Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app"
Internet Sleuths Want to Track Down This Mystery Pop Song. They Only Have 17 Seconds of It
at the trilogue meeting, secretly negotiating legislation to reduce web browser security
Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting the largest Russian XMPP (Jabber) messaging service
Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism and Longtermism (one hour podcast about TESCREALism, recorded September 2023)
Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism and Longtermism (one hour podcast about TESCREALism, recorded September 2023)
PSA: a recently-fixed image parsing vulnerability in Chrome (and things that use Chrome, such as Electron apps) is being actively exploited in the wild. install your updates!
(if I understand correctly) you don't register on a relay, you register on a PDS (which you can easily self-host on a small computer at home). But, to register with a PDS, you need a DID, and to interoperate with the rest of bluesky it needs to be using one of their two currently-supported DID methods: either did:web or did:plc. The former is a thing which you can create using a domain you control, which gives you an identity that you lose control of when you lose control of that domain. The latter is the actually-centralized "placeholder" DID method implemented by an append-only log operated by BlueSky PBC, which is what most people are actually using. I'm not sure if/how you can create a
did:plc
without first creating an account on a bsky.app PDS, but you can migrate it to your own PDS after creating one there. or, you can usedid:web
and rely on your domain name registration instead of their centralized log.Further reading: