully load your hardware to check stability. It's free for personal and business use so download today! And please make a donation if you can. portableapps.com/news/2025-12...

GOG @gog.com is getting acquired by its original co-founder Michał Kicińsk the idea for GOG in 2007 “bring classic games back to players, and make sure that once you buy a game, it truly belongs to you, forever.” www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-...

7/ Check out the details, including a deeper discussion of challenges, a prototype of Bitchat over Wi-Fi Aware, and general notes on cross-platform Wi-Fi Aware implementation 👉 grjte.sh/bitchat-wifi...

“The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.” Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake, announcing his new company Confer

fun romp through the Chromium graphics stack from an @electronjs.org dev www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-ta...

Waiting for one more box of parts (out for delivery) and I can finish the hardware part of this #folknet epyc cluster build inspired by cloudflare and oxide.computer Has been quite the logistics puzzle sourcing all the parts, sorting redundent connectivity, and figuring out remote management

Had a blast recording this podcast on Resonant Computing: www.riskgaming.com/p/can-softwa...

Do you like browsers? Or maybe you hate browsers? But either way you think they should have more decentralisation-friendly primitives? Tell us what you'd like!

Signed!

We need a human right to opt out of ads. Every company above size x has to publish average per user ad revenue and give an option to opt out for that price not more. Its connected to the right of algorithmic control over our feeds wich is harder to do but would subsume this right.

Turns out I’ve been building nodes that are basically Gen X cloudflare edge servers, but with added GPUs. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-...

Messing around building out homebrew network. Setup 3 regional edge epyc servers (sg, de, and us) today with tailscale private network and cloudflare tunnels for exposing services to internet. Leaning heavily on Claude code skills for setup.

subbed to @mullvad.bsky.social today as a @tailscale.com add on, loving it!

So much good stuff happening at @inkandswitch.com these days! www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/...

It’s Thanksgiving in the US, so we decided to ask our readers what tech you are most thankful for. We loved seeing your responses. As for us, we’re thankful to you for being Rest of World readers! Support us: https://restofworld.org/donate/eoy-2025/

Realizing that bash/linux have been immortalized in latent space AND we're about to see a bunch of great new Linux sandboxing tools because of this. Yes... ha ha ha... yes!! bsky.app/profile/timk...

@bmann.ca talked about the ATProto Community Fund and looked at the opportunities for building the next generation of European designed and hosted apps. vimeo.com/1140407555?s...

Chrome now comes with the built-in AI model Gemini Nano 🧠. ⬇️ But when is the model downloaded? 🆕 How do updates work? 🗑️ Does the model ever get purged? All these questions are covered in my new article "Understand built-in model management in Chrome"! 🔗 developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/unde...

📢 New blog post! Using the Web Monetization API for fun 🤩 and profit 🤑: 🔗 blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/07/u... Learn how I use the proposed #WebMonetization standard by the @interledger.bsky.social Foundation on my blog to (hopefully) pay for my virtual private server!

this FOSDEM is already hitting different: - local first devroom - decentralized communications devroom - web & browsers devroom

Reminder #wecanjustdostuff - come together to figure things out userandagents.com - host community events luma.com/v457jxp2 - build our own super user agent xe.dev - setup a way to accept donations opencollective.com/user-and-age... - fund research projects opencollective.com/user-and-age...

Added a new device to my @tiles.run cluster. Welcome to the lineup, M5 Pro with the 32 GB/1 TB spec.

yeah that’s where I’ve netted out too. Sign/encrypt all data with a user-controlled key and then use boring servers as replicas/relays.

@roomy.space (and all the other cool apps) getting a shout out from @bmann.ca showing off the creativity of the AT space.

@tangled.org is such a great role model for projects in this moment - actually does the thing: useful, accessible - innovates/differentiates at *product* level: stacked review - hybrid at proto layer (git and AT), pulls in bsky profile data - built in europe by small amitious team #eurosky

My presentation for #EuroSkyLive: EuroCloud to App Liftoff in the ATmosphere bmannconsulting.com/notes/app-li... My goal was to do a survey of all of the things that have already been built, & to explain that ATProto has many of the building blocks, that the iCloud like experience can be built.

Cults create value. Spreadsheets optimize value. In the end, when there is nothing left to optimize, spreadsheets destroy value, making way for new cults.

Oh, hi mark! xe.dev

this is a wonderful legacy

Musk always planned to turn X into the super app but Apple stood in the way. When Musk got pally with Trump I hoped this would result in Apple being forced to open up more by regulators. Musk would get his way but in the process we would end up with Apple loosening their grip on iOS.

The PDS paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a maligned corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.

Much thanks and heartfelt support to @erlend.sh for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise

Earlier today at the sync community day. Thanks @bmann.ca for arranging. Lots of user agency focused discussions and demos.

I have a whole folder of ATProto apps on iOS (plus a select few directly on my Home Screen). Today we call them “ATproto” apps. In the future … they’re just a better way to build a wide range of apps, where users own their data, login in anywhere, and choose different interfaces.

My ambition with @tiles.run is to build a decentralized stack that creates an impact as profound as Cuba’s. Learn more about Cuban decentralized internet in this Vox documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTn...

Heck even energy drinks bundle chromium.

A lesson learned from over a decade making general purpose software used by hundreds of millions: People consider extreme levels of daily pain *absolutely worth enduring* for the features they care about. They give exactly zero fucks whether their need is "in scope" in your product plan.

new chances

@mullvadnet vpn

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How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Work on model architectures, such as context optical compression with Deepseek AI’s OCR (3B model) and Google DeepMind’s Mobile Diffusion (500M model), presents a very attractive SLM deployment avenue. - deepseek.ai/blog/deepsee... - deepmind.google/models/gemin...

wrote down some thoughts justifying @tangled.org's existence & planned trajectory.

Honestly, i am very excited reading this. Can't say i understand 100% of the architecture and protocol but at least it is not fundamentally tied to p2p like radicle or a central corp like github.

Identity and memory are two sides of the same coin. Tiles makes that coin yours: your user-agent.

What's interesting to me is how thin these framework layers are getting. LitElement, for example, mainly just implements batched rendering. Enhance also looks simple. The framework is starting to matter less, because you can get to ergonomic app dev using mostly just platform features.