🌶️ hot take for today 🌶️ did:plc is just a web2 ID with some cryptography sprinkled in to make people feel less icky about it

Look ma, no passwords!

Happy Cypherpunk Manifesto day to those that celebrate! www.activism.net/cypherpunk/m...

Wow, are employers seriously microchipping employees? This is crazy.

If I were @cloudflare.social BDFL for a day here are the two features I would add: 1️⃣ A Cloudflare KSM so our services could securely custody private keys used for signing. 🔐 2️⃣ The ability to respond to DNS TXT record queries via a Cloudflare worker. (UDP & DoH) 📛

How do I know Claude was trained with human data? I asked for advice on how to test some Passkey logic:

wait, what? www.pcgamer.com/software/ope...

Fun little project to let Farcaster accounts morph into AT Protocol account. Farcaster accounts are onboarded into a PDS that only allows login via Farcaster signing keys, so no password.

What if Farcaster users could login to Bluesky with their Farcaster identity?

Federate where you can, p2p mesh where you must

Is anyone on the Bsky team willing to give up a few minutes to help troubleshoot why a new account on a new PDS is no longer being indexed by the BSky app view? Did all the steps in marvins-guide.leaflet.pub/3mbskx3u7rs2u but I think deleting & recreating my account a bunch of times broke something

Bluesky is ridiculously well-positioned for the agent internet. Everything signed = agents can build up un-fakeable reputations. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-break...

almost nobody is building the network they want leaving the uninitiated vulnerable to the default tyranny

First time I used this feature on a NY subway it was magical!

This is the ideal AT Protocol login experience. 🗒️ Note: In this example, the second screen is BlueSky because this is the app the user picked to manage account info, but it could be any atproto account that manages auth credentials.

Focussing on "permissioned data" in the PDS and punting E2EE used for DM/GM was a wise decision. Truth is "E2EE is hard!" In the mean time, it'd be amazing to see @bsky.app incorporate something like @xmtp.bsky.social so our in-app DM/GMs remain confidential. dholms.leaflet.pub/3meluqcwky22...

Thank you @boscolo.co We just released an example app here with secure group chat. Would love your feedback! bsky.app/profile/xmtp...

Every four years during the Winter Olympics I'm reminded how addicting it is to watch curling.🥌

"a few moments" is a software dev's way of saying I f'd up and I have no idea how long it will be before you can accomplish your task.

Nice! The nudge I needed to uninstall Discord for good.

"just write code like a normal human" - Silicon Valley (TV series)

Here’s a litmus question to whether or not the data container is private: “would you store the private key to the wallet that can spend your money here?” If not stop calling it “private data”.

Business schools will teach this saga for decades: the brutal power of Brand Association. The facts don't matter. From here on, OpenAI will be known as the AI brand that incorporated ads, and how these ads negatively influence AI results. Master stroke by Anthropic, gg!

wordsmithing on the timeline is brilliant, gg @geekwire.com

Gonna teach my new agent to be funny, call it Molty Python

I'm going to "virtual atproto hang"!

"If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement." farcaster.xyz/vitalik.eth/...

so true, Web 3.0 is Groundhog Day for the Web

"Nature runs on credit at the quantum scale"

I know a lot of people on this app hate crypto, but it’s worth noting that the development of this ZK technology was accelerated and advanced as a direct byproduct of people trying to build privacy in blockchains.

If I were in charge of AT Protocol my top priority for 2026 would be to simplify the experience of signing in with your AT Protocol credentials on a newly installed mobile app. Ditch OAuth & the convoluted maze of handles, usernames and DIDs... Just have the first app approve adding other apps

@flashes.blue I tried to use your mobile app, but was unable to login… Any tips?

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The same dude that deplatformed a sitting US president built a chat app that communicates over a mesh network of phones just in time for the overthrow of a regime that turned off the Internet to stop them. I'm not sure what to do with my tin foil hat... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitchat

Hey @mayor.nyc.gov, can you do me a solid?

Ticket prices to the FIFA World Cup final game. ⚽

Passkey based auth for your PDS! Now imagine your PDS has a twin sibling, a private PDS (P-PDS), that runs in a Trusted Execution Environment. Your browser/mobile app makes a secure E2EE session with this P-PSD to store all of your private data. Voila, personal private data store in AT Protocol!

I am so glad Moxie is building again. We all benefit. The architecture described here is how to use cloud for compute in a privacy-preserving way.* In this case, for a personal AI agent. *Yes, I'm aware TEEs have been broke in the past... confer.to/blog/2026/01...

Here's the repo github.com/ascorbic/cir...

This app needs a "worse take ever" button.

Those skeptical about using AI because it is not private can now try it out. A look under the covers on how to use passkey for E2EE encryption. confer.to/blog/2025/12...

encrypt the money

TIL mentioning privacy preserving money on 🦋 is walking a tightrope

"the opposite of love is indifference"

I'm starting to talk to bash like it's claude

I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE AND NOW, YOU'RE GOONNA HEAR ABOUT IT www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njz...

I wonder if these Fireboxen still run code I wrote.💀 If so, sawry WatchGuard... "One month later, the Internet watchdog Shadowserver found over 75,000 Firebox firewalls vulnerable to CVE-2025-9242 attacks, most of them in North America and Europe."